Loads to tell you about, but here's a few to start with.
Dylan fans will wanna check out. Bob Dylan: On The Crest Of The Air
Dylan rarely gives recorded interviews these days, but way back in the 60s he was much more accessible to the press and liked to have fun with the process.
Kicking off this collection is the Folksinger's Choice radio appearance from 1962.
It's hilarious to hear Dylan spinning his own mythology and playing songs that would never appear on his studio albums.
Check out this exchange between Bob Dylan and interviewer Cynthia Gooding after playing the track
Standing On The Highway. Dylan claims to have travelled with carnivals.Of course he did nothing of the sort. Ridiculous, hilarious and wonderful, and that's before you even get to the music.
Transcription from expectingrain.com
BD: You like that?
CG: Yes I do. You know the eight of diamonds is delay, and the ace of spades is death so that sort of goes in with the two roads, doesn't it?
BD: I learned that from the carnival.
CG: From who?
BD: Carnival, I used to travel with the carnival. I used to speak of those things all the time.
CG: Oh. You can read cards too?
BD : Humm, I can't read cards. I really believe in palm reading, but for a bunch of personal things, I don't, personal experiences, I don't believe too much in the cards. I like to think I don't believe too much in the cards, anyhow.
CG: So you go out of your way not to get em read, so you won't believe them. How long were you with the carnival?
BD: I was with the carnival off and on for about six years.
CG: What were you doing?
BD: Oh, just about everything. Uh, I was clean-up boy, I used to be on the main line, on the ferris wheel, uh, do just run rides. I used to do all kinds of stuff like that.
CG: Didn't that interfere with your schooling?
BD: Well, I skipped a bunch of things, and I didn't go to school a bunch of years and I skipped this and I skipped that.
CG: That's what I figured.
BD: All came out even though.
Here's what's on the set
CD1:Folksingers Choice, 1962
CD2 Features live performances from 1963 of Blowin' In the Wind, /Man Of Constant Sorrow/The Ballad of Hollis Brown. - plus 35 minutes of 1965 press conferences.
CD3 has It's All Over Now Baby Blue and It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) live from TV appearances in 1965 along with 30 minutes of interviews from '65 and '66.
CD4 features an interview recording with Bob Fass from WBAI FM from 1966.
The 1960 British Hit Parade Boxed Sets.
The 1960 British Hit Parade Parts 1 and 2 collectively present every recording to debut on the UK hit singles chart during 1960, drawing on the expanded Record Retailer Top 50 (introduced that March), as well as the New Musical Express, Melody Maker and Record Mirrow charts.
A fantastic way to "enter an era" and get a feel for a period in music.
Each boxed set is $25 and includes 6CDs.
Part 1 has 179 tracks by such as Elvis,Buddy Holly, Sinatra,Gene Vincent, Frank Sinatra, and loads of others.
Part 2 has 174 tracks including Jackie Wilson, Peter Sellers & Sofia Loren, Lonnie Donegan, our own Rolf Harris (as if there was another..), Roy Orbison, George Formby.
Each boxed set includes informative liner notes .
