Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash

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As far as I could determine, this 1969 session features tracks from a CBS Studios session in Nashville, TN that did not see an official release. A Japanese company released these discs from an unknown source. The bonus tracks are taken from The Johnny Cash Show. Cash's vocals have a more commanding presence than Dylan's. For obsessive-compulsive Dylan fans, an extensive official and bootleg discography for 1969 and other years is available here.

Tracks:
1 - One Too Many Mornings
2 - One Too Many Mornings #2
3 - Good Ol' Mountain Dew (Lunsford / Wiseman)
4 - I Still Miss Someone (J Cash / Roy Cash)
5 - Careless Love (Trad)
6 - Matchbox (Carl Perkins)
7 - That's Alright Mama (A. Crudup)
8 - Big River (J Cash)
9 - Girl Of The North Country
10 - I Walk The Line (J Cash)
11 - You Are My Sunshine (Davis / Mitchell)
12 - Ring Of Fire (Carter / Kilgore)
13 - Guess Things Happen That Way (Clement)
14 - Just A Closer Walk With Thee (Trad)
15 - Blues Yodel #1 (J Rodgers)
16 - Blues Yodel #2 (J Rodgers)

Bonus:
17 - I Threw It All Away
18 - Living The Blues
19 - Girl Of The North Country
Thanks to the source, skb's virtual cave.
Thanks to largehearted boy for linking me. There may be a lossless torrent here if you can access easytree.
Thanks also to Bob Dylan - Expecting Rain and Stereogum.
Thank you Michael for your zip and torrent attempts and Dan for the Coralized mirror.
Please refer to the comments for information from Bill in WV about the very interesting origin of this recording.
You can also find lossless versions on P2P. Thanks.

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25 Comments:

this is abso-tively spec-fucking-tacular. thanks mucho mucho!

By ismateo, at 2/17/2005 09:31:00 PM

Thanks, Got a lot of dylan & cash but not these one's.

By matt, at 2/25/2005 08:04:00 PM

What a trip! Bobby hadn't found his "voice" yet and it's cracking me up to hear him sing like he thought Johnny wanted. He hadn't shed Woody Guthrie at this point.

Go Johnny Go!!!

Thanks :)

By Anonymous, at 3/02/2005 05:42:00 AM

A little history about the source: These were bootlegged in the late 70s or early 80s in poor quality. In 1985 or 86, my friend, Chris D., worked in a video store in Nashville (I lived near there). I had helped him get some space shot videos from NBC, so to return the favor, he called one day and asked if I wanted a cassette of the Cash session. He got it from a guy who found it in his attic, in a box marked "BDJC". That guy's father worked for CBS Nashville in 1969 and made a 1 inch mono reel-to-reel copy of the original session tape. He made Chris a cassette from the 1 inch tape. Chris copied the cassette, and gave me the original. In the fall of 1986, I went to a Dylan collectors meet in Chicago, and we daisy-chained 15 cassette decks together. I was second in the chain, and everyone past me copied my tape. By then, I had added the second "One Too Many Mornings" and the three songs from a betamax tape of the JC TV show, so this CD is one generation down from my original cassette. The original bootleg CD came out about two months later. "Mornings" has a tone shift in the middle, from the video when they change from the studio footage to the control room footage, but I minimized this a bit with some EQ, which you can hear when it switches. I tried to balance the tones more than on the source video, but there is more echo on the control room footage. The CDs come from the tape that was copied in Chicago. Someday I will digitize the original cassette and make a better copy, but there probably won't be much improvement over this one. I do now have a much better source for the JC TV show video; the JC show from ABC on this tape has several glitches. "One Too Many Mornings" from the PBS Cash documentary is now available on a legitimate DVD.

Bill in WV

By Anonymous, at 3/02/2005 12:12:00 PM

Those downloading might try to use the Coral cache to help ease the load on the server: http://www.coralcdn.org

By Anonymous, at 3/02/2005 12:57:00 PM

Awesome. Found this via metafilter; have you considered seeding them on BitTorrent or something? Just worried for your bandwidth.

By Tuwa, at 3/09/2005 12:35:00 PM

I made a zip file so you can download all the songs at once. Also a .torrent file here. Thanks Mo!

By Michael Wade, at 3/09/2005 12:35:00 PM

"Bobby hadn't found his 'voice' yet"? He'd already released Bringin' It All Back Home, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, and John Wesley Harding. He'd found about a dozen voices, each as authoritative as the last.

By Anonymous, at 3/09/2005 01:20:00 PM

Thanks DJMM! Great site.

