28 track compilation of the original versions of songs Bob Dylan covered during recording sessions for 'Self Portrait'.

Although only two months had passed since the completion of 'Nashville Skyline', April 24, 1969 saw Bob Dylan return to Nashville's Columbia Music Row Studios for the first of the six sessions to record the double album 'Self Portrait'. The three sessions that took place in Nashville spanned nine days, but it would be eleven months before Dylan completed the album with a further three sessions recorded over three days in Columbia's New York studios.

Within two months of completing 'Self Portrait' Dylan commenced work on his next album, 'New Morning'. Some of the tracks recorded during the sessions for these two albums would later be released by Columbia on the 1973 'Dylan' album in 'revenge' for his leaving the label to join David Geffen's Asylum Records.

The 28 tracks included on this collection are original versions of songs covered by Dylan during these sessions (April 1969 - June 1970) - albeit in many cases not released at the time. Encompassing a rich tapestry of American Roots music with excursions into country, blues, folk, rock & roll, soul and other genres, this was clearly a period when Bob was harking back to his earliest musical inspirations - perhaps why, for many, his cover versions were the best part of his output during this era.

Track Listing

• Little Jimmy Dickens - Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)
• Hank Snow - (Now And Then, There's) A Fool Such As I
• The Davis Sisters - I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
• The Everly Brothers - Let It Be Me
• The Everly Brothers - Take a Message To Mary
• Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
• Judy Collins - Pretty Saro
• Clarence Ashley - Little Sadie
• Joan Baez - Copper Kettle
• Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too
• Paul Clayton - Railroad Bill
• Jean Ritchie - House Carpenter
• Dave Van Ronk - Tell Old Bill
• Logan English - Days Of '49
• Bob Gibson - Alberta
• Pete Seeger - Come All You Fair Maids
• Billy Grammer - Gotta Travel On
• Sam Cooke - Cupid
• The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream
• Carl Perkins - Your True Love
• Jimmy ‘C’ Newman - Alligator Man
• Peter La Farge - Ira Hayes
• Odetta - Saro Jane
• Harry Belafonte - Jamaica Farewell
• Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love
• Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil
• Joan Baez - Lily Of The West
• Lead Belly - Bring Me a Li'l Water, Silvy

Additional Details

Label: Chrome Dreams

Genre: Pop/Rock

Language: English

Run Time: 79 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 02/11/14

UPC: 823564634326