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Bob Dylan: Hard To Find
1CD
Label: Effective Mining Records
Catalogue number: EMR01
Bar code: 4 345388 976651
Total running time: 79:49
1. Playboys And Playgirls (3:18)
Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 28 July 1963, Newport,
Rhode Island, U.S.A.
2. House Of The Rising Sun (2:41)
From the CD-ROM "Highway 61 Interactive"
The version from the album "Bob Dylan", recorded 21 November
1961, with several verses cut out and electric instruments
overdubbed on 8 December 1964
3. Boogie Woogie Country Girl (3:10)
From the various artists album "A Trbitue To Doc Pomus"
Recorded May 1994
4. Pretty Boy Floyd (4:24)
From the various artists album "Folkways: A Vision Shared"
Recorded April 1987
5. The Ballad Of Hollis Brown (5:23)
From Mike Seeger's album "Third Annual Farewell Reunion"
Accompanied by Mike Seeger on banjo
Recorded 19 May 1993
6. Heartland (4:28)
From Willie Nelson's album "Across The Borderline"
With Willie Nelson
Recorded 19 October 1992
7. Sign Language (2:55)
From Eric Clapton's album "No Reason to cry
With Eric Clapton
Recorded 1 March 1976
8. The Usual (3:33)
9. Night After Night (2:51)
From the "Hearts Of Fire" soundtrack album
Recorded 27-28 August 1986
10. A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (7:23)
Live at the Great Music Experience, 20 May 1994, Nara, Japan
11. Song To Woody (3:38)
Live at the 30th Anniversary Concert, 16 October 1992, New York,
New York, U.S.A. Not included on the official album, because
"Bob's guitar wasn't miked correctly".
12. Nobody's Child (3:23)
From the various artists album "Romanian Angel Appeal"
With the Traveling Wilburys
Recorded April 1990
13. Band Of The Hand (4:38)
From the "Band Of The Hand" soundtrack album
With Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, the Queens of Rhythm and
Stevie Nicks
Recorded 8 February 1986
14. Carribean Wind (6:20)
Outtake from "Shot Of Love"
Not the "Biograph" version, but an earlier version, recorded
31 March 1981
15. This Old Man (3:07)
From the various artists album "Disney For Children"
Recorded January 1991
16. People Get Ready (3:12)
From the "Flashback" soundtrack album
Recorded 20 November 1989
17. You Belong To Me (3:43)
From the "Natural Born Killers" soundtrack
Recorded July/August 1992
18. Rita May (3:08)
From Bob Dylan's album "Masterpieces"
Outtake from "Desire", recorded 30 July 1975
19. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (2:26)
From The Band's album "The Last Waltz"
With The Band
Live at The Last Waltz, San Francisco, 25 November 1976
20. George Jackson (3:38)
From Bob Dylan's single "George Jackson"
Acoustic version, recorded 4 November 1971
21. Little Sussie Shallow Throat (2:40)
From David Allen Coe's album "Underground"
Performed by David Allen Coe without any Dylan involvement
"Effective Mining-Records, P.O. Box 1876, Ghost City, s.D. USA,
compilation by W.B. Hickock"
This CD is a compilation of "hard to find" rare and official tracks,
from charity releases, soundtracks, compilation albums, tributes,
and the like. It serves to provide the music which collectors buy on
a wide range of official discs outside the mainstream released Dylan
albums. The only track on this unofficial CD that before it's release
wasn't officially released is "Caribbean Wind".
Track 17, "You Belong To Me", comes from the soundtrack album of the
movie "Natural Born Killers" and has part of the movie audio sprinkled
through the song.
Track 21, "Little Sussie Shallow Throat" is written and performed by
David Allen Coe and is from his album "Underground" (D.A.C. Records,
DAC 003, 197?, CDDAC003), on which it is labelled "Adults only, not
recommended for air play". Some have thought this track is performed
by Christopher Guest, comic actor, writer, and National Lampoon Dylan
voice. Ed Ricardo wrote (rec.music.dylan, 22 May 1997):
> I first heard of David Allan Coe because of this CD, and I must say he is a tricky
> subject.
>
> Why is this track on this CD? Who knows? A practical joke by the bootlegger? A
> practical joke on the bootlegger? Once pressed you could hardly scrap the run...
