Mixed-Up Confusion
Encyclopedia
Mixed-Up Confusion is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan
.
It was recorded with an electric band on November 14th 1962 during the sessions for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
, but was not used on that album, which was entirely acoustic. Instead the song, backed with "Corrina, Corrina", a traditional blues song, appeared as Dylan's first single, released in the U.S. on 14 December 1962 as Columbia 4-42656. According to legend, Dylan wrote the song in a cab on the way to the Columbia Studios for the recording session.
This version was released in the Biograph
box set in 1985. A different, previously unreleased, take from the same session appeared on the compilation album Masterpieces
in 1978.
Produced by John Hammond
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
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It was recorded with an electric band on November 14th 1962 during the sessions for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in May 1963 by Columbia Records. Whereas his debut album Bob Dylan had contained only two original songs, Freewheelin initiated the process of writing contemporary words to traditional melodies....
, but was not used on that album, which was entirely acoustic. Instead the song, backed with "Corrina, Corrina", a traditional blues song, appeared as Dylan's first single, released in the U.S. on 14 December 1962 as Columbia 4-42656. According to legend, Dylan wrote the song in a cab on the way to the Columbia Studios for the recording session.
This version was released in the Biograph
Biograph (album)
Biograph is a 53-track compilation spanning the career of Bob Dylan, from his 1962 debut album to the 1981 LP Shot of Love. Released in 1985 by Columbia Records, on both a 5-LP and a 3-CD Box set, it was one of the earliest and most successful examples of the CD Box set...
box set in 1985. A different, previously unreleased, take from the same session appeared on the compilation album Masterpieces
Masterpieces
Masterpieces is a compilation album by Bob Dylan. The 3-LP set was released in Japan and Australia in anticipation of his 1978 tour. Primarily a greatest hits collection spanning Dylan's career up that point, the album features three previously unreleased tracks, including "Rita May", "George...
in 1978.
Personnel
- Bob Dylan (guitar, harmonica, vocal).
- George BarnesGeorge Barnes (musician)George Barnes was a world-renowned swing jazz guitarist, who claimed he played the first electric guitar in 1931, preceding Charlie Christian by six years. George Barnes made the first recording of an electric guitar in 1938 in sessions with Big Bill Broonzy.-Biography:George Barnes was born in...
(guitar) - Bruce LanghorneBruce LanghorneBruce Langhorne is an American folk musician. He was active in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s, primarily as a session guitarist for folk albums and performances...
(guitar) - Dick WellstoodDick WellstoodRichard MacQueen "Dick" Wellstood was an American jazz pianist...
(piano) - Gene RameyGene RameyGene Ramey was an American jazz double bassist.Ramey was born in Austin, Texas, and played trumpet in college, but switched to sousaphone when playing with George Corley's Royal Aces, The Moonlight Serenaders, and Terrence Holder. In 1932 he moved to Kansas City and took up the bass, studying with...
(bass) - Herb Lovelle (drums)
Produced by John Hammond
John H. Hammond
John Henry Hammond II was an American record producer, musician and music critic from the 1930s to the early 1980s...