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Harry Belafonte - "The Midnight Special",
RCA (USA/UK), 1962:
R-0001 Midnight Special
(Huddie Ledbetter "Lead Belly")
- Bob plays harmonica for Harry Belafonte on the title track of his 1962 US RCA
album The Midnight Special (stereo version). The track has
also appeared on many Harry Belafonte compilation albums from 1972 to 2002. The mono version of this track is listed
separately as R-0001M, and occurs only in 1962 on the mono LP and a 1964 West German 7" single.
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R-0486 Midnight Special
(Huddie Ledbetter "Lead Belly")
- a previously unreleased alternate take
from the same sessions as R-0001, released on the BMG Germany compilation May Your Song Always Be Sung
Again: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, 2001
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Carolyn Hester -
"Carolyn Hester",
Columbia (USA)/CBS (UK), 1962:
R-0002 I'll Fly Away (Albert E. Brumley) - Bob plays harmonica
for Carolyn Hester on her first Columbia album, 1962
R-0003 Come Back, Baby (traditional) - Bob plays harmonica
R-0004 Swing And Turn
Jubilee (traditional) - Bob plays harmonica
Mono versions are R-0002M, R-0003M and R-0004M.
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Carolyn Hester - "Carolyn Hester",
Columbia (USA) CD release, 1994:
As well as R-0002 - R-0004, the CD release
includes
R-0222 I'll Fly Away (Albert E. Brumley) - Bob plays harmonica, alternate take, previously unreleased
R-0223 Come Back, Baby (traditional) - Bob plays harmonica, alternate take, previously unreleased |
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Victoria Spivey, Roosevelt
Sykes, Big Joe Williams & Lonnie Johnson - "Three Kings And The Queen",
- Spivey Records (USA), 1964 (recorded 1962):
R-0005 Sitting On
Top Of The World (Walter Jacobs/Lonnie Chatman) - Bob supplies harmonica and
backup vocals for Big Joe Williams
R-0006 Wichita (Big Joe Williams) - Bob plays harmonica for Big Joe Williams
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Big Joe Williams, Memphis Slim, Roosevelt Sykes, Lonnie Johnson &
Victoria Spivey - "Kings And The Queen Vol. 2",
Spivey Records (USA), 1972 (recorded 1962):
R-0086 Big Joe, Dylan
& Victoria (Big Joe Williams) - Bob plays harmonica for Big Joe
Williams
R-0087 It's Dangerous (Victoria
Spivey) - Bob plays harmonica for Victoria Spivey
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The Broadside Singers - "Broadside
Ballads Vol. 3: The Broadside Singers", Folkways (USA), 1964:
R-0458 Paths Of Victory - Bob is rumoured to sing backup vocals on
this cover version by The Broadside Singers from the 1964 Folkways album Broadside
Ballads Vol. 3: The Broadside Singers, now also available on The Best Of Broadside 1962-1988,
Smithsonian Folkways Records, 2000
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Richard Fariña and Eric von Schmidt - "Dick Fariña & Eric von Schmidt" -
Folklore (UK), 1964, CD release Solano Records (USA), 2007:
R-0011 Glory, Glory (traditional) - Bob supplies harmonica and back-up vocals to Richard Fariña and Eric von Schmidt
R-0012 You Can Always
Tell (Furry Lewis) - Bob supplies harmonica and back-up vocals
(Bob's involvement is disputed)
R-0013 Xmas Island (Richard Fariña) - Bob supplies harmonica and back-up vocals
R-0014 Cocaine [Cocaine
Blues] (traditional) - Bob supplies harmonica and back-up vocals
R-0015 London Waltz (Richard Fariña) - Bob supplies harmonica and back-up vocals
(Bob's involvement is disputed)
R-0016 Overseas Stomp (Jab Jones-Will Shade) - Bob supplies harmonica and back-up vocals
(Bob's involvement is disputed)
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott - "Jack
Elliott", Vanguard (USA), 1964: R-0019 Will The Circle
Be Unbroken (traditional) - Bob appears on Ramblin' Jack Elliott's
Vanguard album Jack
Elliott as "Tedham
Porterhouse" playing harmonica, 1964 |
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Various Artists - "The Blues
Project", Elektra (USA), 1964: R-0038 Downtown Blues
(Frank Stokes) - Bob plays piano for Geoff Muldaur as "Bob Landy" on the Elektra album
The Blues
Project, 1964 |
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Tom Rush - "Take A Little Walk With Me" - Elektra
(USA), 1966:
Bob was rumoured to be the "Roosevelt Gook" playing piano, although
it now seems most likely it was Al Kooper getting a second musician's fee!
