Rare Bob Dylan audio excerpt from 1963 on the Alan Lomax Cultural Equity site

Alan Lomax's dream of a "Global Jukebox" is becoming a reality. Starting in the 1930's, the late folklorist and ethnomusicologist collected film, videotapes, photographs, manuscripts, and most notably, sound recordings (including early Muddy Waters and Woody Guthrie). The New York Times reported 17,000 music tracks, along with manuscripts, 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, and 5,000 photographs will be available to anyone with a computer by the end of February.

If you go the the Cultural Equity website, you will be able to hear two excerpts of Bob Dylan from 1963. From the "Miscellaneous Recordings 1950-1990" section:

While preserving the sound recordings at the Alan Lomax Archive, we came across various recordings Alan made throughout his career that do not fit into specific collections. We decided to group them in a collection of miscellaneous recordings because they are interesting in their sheer variety. Included here are taped interviews and song sessions with Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Shirley Collins, Robin Roberts, The Ramblers, Douglas Kennedy and Margaret Barry, Wanda Sana, poet Robert Graves, the Reverend Michael Peebles, Bengali nationalist poet Jasimuddin, and many others, including a Czechoslovakian concentration camp survivor and a United Nations diplomat singing Afghanistan caravan songs in Pashtu.

There are two entries under "Bob Dylan" recording details, approximately 45 seconds of audio total:

1. :: Title ::    Talk/ambience (About two seconds)
:: Genre ::    talk/ambience
:: Performers & Instruments ::  Lomax, Alan [vocal]; Zimmerman, Robert (Bob Dylan) [guitar (acoustic), vocal]
:: Setting ::    Alan Lomax's apartment
:: Location ::    Manhattan, New York City (None), New York (United States)
:: Language ::    English
:: Culture ::    Anglo-American
:: Session ::    Bob Dylan 1/63  
:: Date ::    01/1963
:: Reference Information ::    T1248.0, Track 14 (00:00:02)
:: Original Format ::    Reel to Reel
:: Session Notes ::  1 - This brief session features a young Bob Dylan performing a private performance of "Masters Of War" followed by a lively conversation about the origins of the song and current geopolitics.
:: Collection ::    Miscellaneous Recordings 1950-1990

2. :: Title ::   Masters Of War / Commentary by Bob Dylan about Masters Of War, John F. Kennedy, and Nikita Khrushchev
:: Genre ::    popular song, protest song, spoken, topical song
:: Performers & Instruments :: Lomax, Alan [vocal]; Zimmerman, Robert (Bob Dylan) [guitar (acoustic), vocal]
:: Setting ::    Alan Lomax's apartment
:: Location ::    Manhattan, New York City (None), New York (United States)
:: Language ::    English
:: Culture ::    Anglo-American, U.S. Pop
:: Session ::    Bob Dylan 1/63  
:: Date ::    01/1963
:: Reference Information ::    T1248.0, Track 15 (00:07:58)
:: Original Format ::    Reel to Reel
:: Session Notes ::   1 - This brief session features a young Bob Dylan performing a private performance of "Masters Of War" followed by a lively conversation about the origins of the song and current geopolitics.
:: Recording Notes ::  0 - Written by Bob Dylan, based on the tune to "Nottamun Town" as arranged and recorded by Jean Ritchie. Bob Dylan explains that he wrote this song in Putney, England. He remarks that you read different news in England than you do here. He says that the British resent Kennedy because he doesn't want them to have the atom bomb. He talks about the Cuban missile crisis and how he read over there that Kruchchev said that in the Cuban missile standoff "Humanity won," wheras in the US you read that we won.
0 - Bob Dylan talks about why and when he wrote the song, Masters Of War. He wrote it in England after reading the paper about Kennedy and MacMillan. He tells a brief story about Nikita Khrushchev.
:: Collection ::    Miscellaneous Recordings 1950-1990

The excerpts can be heard on the Cultural Equity website.

Thanks to Tricia Jungwirth and Bob Stacy.

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