The 50th Anniversary Collection

Às vésperas do Reveillon, no dia 28/12, A Sony lançou quase que secretamente um disco quádruplo intitulado “The 50th Anniversary Collection”. O álbum trás uma compilação de gravações e versões ao vivo feitas por Bob Dylan entre 1962 e 1963.

Muitos podem pensar que a Sony quis nos presentear com esse lançamento, mas a preocupação da gravadora é outro: esse disco tem como objetivo renovar os direitos fonográficos dessas gravações, evitando que os registros se tornem domínio público e possam ser usados livremente.

A distribuição se resumiu em algumas lojas da Inglaterra, França, Alemanha e Suécia e em pouquíssimas quantidades.

Dois CDs são só de faixas de estúdio e outros dois discos compilam apresentações ao vivo de Bob Dylan.

O site Exystence deu mais detalhes jurídicos sobre a estratégia da gravadora e ainda disponibilizou o disco para download.

Confira abaixo o tracklist completo:

Disc 1:
01. Going Down To New Orleans [Take 1]
02. Going Down To New Orleans [Take 2]
03. Sally Gal [Take 2]
04. Sally Gal [Take 3]
05. Rambling Gambling Willie [Take 1]
06. Rambling Gambling Willie [Take 3]
07. Corrina, Corrina [Take 1]
08. Corrina, Corrina [Take 2]
09. The Death Of Emmett Till [Take 1]
10. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle [Take 2]
11. Rocks And Gravel (Solid Road) [Take 3]
12. Sally Gal [Take 4]
13. Sally Gal [Take 5]
14. Baby, Please Don’t Go [Take 1]
15. Baby, Please Don’t Go [Take 3]
16. Milk Cow (Calf’s) Blues (Good Morning Blues) [Take 1]
17. Milk Cow (Calf’s) Blues (Good Morning Blues) [Take 3]
18. Wichita Blues (Going To Louisiana) [Take 1]
19. Wichita Blues (Going To Louisiana) [Take 2] (Note: This track was supposed to be “Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues [Take 2]“, but the record company made a mistake and so this is a duplicate of track 21 below.)
20. Milk Cow (Calf’s) Blues (Good Morning Blues) [Take 4]
21. Wichita Blues (Going To Louisiana) [Take 2]
22. Baby, I’m In The Mood For You [Take 2]
23. Blowin’ In The Wind [Take 1]
24. Blowin’ In The Wind [Take 2]
25. Worried Blues [Take 1]
26. Baby, I’m In The Mood For You [Take 4]

Disc 2:
01. Bob Dylan’s Blues [Take 2]
02. Bob Dylan’s Blues [Take 3]
03. Corrina, Corrina [Take 2]
04. Corrina, Corrina [Take 3]
05. That’s All Right, Mama [Take 1]
06. That’s All Right, Mama [Take 3]
07. That’s All Right, Mama [Take 5]
08. Mixed Up Confusion [Take 3]
09. Mixed Up Confusion [Take 5]
10. Mixed Up Confusion [Take 6]
11. Mixed Up Confusion [Take 7]
12. Mixed Up Confusion [Take 9]
13. Mixed Up Confusion [Take 10]
14. Mixed Up Confusion [Take 11]
15. That’s All Right, Mama [Take 3]
16. Rocks And Gravels (Solid Road) [Take 2]
17. Ballad Of Hollis Brown [Take 2]
18. Kingsport Town [Take 1]
19. When Death Comes Creepin’ (Whatcha Gonna Do?) [Take 1]
20. Hero Blues [Take 1]
21. When Death Comes Creepin’ (Whatcha Gonna Do?) [Take 1]
22. I Shall Be Free [Take 3]
23. I Shall Be Free [Take 5]
24. Hero Blues [Take 2]
25. Hero Blues [Take 4]

Disc 3:
01. Hard Times In New York Town [Mackenzie Home Tapes]
02. The Death Of Emmett Till [Mackenzie Home Tapes]
03. I Rode Out One Morning [Mackenzie Home Tapes]
04. House Of The Rising Sun [Mackenzie Home Tapes]
05. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean [Mackenzie Home Tapes]
06. Ballad Of Donald White [Mackenzie Home Tapes]
07. Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance [Gerde’s Folk City]
08. Talkin’ New York [Gerde’s Folk City]
09. Corrina, Corrina [Gerde’s Folk City]
10. Deep Ellum Blues [Gerde’s Folk City]
11. Blowin’ In The Wind [Gerde’s Folk City]
12. The Death Of Emmett Till [Finjan Club, Montreal]
13. Stealin’ [Finjan Club, Montreal]
14. Hiram Hubbard [Finjan Club, Montreal]
15. Blowin’ In The Wind [Finjan Club, Montreal]
16. Rocks And Gravel [Finjan Club, Montreal]
17. Quit Your Low Down Ways [Finjan Club, Montreal]
18. He Was A Friend Of Mine [Finjan Club, Montreal]
19. Let Me Die In My Footsteps [Finjan Club, Montreal]
20. Two Trains Runnin’ [Finjan Club, Montreal]
21. Ramblin’ On My Mind [Finjan Club, Montreal]
22. Muleskinner Blues [Finjan Club, Montreal]
23. Muleskinner Blues (Part 2) [Finjan Club, Montreal]

