Sing A Bit Of These Workingman’s Blues Tambourine Man Records TMR-115/116/117 Agganis Arena, Boston, MA – November 11th & 12th, 2006 Flac files extracted by cevau from audio disks provided by industry source. Disc 1, 01 Boston first night, November 11th, 2006: 02 Maggie’s Farm, 03 She Belongs To Me, 04 Lonesome Day Blues, 05 Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right, 06 It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding), 07 Workingman’s Blues #2, 08 Tangled Up In Blue, 09 Blind Willie McTell, 10 Most Likely You’ll Go Your Own Way (And I’ll Go Mine), 11 Ballad Of Hollis Brown Disc 2: 01 Highway 61 Revisited, 02 Spirit On The Water, 03 Summer Days, 04 Thunder On The Mountain, 05 Like A Rolling Stone, 06 Band Introduction 07 All Along The Watchtower. Boston second night, November 12th, 2006: 08 Intro 09 Absolutely Sweet Marie, 10 Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power), 11 Honest With Me, 12 Positively 4th Street, 13 Masters Of War Disc 3: 01 ‘Till I Fell In Love With You, 02 When The Deal Goes Down, 03 Every Grain Of Sand, 04 Rollin’ And Tumblin’, 05 Tangled Up In Blue, 06 Nettie Moore, 07 Highway 61 Revisited, 08 Thunder On The Mountain, 09 Like A Rolling Stone, 10 band introduction, 11 All Along The Watchtower Disk One 01. Stück 1.flac:f1d15e1baf06752862ce9892bba8d898 02. Stück 2.flac:df4908b6053b6c73652a11321a0c3512 03. Stück 3.flac:df322b675a0e872f8ee97810b0cf39e5 04. Stück 4.flac:b7ebeff4bb49b0b0d88898281cf1a3c2 05. Stück 5.flac:3631d7b0d255a3a119358ee665b3768b 06. Stück 6.flac:f135a87046ca2a0e640a8eb3ce8f3165 07. Stück 7.flac:75e96159e034f56653712be9ae7735d8 08. Stück 8.flac:76327258a90d6e8cbc9a2d43036089dc 09. Stück 9.flac:beafeacc57aa9b8379f5470c73760e95 10. Stück 10.flac:96def3cc9102b402941968aa6273303d 11. Stück 11.flac:7d93bf22d3141aaad85e4842e60fe175 Disk Two 01. Stück 1.flac:ba689ab77883768ade65bd4636227d01 02. Stück 2.flac:a6ca6e96f3166fd1c4488bcd0dc9df50 03. Stück 3.flac:e696719a109e1281a6883308be4cd414 04. Stück 4.flac:4cbd199b3585dd71d5fab9de25bd6528 05. Stück 5.flac:9ffa47c59341fb91856202c53c1b743c 06. Stück 6.flac:005fbfff708186204c794d4c7f4613c3 07. Stück 7.flac:de0f92686f2a9fc4cffcfcbec5de3e9d 08. Stück 8.flac:87d94c9d7beffbfc3d0553383c5c5432 09. Stück 9.flac:5bd4da469004d7c72493555d07de5172 10. Stück 10.flac:f8a847044a9b1d98b29c02788018ec58 11. Stück 11.flac:170a5f30e60e9757cc0f2ef39455d181 12. Stück 12.flac:1fc27733f13949570cf2a35ddafc3be6 13. Stück 13.flac:2b42f91815c670b1335e8dfb7598b8a1 Disk Three 01. Stück 1.flac:0f4c73541013a6f81068b8380cfa4381 02. Stück 2.flac:a45a1a805f61ef46caca68ffde2daead 03. Stück 3.flac:61b6fdcc83da8b4d217599791f802c3a 04. Stück 4.flac:9f96adf54f266edd0ae81f7130a0abcd 05. Stück 5.flac:79a91f34d1613ee5f310c24224371a84 06. Stück 6.flac:f18e745d2dbcfb81060f0b3af7452475 07. Stück 7.flac:eca4e11668ac0103a6a5e2b06c5ecc1a 08. Stück 8.flac:263644bd3997591c3f2086816db72c4d 09. Stück 9.flac:8bf216e3bec37257b602e98af460c9ad 10. Stück 10.flac:49a78fe648099447a731b3753c376f14 11. Stück 11.flac:674026ce7eac6c283f17f66a99a9ab83 Sing A Little Bit Of These Workingman’s Blues is a convenient 3-CD package of the two Boston concerts at the Agganis Arena at Boston University. The sound quality for both concerts is very similar (same taper?) and falls below the other releases by TMR this month. Both are good to very good and clear audience recordings but the lower frequencies are emphasized and the bass sometimes becomes distorted interfering with the overall enjoyment of the recording. Louder passages suffer the most and the first night fares worse than the second. For these two nights, nine unique tape sources exist (five for the first night and four for the second) and it