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The public’s fascination with Bob Dylan just keeps growing.
The newest Dylan release (volume 9) in the 12-year-old “Bootleg Series” is “The Witmark Demos,” which comes with a bonus if you buy the set from Amazon. A previously unknown live recording of Dylan, taped May 10, 1963, at Brandeis University’s first annual Folk Festival, will be featured.
The tape sat in the archives of the late music critic Ralph J. Gleason’s collection for more than four decades. “It had been forgotten until it was found last year in the clearing of the house after my mother died,” said Gleason’s son, Toby. “It’s a seven-inch reel-to-reel that sounds like it was taped from the mixing disc. A collector/dealer associate of the family said, `This might be worth something to the Dylan office,’ and we sold it to them last year. … My father had nothing to do with that Brandeis show. I suspect he got the tape from Bob himself or from one of the people in Bob’s organization.”
The disc will not be sold in stores but will be delivered to purchasers of the eight-disc “Mono Recordings” box set or the next “Bootleg Series” through Amazon.
The newest “Bootleg” volume is devoted to 1960s demos that Dylan recorded for Witmark and Leeds Publishing, featuring such obscure chestnuts as “Man On The Street” and “Hard Times In New York Town.”
Also coming down the pike is a documentary of Dylan’s 1975-76 “Rolling Thunder Revue,” which has been in the works for years.
BTW, if you happen to be in Denmark anytime in the near future, check out an exhibition of Dylan’s paintings and drawings at the Statens Museum for Kunst, which runs though Jan. 30.
“It was an honor to be asked and a thrilling challenge,” Dylan, who has been painting since the ‘60s, said in a statement about the collection, which is titled “Brazil Series.” “I chose Brazil as a subject because I have been there many times and I like the atmosphere.”