Bob Dylan - If You See Her Say Hello (Take 1) (Lyric Video)

November 1, 2018 5:33 PM

Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 14 More Blood More Tracks is completely concerned with the many previously unreleased studio performances from 1974's (some have called it his best album) Blood on the Tracks. This is If You See Her Say Hello (take 1) with the words as they hit the page.

Bonus tracks (previously on Metafilter):

Every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal
The Mysterious Norman Raeben

posted by philip-random (21 comments total)

My copy arrives tomorrow! I’m most excited about the other takes of Up to Me, which is a favorite of mine and I’ve only ever heard the version on Biograph. Recently came across this review of the song which I enjoyed.
posted by ericost at 5:58 PM on November 1, 2018 [2 favorites]

Ooh, thanks for sharing this! Off to order a copy now...
posted by the thought-fox at 7:11 PM on November 1, 2018

Cool. You're a big girl now take 2 is on Spotify. When does it come out in Canada?
posted by bonobothegreat at 7:21 PM on November 1, 2018

I think the digital download is available tomorrow?
posted by JamesBay at 7:24 PM on November 1, 2018

Jeff Slate, of The Band, and who wrote the liner notes for Vol. 14, has a write-up about the new release in the New Yorker.
posted by JamesBay at 7:27 PM on November 1, 2018 [4 favorites]

You mean The Badge, not The Band, I think.
posted by ericost at 8:10 PM on November 1, 2018 [4 favorites]

Oops
posted by JamesBay at 8:51 PM on November 1, 2018

Anne Margaret Daniel is always excellent on Dylan
posted by maupuia at 10:34 PM on November 1, 2018 [2 favorites]

I don't do the music geek thing so much anymore as life is now way too busy, so I probably won't get this or hear it, but yeah, Blood on the Tracks is an out and out masterpiece. Best, most visceral, breakup album ever.
posted by deadwax at 10:35 PM on November 1, 2018 [3 favorites]

Lily, Rosemary, and Rules For Stud Poker
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:12 AM on November 2, 2018 [3 favorites]

This is magnificent. The story is wonderful. But boy, can I tell you I hate the sound of the harmonica. It never used to bother me but I find my miso/phono/lygyrophobia kicking in in my old age. At least there was no whistling.
posted by unliteral at 5:43 AM on November 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

I don't know if Blood On The Tracks is his best, but there isn't another Dylan album I love more. For a year or so in college, I woke up every morning and listened to the entire record before I did anything else. To this day I still sing the songs to myself and there aren't many days when I don't think of one line or another.
posted by octobersurprise at 6:30 AM on November 2, 2018

I'd probably put Blood on the Tracks around his fifth best album but that's only because he has made so many great ones. I don't really listen to it too much these days just because I heard it so much in college that I burnt out on it.
posted by octothorpe at 7:45 AM on November 2, 2018

Huh - I kind of hoped the songs would be in the same order. I cannot wait to give it a listen!
posted by lyssabee at 7:49 AM on November 2, 2018

I have every volume of the Bootleg series on CD so will definitely not be skipping this one. Blood on the Tracks is one of my all-time keepers.
posted by e1c at 8:41 AM on November 2, 2018

Spotify has the sampler with 10 tracks.
posted by stevil at 8:45 AM on November 2, 2018

I'll be damned/here comes your ghost, again...
posted by littlejohnnyjewel at 9:54 AM on November 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

Jeff Slate, of The Band, and who wrote the liner notes for Vol. 14, has a write-up about the new release in the New Yorker

wow that bass player, Tony Brown, is so tight with him on "Tangled Up In Blue". What he plays is much harder to do well than it sounds.
posted by thelonius at 11:04 AM on November 2, 2018

Tangled Up in Blue is my all time favourite song and it's all different here except for the verse, that verse, the all time best verse.
posted by wellred at 11:37 AM on November 2, 2018

Er, am I the only person that thinks If You See Her is another version of Girl From The North Country (my fave Dylan song)? Multiple similar lyrics, similar delivery and music?
posted by monkeyscouch at 1:11 PM on November 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

2Blood 2Tracks
posted by Horace Rumpole at 6:02 PM on November 2, 2018