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Released in the UK on CD by BDA Records in February 2012 (but available NOW from ISIS), “Bob Dylan: Carnegie Chapter Hall 1961” is a record of Dylan’s first proper New York concert. The concert, which took place on the evening of November 4, 1961, was staged at the Chapter Hall, a small rehearsal space in the celebrated Carnegie Hall on Seventh Avenue.
 
Just nine days after signing with Columbia Records, Dylan performed 22 songs at the Chapter Hall concert. The first seven songs from this performance came into circulation among collectors some years ago. Five additional songs appeared in December 2004 and a further two (‘Talking Merchant Marine’ and ‘Talking New York’) turned up in May, 2008. All of the available material has been pulled together for this release. However, one of the available tracks, Woody Guthrie’s ‘This Land is Your Land’, which has already been officially released on “No Direction Home: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7”, is not included.

Tracklist:

Pretty Peggy-O  
In the Pines  
Gospel Plow 
1913 Massacre  
Backwater Blues 
A Long Time A-Growin’  
Fixin’ to Die
Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues  
Man on The Street
Talking Merchant Marine
Black Cross
Freight Train Blues
Song to Woody
Talking New York

While Bob Dylan's career has proven fascinating to track at virtually every juncture, few could seriously argue that the period between his arrival in New York City in 1961 and his first forays into electrification on 1965s Bringing It All Back Home- the era when Dylan developed at a rate unparalleled by any other artist in the rock age - remains the most scintillating, satisfying and dynamic of all. This 80-minute collection represents Dylan at his most fertile via radio and television broadcasts made throughout this astonishing era. The collection features songs and interviews from the 1961 folk Hootenanny at the Riverside Church, New York, just six months after Bobs arrival in NYC and before he had even signed a record deal. His appearance on Oscar Brands Folk Song Festival broadcast in October 1961, aired on WNYC radio, is then featured, followed by a second Oscar Brand radio show broadcast on WNBC in the spring of 1963. Two television appearances from The Steve Allen Show in February 1964 and the Les Crane Show in February 1965 - barely a month before the release of Bringing It All Back Home - complete this superb set.  Featuring an eclectic selection of Bobs take on otherwise unreleased traditionals, plus a number of Dylan classics, this CD will surely remain the default collection of live Dylan during his greatest era.

Tracklist:
1. Introduction (Riverside Church) / 2. Handsome Molly (Riverside Church) / 3. Omie Wise (Riverside Church) / 4. Po' Lazarus (Riverside Church) / 5. Mean Old Southern Railroad (Riverside Church) / 6. Acne (Riverside Church) / 7. Sally Gal (Oscar Brand 1) / 8. Girl I Left Behind (Oscar Brand 1) / 9. Oscar Brand Intro (Oscar Brand 2) / 10. Girl Of The North Country (Oscar Brand 2) / 11. Only A Hobo (Oscar Brand 2) / 12. Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Steven Allen) / 13. Les Crane Introduction (Les Crane) / 14. It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Les Crane) / 15. Les Crane Interview (Les Crane) / 16. It's Alright Ma (Les Crane)

The Ronnie Wood Radio Show was first broadcast on April 9, 2010. The show, which goes out on Absolute Radio from Monday to Thursday, repeated Friday, is repeated again on Saturday on Absolute’s sister station, Classic Rock. To use Ronnie’s own words, “[He] opens his little cage once a week for an hour”, playing his personal favourite tracks, often by artists he has worked with. The shows also feature many of Ronnie’s great rock ‘n’ roll stories prompted by the tunes he plays and you can even hear the seasoned rocker strumming his guitar in the studio in-between tracks.  The shows are billed as “The soundtrack to Ronnie Wood’s rock ’n’ roll life” and for this edition of “Ronnie On The Radio” we have chosen 50 rock ’n’ roll era tunes from the first 50 shows. The Ronnie Wood Radio Show has been a great success for our poacher turned gamekeeper– a success that culminated in Wood being named 2011 Music Radio Personality of the Year at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.

