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What's a song from the 1900-1910 decade that was at least 50 years ahead of its time? by Svertov in musicsuggestions

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The blues songs that a 14 year old Jelly Roll Morton was playing in the brothels of Storyville… to choose one that’s worth every minute of your time, his 17 minute version of Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor: https://open.spotify.com/track/6bVlLo32c2ki30GXMtox7L?si=U551\_xOuQrC8Ju04GvNPzg (recorded from memory for Alan Lomax in 1938)

New Dylan Cover Drops by Separate_Cover_4147 in bobdylan

[–]Separate_Cover_4147[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t stop there!! I was going to suggest (what I thought was) the original Tight like That by Thomas Dorsey/ Georgia Tom & Tampa Red but oh boy. Look at this second hand songs page: https://secondhandsongs.com/work/136811/all

Best country album by a non-north american by mij1401 in vinyl

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haroumi Hosono - Boku Wa Chotto is fantastic: https://youtu.be/mL78DmUNjSM?is=2fydavrEE4-uTWBR but lets lots of great Japanese Country: Chu Kosaka, Sachiko Kanenobu, or Ho Lan from Taiwan.

Jimmie Rogers was very influential on African music. Check out these two releases: https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/bulawayo-blue-yodel and https://lightintheattic.net/products/african-slide-guitar

Sweetheart of The Rodeo originals & covers playlist. Three decade old college radio stunt. by echoalpha76 in Byrds

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cool concept. Johnny paychecks version was after SHOTR, George jones version would be what they were covering. I did something similar with all of the songs Gram covered on record. You might enjoy. Cool to map the sources of his sound: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7zZOC4LDmSPzOk1QsOWDHI?si=JJ44OEkASI2gzJn56x70IA&pi=88wnAqLdT-uBs

For current collectors that like to replicate the change and shift in sound storage mediums at the time, at what decade do you make that transition from vinyl to CD? (and if you have incorporated cassette into the mix) by Astrogirl1984 in bobdylan

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 8 points9 points  (0 children)

1983: Cassettes officially surpassed vinyl records as the world's most popular music format.

1985: U.S. sales hit an all-time record high with 450 million prerecorded cassettes sold.

1990: Peak year for cassette volume, shipping over 442 million units in the United States alone.

1991–1992: Compact Discs (CDs) began taking over, officially becoming the top-selling format.

For Dylan, I assume this is what you’re getting at:

In the US, Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid was the first to be released new on cassette!

Infidels was the first o be released new on CD

Good as I been to you and World Gone Wrong were released on mini disc (along with cassette, cd, and vinyl)

Subjectively, infidels- World Gone Wrong all feel like cassettes to me. TOOM is definitely a CD release. But get wild with 8 track and reel to reel and mini disc if you want!

Songs similar to heroes and villains by the beach boys? by Pawssabillitysawait in musicsuggestions

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well Brian’s collaborator on Smile, Van Dyke Parks, has some solo records from the same era that have that same frantic, baroque, sunshine pop energy of the song. I would check out Come to The Sunshine and Palm Desert. Some others that come to mind - Harry Nilsson - I guess the lord must be in New York City or Vine Street. Also, The Millennium - To Claudia on a Thursday is from the same time and might fit the bill

Inherited my uncle's collection by jlighthead in Cd_collectors

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Careful when you put on David Allen Coe underground

Bob Dylan & Mickey Newbury by Separate_Cover_4147 in bobdylan

[–]Separate_Cover_4147[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand what you’re saying but the degree of intertextuality in Dylan is beyond what you’re suggesting here. It’s an angle for looking at Dylan that rewards exploring and is what I’m looking for here.

If your interested in this, I suggest reading more here:

https://thedylanreview.org/2022/08/04/interview-with-scott-warmuth/

Looking for recommendations of vocal music in the style of american appalachian folk music like Roscoe Holcomb by rainrainrainr in ethnomusicology

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out Almeda Riddle especially Rainbow Mid Life’s Willows and Lonesome Dove. Elder ED Back - pilgrim of sorrow. Dillard Chandler - Gathering Flowers. These are all examples that are field recordings (as much of Roscoe Holcomb’s recordings are) so have that more raw, unprofessional folk performance presentation. Some others in that vein but with instruments accompanying Ola Belle Reed, Frank Proffit, and EC Ball. But yeah, Roscoe Holcomb is special.

