RARE 3 LP BOX = LIVE AT THE GASLIGHT = BOB DYLAN Gaslight TAPES = PROTEST FOLK

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SUPER RARE!! THREE LP BOX! = LIVE AT THE GASLIGHT 1962

          

                              

                    Bob Dylan

            The Gaslight Tapes

                              

            

\                                                German -  Platinum - 9002/3

 

Super Rare ...Original first pressing THREE LP BOX set issued only in limited edition from Germany ....Live at The Gaslight 1962 was recorded early on in Dylan's career, when he was still virtually unknown outside of New York's Greenwich Village. Thanks to the cooperation of various club owners, and the management skills of Dave Van Ronk's wife, Terri Thal, Dylan was able to record a number of performances during that time on a reel-to-reel tape recorder patched into the house PA system.

The Gaslight recordings had been warmly received by critics and collectors alike ever since Greil Marcus wrote about them in the late 1960s.

The Songs: The Gaslight Tapes capture early performances of three different Dylan compositions: "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (often referred to as "Hard Rain"), "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," and "John Brown." Both "Hard Rain" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" would eventually appear on Dylan's second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. "John Brown" would later be published and issued on Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1 in February 1963, but it would not be released on any of Dylan's subsequent studio albums (the song only re-appeared as a live performance on Dylan's 1993 MTV Unplugged album.)

The songs on The Gaslight Tapes are considered traditional folk songs; essays on a number of ballads performed by Dylan during his October residency at the Gaslight Cafe can be found in an anthology published in 2004 entitled The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad.

"Rocks And Gravel" is Dylan's own adaptation of Brownie McGhee's "Solid Road" and Leroy Carr's "Alabama Woman," an arrangement that fuses both songs into one. It was originally slated to appear on Dylan's second album (and would later appear on test pressings made for a preliminary version of the LP), but when Dylan reconfigured The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, he would omit "Rocks And Gravel" from the final album sequence.

"The Cuckoo" was originally recorded in the 1920s by Western North Carolina banjo musician Clarence Ashley. According to Thomas Goldsmith of The Raleigh News & Observer, "The Cuckoo" is reportedly descended from an old folk ballad; it's an interior monologue where the singer "relates his desires - to gamble, to win, to regain love's affection."[1]

Described by critic Dave Marsh as "the most widespread folk song in the English language," "Barbara Allen" dates as far back as the 17th century, when Samuel Pepys wrote about the song in a diary entry dated January 2, 1665. Similar but different versions of the ballad have been traced to English and Scottish folk traditions, and when "Barbara Allen" was brought over to North America by early European settlers, no particular version of "Barbara Allen" was dominant or considered definitive. Over the years, countless variations of "Barbara Allen" have been found throughout the United States, with roughly 100 variations in Virginia alone, but the version Dylan sings on The Gaslight Tapes is one rooted in the English folk tradition.

In the story of "Barbara Allen," the title character rejects a suitor (his name varies in different versions of the songs, ranging from Sweet William to John Graeme). On his death bed, he calls Barbara Allen to his side, swearing his love for her. However, in some versions of "Barbara Allen" (particularly older variations), he discovers Barbara Allen's complaint that he once neglected her in a local tavern. When she sees him on his death bed, she offers a cold observation, "Young man, I think you're dying."

The story then takes a strange twist: when Barbara Allen walks home, she hears the church bells tolling for her true love. She then dies, mysteriously, and the two are buried in an old churchyard, where a love knot then comes to twine, made from a rose growing out of her lover's heart and a briar from Barbara Allen's.

Towards the end of his essay on "Barbara Allen," Dave Marsh focuses on the outcome of the song, the intertwined rose and briar emerging from the graves of the spurned lover, and Barbara Allen's rejection of her true love. "What’s amazing is our ability to ignore the lesson that 'Barbara Allen' has to teach," writes Marsh, "which is the peril of denying the complicated mysteries that throb within our hardened hearts and the equal peril of horsing around instead of acknowledging our love for one another. This is not a lesson you can squeeze onto a tombstone, or, for that matter, our current conception of a curriculum, but it is one to carry through this life."

Gaslight Tapes
Side 1:
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
Hezekiah Jones (Black Cross)
No More Auction Block
Rocks & Gravels
Side 2:
Don't Think Twice
Barbara Allen
Moonshine Blues
Side 3:
Motherless Children
Handsome Molly
John Brown
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Kind Hearted Woman Blues
Side 4:
See That My Grave is Kept Clean
Ain't No More Cane (Cane On The Brazzo)
Cocaine
Cuckoo is a Pretty Bird
West Texas (excerpt)
Side 5:
Man on the Street
He was a friend of Mine
Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
Song to Woody
Side 6:
Car car
Pretty Polly
Two Trains Running
Rambling On My Mind

 

CONDITION: The Cover: The box set is outstanding! MINT ... no bends, no split seams, no writing ... fine colors as first issued long long ago...

The Vinyl: all three records, six sides as clean MINT ...look and play beautiful ... 

       

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

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