Tracklist:
Disc 1:  1. Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On – Jerry Lee Lewis (Williams) /2. I’m a King Bee – Slim Harpo (Moore) / 3. Money Honey – Clyde McPhatter (Stone) / 4. Shimmy, Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop – Little Anthony & The Imperials (Smith) / 5. Careless Love – Bessie Smith (Trad. Arr andy / Williams / Koenig) / 6. Solitude – Billie Holiday (Ellington/De Lange/Mills) / 7. Reet Petite – Jackie Wilson (Gordy/Carlo) / 8. C’mon Everybody – Eddie Cochran (Capehart/Cochran) / 9. Splish Splash – Bobby Darin (Darin/Murray) / 10. Gone Fishing – Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong (Kennedy/Kennedy)
11. Let The Good Times Roll – Shirley and Lee (Lee) / 12. The Sky Is Crying – Elmore James (James/Lewis/Levy) / 13. Flyin’ Saucers Rock ’n’ Roll – Billy Riley & His Little Green Men (Scott) / 14. Rip It Up – Little Richard (Blackwell/Marascalco) / 15. Spoonful – Howlin’ Wolf (Dixon) / 16. Money (That’s What I Want) Barrett Strong (Bradford/Gordy) / 17. Honey Don’t – Carl Perkins (Perkins) / 18. Big Boss Man – Jimmy Reed (Dixon/Smith)
19. Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee – Stick McGee (McGhee/Williams) / 20. Guitar Boogie – Arthur Smith and his Crackerjacks (Smith) / 21. Bad Boy – Eddie Taylor (Taylor) / 22. Peggy Sue – Buddy Holly (Allison/Petty/Holly) / 23. Rocket 88 – Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (Brenston) / 24. Jail Bait – Andre Williams (Williams/Brown) / 25. Belleville – Django Reinhardt (Reinhardt)
 
Disc 2:  1. Work With Me, Annie – Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (Ballard) / 2. You Send Me – Sam Cooke (Cooke) / 3. At The Hop – Danny and the Juniors (Singer/Medora/White) / 4. Say Man – Bo Diddley (McDaniel) / 5. Young Blood – The Coasters (Leiber/Stoller/Pomus) / 6. Flamingo – Earl Bostic (Grouya/Anderson)  / 7. Dimples – John Lee Hooker (Hooker/Bracken) / 8. Juke – Little Walter (Jacobs) / 9. Walking By Myself – Jimmy Rogers (Rogers) / 10. What Am I Living For? – Chuck Willis (Harris/Jay) / 11. The Great Pretender – The Platters (Ram) / 12. Lotta Lovin’ – Gene Vincent (Bedwell) / 13. Lonely Avenue – Ray Charles (Pomus) / 14. Honey Hush – Big Joe Turner (Turner) / 15. House Rent Boogie – John Lee Hooker (Hooker) / 16. Dinah – Louis Armstrong (Akst/Lewis/Young) / 17. Crackin’ Up – Bo Diddley (McDaniel) / 18. It’s a Sin To Tell a Lie – Fats Waller (Mayhew) / 19. Mannish Boy – Muddy Waters (McDaniel/London/Morganfield) / 20. Buona Sera – Louis Prima (De Rose/Sigman/Weingarten) / 21. Honey Love – Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters (McPhatter/Wexler) / 22. The Things That I Used To Do – Guitar Slim (Jones) / 23. Milk Cow Blues Boogie – Elvis Presley (Arnold) / 24. You Can’t Catch Me – Chuck Berry (Berry) / 25. Wake Up Little Susie – The Everly Brothers (Bryant/Bryant)

Greenwich Village occupies a small patch of land near the southern tip of Manhattan Island and a sizable slice of emotional space for Dylan fans everywhere, as it is the spot where he launched his spectacular career during the stormy winter of 1961. The Big Apple was ripe for the picking and Dylan was not afraid to take a bite and let the juice run down his chin.

This excellent Deluxe 2-CD set features the words and music that were “blowin’ in the wind” when Dylan began his extraordinary journey. A journey that is still going strong 50 years later. Although it was not the specific intention of this release, many of the songs included in this collection have been covered by Bob Dylan across those 50 years.

Featured artists include: Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Elizabeth Cotten, Dave Van Ronk, Phil Ochs, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott,  Lonnie Johnson, Josh White, Tom Paxton

Deluxe 50-Track, 2-CD Set Includes a 20-Page Booklet Of Notes Written By Derek Barker