R-0056 You Can't Tell A
Book By Its Cover (Willie Dixon)
R-0057 Who Do You Love?
(Elias McDaniels - "Bo Diddley")
R-0058 Love's Made A
Fool Of You (Buddy Holly- Wes Montgomery)
R-0059 Too Much Monkey
Business (Chuck Berry)
R-0060 Money Honey (Jesse Stone)
R-0061 On The Road
Again (Tom Rush - not a cover of the Dylan song)
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Various Artists - "Disconnected - The Dial-A-Poem Poets
Double", Giorno Poetry Systems (USA), 1974:
R-0158 Jimmy Berman Rag
(Allen Ginsberg/Bob Dylan) - Bob contributes vocals and plays
guitar, piano and organ, recorded New York, Nov 1971, first released on Disconnected - The Dial-A-Poem Poets
Double, Giorno Poetry Systems (USA), 1974, also on the 1982 Allen Ginsberg
US album First Blues, John Hammond Records (see below)
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Various Artists - "Sing Out!" magazine (USA),
1972:
R-0225 September On
Jessore Road (Allen Ginsberg/Bob Dylan) - recorded Nov 1971, Bob plays
piano, organ, acoustic and electric guitars on this track, a 1:17 excerpt of which originally
appeared on a flexi disc given away with "Sing Out!" magazine in 1972 |
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Allen Ginsberg - "First Blues"
- John Hammond Records (USA), 1982:
R-0157 Going To San
Diego (Allen Ginsberg) - Bob contributes vocals and plays guitar, piano
and organ, recorded New York, Nov 1971
R-0159 Vomit Express
(Allen Ginsberg-Bob Dylan) - Bob contributes vocals
and plays guitar, piano and organ, recorded New York, Nov 1971, also on Allen Ginsberg's 1994 CD boxed set Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems And Songs
1949-1993 (see below)
This album also contained Jimmy Berman Rag
(R-0158).
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Allen Ginsberg - "Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems And Songs
1949-1993" - Rhino Word Beat (USA),
1994:
R-0224 A Dream
(William Blake/Allen Ginsberg) - recorded Nov 1971, Bob plays guitar and
contributes vocals to this poem by William Blake set to music
R-0235 September On
Jessore Road (Allen Ginsberg-Bob Dylan) - recorded Nov 1971, Bob plays
piano, organ, acoustic and electric guitars on 10:34 take (for 1:17 excerpt
R-0225, see
above)
R-0226 Airplane Blues (Allen
Ginsberg) -
recorded Jan 1982, Bob plays bass for Allen Ginsberg (the 2016 booklet notes to
The Last Word On "First Blues" say that this take is without Bob, even
though the 1994 booklet notes say he plays here)
There are two versions of
Nurse's Song (William Blake/Allen Ginsberg) on CD3
- Nurse's Song (Experience) (track 9, 2:07) and
Nurse's Song (Innocence) (track 21, 7:12).
Nurse's Song was one of the songs recorded at the
sessions in Nov 1971, but neither of these versions include Bob.
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David Bromberg - "David Bromberg",
Columbia (USA)/CBS (UK), 1972:
R-0073 Sammy's Song
(David Bromberg)
- Bob plays harmonica on David Bromberg's self-titled Columbia album, 1972
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Doug Sahm - "Doug Sahm & Band" - Atlantic
(USA), 1972:
R-0090 (Is Anybody
Going To) San Antone? (Dave Kirby/Glen Martin) - Bob provides backup
vocals for Doug Sahm
R-0637 It's Gonna Be Easy (Atwood Allen) -
Bob plays organ for Doug Sahm
R-0638 Poison Love (Elmer Laird) - Bob plays
guitar for Doug Sahm
R-0088 Wallflower - Bob shares lead vocal and plays guitar for Doug
Sahm on this cover of his own composition
R-0214 Dealer's Blues (Doug Sahm)
- Bob plays organ for Doug Sahm
R-0092 Faded Love
(Hopwood Ascheberg/J R Wills) - Bob plays organ for Doug Sahm
R-0089 Blues Stay Away
From Me (Alton & Rabon Delmore-Wayne Raney-Henry Glover) - Bob plays
guitar and provides vocals for Doug Sahm
R-0091 Me And Paul (Willie Nelson)
- Bob plays harmonica and organ for Doug Sahm
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The Sir Douglas Band - "Texas Tornado" - Atlantic (USA),
1973 (recorded 1972):
R-0105 Tennessee Blues
(Bobby Charles) - Bob plays harmonica (uncredited) for
Doug Sahm, recorded
Oct 1972 at Doug Sahm & Band sessions
R-0151 Ain't That Loving You (D. Malone) -
Bob is reputed to play on this track, recorded Oct 1972 at Doug Sahm & Band sessions
R-0152 I'll Be There (Dave Burgess) - Bob
plays guitar on this track, recorded Oct 1972 at Doug Sahm & Band sessions