makes one wonder if these are the best possible sources that could have been used or if there was a rush to release these two concerts. Regardless these are two interesting concerts. The label prints the complete review of the first show on the inside inserts from The Patriot Ledger, some of whose observations include: “In general, Saturday’s show was more rocking than the Pawtucket gig, as Dylan and his band seemed to settle into a midtempo, country/folk-rock groove, where the Pawtucket set leaned more toward rootsy Americana. That might be due in some part to the openers, as the McCoy Stadium show featured bluesman Jimmie Vaughn and country guitar slinger Junior Brown, while this segment of the tour features the harder rocking Raconteurs. “Dressed in a black Western suit with accompanying hat, Dylan strolled out onstage promptly at 9 p.m. and began a lively pop-rock version of ‘Maggie’s Farm.’ His backing quintet was dressed in gray suits with black shirts, for the kind of contrast that had to be deliberate. Denny Freeman and Boston’s Stu Kimball provided superb guitar, and Don Herron’s accents on pedal steel and fiddle were delightful. Dylan, as usual lately, played just his electric keyboard, but his own forays seemed much more obvious here than at the August concert. Dylan didn’t speak to the crowd until his last song of the night, but then sounded positively chatty as he explained, ‘I want to play guitar, but then I’d have to find someone to play this thing. … One of these days!’ (“Ever-changing Dylan Delights” by Jay Miller). The set list includes great versions of “Blind Willie McTell”, “Ballad Of Hollis Brown” and especially “Workingman’s Blues #2? from Modern Times. But the second night at the Agganis Arena is a more interesting concert. As stated above, the sound quality of the tape is a bit worse than the first night’s with the bass being overloaded during loud passages and having an overall dull feeling. Even worse is the tape is not complete. “Cold Irons Bound”, which was played between “When The Deal Goes Down” and “Every Grain Of Sand”, is listed on the track listing on the back but a cut in the tape eliminates the song from this release. Since each of the four sources has this track it is an oversight on the part of the label for failing to include it. It is a shame too because this is a beauty of a show and one of the best from the tour. “Absolutely Sweet Marie”, the sometime “B” opener, is used probably to jumble the set list more than usual since he was playing two nights in the same venue followed by a haunting version of “Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)”. “When The Deal Goes Down”, Dylan’s meditation of mortality set to a waltz beat, sounds sublime as does “Every Grain Of Sand”, his meditation on destiny and fate. Dylan prefaces “Tangled Up In Blue” with a bit of “Oh Susanna” on the keyboard to lighten the mood which becomes serious again with “Nettie Moore” from the new album. The audience follow every line of this magnificent new song and cheer after the lines “I’m the oldest son of a crazy man / I’m in a cowboy band” and “She been cooking all day and it’s gonna take me all night / I can’t eat all that stuff in a single bite”. The performance is so astounding that “Highway 61 Revisited” and the encores sound banal afterwards. The band introduction before “All Along The Watchtower”, although not noted on the artwork, is tracked separately. The front cover has a good picture of Dylan at the keyboards and a wide live shot on the back. Overall it is hard to recommend Sing A Little Bit Of These Workingman’s Blues because of the quality of the tapes and the oversight regarding the missing track on disc three.