Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series Volume 15 (Travelin’ Thru 1967-1969 (1st November 2019) *

I speculate that it is because the Earl Scruggs interview is in mono. I don't know this for sure; I haven't got that far yet.

 

In this article by Raymond Foye (Rail), "Report from Tulsa: The Bob Dylan Archives. A Conversation with Clinton Heylin" , the conversation makes reference to the John Wesley Harding notebook:-

Rail: And not a man to waste time. . . One thing that I realized looking at these manuscripts is themes that I thought were specific to certain periods or certain albums are actually active concerns 10 years before, or ten years after — whether it’s Biblical concerns, aspects of folk tradition, just certain ideas that he brings to fruition in a song. He’s sometimes working with an idea, and in some cases actual lines, for 10 years.

Heylin: Certainly. In the John Wesley Harding notebook, there are all these Bible chapters and verses, literally things he’s referencing in the songs.

Rail: I got the feeling those were as much there for the cadence as the meaning.

Heylin: John Wesley Harding absolutely has the cadence of the King James Bible, which makes perfect sense for Dylan, because the three seminal texts of the English language at the absolute peak of its Golden Age, the Jacobean era, are Shakespeare’s First Folio, the King James Bible, and the Child Ballads. Even though Francis Child collects those ballads in the late nineteenth century, the language is that of the King James Bible. By that point Dylan knew the five volumes of Child Ballads inside out, but he only starts reading Shakespeare closely after the accident. He starts grappling with that material, and the King James Bible he would already have known. So all of those seminal sources crunch into John Wesley Harding, “If ye cannot bring good news, then don’t bring any”—you could place that aphorism in any of those three. You could put it in a ballad, as he does. You could put it in a Shakespeare soliloquy. You could put it in the Bible.


How exciting, on a scale of Alpha to Zulu, would it be if JWH was released with all the available outtakes and a facsimile of the complete notebook? Zulu...

 

All of the Scruggs material is mono, apart from Nashville Skyline Rag which has stereo overdubs.

The Johnny Cash Show tracks are also in mono.

 

Thanks for the clarification. One day I'll get past the JWH and NS stuff on this, but it won't be any time soon, especially with the additional pull of the NS outtakes on the 1969 Copyright Collection...!!

 

I flipped my mono switch on for this record and did feel there was an improvement in sound quality.

 

The obvious recommendation is "At San Quentin", recorded a week after the Dylan/Cash Sessions and featuring the first live outing of "Wanted Man".





The 2006 Legacy 2CD Edition includes a DVD of the original hour-long 1969 TV film and can be purchased for peanuts. Its only drawback is the cover artwork; it's difficult to understand why the original iconic photo by Jim Marshall, present on all previous editions, wasn't used for this definitive edition.











Original cover

 

I’ve listened to this set straight through twice now and it’s excellent, enjoy the hell out of it. The download that came with it sounds quite nice too. Glad to own it! Yeah the Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison and also San Quentin are both on my want lists. Does the 2006 CD maintain good dynamics?

 

I'm afraid I have no idea about dynamics, good or bad. I think it would be safe to say that no one on this forum has more impaired hearing than me or more inferior playback equipment than me. The performances are terrific, though.

 

I bought this set when it came out but just got around to listening.
Hot damn it’s great.

 

The original cover is classic— and brats a striking resemblance to the cover of Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol 2.

 

I meant “ bears.”

 

Those who acknowledge the limitations of their own hearing and equipment (limitations which affect all of us to one degree or another) are in my humble opinion still more reliable on sound quality matters than those who claim to hear the difference in supersonic frequencies when using twenty-thousand dollar speaker cables made out of pure kryptonite.

 

Nice, thank you. Perhaps I’ll pick this up. At some point I really do want to get the vinyl too.

 

The Legacy Edition for San Quentin appears to be out of print. Johnny Cash's iconic albums should be in print.

 

Download?

 

It was probably the Amazon Autorip that I was referring to.

 

Probably? Only you know...

 

I’ve listened to around 5,000 things between now and then, lol. I know not the most helpful. Let’s say I’m pretty sure I was referring to the Amazon autorip. I actually picked up around 5-6 Dylan box sets in a short period of time so it gets confusing!

 

Enjoy!

What can we do at this time but listen to the music we love....

 

The writing of JWH's songs has always been one of my favourites rock and roll mystery cases. I've always dreamed of taking this train to Nashville and grab a notebook to get some words down, just to experience it like Dylan.
I've always loved one of his quotes on writing songs. You've got to be in movement, in motion...

By the way, has anybody here ever tried to make this trip New York to Nashville by train?

 

Dylan's quote on Scaduto's book:


"I liked your book. That's the weird thing about it."
—Bob Dylan

 

Did Johnny Cash ever perform I Still Miss Someone the way he does here with Bob, with that chord change for the "I'll never get over her blue eyes" or is this the only time he did it like that?

 

Geez...I cannot hear it. It's blocked for me. Has anybody kept that?
thanks

 

Nice!