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Doug Sahm - "The Genuine Texas Groover" - Rhino Handmade
(USA), 2003: R-0639 On The Banks Of The Old
Pontrachain (Hank Williams/Ramona Vincent) - Bob plays guitar for Doug
Sahm, recorded Oct 1972 at Doug Sahm & Band sessions
R-0640 Hey, Good Lookin' (Hank
Williams) - Bob plays guitar for Doug Sahm, recorded Oct 1972 at Doug Sahm & Band
sessions
R-0641 Please Mr. Sandman
(Huey P. Meaux) - Bob plays guitar for Doug Sahm, recorded Oct 1972 at Doug Sahm & Band
sessions
R-0642 Columbus Stockade
(Woody Guthrie) - Bob plays piano and organ for Doug Sahm, recorded Oct 1972 at Doug Sahm & Band
sessions
R-0643 The Blues Walked On In
(Joey Longoria) - Bob plays piano and organ for Doug Sahm, recorded Oct 1972 at Doug Sahm & Band
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Steve Goodman - "Somebody Else's
Troubles", Buddah (USA), 1973: R-0093 Somebody's
Else's Troubles (Steve Goodman) - Bob plays piano and provides harmony vocals for Steve
Goodman on the title track of his Buddah album, 1973 |
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Steve Goodman - "The Essential Steve
Goodman", Buddah (USA), 1976:
R-0111 Election Year
Rag (Steve Goodman) - an out-take from the
1973 Somebody Else's
Troubles album released as a single, Bob plays piano and provides harmony vocals for Steve
Goodman
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George Harrison - "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On
Earth)"/"Miss O'Dell", Apple 7"
single (UK), 1973: R-0281 Miss O'Dell
(George Harrison) - Bob is rumoured to be the harmonica player on
this B-side of George Harrison's 1973 Apple single Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On
Earth) |
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Booker T. and Priscilla Jones - Chronicles,
A|&M (USA), 1973:
R-0094 The Crippled
Crow (Donna Weiss) - Bob
plays harmonica for Booker T. and Priscilla Jones on their A&M album Chronicles,
1973
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Roger
McGuinn - "Roger
McGuinn", Columbia (USA)/CBS (UK), 1973: R-0095 I'm So Restless
(Roger McGuinn) - Bob plays harmonica and gets a name check in the lyrics on
this song from Roger
McGuinn, Columbia, 1973 |
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Barry Goldberg - "Barry Goldberg"
- Atco (USA),
1974:
R-0106 Stormy Weather
Cowboy (Barry Goldberg) - Bob contributes
back-up vocals for Barry Goldberg
R-0107 It's Not The
Spotlight (Gerry Goffin/Barry
Goldberg)- Bob plays percussion and contributes back-up vocals for Barry
Goldberg
R-0108 Silver Moon (Barry Goldberg/[Robert?] Hunter) - Bob contributes back-up
vocals for Barry Goldberg
R-0109 Minstrel Show (Barry Goldberg) - Bob contributes back-up vocals for
Barry Goldberg
R-0110 Big City Woman (Barry Goldberg) - Bob contributes back-up vocals for
Barry Goldberg
Thanks also to Eddie Korvin for this previously
unreleased performance:
R-1654
Hi-Heel Sneakers (Tommy Tucker) - performance by
Barry Goldberg with Bob on piano, recorded at Blue Rock Studio, New York, summer
1971, first published on YouTube, Dec 2016
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David Blue - "Com'n Back For More",
Asylum (USA), 1975: R-0121 Who Love (If Not
You Love) (David Blue) - Bob plays harmonica on this track from David
Blue's Asylum album, Com'n Back For More, 1975 |
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Leonard Cohen - "Death Of A Ladies'
Man", Warner Bros/Columbia (USA)/CBS (UK), 1977: R-0135
Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On (Leonard Cohen) - Bob contributes backup vocals to the
chorus on this track from the Leonard Cohen album Death Of A Ladies'
Man, Warner Bros/Columbia, 1977 |
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Keith Green - "So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt", Pretty
Good Records (USA), 1980: R-0153 Pledge My Head
To Heaven (Keith Green) - Bob plays harmonica for Keith Green on this
track from his gospel album So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt, Pretty
Good Records, 1980 |
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The Cruzados - "Cruzados - Unreleased Early Recordings",
self-released (USA), 2000: R-0452 Rising Sun (Hufsteter/Larriva/Marsico/Quintana)
- Bob plays harmonica for the Cruzados,
1983, from the album Cruzados - Unreleased Early Recordings, 2000 |
