Bob Dylan
43 Years on Maggie's Farm

This is also a torrent i got from The TUIT Site.
I don't know when i got it
It has the history of Maggie's Farm through the years 1965 - 2008
30 versions of the same great song in different tunes and ways to play it.
That what makes Bob Dylan Great. (never the same)

I Share it how i got it at one time.

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The song -
Original recording at New York sessions for ''Bringing It All Back Home''- 14�15 Jan 1965;
Album released - 22 March 1965 (Columbia)
15 January 1965 - Bob Dylan (guitar, harmonica, vocal), Al Gorgoni (guitar), Kenneth Rankin (guitar), Bruce Langhorne (guitar), Joseph Macho Jr. (bass), William E. Lee (bass), Bobby Gregg (drums), Frank Owens (piano).
Performed live in 29 different years by Dylan.

First live performance - 1965-07-25 - Newport Festival, Freebody Park, Newport, Rhode Island. This was also the first �electric� Dylan concert. Uniquely (?) here he sang "..she's 72 but she says she's 24" instead of the usual "68/24"
Newport - Bob Dylan (vocal & electric guitar), Michael Bloomfield (electric guitar), Barry Goldberg (organ), Al Kooper (organ), Jerome Arnold (bass), Sam Lay (drums)

"There are reports of me being anti-him going electric at the '65 Newport Folk festival, but that's wrong. I was the MC that night. He was singing 'Maggie's Farm' and you couldn't understand a word because the mic was distorting his voice. I ran to the mixing desk and said, 'Fix the sound, it's terrible!' The guy said 'No, this is what the young people want.' And I did say that if I had an axe I'd cut the cable! But I wanted to hear the words. I didn't mind him going electric." Pete Seeger 2005

"The reason they booed is because he only played for 15 minutes and everybody else played for 45 minutes to an hour, and he was the headliner of the festival. [...] The fact that he was playing electric...I don't know. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (who had played earlier) had played electric and the crowd didn't seem too incensed. In 'Maggie's Farm,' the beat got turned around, so instead of playing and two and four, (drummer) Sam Lay was playing on one and three. That's an accident that can happen, and it did, so it was sort of a disaster." Al Kooper

The lyrics of the song follow a straightforward blues structure, based on an earlier song by The Bentley Brothers "Penny's Farm," a 1920's musical complaint about a rural landlord.

Maggie's Farm can be read as Dylan's declaration of independence from the protest folk movement[1]. Punning on Silas McGee's Farm, where he had performed "Only a Pawn in Their Game" at a civil rights protest in 1963 (featured in the film Don't Look Back), Maggie's Farm recasts Dylan as the pawn and the folk music scene as the oppressor. The middle stanzas ridicule various types in the folk scene, the promoter who tries to control your art (fining you when you slam the door), the paranoid militant (whose window is bricked over), and the condescending activist who is more uptight than she claims ("she's 68 but she says she's 54"). The first and last stanzas detail how Dylan feels straight-jacketed by the expectations of the folk scene ("It's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor" and "they say sing while you slave"), needing room to express his "head full of ideas," and to be "just like I am" rather than "just like them."
The song, essentially a protest song against protest folk, represents Dylan's transition from a folk singer who sought authenticity in traditional song-forms and activist politics to an innovative stylist whose self-exploration made him a cultural muse for a generation. - wikipedia

In the 1980s, "Maggie's Farm" was widely adopted as an anthem by opponents to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Barack Obama, the 2008 Democratic candidate for US President, has said that "Maggie's Farm" is "one of my favorites during the political season....It speaks to me as I listen to some of the political rhetoric." Rolling Stone, July 2008

Just like his dad, Bob, Jakob Dylan wore a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses and a stubble beard. His band could have easily been employed by Bob, too. �In case you were wondering, my guitar is acoustic, but plugged in,� said Jakob during the set - Newport Festival review, August 2008


