Help: Blind Boy Grunt / Bob Dylan

Subject: Blind Boy Grunt !
From: GUEST,Yum Yum
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 08:34 PM

I was about to ask the question (which I'm sure has been asked ten thousand times) was Blind Boy Grunt the very young Bob Dylan? Tommy Sands played a recording of him tonight on his Trad' music, two hour prog'on Downtown Radio(N.I.) I MISSED IT!!!! a friend phoned me up to gloat. I had started this thread when another came up about Stan Rogers. I only stumbled across a Stan Rogers recording about a year ago and have been hooked ever since The man (was) is something else!!!!!!! I have just read the thread on him dated 1999, I was over-come! A friend of mine introduced me to his records by accident, he told me he had met him on a few occasions and shared a song with him once, in a back room off a public bar in Canada.I don't doubt him as my friend was BIG in the 60's and 70's. Anyway to get back to my original question, Was Bob Dylan, The very young Blind Boy Grunt? and is there any albums around of him??

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Subject: RE: Help: Blind Boy Grunt !
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 09:02 PM

Yeah, ol Bob used Blind Boy Grunt early on for some bootleg kinda' stuff....a lot of it later emerged as the "Basement Tapes".......Best advice? It'd be easy to run a search on GOOGLE and I bet you come up with a ton of stuff to keep you busy.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: Blind Boy Grunt !
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 09:09 PM

Click here and here.

Subject: RE: Help: Blind Boy Grunt !
From: GUEST,Steve Latimer
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 12:21 PM

Thanks for the Links Sorcha. Good Stuff.

Subject: RE: Help: Blind Boy Grunt !
From: GUEST,SDShad in a cookieless land
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 01:58 PM

And here I though this was some bizarre Make A Wish Foundation plea. Send your business cards so that a now-vision-impaired Craig Shergold can fullfill his lifelong dream of learning to grunt....

Shad

Subject: RE: Help: Blind Boy Grunt !
From: John Moulden
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 07:23 PM

As far as I know, the first Blind Boy Grunt recordings were issued by Folkways FH5301 "Broadside Ballads Vol 1" (Broadside being the magazine) in 1964 - Blind Boy Grunt featured on Side A3, "Jon Brown" Side B2, "Only a Hobo and B3, Talkin' Devil" - also featured were. The New world singers (3 tracks), Pete Seeger (1), Peter la Farge (2), Phil Ochs (1), Gil Turner (1), Happy Traum (1), The Freedom Singers (1), Matt Maginn (1) and Mark Spoelestra (1)

This will be available from Smithsonian/Folkways.

Subject: RE: Help: Blind Boy Grunt !
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Oct 00 - 06:22 PM

By the way, I saw a Dylan bootleg double album from the Rolling Thunder Review, and there were some songs listed on the sleeve where Joan Baez sang, either alone or with Bob. She was listed there as "Blind Girl Grunt". I guess the bootlegger had a twisted sense of humour...which figures.

Subject: RE: Help: Blind Boy Grunt !
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Oct 00 - 06:26 PM

BTW, Dylan originally weny by "Minnesota Nerd" and "Messabi Morty" but someone with better sense came along and stopped him.

Spaw