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Lone Justice - "Sweet Sweet Baby (I'm
Falling)", Geffen 12" singles
(UK/NL/Australia), 1985: R-0163 Go Away Little
Boy - Bob plays rhythm guitar and probably harmonica on
Lone Justice's version of one of his unreleased compositions (an out-take from Empire Burlesque): this track was only originally available as a bonus track on
the B-side of the European 12" version of their 1985 Geffen single Sweet Sweet Baby (I'm
Falling), but was
released on CD in 1999 in a remixed version (R-0274) on The World Is Not My Home: The Best
Of Lone Justice, Geffen (USA) and in 2003 on The Best Of Lone Justice: The Millennium
Collection, Geffen (USA). |
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USA For Africa -
"We Are the World"/"Grace" - Columbia
(USA)/CBS (UK) 7" singles, 1985: R-0164 We Are the World (Michael Jackson/Lionel Ritchie) - Bob
contributes vocals to charity single, Columbia, 1985
There was also an extended album version (R-0632) |
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Sly and Robbie - "Language Barrier",
Island (USA/UK), 1985: R-0169 No Name On The
Bullet (Sly Dunbar/Robbie Shakespeare) - Bob plays
harmonica for Sly and Robbie on their Island album Language Barrier, 1985 |
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Artists United Against
Apartheid - "(Ain't Gonna
Play) Sun City"/"Not So Far Away (Dub Version)", Columbia
(USA)/CBS (UK) 7" singles, 1985: R-0170 (Ain't Gonna
Play) Sun City (Miami Steve Van Zandt) - Bob contributes vocals to this 7" single
version (4:58), Manhattan, 1985
There were also two album versions (R-0171 and
R-0518), and an extended 12" remix (R-0611). |
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Kurtis Blow - "Kingdom Blow", Mercury
(USA), 1986: R-0189 Street Rock
(Kurtis Blow/Bill Black/Tashim) - Bob contributes "rap"
vocals to this track from Kurtis Blow's album Kingdom Blow, Mercury, 1986 |
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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers -
"Let Me Up I've Had
Enough", MCA (USA/UK), 1986 R-0318 Jammin' Me
(Tom Petty/MikeCampbell/Bob Dylan) - Bob Dylan is rumoured to play guitar on this
co-composition from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' MCA album Let Me Up I've Had
Enough, 1986 |
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Warren Zevon - "Sentimental Hygiene",
Virgin America (USA), 1987: R-0190 The Factory
(Warren Zevon) -
Bob plays harmonica on this track from Warren Zevon's album Sentimental Hygiene,
Virgin America, 1987 |
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U2 - "Rattle And Hum" - Island (USA/UK), 1988:
R-0199 Love Rescue Me (Bono/Bob Dylan) - Bob plays harmonica and provides backing
vocals for U2
R-0200 Hawkmoon 269
(Bono) - Bob
plays organ for U2
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Nanci Griffith - "Other Voices, Other Rooms",
Elektra (USA/UK), 1993:
R-0215 Boots Of Spanish Leather - Bob plays
harmonica for Nanci Griffith on her Elektra album Other Voices, Other Rooms,
1993
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Carlene Carter - "Sweet Meant To Be",
Giant Records CD single (West Germany), 1993:
R-0218 Trust Yourself - Bob contributes
backing vocals to Carlene Carter's cover which first appeared on a Giant Records
West German CD
single Sweet Meant To Be distributed with the album Little Love
Letters in 1993
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "In The Hot Seat",
Victory (UK), 2000: R-0460 Man In The Long Black Coat - Bob is rumoured to play guitar and
supply
vocals on this version by Emerson, Lake & Palmer from their 1994 Victory
album In The Hot Seat
(re-released by Polygram International, 2000)
I suspect this is a mistake, and
he doesn't appear. |
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Stevie Nicks - "Street Angel", Modern
Records (USA/UK), 1994: R-0228 Just Like A Woman - Bob plays guitar
and harmonica on Stevie Nicks' cover from her album Street Angel, Modern
Records, 1994 |
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Gerry Goffin - "Back Room Blood"
- Genes (USA), 1996: R-0248 Tragedy Of The
Trade (Bob Dylan/Gerry Goffin/Barry Goldberg) -
Bob provides vocals and guitar to this co-composition
R-0249 Time To End This
Masquerade (Bob Dylan/Gerry Goffin) - Bob
provides vocals and guitar to this co-composition |
