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Live at the Gaslight 1962 | 153213__dylan_l
DO LOOK BACK Dylan in the 60s
Bob Dylan: Don Hunstein

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Lead Performance: Bob Dylan; Genre: Folk
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By David Browne
David Browne
David Browne
David Browne is EW's music critic and author of ''Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley'' (HarperCollins)

Forty-plus years into his never-ending career, Bob Dylan keeps throwing us curveballs. Live at the Gaslight 1962 consists of recordings taped in a famously tiny, noisy Greenwich Village club and is being sold only at Starbucks. But at 21, Dylan was remarkably intense, whether inhabiting folk-blues rambles like ''West Texas'' and ''Rocks and Gravel'' or writing ''A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall,'' heard in one of its first performances. Although he was too young to pull off the burnout elegy ''Moonshiner,'' Gaslight is a spellbinding reminder that Dylan was never a typical folkie (or typical anything, for that matter).


Posted Aug 26, 2005
 

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