Titolo: Bob Dylan Live 1961-2000 - Thirty-nine years of great concert performances
Etichetta: SME records - Sony Music Entertainment (Japan)
Prezzo indicativo: 51.000 lire
Durata: 73 minuti circa
Booklet allegato: 32 pagine inclusa copertina (con 11 foto a colori e b/n)
Note: Il booklet contiene i testi in inglese e giapponese di tutte le canzoni
Liner notes giapponesi: Heckel Sugano

Le canzoni:
1) Somebody touched me*
2) Wade in the water*
3) Handsome Molly*
4) To Ramona*
5) I don't believe you
6) Grand Coulee Dam*
7) Knockin' on Heaven's door
8) It ain't me, babe*
9) Shelter from the storm
10) Dead man, dead man*
11) Slow train
12) Dignity
13) Cold irons bound*
14) Born in time*
15) Country pie*
16) Things have changed*

* Rare or Previously Unreleased Tracks

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Somebody touched me
(traditional)

Glory glory glory, somebody touched me
Glory glory glory, somebody touched me
Glory glory glory, somebody touched me
Must have been the hand of the lord

While I was praying somebody touched me
While I was praying somebody touched me
While I was praying somebody touched me
Must have been the hand of the lord

Glory glory glory, somebody touched me
Glory glory glory, somebody touched me
Glory glory glory, somebody touched me
Must have been the hand of the lord

It was on a sunday, somebody touched me
It was on a sunday, somebody touched me
It was on a sunday, somebody touched me
Must have been the hand of the lord

Glory glory glory, somebody touched me
Glory glory glory, somebody touched me
Glory glory glory, somebody touched me
Must have been the hand of the lord

Wade in the water
(traditional)

Wade in the water
wade in the water, children
wade in the water
God's a-gonna trouble the water
God's a-gonna trouble the water

Well, who are these children all dressed in red?
God's a-gonna trouble the water
Must be the children that Moses lead
God's a-gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water
wade in the water, children
wade in the water
God's a-gonna trouble the water
God's a-gonna trouble the water

Well out of the mountains come fire an' smoke
God's a-gonna trouble the water
Jehovah nobody be he...spoke
God's a-gonna trouble the water
God's a-gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water
wade in the water, children
wade in the water
God's a-gonna trouble the water
God's a-gonna trouble the water

Well I'm walkin' down the highway an' the water's gettin' low
God's a-gonna trouble the water
Walkin' down the highway
Nowhere to go
God's a-gonna trouble the water

But it's wade in the water
wade in the water, children
wade in the water
God's a-gonna trouble the water
God's a-gonna trouble the water
God's a-gonna trouble the water

Handsome Molly
(traditional)

Well I wish I was in London
Or some other seaport town
I'd put my foot on a steamboat
And sail the ocean round

While sailin' round the ocean
While sailin' round the sea
I'd think of handsome Molly
Wherever she might be

Don't you remember Molly?
You gave me your right hand
You said whoever you marry
I would be the man

But you broke your promise
Go with whom you please
My poor heart is aching
You are at your ease

I went to church last Sunday
Molly came riding by
I could tell her mind was changing
By the folding of her eye

I go down to the river
For everyone to see
I think of handsome Molly
And I begin to weep

So I wish I was in London
Or some other seaport town
I'd put my foot on a steamboat
And sail the ocean round

Grand Coulee Dam
(Woody Guthrie)

Well the world owns seven wonders as the travelers always tell
Some gardens and some towers I guess you know them well
But now the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam's fair land
That King Columbia river and the great Grand Coulee Dam

She come up the Canadian Rockies where the crystal waters glide
Comes a-roaring down the canyon to meet the salty tide
From the great Pacific Ocean to where the sun sets in the west
That big Grand Coulee Country in that land I love the best

In the misty glitter of that wild and windward spray
Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave
Once she tore men's boats to splinters but she gave men dreams to dream
That day that Grand Coulee Dam went across the wild and restless stream

Oh Uncle Sam took the notion in the year of thirty three
For the factory and the farmer and for all of you and me
He said: roll it on Columbia, you can roll out to the sea
But river, while you're rolling you can do some work for me

Now from Washington and Oregon you can hear them factories a-hum,
Making corn and making mangonies lying all over the ground
Always a flying fortress to blast for Uncle Sam
That king Columbia river and the great Grand Coulee Dam

Well the world owns seven wonders as the travelers always tell
Some gardens and some towers I guess you know them well
But now the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam's fair land
That King Columbia river and the great Grand Coulee Dam

Aspettando di commentare in maniera più ampia il nuovo live all'interno della posta di Maggie's Farm diciamo qui che il disco contiene materiale interessante anche se, come sempre, probabilmente si poteva scegliere meglio in alcuni casi nella sterminata marea di materiale inedito di Bob...
Sicuramente, a mio avviso, questo live contiene le migliori versioni di tutti i tempi di: Shelter from the storm, It ain't me babe, To Ramona, Slow train.
Una curiosità è costituita da Grand Coulee Dam, canzone di Woody Gutrhie alquanto rara proveniente da una vecchia compilation dedicata a Woody da tempo fuori catalogo.

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