Tangled and Twisted - "Blood On the Tracks" Performed Live

TANGLED & TWISTED (the BLOOD BALLADS): The Blood On The Tracks Compilation

Blood on the Tracks may be the the best introduction to Dylan.Most people say that it is his masterpiece -- although Bob Dylan, Freewheelin', Blonde on Blonde, Time out of Mind, and about a dozen other albums may be considered his best.

This compilation is a collection of the best live versions of the Blood on the Tracks songs.  They take those  beautiful songs to another creative level -- jazzy and soulful, with raw emotionality.  Alternate moods and even story lines are tried out.  Each live performance is another new and great Bob Dylan song.

"Simple Twist of Fate"

Bob Dylan
Tangled & Twisted: The Blood Ballads
Dylantree compilation

Disc 1:
1. Tangled Up In Blue (solo acoustic) (Bob on harp)
2. Simple Twist Of Fate (Bob on harp)
3. You're A Big Girl Now (Bob on harp)
4. Idiot Wind
5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
6. Meet Me In The Morning
7. Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts (acoustic) (Bob on harp)
8. If You See Her, Say Hello (Bob on harp)
9. Shelter From The Storm (Bob on harp)
10. Buckets Of Rain (Bob on harp) (live debut of this song from Blood On The Tracks)
11. Tangled Up In Blue (acoustic) (Bob on harp)

- Track 1 is from 11/21/75 (evening) Boston, Massachusetts
- Track 2 is from 11/12/81 Houston, Texas
- Track 3 is from 07/19/94 Warsaw, Poland
- Track 4 is from 05/03/76 New Orleans, Louisiana
- Track 5 is from 05/16/76 Fort Worth, Texas
- Track 6 is from The New York BOTT sessions, alternate mix
- Track 7 is from The New York BOTT sessions
- Track 8 is from 10/19/94 New York City, New York
- Track 9 is from 06/29/93 Marseilles, France
- Track 10 is from 11/18/90 Detroit, Michigan
- Track 11 is from 02/01/02 Sunrise, Florida

Disc 2:
1. You're A Big Girl Now
2. Simple Twist Of Fate (acoustic) (Bob on harp)
3. Shelter From The Storm
4. Tangled Up In Blue (Bob on harp)
5. Idiot Wind (Bob on harp)
6. If You See Her, Say Hello (Larry on fiddle)
7. You're A Big Girl Now
8. Simple Twist Of Fate
9. Shelter From The Storm (Larry on pedal steel) (Bob on harp)
10. Tangled Up In Blue (solo acoustic) (Bob on harp)
11. You're A Big Girl Now (Larry on steel guitar)
12. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

- Tracks 1,12 are from Rundown Rehearsals '78
- Track 2 is from 09/10/75 The World Of John Hammond, Chicago, Illinois
- Track 3 is from 05/03/76 New Orleans, Louisiana
- Track 4 is from 06/29/93 Marseilles, France
- Track 5 is from 08/30/92 Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Track 6 is from 03/02/01 Yokohama, Japan
- Track 7 is from 06/30/88 Jones Beach, New York
- Track 8 is from 09/04/88 Bristol, Connecticut
- Track 9 is from 04/15/02 Frankfurt, Germany
- Track 10 is from 07/01/84 Paris, France
- Track 11 is from 03/10/01 Hiroshima, Japan

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Liner Notes

 Occasionally, an artist produces a work of such magnitude and depth that it redefines not only his own work, but the canvas on which all artists who follow will create.

  Bob Dylan has been lucky enough to have more than a few such artistic epiphanies in his extensive and well-documented career.  This compilation focuses on one of these epiphanies.

  Arlo Guthrie once noted that songwriting is somewhat like fishing.  Occasionally, you catch some big ones.  Sometimes, you get the small ones that you throw back. Occasionally, you come up empty.  But, whatever your luck, no one wants to be downstream of Bob Dylan.

  Bob is respected by millions of fans the world over, for his ability to turn a phrase, turn a head, and turn back the hands of time, all at once.  There is no better evidence of this but the music contained in what is arguably Bob's greatest masterpiece of the 1970s, Blood on the Tracks.

