Bob Dylan -Carnegie Chapter Hall (Nov.4-1961)

 

53 tickets were sold for the concert, while the hall could have held 200. "Billed as Dylan's 'First New York Concert' it was, more accurately, Dylan's first concert anywhere. Prior to this show he'd only played club dates and a few guest spots on multi-artist bills. Dylan arrived in New York on January, 21, 1961 and began playing hoots at clubs like Gerdes Folk City almost immediately

Bob Dylan performed 22 songs at the Chapter Hall concert on 4 November 1961. The first seven songs were already into circulation among collectors when five additional songs appeared in December 2004; a further two (Talking Merchant Marine and Talking New York) turned up in May 2008.
     He Was A Friend Of Mine surfaced in November 2021, sixty years after the concert, when the tape of the performance was purchased by the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa.

Setlist:

       Pretty Peggy-O

       In the Pines  

       Gospel Plow  

       1913 Massacre  

       Backwater Blues  

       A Long Time A-Growin'  

       Fixin' to Die  

       San Francisco Bay Blues *

       Riding In My Car  *

       Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues  

       Man On The Street  

       Sally Girl  *

       This Land Is Your Land  

       Talking Merchant Marine (Talking Sailor)  

       Black Cross  

       He Was A Friend Of Mine  

       Pretty Polly *

       House of the Rising Sun  *

       The Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird *

       Freight Train Blues  

       Song To Woody  

       Talkin' New York  

 Many Thanks to:

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The Early Days

 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2010/10/bob-dylan-early-days1961-1962.html

Isle Of White

 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2013/09/bob-dylan-i-threw-it-all-away-live-at.html

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