The Toni Mendell Tapes represent the first complete extant recording of Bob Dylan performing at Carnegie Chapter Hall on November 4, 1961.
This concert was the first major solo performance of the young singer’s career, organized by Folklore Center proprietor Izzy Young shortly after Dylan signed with Columbia Records. Within two years, he would headline the main stage at Carnegie Hall.
The setlist includes:
- Pretty Peggy-O
- In The Pines
- Gospel Plow
- 1913 Massacre
- Backwater Blues
- A Long Time A-Growin’
- Fixin’ to Die
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Car, Car
- Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
- Man on the Street
- Sally Gal
- This Land Is Your Land (included on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack)
- Talkin’ Merchant Marine
- Black Cross
- He Was a Friend of Mine
- Pretty Polly
- The House of the Rising Sun
- The Cuckoo
- Freight Train Blues
- Song to Woody
- Talkin’ New York