  Out of our reverence for Blood on the Tracks, the artist who created it, and the fertile legacy Bob's work leaves us, we have lovingly assembled a number of live performances of songs that originally appeared on Blood on the Tracks.  These tracks, like any overview of Bob's work, show an ever-evolving and revolving man.  They show the effects of time on both his spirit and art.  They chronicle the rise and fall of many relationships, both Bob's, and those of his listeners.  Everyone has been where Bob takes us, but only Bob gives us such dramatic, heart-piercing commentary on the state of love, and life.  In his recent "Waitin' For You," Bob tells us that:

     "The night has a thousand hearts and eyes / Hope may vanish but it never dies..."

  Blood on the Tracks is a story about how it feels when hope vanishes, and the well-spring of emotions that arise when it feels like hope HAS died.  It also shows us that there is hope, no matter how badly you may hurt.  As with so much of Bob's work, in ways both obvious and hidden, God and optimism are the lighthouses.  -- EMMETT TILL

It is with that in mind that we present you with TANGLED & TWISTED (the BLOOD BALLADS), the Dylan Pool Blood On The Tracks Compilation

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Tracks donated by: Degrosmartian, Dnoishere, Bobzilla, Arlo

Compiler: dnioishere

Liner notes: Emmett Till

Thanks to: Sweetheart Like You

Supreme help from & extra thanks to: Bobzilla

Cover art: front -- BOBZILLA
               insides / middle -- DNOISHERE

A Visual Sound Production - ABDDPP

Retirement (to Mike)

The second retirement is better than the first.  I think we appreciate it more.  We still have major work to do on two houses, hoping to sell one or both of them -- all the while hoping that the housing market gets over its current constipation.  I have set a goal of two years to untie myself from those material possessions.  In my daydreams I imagine it can be done in a few months.

I'm not sure when we'll be down -- we're playing this winter by ear.  I greatly envy your lifestyle.  A month in Oaxaca sounds idyllic.

I am very sorry to hear about Susie's back problems.  I've had some back problems, and I understand how incapacitating it is.    I hope the physical therapy helps.  Is she using Spinal Decompression Therapy?

Thanks for keeping me posted on La pepina zaftiga.

Hi, Doug

I was recently reminded of you, Susan and Jessie when I received an invitation from Linked-in.  I have to be honest, I don't really understand Linked-in, but then again, I don't understand Twitter either.

We are now fully retired again.  Geni just quit as editor of the local newspaper and we are rethinking our future.  We still have to sell a house or two, so we are working on those and hoping that the market recovers from its current constipation.

I assume you are still in Uruguay? 

I just downloaded your book - Drawing in 3-D.  As long as I knew you, I didn't really know what your books were like.  It seems very useful, and a little trippy.  I liked the "convention of astronomers searching for power poles on a distant asteroid."

I recall that you have a collection of interesting weblinks and thought you might like Gentle Apocalypse.  This guy also put together a music collection called The Best of All Music Ever, a grandiose, eclectic and bizaarely-categorized assortment.  I can send it to you if you're interested -- it's huge, so I might have to mail it.

I hope all is well.  Maybe we can cross  paths again.



Best wishes,
Larry

The Best of All Music Ever

Best of all music ever?

A completely ridiculous claim, I know: intended as a kind of intention rather than a strict description. I've spent an insane amount of time putting together a highly selective and highly eclectic collection of music. Obviously its flavoured with my particular taste and culture - with an emphasis on gentle western electro / indy-folk - but you'll find many a rare strange jewel here. Take a look at the track list - if you like [most of] the tracks you recognise it will be, I promise, worth listening to those you don't.