Disc 4:
01. Sally Gal [Carnegie Hall Hootenanny]
02. Highway 51 [Carnegie Hall Hootenanny]
03. Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues [Carnegie Hall Hootenanny]
04. Ballad Of Hollis Brown [Carnegie Hall Hootenanny]
05. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall [Carnegie Hall Hootenanny]
06. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean [The Gaslight Café, NYC]
07. No More Auction Block [The Gaslight Café, NYC]
08. Motherless Children [The Gaslight Café, NYC]
09. Kind Hearted Woman Blues [The Gaslight Café, NYC]
10. Black Cross [The Gaslight Café, NYC]
11. Ballad Of Hollis Brown [The Gaslight Café, NYC]
12. Ain’t No More Cane [The Gaslight Café, NYC]

[Retrospectiva 2012] – How many a year has passed and gone

2012 foi um ano com ótimas novidades dylanescas. Já em janeiro tivemos uma aparição na TV, durante o Critics’ Choice Awards, com Bob tocando uma ótima versão de “Blind Willie McTell” em homenagem ao diretor Martin Scorcese.

O início da turnê anual, que teve um total de 86 shows, foi no Brasil. Dylan fez seis shows em cinco capitais. Daqui foi para outros países da América do Sul e depois viajou o resto do mundo. Na Europa, passou a levar um piano de calda que o acompanhou até o final da turnê.

O ano também foi de comemorações: 50 anos do disco de estreia de Dylan, aniversário de 71 anos do cantor, centenário de um de seus maiores ídolos, Woody Guthrie, e condecoração cívica máxima dada pelo presidente Obama. Infelizmente tivemos uma perda sentida e expressada por Bob: a morte de Levon Helm, baterista do The Band.

Os boatos que começaram em março se consolidaram em setembro, com o lançamento de Tempest. O disco foi lançado no dia 11 e como divulgação Bob deu uma histórica entrevista para Mikal Gilmore na edição da Rolling Stone americana, quando disse, entre outras coisas, de sua “transfiguração”.

O brasileiro Leandro Senna aproveitou o mês de lançamento do 35º álbum de estúdio de Dylan para mostrar sua caligrafia dylanesca. No mês seguinte, enquanto Bob excursionava pelos EUA, seu filho Jakob representava a família Dylan no tributo “Love for Helm”.

Na reta final do ano, Bob Dylan lançou uma versão inédita de “Meet Me In The Morning” (um possível aperitivo para um futuro Bootleg Series) e ainda participou de uma ação beneficente no skatista Tony Hawk, batendo recorde no valor do shape com seu manuscrito.

Gostou deste ano dylanesco? E o que será que 2013 guarda para nós? (Já sabemos que haverá turnê e um novo guitarrista).

Abaixo, um dos momentos históricos da passagem no Brasil, com Dylan deixando a platéia cantar o refrão de “Like a Rolling Stone”:

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A Noite Antes do Natal

O poema “Twas The Night Before Christmas” é considerado um dos textos americano que consolidou a história do Santa Claus (nosso Papai Noel) na metade do século XIX. Sua autoria é discutida, tendo como principais personagens são Clement Clarke Moore e Henry Livinston Jr.

Bob Dylan, em seu programa de rádio em 2006, leu o poema completo.

Ouça e leia abaixo:

Twas the Night Before Christmas

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro’ the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar plums danc’d in their heads,
And Mama in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow,
Gave the luster of mid-day to objects below;
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and call’d them by name:

“Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer and Vixen,
“On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Donder and Blitzen;
“To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall!
“Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of toys — and St. Nicholas too:

And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound:

He was dress’d all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnish’d with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys was flung on his back,
And he look’d like a peddler just opening his pack:

His eyes — how they twinkled! His dimples: how merry,
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry;
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face, and a little round belly
That shook when he laugh’d, like a bowl full of jelly:

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laugh’d when I saw him in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And fill’d all the stockings; then turn’d with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.

He sprung to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew, like the down of a thistle:
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

Um feliz Natal a todos e para todo mundo uma boa noite!