Show 38: Bob Dylan's Early Blues
Bob Dylan sits here as listener, borrower, reshaper, and sender-back of the blues tradition. The show asks what happened when a folk songwriter steeped in old records turned blues forms into something new and then kept circling back to the source.
For today's 38th and final episode of the CC Blues Show, we will be covering the great artist who changed music as we know it forever. The musician who made words as important as the instrumental accompaniment is Bob Dylan, and throughout our runtime today we will be exploring his formative years as a musician, from Minnesota to a Greenwich Village bohemian folk hero. Up first is his cover from December 1961 called "Baby Please Don't Go," followed by "Cocaine Blues," "Stealin'," "In the Evenin'," and "Backwater Blues."
| # | Track | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| Dink's Song | Bob Dylan | |
| Fixin' to Die | Bob Dylan | |
| Freight Train Blues | Bob Dylan | |
| Highway 51 Blues | Bob Dylan | |
| House of the Risin' Sun | Bob Dylan | |
| I Was Young When I Left Home | Bob Dylan | |
| In My Time of Dyin' | Bob Dylan | |
| Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie | Bob Dylan | |
| Man of Constant Sorrow | Bob Dylan | |
| Moanin' At Midnight 📖 Story | Howlin' Wolf | |
| Moonshiner - Studio Outtake - 1963 | Bob Dylan | |
| Rambler, Gambler | Bob Dylan | |
| See That My Grave Is Kept Clean | Bob Dylan | |
| Smokestack Lightnin' 📖 Story | Howlin' Wolf | |
| Song to Woody | Bob Dylan | |
| Talkin' New York | Bob Dylan | |
| This Land Is Your Land | Bob Dylan |