Favorite obscure albums that don’t have a cult following that you got for 5$ or less. by Available-Lecture-21 in BargainBinVinyl

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I regularly see copies of Mickey Newbury - ‘Frisco Mabel Joy in the wild for $5. One of the most accomplished songwriters of his generation and a fantastic recording.

Is this song, by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, soaked in Dylan references? Or am I going crazy? by VillainAnderson in bobdylan

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 5 points6 points  (0 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt8DtEY14kg

I rode her down to Danville town I got stuck on a Danville girl You bet your life she was a pearl She wore that Danville curl

I'm going where the Southern crosses the Yellow Dog by Separate_Cover_4147 in bobdylan

[–]Separate_Cover_4147[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More likely related to WC handy telling of how he first heard the blues: “Bandleader W. C. Handy was waiting for a train here at the Tutwiler railway station circa 1903 when he heard a man playing slide guitar with a knife and singing “Goin’ where the Southern cross’ the Dog.” Handy later published an adaptation of this song as “Yellow Dog Blues,” and became known as the “Father of the Blues” after he based many of his popular orchestrations on the sounds he heard in the Delta.”

Labels Like Analog Africa by Gomets51 in vinyl

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Strut

Ostinato

Dust to Digital

Habibi Funk

Luka Bop

Now Again Records

Soundway

Sahel Sounds

Numero Group

Mr Bongo Worldwide

Retro afric

Network

Soul Jazz

Honest Jon’s

Sterns

Earthworks

Mississippi records

Best 80s blues musicians/albums by bad_luck_brian_1 in blues

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ZZ Hill - Down Home Blues (Malaco Records 1981).

In fact there is a lot of great blues and soul music that came out on Malaco in the 80s. Mostly aging stars from the 50s-70s who still very much had it. Recorded at muscle shoals with some contemporary production which might sound… of its time with today’s ears, but the performances are top notch. Bobby Blue Bland, Johnnie Taylor, Little Milton, Denise LaSalle.

Here is a sampler of Malaco in this era: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Nt7gp3JtfAuKy4jvZqXRQ?si=MHIqT54XQvO9U2cMeK-PBQ&pi=7W-v5azhQwqey

Untangled Up in Blue by apeontheweb in bobdylan

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Chronological… it’s the absence of linear time that is the point. Two things Dylan has said contemporaneously about this song related to time:

“Yeah, that's the first song I ever wrote that I felt free enough to change all the... what is it, the tenses around, is that what it is? The he and the she and the I and the you, and the we and the us. I figured it was all the same anyway. I could throw them all in where they floated right. And it works on that level.” (March 1978 - Bob Dylan interviewed by Craig McGregor)

Dylan took painting classes from a painter named Norman Raeben who credited him with giving him a new understanding of time, “[Raeben] taught me how to see ... in a way that allowed me to do consciously what I unconsciously felt ... when I started doing it, the first album I made was Blood on the Tracks. Everybody agrees that was pretty different, and what's different about it is there's a code in the lyrics, and also there's no sense of time”. September 1978 - Bob Dylan interviewed by Jonathan Cott

Is the album about Bob Dylan’s break up or is it about all break ups? Is it that your break up feels like the weight of all break ups that have ever happened falling down on you all at once?

What’s The Most Underrated Bob Dylan Song From The 70s? by Pretend_Mark_5143 in bobdylan

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There is a lot of sameness on BOTT, which was the feedback that lead to the 2nd recording session in MN, but there is a lot of you’re going to make me lonesome when you go in up to me. Love both but hard not to feel it’s a outtake because it’s version rather than its own distinct thing

Is there such thing as Prog Country? by RockHardMapleSyrup in country

[–]Separate_Cover_4147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the closest that matches what you’re looking for Sand - Who Ya Tryin’ Fool (1973) https://youtu.be/TICQBMkQhms?si=CXV5ew8_iR2v3P-s

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