I’ve always loved the vintage aesthetic to this recording. It gives me a good sense of what it might have been like to live in San Francisco during the sixties and bear witness to all sorts of spontaneous musical events. Janis‘ heart wrenching voice is accompanied by the fingerstyle sounds of Jorma Kaukonen on the guitar.

Recorded on June 30, 1964, they call it The Typewriter Tape because you can hear a typewriter in the background played by Margareta Kaukonen (Jorma’s wife at the time) as a percussion instrument. Check it out:

1. Trouble In Mind

2. Long Black Train

3. Kansas City Blues (false start)

4. Kansas City Blues

5. Hesitation Blues

6. (strumming)

7. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out

8. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy

I never realized that Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan had ever played together but apparently they have and below is the MP3 to prove it! What an amazing moment in music that was. When I listen to the sessions I can really hear the mutual respect that the two have for eachother. They play eachother’s songs as well as many standard tunes. I know that Johnny Cash always had an admiration for Bob Dylan as does almost every musician. My favorite part of the Johnny Cash movie Walk The Line is when Johnny and June (played by Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix) play It Ain’t Me Babe. I found this on An Aquarium Drunkard which is quickly becoming my favorite MP3 blog!

Get the Dylan/Cash Sessions MP3s here.

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