AOVV schreef:
Ik heb 'm eerder deze maand toegevoegd, samen met twee andere releases op dit label. Beetje vaag, inderdaad. Misschien toch maar eens beluisteren, ik zag dat ze op Spotify staan..
Waarom in vredesnaam zulk soort dubieuze releases (keiharde bootlegs) toevoegen aan een oeuvre wat toch al zo groot is ?
Alhoewel, wettelijk gezien zal het waarschijnlijk wel mogen, aangezien de opnames meer dan een halve eeuw oud zijn (van 22 december 1961) en dus ''public domain'' geworden zijn...
Doet overigens niets af aan de briljante opnames die na meer dan een halve eeuw nog steeds klinken alsof de jonge Bob bij je in de woonkamer zit te spelen.
Dink's Song en
I Was Young When I Left Home zijn overigens ook op Bootleg Series Vol. 7 te beluisteren.
Met name Black Cross (Hezekiah Jones) is een behoorlijk kippenvel moment...ongelooflijk dat een jochie van 20 een nummer met zo'n lading zo gemeend kan overbrengen
This is the story of Hezekiah Jones...
Hezekiah Jones lived in a place... in Arkansas.
He never had too much, except he had some land,
An' he had a couple of hogs and things like that.
He never had much money
But he'd spend what he did make as fast as he made it,
So it never really mattered that he had much money.
But in a cupboard there, He kept in the cupboard... he kept in the cupboard books,
He called the books his "rainy season."
The white folks around the county there talked about Hezekiah...
They... said, "Well... old Hezekiah, he's harmless enough,
but the way I see it he better put down them goddam books,
Readin' ain't no good, for an ignorant nigger."
One day the white man's preacher came around
Knockin' on doors, knockin' on all the doors in the county,
He knocked on Hezekiah's door.
He says, "Hezekiah, you believe in the Lord?"
Hezekiah says, "Well, I don't know, I never really SEEN the Lord,
I can't say that I do..."
He says, "Hezekiah, you believe in the Church?"
Hezekiah says, "Well, the Church is divided, ain't they,
... they can't make up their minds.
I'm just like them, I can't make up mine either."
He says, "Hezekiah, you believe that if a man is good Heaven is his last reward?"
Hezekiah says, "I'm good... good as my neighbor."
"You don't believe in nothin'," said the white man's preacher,
You don't believe in nothin'!"
"Oh yes, I do," says Hezekiah,
"I believe that a man should be indebted to his neighbors
Not for the reward of Heaven or fear of hellfire."
"But you don't understand," said the white man's preacher,
"There's a lot of good ways for a man to be wicked..."
Then they hung Hezekiah high as a pigeon.
White folks around there said, "Well... he had it comin'
'Cause the son-of-a-bitch never had no religion!"