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Bob Dylan - The Naked Empire
Godfather records

Silver CD -> WAV (EAC) -> FLAC (Flac frontend) -> You

Empire Burlesque sessions,
New York City and Los Angeles July 1984 - April 1985

Excellent Stereo

I've been hoping for this bootleg to show up on trackers, after reading the reviews of it online. Of course, those "bootleg-guides" can't be trusted, but I've been pleased with the "Godfather" releases of the Oh Mercy outtakes and Blood On The Tracks outtakes...(which I bought before getting into this fantastic Hungercity site.) (on a sidenote: Some of them "bootleg review sites" seem to be both clueless about the quality of the original recordings and respectless of the torrent society and people who share the recordings in the first place)
But anyway, "The Naked Empire" didn't show up on any trackers....so I bought it in a store yesterday; something I rarely do when it comes to Bob Dylan....the best material is to be found online, for free. Made an exception for "Naked Empire"

According to various "bootleg-sites" online, it features well known material - but in upgraded sound.
Can't let you know my opinion on this, as my "Empire Burlesque outtakes CDRs" are not with me at the moment, for comparision.
But I think it's a very listen..this one.

Featuring Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood.
Info about musicians (below) is taken from the covers. Artwork for the front and back included (had to remove some horrible watermarks with paint-software). Couldn't find scans of the innersleeves.


Enjoy....Erik_Snow

TRACKLIST:

01. New Danville Girl *
02. Tight Connection To My Heart ****
03. Clean Cut Kid ***
04. I'll Remember You *
05. Seeing The Real You At Last *
06. Something's Burning Baby *
07. Trust Yourself *
08. Emotionally Yours *
09. When The Night Comes Falling ****
10. Never Gonna Be The Same Again ****
11. Waiting To Get Beat ****
12. Straight A's In Love ***
13. The Very Thought Of You ***
14. Driftin' Too Far From Shore ***
15. Who Loves You More ***
16. Go 'Way Little Boy **


* Cherokee Studio
Guitar: Ira Ingber
Bass: Carl Sealove
Keyboards: Vince Melamed
Drums: Don Heffington
Backing vocals: Madelyn Quebec

** Power Station Studios, NYC
Guitar: Ronnie Wood
Bass: Marvin Ettioni
Organ: Benmont Tench
Drums: Don Heffington

*** Delta Sound Labs
Guitar: Ronnie Wood
Bass: John Davis
Piano/synth: Bob Dylan
Drums: Anton Fig
Backing vocals: Carolyn Dennis

**** Shakedown Sound Studios
Guitar: Al Kooper
Guitar: Mick Taylor
Guitar: Ted Pearlman
Guitar: Stuart Kimball
Keyboards: Bob Dylan
Drums: Sly Dunbar
Bass: Robbie Shakespear


Upped to Hungerity by Erik_snow, Aug. 2008

Thanks to the original uploader at HC Erik_Snow and breadfan!

Many thanks! Love hearing Dylan outtakes.

Thank You!

Many thanks!!!

Juergen

Thank you for sharing.

Thanks

Thank you

Empire Burlesque is a good album, song-for-song beating out Infidels, which got more praise.

"Infidels" would have slain "EP", had Dylan not decided to remove the bunch of masterpieces he had recorded with Knopfler and replace them with B-grade material (like "Clean Cut Kid").

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"Infidels" would have slain "EP", had Dylan not decided to remove the bunch of masterpieces he had recorded with Knopfler and replace them with B-grade material (like "Clean Cut Kid").

"Clean Cut Kid" is actually on Empire Burlesque. And it's not B-grade material when you consider that it predicts types like Timothy McVeigh. It's an important song that should be listened to more closely.

Here's the B-grade stuff on Infidels: "Neighborhood Bully," "Man of Peace," "Union Sundown," and "Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight." Four bad tracks like this drag down the middling tracks "I and I" and "License to Kill," which became *great* live tracks by the time of the 1984 tour, and forever after. That leaves Infidels with only two great studio tracks, "Jokerman" and "Sweetheart Like You," among its eight songs Empire Burlesque, in comparison, has no bad tracks among ten songs - though none as great as "Jokerman."

Decision to Empire Burlesque. If he'd stuck "I and I" and "License to Kill" on side 1, we could say that Infidels has "one great side."



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