I've divided the mixes into twelve vaguely month-flavoured sections…

January (dark and painfully sad, cold, distant and gently dreadful)
February (ambient, drones, requiems and deathly calms)
March (bossas, births, dribbling electro blues, mutant desert yawps and trumpets various)
April (sweet indy joys)
May (sunny pianos and orchestras numinous)
June (lo-fi love songs and the holding of hands)
July (summer daydreaming, lazy euro-folk, hawaiian trees singing and women in beautiful dresses)
August (reggae, calypso and hot afro-persian pleasure)
September (indy wabi-sabi and losses warmly okay)
October (grit, wind, cement, electricity, drugs and life in the desert)
November (descents into darkness, secret services, blue finnish flames and cumbia moog)
December (midwinter jazz, electric retro, dancehall brass and fireside choirs)

Hope you enjoy half as much as I have… In fact I'm jealous of anyone with similar taste to me who gets to listen to this stuff for the first time. If you like it, please comment, and please check out my website - www.gentleapocalypse.com - because, in a way, this is as much a philosophical exercise as rasp, yelp, bellow one.

Talking of which, a philosophical word on genre. Great art, in my experience, comes from the freely creating individual (or, if you'll pardon the oxymoron, group of individuals) endeavouring to perceive and express the unique quality of the impossible moment he, she or they live in. This endeavour is fundamentally selfless in that, although the tool of the self is used (and loved), the great artist puts it aside to see what is beyond, what is strangely real, what cannot quite be captured by thought and emotion; and so, which, inevitably finds expression in paradox; simple yet complex, sad yet joyful, of its time yet timeless, naively immediate yet painstakingly crafted, and so on. What tends to happen however is that people come along whose self-motivations - emotions, desires, hopes, dreams, fears, thoughts, imaginations, philosophies and so on - are more important than the impossible moment. Unable to see beyond form they are unconsciously determined by it - and the genre ossifies and corrupts. This is why the music I love tends towards the first flowers of collective musical creativity - old blues (as opposed to the whining guitar wanks of the John Lee Hooker years), trad jazz (as opposed to the self-indulgent wallpaper of modern times), roots reggae (as opposed to the ludicrous posturing of ragga), krongcong (as opposed to the ghastly slickness of I-pop), and so on - and to those periods in the individual's working life when the self (along with technical competency) has not overthrown the life beyond (and within it) and before the artist, through isolation from life and overexposure to partially blind adulation, becomes a caricature of himself.

