In the "American Recordings" already slumbering potential of their successors, unlike there remains here but when you find the man-with-the-guitar-concept. The recording quality can not match the subsequent "American Recordings" measure recordings themselves. However, this rough-hewn songmaterial convinced nonetheless, especially the comic live numbers "Tennessee Stud" and "The Man Who Could not Cry" live by the very low-tech atmosphere. The (published only in small numbers) "American Outtakes" document that only a fraction of the imported song was released on the "American Recordings". The only question is why Cohen's "Like a Bird on a Wire" had to be there - the cover fails here the original.