Various Artists – A Folk Tribute to The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (05/18/11)

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – A Folk Tribute
BBC Radio 2
FM Broadcast: May 18th 2011
22.00-23.00

There is a 24sec compilation of official Dylan in the Intro, hope this meets with the rules

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As Radio 2 celebrates Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday, the cream of the British folk scene re-interprets songs from his iconic album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. Mark Radcliffe guides us through a collection of specially recorded songs that illustrate not only Dylan’s great writing skills, but also the inventiveness and creativity of British folk
artists, some of whom inspired a young Dylan when he first visited Britain in the early 1960s.

Although Freewheelin’ is Dylan’s second studio album, it initiated the process of writing contemporary words to traditional melodies. Eleven of the thirteen songs on the album are original compositions and it contains several that came to be regarded as his best and classics of the 1960s folk scene: Blowin’ in the Wind, Masters of War,
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall and Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.

In December 1962, partway through recording Freewheelin’, a young Bob Dylan came to London for the first time where he met English folk singer Martin Carthy. Carthy taught Dylan the traditional songs Scarborough Fair and Lord Franklin, both of which would appear on the album just months later as Girl from the North Country and Bob Dylan’s Dream. Almost fifty years on, we come full circle, as Bob Dylan’s Dream is performed by Martin Carthy himself.

The cast list is a roll call of British folk’s premier talents, with the complete track listing as follows:

1. Programme Intro
2. Blowin’ in the Wind – Seth Lakeman
3. Girl from the North Country – Thea Gilmore
4. Masters of War – Martin Simpson
5. Down the Highway – While and Matthews
6. Bob Dylan’s Blues – Ewan McLennan
7. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – Karine Polwart
8. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right – Ralph McTell
9. Bob Dylan’s Dream – Martin Carthy
10. Oxford Town – Coope, Boyes and Simpson
11. Talkin’ World War III Blues – Billy Bragg
12. Corrina, Corrina – Cara Dillon with The Scoville Units
13. Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance – Rory Mcleod
14. I Shall Be Free – Rab Noakes with Fraser Speirs