Here’s a very early live recording of Bob Dylan. Not his First gig, but one of the first. Here Dylan is playing at the Gaslight Café’ in Greenwich Village, Newyork City. This isn’t the full show, but we have Four songs from this early folk set from the American Singer-Songwriter. Hope you Enjoy!
Bob Dylan live at The Gaslight Café’, 1962
Tracks;
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- John Brown
- Ballad Of Hollis Brown
Bob Dylan & The Gaslight Café
The Gaslight Café was a small Café in the Greenwich Village area of New York city. In the early 1960’s it was known for it’s vibrant music scene with the Folk Revival singers. Bob Dylan was known to play here quite regularly in his early days on arrival in New York Town.
It was here that Dylan first met A&R man John Hammond which led to Dylan signing up to Columbia records and releasing his Debut album ‘Bob Dylan’ the same year. This album was almost all covers, but his follow up album ‘The Freewheelin Bob Dylan’ had much more of his own songs. But it wasn’t until his Third album, ‘The Times They Are A Changin’ that we got a whole album of his own original material.
The venue was tiny and the audience was very small. But the quality of music Dylan gives us here is impeccable. But, it wouldn’t be long before Bob Dylan was playing much bigger venues worldwide. In 1962 at the time of this recording, Dylan was very much a folk singer committed to Folk ballads of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. However, in 1965, Dylan went Electric and put out some amazing material. But many of the die hard Folkies weren’t too impressed. But I think even most of them came around to it soon enough.
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