Early Bob Dylan Recordings Donated

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‘Minnesota Party Tape’ was made by teen friend

The Associated Press
Updated: 1:53 p.m. ET Jan. 14, 2005


ST. PAUL - A Minneapolis man has donated some of the earliest recordings made by Bob Dylan to the Minnesota Historical Society.

Cleve Pettersen said he made the reel-to-reel tape at a Minneapolis apartment in 1960 after getting to know Dylan at coffeehouses in the Dinkytown neighborhood of Minneapolis near the University of Minnesota.

Dylan, briefly a student at the university, didn’t make any formal recordings until two years later. On the tape, he sings traditional folk songs by Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Rodgers and others.

Pettersen, a teenager when he invited Dylan to the apartment to record the songs, has been the sole owner of the tape ever since. But the tape’s existence has been well-known by music buffs and Dylan aficionados who have come to know it as the “Minnesota Party Tape.”

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