The real Deep Ellum. In Dallas, not near Abiline. Name derived from Elm Street, evidently a very rough street to walk, back in the day. Now home to bars, trendy restaurants and even the Deep Ellum Arts Center.
I love these little details about what was going on at the time. This totally shows that he knew absolutely that he was, indeed, doing protest songs lol. I don't know if you saw any of my blog posts from before about Bob, but I am probably about to pick up my Bob Dylan episodes again...
One of your best pieces yet! Really enjoying this look at the super-early shows we have recordings of. In retrospect, one wishes the boot industry then were as strong as it is now, with 'most every show on Dylan's present-day touring recorded and shared by a hardy soul. What if we could go back in time and capture even more of these early dates? But, just glad we have any of them at all, really, and this one is indeed a bijou treasure.
One more note. As much as Dylan is my favorite artist ever - or maybe because of that - I didn't love the Complete Unknown movie. (Mostly because of Timothy's acting, which I found to be transparently him 'being an actor playing Dylan.')
But I did love the movie's 3D recreation of what had just been in our minds until then. So when I hear a recording like this, now I imagine a recording like this in the context of the movie's coffeehouse scene. Maybe I need to be more agile with my imagination, but that's what I see in my mind's eye now.
The real Deep Ellum. In Dallas, not near Abiline. Name derived from Elm Street, evidently a very rough street to walk, back in the day. Now home to bars, trendy restaurants and even the Deep Ellum Arts Center.
Still--keep your money in your shoes
I love these little details about what was going on at the time. This totally shows that he knew absolutely that he was, indeed, doing protest songs lol. I don't know if you saw any of my blog posts from before about Bob, but I am probably about to pick up my Bob Dylan episodes again...
One of your best pieces yet! Really enjoying this look at the super-early shows we have recordings of. In retrospect, one wishes the boot industry then were as strong as it is now, with 'most every show on Dylan's present-day touring recorded and shared by a hardy soul. What if we could go back in time and capture even more of these early dates? But, just glad we have any of them at all, really, and this one is indeed a bijou treasure.
One more note. As much as Dylan is my favorite artist ever - or maybe because of that - I didn't love the Complete Unknown movie. (Mostly because of Timothy's acting, which I found to be transparently him 'being an actor playing Dylan.')
But I did love the movie's 3D recreation of what had just been in our minds until then. So when I hear a recording like this, now I imagine a recording like this in the context of the movie's coffeehouse scene. Maybe I need to be more agile with my imagination, but that's what I see in my mind's eye now.