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Episode 100 and sixty-seven of A Historical past of Rock Music in 5 Hundred Songs appears at “The Weight” by the Band, the Basement Tapes, and the persevering with controversy over Dylan going electrical. Click on the complete put up to learn liner notes, hyperlinks to extra info, and a transcript of the episode.

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Errata

At one level I say “when Robertson and Helm travelled to the Brill Constructing”. I meant “when Hawkins and Helm”. That is mounted within the transcript however not the recording.

Sources

There are three Mixcloud mixes this time. As there are such a lot of songs by Bob Dylan and the Band excerpted, and Mixcloud gained’t permit greater than 4 songs by the identical artist in any combine, I’ve needed to put up the songs not in fairly the identical order through which they seem within the podcast. However the mixes are right here — one, two, three.

I’ve used these books for all of the episodes involving Dylan:

Dylan Goes Electrical!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Evening That Break up the Sixties by Elijah Wald, which is really helpful, as all Wald’s books are.

Bob Dylan: All The Songs by Phillipe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon is a song-by-song have a look at each track Dylan ever wrote, as is Revolution within the Air, by Clinton Heylin.

Heylin additionally wrote essentially the most complete and correct biography of Dylan, Behind the Shades.

I’ve additionally used Robert Shelton’s No Path House, which is much less correct, however which is written by somebody who knew Dylan.

Chronicles Quantity 1 by Bob Dylan is a partial, extremely inaccurate, however completely readable autobiography.

Info on Tiny Tim comes from Everlasting Troubadour: The Unbelievable Lifetime of Tiny Tim by Justin Martell.

Info on John Cage comes from The Roaring Silence by David Revill

Info on Woodstock comes from Small City Speak by Barney Hoskyns.

For materials on the Basement Tapes, I’ve used Million Greenback Bash by Sid Griffin.

And for the Band, I’ve used This Wheel’s on Hearth by Levon Helm with Stephen Davis, Testimony by Robbie Robertson, The Band by Craig Harris and Levon by Sandra B Tooze.

I’ve additionally referred to the documentaries No Path House and As soon as Had been Brothers.

The entire Basement Tapes could be discovered on this multi-disc field set, whereas this double-CD model has the perfect materials from the classes. All of the surviving stay recordings by Dylan and the Hawks from 1966 are on this field set.

There are numerous deluxe variations of Music From Huge Pink, however nonetheless one of the simplest ways to get the unique album is on this twofer CD with the Band’s second album.

Transcript

Only a temporary observe earlier than I begin – actually whereas I used to be in the midst of recording this episode, it was introduced that Robbie Robertson had died at the moment, aged eighty. Clearly I’ve not had time to change the remainder of the episode – half of which had already been edited – with that in thoughts, although I do not consider I say something disrespectful to his reminiscence. My condolences to those that cherished him – he was an enormous expertise and might be missed.

There are folks on the earth who query the perform of criticism. These folks argue that criticism is in some ways parasitic. If critics knew what they have been speaking about, so the argument goes, they might create themselves, slightly than discuss different folks’s creation. It is a variant of the “those that cannot, train” cliche.

And to an extent it is true. Actually on the earth of rock music, which we’re speaking about on this podcast,