Here's the full track list in alphabetical (rather than monthly) order…

4 Roses Pour Marie    Pascal Comelade
54-46 Was My Number    Toots and The Maytals
96 Degrees In The Shade    Third World
Aaj Mera Jee Kardaa (Today My Heart Desires) Mychael Danna
Adagio    Bach
Aguirre     Popol Vuh
Ain't Got No (live)    Nina Simone
All Fires    Swan Lake
All the World Is Green    Tom Waits
Allegro ma non troppo    Beethoven
Animal Waves    Can
Anthem for Keyboard Solo    Wendy Carlos
Apples And Pairs    Slow Club
Armellodie    Gonzales
Asleep    The Smiths
Au Fond Du Temple Saint    Bizet
Augusta, angélica e consolação    Tom Ze
Ballad of a Thin Man    Bob Dylan
Ballad Of The Spirits    Ethiopiques
Bang Bang    Betty Chung
Beale Street Blues    Louis Armstrong
Becalmed    Brian Eno
Because (a capella)    The Beatles
Bessie Smith    Bob Dylan & The Band
Black But Sweet    Wilmoth Houdini
The Body Breaks    Devendra Banhart
Bombay Talkie [Title Music]    Shankar/Shankar Jaikishan
The Boy in the Boat    Charlie Johnson and His Paradise Band
Brazil    Theme
Butterfly Nets    Bishop Allen
Bye Baj    Pascal Comelade - Pierre Bastien - Jac Berrocal - Jaki Liebezeit
C.M Blues    Gonzales
C'est le vent, Betty    Gabriel Yared
Caixa De Sol    Nazare Pereira
Cajuina    Cibelle
Calice    Chico Buarque & Milton Nascimento
Chanson pour l'Auvergnat    Georges Brassens
The Chauffeur (2009 Digital Remaster) Duran Duran
Cheer Up    The Wailers
Chipolenado    Juan Vicente Torrealba
Choir from the Sun    The Microphones
Chunari Chunari (extended)    Mychael Danna
Clementine    Elliott Smith
Cloudbusting    Neil Halstead
Cold Cold Ground    Tom Waits
Colors    Amps for Christ
Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, RV 315 'Summer' - III: Presto Vivaldi
Convening the Coven    Michael Nyman
Cornflake Girl    Tori Amos
Cosmic Sea    The Mystic Moods
Country Road    Adam Green
Cracked Up Dietrich    Screaming Tea Party
Creep (Radiohead)    Richard Cheese
Croque    Thomas Fersen
Cue #32 - Simple Men    Ned Rifle
Cumbia De Sal    Cumbia En Moog
Dance of the Knights    Prokofiev
Daniel's Mele No. One    Various Artists
Desdeñosa     Uña Ramos
Desperate Things You Made Me Do The Magnetic Fields
Digan Lo Que Digan    Raphael
Dirty Epic    Underworld
Disturbed This Morning    Erland And The Carnival
Dixie Biscuit (feat. Henrik Wager)    Tape Five
Don't Shit Where you Eat    Ween
Dreaming Of You    The Coral
Dreams    Goran Bregovic
Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain Sparklehorse
drowning is fine    Darren Allen
Echo Beach    Martha & the Muffins
The Echoing Green    Erland And The Carnival
Edo Komoriuta    Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans
Ei aurinko milloinkaan laske    Kuusumun Profeetta
Eraz (Armenia)     Sogoman Seranyan
Eternal Sunshine    Jon Brion
Etudes de concert, S. 144 3. Un Sospiro. Allegro affettuoso. Liszt
Eyepennies    Sparklehorse
Fantasie on an Armenian Theme Pt. 3 Javad Ma'roufi
Fantastic man    William Onyeabor
Feel Like Jumping    Marcia Griffiths
Figure In A Clearing    David Behrman
Flume    Bon Iver
Fragments    Pascal Comelade
Free Up The Weed    Lee Perry
Gado Gado Djakarta    Kartini
Get A Move On    Mr. Scruff
The Ghost     Burning  Spear
Golden Hours    Brian Eno
Good Morning Blues (Real Tuesday Weld Clerkenwell Remix) Count Basie
Good old fashioned lover boy    Queen
Goodbye To Song    Kim Hiorthøy
Green Gloves    The National
The Guilty Party    Matt Elliott
Gymnopédie no. 1    Erik Satie
Gymnopédie no. 3    Erik Satie
Haiti    The Arcade Fire
Head Over Heels    ABBA
Hearing Aid    They Might Be Giants
Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel    Tavares
Hidamari    Shugo Tokumaru
hook & sling    Eddie Bo
Hopelessly Devoted To You    Bmx Bandits
How About You    Thomas A. Dorsey
Humming Chorus    Puccini
Hymn II    Gavin Bryars
I Am That I Am    Peter Tosh
I Can See Clearly Now    Johnny Nash
I Melt With You    Nouvelle Vague
I'll Read You a Story    Colleen
I'll See You in My Dreams    The Real Tuesday Weld