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Cruzados - "Cruzados -
Unreleased Early Recordings"
- Privately produced (USA), 2000: R-0452 Rising Sun (Hufsteter/Larriva/Marsico/Quintana) - Bob plays harmonica for the
Cruzados (then The Plugz), 1983
A re-recorded version of this song without Bob was released on the first Cruzados album just called Cruzados (Arista
ARCD 8383 (CD)/AC 8-8383 (LP), 1985). |
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Gary "Mudbone" Cooper - "Fresh Mud" - Influx
Music (UK), Oct 2006: R-0740 Home
(Dave Stewart/Gary "Mudbone" Cooper/Bob Dylan) - Bob plays piano on this track from
Jan 2002 previously made available on the Internet by Dave Stewart as part of a
project called Electroblues Volume One. |
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The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Live [Various Artists] - Time-Life
9DVD set (USA), 2009 R-0699
I Saw Her
Standing There (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) - live, Bob plays guitar with
the Rock Hall Jam Band supporting Mick Jagger and Bruce Springsteen
R-0700 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) - live, Bob plays guitar with the Rock Hall Jam Band
supporting Mick Jagger and Bruce Springsteen
Both performances recorded at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame,
Grand Ballroom, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, 20 Jan 1988. Both were included
on The
Best Of Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame + Museum Live - Time-Life
Music (USA), Nov 2011
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Various Artists - "Chimes
Of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring
50 Years of Amnesty International" - Universal (USA/Europe/Australia),
Jan 2012: R-0899 One Too Many
Mornings - Johnny Cash with the Avett Brothers with Bob on background vocals based on the
out-take from the
Nashville Skyline sessions with Bob and Johnny, Columbia Studios,
Nashville, TN, 18 Feb 1969, previously released in the 1969 film and video
Johnny Cash:
The Man
=
His World
=
His Music
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Allen Ginsberg - "The Last
Word On 'First Blues'"
- Omnivore Records (USA),
2016:
R-0157 Going To San
Diego (Allen Ginsberg) - Bob contributes vocals and plays guitar, piano
and organ, recorded New York, Nov 1971, from First Blues (1983, see
above)
R-0159 Vomit Express
(Allen Ginsberg-Bob Dylan) - Bob contributes vocals
and plays guitar, piano and organ, recorded New York, Nov 1971, from
First Blues (1983), also on Allen Ginsberg's 1994 CD boxed set Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems And Songs
1949-1993 (for both see above)
R-0158 Jimmy Berman Rag
(Allen Ginsberg/Bob Dylan) - Bob contributes vocals and plays
guitar, piano and organ, recorded New York, Nov 1971, first released on Disconnected - The Dial-A-Poem Poets
Double, Giorno Poetry Systems (USA), 1974, also on First Blues (1983, above)
R-1648
Nurse's Song
(Allen Ginsberg/William Blake) - Bob contributes vocals and plays guitar, piano
and organ, recorded at The Record Plant, New York, NY, Nov 1971, performance
new to this compilation
R-1649 Spring (Merrily
Welcome) (Allen
Ginsberg)
- Bob contributes vocals and plays guitar, piano and organ, recorded
at The Record Plant, New York, NY, 9-17 Nov 1971, song new to this compilation
R-1650 September On
Jessore Road (Allen Ginsberg-Bob Dylan) - recorded
at The Record Plant, New York, NY, 9-17 Nov 1971,
Bob plays piano, organ, acoustic and electric guitars,
performance new to this compilation, different from the performance
on Allen Ginsberg's 1994 CD boxed set Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems And Songs
1949-1993
R-1651 Do The Meditation Rock (Allen
Ginsberg) -
recorded Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, CA, 23 Feb 1982, Bob plays bass for Allen Ginsberg,
performance
new to this
compilation
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Wynton Marsalis Septet - "United We Swing: Best Of The Jazz At Lincoln
Center Galas", Red Distribution (USA), 2018:
R-1913 It Takes A Lot To
Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry - recorded live with the Wynton Marsalis Septet
at the Apollo Theater, New York City, New York, 7 Jun
2004 as part of
Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2004 Spring Gala
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