#Bob dylan discography song series
He began touring in earnest the next year, both solo performances and a series of concert dates co-billed with Baez. Besides a couple solo dates that year and performances as a "surprise guest" at several Joan Baez concerts, he made appearances at the Brandeis Folk Festival in Massachusetts, Monterey Folk Festival in California and Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island. It seems like only yesterday that we launched our inaugural Top Songs List, featuring the greatest work of one of our all-time heroes, his Bobness. Dylan played relatively few concerts during 1963. Only one live recording of the song is known to exist, released on The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963. Four months later during the first of six Times They Are a-Changin' sessions, Dylan recorded four takes of the song, none of them complete. He played seven songs on the show, opening with "Farewell" (the seventh was "Blowin' in the Wind"). The next day, April 26, he was interviewed during a taping of author Studs Terkel's radio show on WFMT. Also in April, Dylan went to Chicago to appear at The Bear, a folk music club owned by his manager Albert Grossman. In April 1963, he recorded "Farewell" for the magazine, and a transcription of its lyrics and music appeared in that month's issue. During the time Dylan was making periodic trips to Witmark's Manhattan studios, between 19, he was also visiting Broadside to tape songs for publication. The demo version, which appeared on several bootlegs, was officially released on the Witmark Demos. Decades later, in interviews with author Michael Gray, Traum identified the session's location as the East Village apartment of Gil Turner, who worked at Gerde's and was an editor for the folk music magazine Broadside.Ī month after the session with Traum, Dylan recorded the song as a demo for his music publisher M. The recordings were eventually bootlegged under the title The Banjo Tape. His friend Happy Traum, then with The New World Singers, backed him on vocals and banjo. Over the years, "Farewell" has been recorded by about 20 other musicians worldwide, including Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Lonnie Donegan, Dion, and Tony Rice.ĭylan first recorded "Farewell" on February 8, 1963, along with 11 other songs, during a session that for many years was believed to have taken place in the basement of either Gerde's Folk City or the Gaslight Cafe, Greenwich Village venues where Dylan performed during the early 1960s. Dylan's earlier recordings of "Farewell" found their way onto various bootlegs, and a collection of demos that included the song was released in October 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol. He considered it for his third album, The Times They Are a-Changin, but only attempted a few takes during the album's first studio session. " Farewell", also known as "' Fare Thee Well ", is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.