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 immediatelyBob 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:
https://www.bobdylan-comewritersandcritics.com/index.html
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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