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

SOURCE: Sony ST-JX5 > Soundforge PRO10b > FLAC Level 6 Align on Sector Boundaries

Capture & Editing by JTT, May 18th 2011

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

10,000 Maniacs
BBC Radio
Richard Skinner Session
May 19, 1989

Tracks:

1. Richard Skinner radio intro
2. What’s the Matter Here (acoustic)
3. Richard Skinner intro. to “Eat For Two”
xx. Eat For Two (Natalie solo on piano) – not included, as it was officially released on the “Eat For Two” 10″ single
5. Richard Skinner intro. / Dust Bowl

Description:

First and foremost, all credit for this upload goes to fellow Dime member “cre001”, who graciously contacted me and offered to send his master recording of this BBC radio session. His detailed transfer information is listed under “source”, above. It’s also worth mentioning that cre001’s audio expertise greatly exceeds my own, and I appreciate his high-quality transfer and thorough source notes.

This radio session features Natalie, Rob Buck, and guest Julia Palmer on cello. Unfortunately, Natalie’s solo piano version of “Eat For Two” needed to be removed, as it had been officially released on the limited edition “Eat For Two” 10″ single.

Source: this is an FM recording, graciously sent to me by fellow Dime member “cre001”. Per his description:

“The source was my own original recording from the FM broadcast using a roof top aerial and a Sanyo Betamax VTC-M40 hifi video recorder onto a TDK Extra Hi Grade L750 tape. I am not sure which tuner I was using at the time but it was a good quality hifi tuner. My recollection is playback and transfer was via the same video deck direct into my PC sound card using Audacity and exported as 24/96 wav as sent to you.”

Additional source notes: “Cre001” provided this recording to me as one long file, transferred to me losslessly. I then
used Audacity to separate the recording into individual tracks, convert them to 16/44 wav, and I then converted the files to FLAC using Trader’s Little Helper.

Sound quality: A+