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Bob Dylan - Minnesota Hotel Tape (Remastered) (1961)

Track listing:
  1. Candy Man 3:05
  2. Baby, Please Don't Go 4:11
  3. Hard Times In New York Town 2:16
  4. Stealin' 2:13
  5. Poor Lazarus 4:21
  6. I Ain't Got No Home 2:06
  7. It's Hard To Be Blind 2:58
  8. Dink's Song 4:53
  9. Man Of Constant Sorrow 3:31
  10. Talking About East Orange 1:30
  11. Naomi Wise 3:00
  12. Wade In The Water 2:57
  13. I Was Young When I Left Home 5:50
  14. In The Evening 3:55
  15. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down 2:55
  16. Sally Gal 1:42
  17. Gospel Plow 1:28
  18. Long John 6:17
  19. Cocaine 2:15
  20. Vd Blues 1:54
  21. Vd Waltz 0:49
  22. Vd City 1:47
  23. Vd Gunner's Blues 2:34
  24. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 3:36
  25. Ramblin' Round 3:17
  26. Black Cross 5:02

Notes

Home of Bonnie Beecher
Minneapolis, MN

This version here runs at the correct speed.

1. Candy Man (Trad. arr. Rev. G. Davis)
2. Baby, Please Don't Go (Big J. Williams)
3. Hard Times In New York Town
4. Stealin' (Trad. arr. Memphis Jug Band)
5. Poor Lazarus (Trad.)
6. I Ain't Got No Home (W. Guthrie)
7. It's Hard To Be Blind
8. Dink's Song (Trad.)
9. Man Of Constant Sorrow (Trad.)
10. Talking about East Orange
11. Naomi Wise (Trad.)
12. Wade In The Water (Trad.)
13. I Was Young When I Left Home
14. In The Evening (L. Carr)
15. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (E. von Schmidt)
16. Sally Gal
17. Gospel Plow (Trad.)
18. Long John (Trad.)
19. Cocaine (Trad.)
20. VD Blues (W. Guthrie)
21. VD Waltz (W. Guthrie)
22. VD City
23. VD Gunner's Blues (W. Guthrie)
24. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Blind L. Jefferson)
25. Ramblin' Round (W. Guthrie)
26. Black Cross (J. S. Newman arr. L. Buckley)

Probably the most famous hometape of Dylan. It was part of the first bootleg at all, the Great White Wonder. The quality is near perfection what caused a realeasing on numerous bootlegs. Taped by Tony Glover. The Guthrie influence can still be heard very well. Interesting is, that the couple of "own" compositions (tracks 3, 7, 13, 16 and 22) are all adapted to already existing songs:
- Hard Times In New York Town: adapted to Ketty's Farm (Trad.)
- It's Hard To Be Blind: adapted to It's Hard To Be Poor (Trad.) and There Was A Time When I Was Blind (Rev. G. Davis)
- I Was Young When I Left Home: adapted to 900 Miles (Trad.)
- Sally Gal: often called to be adapted to Sally, Don't You Grieve (W. Guthrie) and Ramblin' Round (W. Guthrie)
- VD City: definite source not known. Dylan learnd the Guthrie's VD songs probably from Ramblin' Jack Elliot ("I suppose I taught Bobby a few of my songs. Those old VD songs by Woody that nobody wanted the young kids to know, he picked them up from me ..." - Shelton p104) but VD City is not one of the four VD songs assinged to Guthrie: VD Blues, VD Gunner's Blues, VD Waltz (performed by Dylan on this tape) and VD Seaman's Last Letter (from a manuscript of the McKenzie's, no recording known). So VD City is eighter written by Dylan, or Ramblin' Jack Elliot got it from elsewhere or even wrote it himself.