I'm a Lady    Santigold
Imuhar    Group Bombino
In A Manner Of Speaking    Tuxedomoon
In My Life    The Beatles
Innocent When You Dream (Barroom) Tom Waits
Intermission    Scissor Sisters
Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Ma Baby)? Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful    Slow Club
It's Alright    Spacemen 3
It's Soon Be Done    Otis Wright
Jaevel Av En Tango    Kaizers Orchestra
Janglin    Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Jinhe Naaz Hai Hind Par [Pyaasa] 1957 Mohd Rafi
Jocasta    Noah And The Whale
Journey of the Sorcerer    The Eagles
Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jolity    Holst
Just War (featuring Gruff Rhys)    Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
Kids    MGMT
King Of Joy    Bill Drummond
L-O-V-E    Nat King Cole
La Bambola    Patty Pravo
La chanson de Prévert    Serge Gainsbourg
La Dispute (Yann Tierson)    The Third Eye Foundation
La Mer Opale    Coralie Clément
Lambeth Walk    Django Reinhart
Last Kind Word Blues    Geechie Wiley & Elvie Thomas
Le Jour D'avant    Yann Tiersen
Le petit chose    Tryo
Leb Wohl    Neu!
Lemanjá    Duo Ouro Negro
Les Deux Guitares    Jo Privat
Les Jours Tristes    Yann Tiersen
Ley Ley    Jermain Tamraz
Libertango    Astor Piazzolla
Light & Magic    Ladytron
The Lion Sleeps Tonight    The Tokens
Liszt - Liebestraum (3), notturnos for piano -  Notturno I -  Hohe Liebe Liszt
Litamin    Mouse On Mars
Long black train    Richard Hawley
Long, Long, Long    The Beatles
Lord Knows Best    Dirty Beaches
Losing On A Tuesday    Adam Green
Love Theme From Twin Peaks (Instrumental)
Angelo Badalametti - Julee Cruise
Love Will Tear Us Apart    Susanna & The Magical Orchestra
Lume, Lume    Fanfare Ciocarlia
M79    Vampire Weekend
Marie La Veau    Papa Celestin's New Orleans Band
Mario's Cafe    Saint Etienne
Memories of Green    Vangelis
Misere    Palestrina
Moderato: Allegro    Rachmaninoff
Moleke Mbwa (Congo)     Nzila Joseph et Son Ensemble
Monday (I Heart Huckabees)    Jon Brion
Mudie's Mood    Rhythm Rulers
Music Like Dirt    Desmond Dekker
My Sentimental Melody    The Magnetic Fields
N1 (First Obligatory, Throwing Out Arms) Thomas De Hartmann
Neopolitan Dreams    Lisa Mitchell
New Slang    The Shins
New World Symphony (Op. 95) - Largo Dvoru780 ák
Nice nice time    Zap Pow
Nightmare Fantasy [2001]    Spooky Dance Band
Nin-Com-Pop    Lali Puna
No No No    Dawn Penn
No. 3 in G flat major : Andante    Schubert
No. 40 in G minor- II. Andante    Mozart
Nocturne #1 In G Minor, Op. 37    Chopin
Nocturne #2 In E Flat, Op. 9    Chopin
Nocturne In C Sharp Minor, Op. Posth. Chopin
North by North    The Bats
Nothing Matters When We're Dancing The Magnetic Fields
NY #1    Gurdjeiff GI
Nyigo Nyigo    Pascal Comelade
O Superman (For Massenet)    Laurie Anderson
Ode To Street Hassle    Spacemen 3
Oh Lori    Alessi Brothers
On Her Majesty's Secret Service    John Barry
One    Harry Nilsson
One April Day    Stephin Merritt
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest    Theme
One More Kiss, Dear    Vangelis
The Only Living Boy In New York    Simon and Garfunkel
Op. 118 V. Romanze in F Major    Brahms
Osiris Jones    Steve Gunn
Out on the Weekend    Neil Young
Outside Of This (Inside Of That)    Jon and Vangelis
Paceñita (Bolivia)    Alberto Ruiz y su Lira Incaica
Patricia    Pérez Prado
Pavaner, Op. 50    Faure
Peg O' My Heart    Max Harris & His Novelty Trio
Photographes et religieuses    Orchestre
Piazza, New York Catcher    Belle & Sebastian
Play For Today    The Cure
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want The Smiths
Plenty More    Squirrel Nut Zippers
Pole Musa    Peter Tsotsi, Nashil Pichen, & The Equator Sound Band
Porque te vas    Jeanette Dimech
Préludes 1er livre L.117 - VIII. La fille aux cheveux de lin Debussy
Puttin On the Ritz    They Might Be Giants
Raaga Bhoopali    Pandit Pran Nath
Radioactivity    Kraftwerk
Ragtime Nightingale    Joseph Lamb
Rainbow Connection    Trespassers William
Ramblin Man    The Residents
Red Cave    Yeasayer
