Bob Dylan Live at Carnegie Chapter Hall, 1961 [SOUNDBOARD RECORDING]

There was a common bootleg of this concert in circulation for years, but it was incomplete and not very clear. A nearly-complete first-generation tape surfaced recently. I first heard about it from the late, great YouTube channel Sad-Eyed Lady of The Lowlands. I couldn’t believe that a soundboard recording of quite possibly Dylan’s most historical concert existed. Now, here’s a fantastic description of the concert written by Sad-Eyed Lady that I saved before their channel was taken down: “If you’re a big Dylan fan, you may know Bob arrived in New York City in January 1961 and began playing in small coffeehouses like the Cafe Wha, the Gaslight, and other folk music temples. Heavily inspired by Woody Guthrie, who he met at Greystone Park (a psychiatric hospital where Guthrie lived his last years suffering from Huntington Disease), Bob made quite a sensation in the New York scene with his nasally voice and his reverence for old folk traditional and original compositions, in the vein of Dave Van Ronk and Joan Ba