1962 CAROLYN HESTER SIX EYE COLUMBIA Folk BOB DYLAN

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SCARCE ORIGINAL 1962 "SIX-EYE" COLUMBIA COLLECTIBLE                  

BOB DYLAN's FIRST RECORDING APPEARANCE                       

                  CAROLYN HESTER

               (With Bob Dylan)  

\                                     USA - 6 EYE COLUMBIA 360 SOUND - CS 8596

CLEAN original collectible, from our personal collection...

RARE 1962 original on the 6-eye Columbia label...prominant folkstress accompanied by, among others, none other than Bob Dylan ...

Hester was one of many young Greenwich Village singers who rode the crest of the '60s folk wave to brief international recognition, and appeared on the cover of the May 30, 1964 issue of the Saturday Evening Post.

In 1962, Hester met an unknown, 19-year-old newcomer named Bob Dylan, who had an engaging harmonica style, and Hester invited him to play on this, her third album, and her first on the Columbia label. Her producer, John H. Hammond, quickly signed Dylan to the label.

Carolyn Hester's self titled third album consisted of guitar folk numbers with the selection being forward-looking for its time; she was among the first performers of the 1960s folk revival, for instance, to record "House of the Rising Sun."  Her high and clear vocals sound precious and from a bygone era. Hester was friendly with Dylan at the outset of his career, and one wonders if Dylan got the idea to open "It Ain't Me Babe" with the title lyric of "Go Way From My Window," one of the traditional songs on her second album.

It was this album, in September 1962, when John Hammond brought Hester into the studio to record her Columbia debut. The session was key for Hester, and one her prestigious sponsor hoped would surpass Joan Baez, a lovely young soprano with a three-octave range who was the other female voice of folk. Carolyn Hester was a critical hit already, but it was Bob Dylan that made the recording historical.

"Extremely magnetic, he was different-looking from everyone else," states Hester. "I grew up around people named Boogerweed and Doak – Bob didn't look like any of those. He was thin, rather small, very, very pale. He had long fingernails on his right hand to pluck the guitar. He had great power onstage. He was really different. It's vital for the young to realize the power of their own ability.

"Bob started with a pencil and a piece of paper."

Hester's decision to surround herself with musicians was innovative, and her Columbia sessions remain some of the earliest mixed-race, mixed-gender recordings. Dylan was green compared to guitarist Bruce Langhorne, who would continue to play alongside Dylan, and noted bassist Bill Lee, whose son, Spike, took up filmmaking.

Bob Dylan reflected: "The events which led up to [recording for Columbia Records] were very unexpected. ... John [Hammond] had first seen and heard me at Carolyn Hester's apartment. Carolyn was a Texan guitar-playing singer who I knew and played with around town. She was going places and it didn't surprise me. Carolyn was eye catching, down-home and double barrel beautiful. That she had known and worked with Buddy Holly left no small impression on me and I liked being around her. Buddy was royalty, and I felt like she was my connection to it, to the rock-and-roll music that I'd played earlier, to that spirit."

In the late '60s, Hester made the unexpected move to psychedelic music as part of the Carolyn Hester Coalition, who recorded a couple of little-known albums for Metromedia. These albums were quite good with material like "East Virginia" and  "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" with moody and fuzzy folk-rockers.

• Carolyn Hester - guitar & vocals
• Bruce Langhorne - guitar & violin
• Bob Dylan - harmonica
• Bill Lee - bass

 I'll Fly Away

When Jesus Lived In Gallilee

Los Biblicos

Yarrow

Dinks Song

Swin And Turn Jubilee

B:

Once, I Had A Sweetheart

Come Back, Baby

Dear Companion

Galaway Shawl

Pobre De Mi

Virgin Mary

CONDITION: The cover is still, after 49 years, in great shape, VG++ to "EX"  with very little wear noticable. Even the back cover is still clean, snow white.

The vinyl, clean both sides, still with its original glossy luster, "EX" (excellent), expect playback to be very enjoyable.

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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