Disc 1

1965-07-25 - Newport Festival, Freebody Park, Newport RI - Bob Dylan (vocal, harmonica & electric guitar) with The Butterfield Blues Band - Michael Bloomfield (electric guitar), Barry Goldberg (organ), Al Kooper (organ), Jerome Arnold (bass), Sam Lay (drums) - First �electric� Dylan concert ever & first live performance of Maggies Farm. ("..72 but she says she's 24")
1969-08-31 - Isle of Wight Festival, Woodside Bay, Isle of Wight, England - with The Band
1974-02-11 - Oakland CA - with The Band
1976-05-16 - Fort Worth TX - with The Rolling Thunder Revue
1978-12-10 - Charlotte NC - with The Queens of Rhythm (Helena Springs, Jo Ann Harris, Carolyn Dennis (vocals))
"All right thank you, thank you. I was invited to play at the Newport Folk Festival sometime back then. Anyway, I went to play this here song and they booted me out of town for doing it. They got all upset. It's hard to believe that such a song could cause such a disturbance, but it did".
1981-11-10 - New Orleans LA - with The Queens of Rhythm (Clydie King, Regina Havis, Madelyn Quebec (vocals) & Al Kooper (keyboards)
1984-07-08 - Slane Castle, Slane, Ireland - Mick Taylor (guitar)
1985-09-22 - Farm Aid, Champaign IL - with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Willie Nelson (guitar) & The Queens of Rhythm (Madelyn Quebec, Carolyn Dennis, Queen Esther Marrow, Elisecia Wright (vocals))
1987-07-19 - Eugene OR - with The Grateful Dead
1987-10-05 - Locarno, Switzerland - with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and The Queens of Rhythm (Carolyn Dennis, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec (backing vocals)).
1988-06-11 - Mountain View CA - with Neil Young (guitar)
1989-06-13 - Frejus, France (with "To Ramona" ending by G E Smith !)
1990-01-12 - Toad's Place, New Haven CT
1991-06-08 - Milano, Italy
1992-05-05 - San Francisco CA
1993-10-05 - San Bernardino CA


Disc 2

1994-10-08 - Boston MA
1995-03-26 - Brighton, England
1996-06-26 - Liverpool, England - Al Kooper (keyboards) John Jackson (guitar & backing vocals)
1997-12-08 - Irving Plaza, New York City
1998-05-22 - Los Angeles CA
1999-02-22 - Troy NY
2000-09-13 - Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland
2001-07-13 - Stirling Castle, Scotland (Bob Dylan - harmonica solo at end)
2002-05-09 - Manchester, England (First and perhaps only known acoustic version - Bob Dylan (acoustic guitar) Larry Campbell (mandolin) Tony Garnier (acoustic bass) Charlie Sexton (guitar), Jim Keltner (drums)
2003-11-15 - Wembley, London, England - Bob Dylan (piano) Freddy Koella & Larry Campbell (guitars)
2004-03-21 - Toronto ON, Canada - Bob Dylan (piano) Freddy Koella & Larry Campbell (guitars)
2005-03-19 - Las Vegas NV - Elana James Fremerman (violin) Bob Dylan (piano)
2006-04-03 - Stockton CA - Bob Dylan (Organ)
2008-07-01 - Cuenca, Spain - Bob Dylan (Organ)

The Sources -
101 103 107 109 - Soundboards
102 - Reel to Reel / JTT ASM - remaster by stewART
104 - 'Hold The Fort, Lock up the Warehouse'
105 - 'Hush,Hush Sweet Charlotte'
108 - 'Complete Farm Aid' - TV broadcast source
110 - Schubert remaster of CB recording
111 - 'alternate'
112 - 'Ringo Kid & The Gunfighters'
113 - Watchtower remaster
114 - Holy Grail - 'Something is Happening Here, But You Don't Know What It Is'
115 - Legendary Taper D
116 - NET Taper A
201 - DAT
202 - ET Off Master
203 - Legendary Taper J
204 - 'White Dove'
205 - 'California or Bust'
206 - VT taper
207, 208, 209, 210 - Crystal Cat
211 - BT
212 - soomlos
213 - Schubert RM of High Security
214 - LuisBP

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