Bob Dylan: John Birch Society Blues

          Label:  Exit Records

   Order number:  EXIT CDX-2504-S

Townsend number:  T-301

     Track list:  Mixed Up Confusion
                  Piano Solo
                  I'll Keep It With Mine
                  Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues
                  Who Killed Davey Moore?
                  Eternal Circle
                  Rambling Gambling Willie
                  Ramblin' Round
                  900 Miles
                  Percy's Song
                  Corrina, Corrina
                  In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down
                  Long John



>From: rcj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Craig Jamieson)
>Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
>Subject: Re: Looking for these boots
>Date: 27 Jul 1998 16:55:20 GMT
>Message-ID: <6pibdo$dtf$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>

>  John Birch  Society Blues  / Bob Dylan [22 December 1961 - 9 June
>  1964]
>  Exit Records, CDX 2504, [?1993]
>
>  This CD  boot consists  solely of  tracks previously available on
>  the old  vinyl bootleg LP: GWW Sings The John Birch Society Blues
>  (USA 1970)  [not: John  Birch Society  Blues (double  album)  (UK
>  1972)]. The  order of  songs is  altogether different.  There are
>  also two  more songs  on the  vinyl LP:  Eternal Circle and I Was
>  Young When I Left Home.
>
>  At 40  minutes this is really just half a CD, such a short CD may
>  be the  style of  Columbia or  Sony but you would expect a higher
>  standard from  people who  have no  reason to  want to  harm  Bob
>  Dylan's career.  It is  sad to see random track selection rearing
>  its ugly head on CD...
>
>  In  Isis   # 53  (February/March  1994),  p. 37,  Phill  Townsend
>  includes "Studio Sessions Jan 1965" in his list of sources. As he
>  does not  give sources  of specific  songs in  the column at that
>  stage it is impossible to know what he means by this.