>
> Would anyone defend its inclusion here? No, no one sane.
>
> Does it do any real harm? Welllll, it is just a song, keep it in perspective. The
> artist aims to be obscene and shocking, that is his stock in trade. As a service to
> Dylanology I took it upon myself to listen to the gentleman's work and guide you on
> any Dylan relevant aspects of it. There are none.
>
> David Allen Coe is aware of Bob Dylan of course, for example he sings the song
> Castles In The Sand to "Bobby, cause you're the best there is", on the album
> Castles In The Sand (Columbia 38535, 1983). That album is also dedicated to B.D.
> And earlier he mentions Dylan in the song Willie, Waylon And Me -- "... and Dylan
> would write poetry" -- on the album David Allen Coe Rides Again (Columbia 34310,
> 1977).)
>
> If Mr Coe confined himself to explicit sexuality I would probably find it in my
> heart to defend him. His view of women, is, shall we say, not the sort that I tend
> to run across. It appears to be a view which would be unlikely to lead to much
> contact with women as far as I can judge. He may meet different women to me.
>
> His racism I have far more trouble with. I wish I could say these extreme
> standpoints he adopts are a lampoon, a critique, a jibe. Unless I am missing the
> boat altogether they are not. If he does not hold to these views himself, if it is
> all a stage act cardboard character, we are still left with wondering to whom his
> work appeals. It does not ring out as satire to my mind, correct me if I am wrong.
> I have particular trouble with his attitudes to incest and to beating a woman
> because "she's hard to get started, she's always so cold in the mornings...", and
> similar things.
>
> If I even felt an inkling that he was simply satirising redneck cliche appalling
> behaviour I would react very very differently. His work is banned many places, his
> advertising implies on sexual grounds. I suspect his sexual explicitness is not the
> reason, the work may get banned on "incitement to racial hatred" grounds, and then
> he can use the ban promotionally.
>
> I can see he must be an accomplished bar band, raucous smoke-filled atmosphere
> shock even the drunks kind of performer. And that is an interesting genre. And he
> addresses a number of issues of importance which few would touch, especially
> portraying the viewpoints he does.
>
> I am not saying I did not smile or even laugh, the man has wit. I am not saying my
> toe did not tap. But the bad apples rot the bushel. His work has no value.
>
> That does not mean I wish to see him censored, I do not. If people want his albums
> I would make no effort to stop anyone. But if I had a record shop in the UK I would
> not carry them... (And if I had a record shop in the UK, and if you know me, just
> think how many 100% illegal albums would be in the racks. But I would not carry
> this.)
>
> Attitudes to sex and race vary over the world, I know. Just my view from sunny
> Cambridge, oooops I mean Havana, as a liberal anarchist with little experience of
> Ohio. Hope I have not offended David Allan Coe fans. Our worlds are miles apart, in
> ever so many ways. I was pleased to have help in seeing another aspect of American
> culture not easily visible from here.
>
> [There, David, bet I just sold you a whole heap of albums! :-) ]
>
> If the aim of the person who put it on the glass master was a practical joke to put
> something as offensive as possible on the album, wellllll, I think they chose the
> right artist. If anyone knows worse artists in this respect, send them on to Ron,
> not me! (Even Miss Info had hesitations about Coe's work, and she even accepts
> Ron's taste!)
>
> Anybody know the year of the album Underground? Any way of discovering it?
>
> I gather he often plays prisons, was on death row himself at one point, for a
> murder at Ohio State (Pen. not U.), and his foster father joined him there for an
> unrelated murder he had committed. Capital punishment was abolished there and both
> had their sentences commuted to life. From the age of nine he spent most of his
> life in reform schools and prisons. He joined Columbia as a recording artist in the
> early 1970s. You can read his autobiography, Just For The Record, published in
> 1978.
>
> Is he big in Madison? :-) Thought not...
>
> Ed
> ed@edlis.org
>
> I'll point the EDLIS random .sig generator software at David Allan Coe, his imagery
> can be good and witty, I like that side of him. I'll give you his inoffensive One
> More Cup Of Coffee, a fresh roasted mama, no mention of her valley below:
>
> --
> I call my woman coffee
> 'Cause she grinds so fine.
> She's like a percolator
> She's ready any time...
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