Regiment    Brian Eno & David Byrne
Requiem    Mozart
Rhythm of Life    The Perfect Gentlemen
Ride Into The Sun    The Velvet Underground
Road Movie To Berlin    Frank Black
The Rubber Room    Porter Wagoner
S.W.W. Op. 30 - 6 - Gondolier's Song Mendelssohn
Saint Louis Blues    Johnny Lytle
Sanctus    Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin
Santo    Pixies
Sax and Violence    Muppets
Say Yes    Elliott Smith
Scenic World    Beirut
See Land    Neu!
See You In Dreams (Cibelle Version) The Real Tuesday Weld
The Show Must Go On    Pink Floyd
Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear Randy Newman
Sing, Sing, Sing    Benny Goodman Band
Skinhead Moonstomp    Symarip
Small Hours    John Martyn
So Long, Marianne    Leonard Cohen
Sombre Dimanche [1936]    Damia
Some Are    David Bowie
Sonata in Bb, Op. 106 - 3 - Andante Mendelssohn
Sound And Vision    David Bowie
Sphangnum Esplanade    The Shins
Spinning Away    Brian Eno & John Cale
Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) The Arcade Fire
Stay Golden    Au Revoir Simone
Stay Hungry    Talking Heads
Stephanie Says    The Velvet Underground
Strange Kind of Love    Cud
Such Great Heights    The Postal Service
Suicide is Painless    Johnny Mandel
Suite bergamasque - Clair de lune    Debussy
Summer Wine (w Lee Hazlewood)    Nancy Sinatra
A Sunday Smile    Beirut
Superman    REM
Sway    The Puppini Sisters
Sweet Beat    Prince Buster
Sweet Thing    Van Morrison
A swingin' Safari    Bert Kaempfert
Sycamore Trees    Angelo Badalametti - Julee Cruise
Ta Aspra Poulia Sta Vouna [The White Birds in the Mountains] Kostas Bezos
Taddy's Dream: Ramallah's Road    Igor Wakhévitch
Take ecstasy with me    The Magnetic Fields
Talk About It    Mighty Diamonds
Tango del Rosselló    Pascal Comelade
Tears In The Typing Pool    Broadcast
Tempo no Tempo (Once Was A Time I Thought) Os Mutantes
Tezeta    Mulatu Astatqe, Girma Beyene, Tesfa-Maryam Kidane and Party
Thank You for Sending Me an Angel Talking Heads
Their Duet    Wim Mertens
Theme From S.W.A.T. (extended 7' version) Rhythm Heritage
These Days    Nico
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) Talking Heads
Tsiganka Sam Mala    Vera Petrovic
Ulemu    Musi-O-Tunya
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey    Paul McCartney
Uncle Remus    Frank Zappa
Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)    Brian Eno
Up Town Top Rankin'    Anthea & Donna
Você Não Serve Prá Mim (1967)    Roberto Carlos
Vou Sair Do Cativerio    Ton & Sergio
Walking The Cow    Daniel Johnston
Wall Street    Jackie Mittoo
When I Fall Alseep It Will Be Forever Directorsound
When We Dance    The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra
Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees) Ink Spots
(White Monkey) Under The Volcano Magic Dragon
White Winter Hymnal    Fleet Foxes
Who By Fire    Leonard Cohen
Who Loves The Sun    The Velvet Underground
Will You Be Me?    Kimya Dawson
The Winner Is    Mychael Danna/DeVotchKa
Yarlarim (Tashkent)    Mutavaqqil Burxanov
Yelp, Bellow, Rasp et Cetera    Vivian Stanshall
Yesu Ka Mkwebaze    Novicat de Soeurs Missionaires
You and Me    Penny & the Quarters
You And Your Sister    This Mortal Coil
You Get So Lucky    Adam Green
You Give a Little Love    Bugsy Malone
You You You You You    The Sixths
You're Wondering Now    The Specials
Zamane    Baligh Hamdi
'Zari' Ritual Lamentation (The 'Lileh' Choir Of Dmanisi) Various Artists
Zion's Blood    Lee Perry

I've got to get rid of all this stuff

I have begun to feel consumed by my possessions.

"A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more

 - George Carlin

Bob Dylan and Paul Simon - Jones Beach, NYC, 1999

Bob Dylan and Paul Simon - Jones Beach, NYC

Turning the Corner in Cuba

In September, 2010, the Cuban government announced a plan to lay off half a million of about 4.3 million state workers by March, 2011, to and issue hundreds of thousands of new licenses to people wanting to join Cuba’s tiny private sector. Today's New York Times