By Dodge, at 3/09/2005 01:40:00 PM

Here are Coralized links:Tracks:
1 - One Too Many Mornings 2 - One Too Many Mornings #2 3 - Good Ol' Mountain Dew (Lunsford / Wiseman)4 - I Still Miss Someone (J Cash / Roy Cash)5 - Careless Love (Trad)6 - Matchbox (Carl Perkins)7 - That's Alright Mama (A. Crudup)8 - Big River (J Cash)9 - Girl Of The North Country 10 - I Walk The Line (J Cash)11 - You Are My Sunshine (Davis / Mitchell)12 - Ring Of Fire (Carter / Kilgore)13 - Guess Things Happen That Way (Clement)14 - Just A Closer Walk With Thee (Trad)15 - Blues Yodel #1 (J Rodgers)16 - Blues Yodel #2 (J Rodgers)17 - I Threw It All Away 18 - Living The Blues 19 - Girl Of The North CountryI don't know how well this will work given the size of the files, but it should help ease the server load. A torrent would work even better, of course, but it should be zipped up in one file for efficiency. (daHiFi's above isn't working, btw, it's not just you.)

By Dan, at 3/09/2005 02:10:00 PM

Well, hell, preview mode looked different. Sorry about that.

By Dan, at 3/09/2005 02:12:00 PM

Sorry, I had to take the .zip down cause my server was overloaded. And the torrent didn't work cause I can't find a tracker that works.

By Michael Wade, at 3/09/2005 03:20:00 PM

Brilliant. Thanks.

By blag, at 3/09/2005 05:57:00 PM

Fantastic find! Props to all who made it possible!

BTW, I am able to download the zip right now via a Tomato torrent (Mac G5/OSX).

By rdone of MeFi, at 3/09/2005 09:24:00 PM

A little rough, but very cool to hear two great artists trying to figure it out. Thanks a bunch.

By Tom Clift, at 3/15/2005 12:03:00 AM

brilliant !!. Thank you so much

By Niandi, at 3/24/2005 03:38:00 AM

These are great, there is a video available for the version of one too many mornings posted here, it can be found through most peer to peer networks and is a great visual aid to the beautiful music, you can see them laughing back and forth, having a great time.

By Anonymous, at 3/28/2005 08:10:00 PM

Many Many Thanks.Brilliant.

By Anonymous, at 4/09/2005 04:40:00 PM

this is truly awesome....i bet bob would be proud if he could hear those tracks right here right now...thank you so much i have been emailing a few pals about your blog so you should get a few more visitors

By countrygrrl, at 5/03/2005 04:51:00 PM

This was a great find. I've had the bootleg record for almost 30 years and it's always been one of my favorites. It was great to hear the additional cuts and be able to put them on CD. Cant believe they never made an official release, fools that they are.

By old fan, at 5/16/2005 04:45:00 PM

Looks like I found this too late, because I can't download any of these. I have Girl from North county, and I think it is incredible!

By Anonymous, at 9/30/2005 10:27:00 AM

I can't download any of these songs that's a pity ;could anyone tell me why the links don't work at all ?

By Anonymous, at 3/10/2006 03:38:00 AM

Need some help with this.

My boss has me doing research on an album that he has in storage. He claims the name of it is Johnny Cash presents Bob Dylan. Can't find the name of this ablum as he did not make it. After reading the non-release of an album, I do believe that I may just have it. It all fits to what my boss is saying and he doesn't screw around.

He bought an entire radio stations collection out of texas about ten years ago. The quy told him that he didn't know how many copies there were, but Johnny Cash gave it to him because he did some work for him.

So I will have my hands on this album Sunday or Monday coming up. What I need help with is how much would an ablum like this be worth?

I will post the out come

email me if you like

By Dennis, at 3/30/2006 08:26:00 PM

I'm not so good with appraisals. Hopefully, a collector who happens on this entry will be able to help you better.

By DJMonsterMo, at 3/30/2006 09:18:00 PM

I don't think anyone would say that the two jelled artistically. It's sort of like pushing two supernovae together with the hope of sparking a larger star. That's not how it works.

I spoke to Bob Johnston years ago and he said they were a little wary around one another, though they always maintained a high degree of respect for one another as artists. Cash was one those guys with a sort of ranging artistic curioisty. I mean, look at the breadth and scope of his work and collaborators, from U2 to Merle Haggard.

Here's a very good tribute to Cash with some neat surprises.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64xtHbj4CKo

By Anonymous, at 2/16/2008 07:42:00 AM