Elusive Butterfly (The Complete 1966 Jack Nitzsche Sessions) - Bob Lind

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...Series Vol.4 - Bob Dylan Live 1966." Subtitle: "The 'Royal Albert Hall' Concert" Venue: Manchester Free Trade Hall, May 1966 ...Background... Bob Dylan had shot to fame for taking Folk music to the front of international consciousness. From the early unique styled Folk album 'Bob Dylan' Dylan had in fact constantly been shifting his direction. He became the most respected protest songwriter of the time and his songs became anthems for the peace and love movement. With the socially conscious, politically motivating messages Bob Dylan had won the respect of not just society as a whole but also of the intellectual elite. Come 1966 however and something was different. Bob Dylan was a different Bob Dylan to the one who had won over all that respect. He had become a modern day prophet, there were people hanging to his words as if... Read review

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...song in 1964. Two different versions were recorded. The US version was recorded in England and is a much slower version, whilst the UK version was recorded in Chicago. The US version reached number 6 whilst the UK version only reached 62. This track is from the album 12 x 5. 10. LAST TIME The Staples Singers sang a song of the same name in 1955, which inspired The Rolling Stones' version in 1965. This single reached number 1 in the UK chart and number 9 in the US chart. From the US album Out of Our Heads. 11. PLAY WITH FIRE Originally called A Mess of Fire, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were the only Stones who recorded this while the others slept after a long session. Producer, Phil Spector and assistant, Jack Nitzsche, took over on bass and harpsichord for the single. Dated 1965 this is from the US album Out of Our... Read review

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...For anyone under the age of 30 the name of Bob Dylan probably doesn't mean very much. Those who have heard of him think of him as just another ageing rock star who still makes critically acclaimed records that get five star reviews in Q magazine but that sound a bit dodgy all the same. This would be a very unfair appraisal of such an important figure in modern music. So let me take you back those halcyon days of 1966 when four lads from Liverpool had won the hearts and minds of teenagers everywhere but also a time when an angry young man named Bob Dylan represented all that was rebellious and intellectual about popular music. UNCLE BOB By the mid sixties Bob Dylan had become the darling of the folk music scene. He had started to attract an audience at the beginning of the decade by in playing his own brand of updated traditional... Read review

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