DISC ONE: 1. New York City – Pete Seeger 2. Pretty Boy Floyd – Woody Guthrie 3. Ramblin’, Gamblin’ Man – Cisco Houston 4. When First Unto This Country – New Lost City Ramblers 5. Little Maggie – Barbara Dane 6. Crawling King Snake – John Lee Hooker 7. Howl –Allen Ginsberg 8. Step It Up And Go – Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee 9. Pallet On The Floor – Brownie McGhee 10. Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie – Elizabeth Cotten 11. Darling Corey – The Weavers 12. The Banana Boat Song – The Tarriers 13. Pretty Polly – Erik Darling 14. No More Cane On The Brazos – Odetta 15. Red Wing – Oscar Brand 16. Jack Of Diamonds – Brother John Sellars 17. Barbara Allen – Ed McCurdy 18. Duncan And Brady – Dave Van Ronk 19. Rio Grande – The Foc’sle Singers 20. Who’s Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I’m Gone) – Paul Clayton 21. The Steve Allen Show – Lenny Bruce BONUS TRACKS: 22. The Flight Of The Bumble Bee – Jose Feliciano 23. I Ain’t Marching Anymore – Phil Ochs 24. Turn, Turn, Turn – Judy Collins 25. The Sound Of Silence – Simon and Garfunkel DISC TWO: 1. New York City – Lead Belly 2. Cocaine – Ramblin’ Jack Elliott 3. Buffalo Boy – Theodore Bikel 4. The Parting Glass – Clancy Brothers 5. State Of The Nation – Kenneth Patchen 6. Fixin’ To Die – Bukka White 7. Baby Please Don’t Go – Big Joe Williams 8. You Will Need Me – Lonnie Johnson 9. The Wagoner’s Lad – Kossoy Sisters 10. Go ’Way From My Window – John Jacob Niles 11. Driving Wheel – Roosevelt Skyes 12. On The Road – Jack Kerouac 13. Silver Dagger – Joan Baez 14. A Wayfaring Stranger – Bob Gibson 15. Nottamun Town – Jean Ritchie 16. Death Don’t Have No Mercy – Rev. Gary Davis 17. In My Time Of Dying – Josh White 18. Uncloudy Day – Staple Singers 19. Rocks And Gravel – Harry Belafonte 20. Mojo Hand – Lightnin’ Hopkins 21. New York Girls – Kingston Trio BONUS TRACKS: 22. Little Wheel Spin And Spin – Buffy Sainte-Marie 23. Ramblin’ Boy – Tom Paxton 24. Roll On Buddy – The Greenbriar Boys 25. If I Had a Hammer – Peter, Paul and Mary.

“Bob Dylan – Studs Terkel’s Wax Museum” is a live radio broadcast from May 1963 by WFMT, Chicago. This LeftField Media release, a follow-up to their highly successful “Folksinger’s Choice”, again features songs and truly wonderful interview material. This great quality CD comes complete with an interesting eight-page booklet of notes and is a must for any Dylan collector.

Also available on Vinyl (see Vinyl section on left)

Although young Bobby Zimmerman famously inscribed a friend’s high school yearbook with the words “To join Little Richard”, there is far more to Bob Dylan’s formative years than rock ’n’ roll. Dylan’s admiration for country music started at a young age and two early handwritten pieces that have surfaced, ‘The Drunkard’s Son’ and‘ Little Buddy’, both transcribed by Dylan by the age of sixteen, confirm this. These two Hank Snow songs may have been in the large collection of 78s owned by Matt Helstrom, the father of Dylan’s 11th-grade sweetheart Echo. Bob spent many hours at the Helstrom’s home listening to Matt’s collection of country records– a collection teeming with Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers and Bill Monroe. This music was to leave an impression on Bob’s psyche that would return to the fore at various points throughout his long career. The tracks included in this collection are presented roughly chronologically as Dylan performed them from 1960 to 2002. 

All songs are by the original artists.

Tracklist:

DISC 1
1 Blue Yodel No. 8 Jimmie Rodgers / 2 Columbus Stockade Blues Tom Darby and Jimmie Tarlton / 3 Southern Cannonball Hank Snow / 4 Will The Circle Be Unbroken? Roy Acuff / 5 (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle Hank Williams / 6 Blues Stay Away From Me The Delmore Brothers / 7 I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know Davis Sisters / 8 Weary Blues From Waitin’ Hank Williams / 9 I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry Hank Williams / 10 Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash /11 Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw Hank Williams /12 Cool Water Sons Of The Pioneers /13 You Win Again Hank Williams / 14 I Forgot To Remember To Forget Elvis Presley / 15 A Fool Such As I Hank Snow / 16 Five Feet High And Rising Johnny Cash / 17 Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) Bob Downen / 18 Blue Yodel No. 5 Jimmie Rodgers / 19 I Still Miss Someone Johnny Cash / 20 I Walk The Line Johnny Cash / 21 Oh Lonesome Me Don Gibson / 22 Little Moses The Carter Family

DISC2
1 Dark As a Dungeon Merle Travis / 2 I’m Movin’ On Hank Snow / 3 Making Believe Jimmy Work / 4 I’m Glad I Got To See You Once Again Hank Snow / 5 El Paso Marty Robbins / 6 A House Of Gold Hank Williams / 7 More And More Webb Pierce / 8 You Don’t Know Me Eddy Arnold / 9 Hey Good Lookin’ Hank Williams / 10 Little Maggie The Stanley Brothers / 11 Hello Stranger The Carter Family / 12 My Blue-Eyed Jane Jimmie Rodgers / 13 The Lonesome River The Stanley Brothers / 14 White Dove The Stanley Brothers / 15 Honky Tonk Blues Hank Williams / 16 Blue Moon Of Kentucky Bill Monroe / 17 You’re Too Late Lefty Frizzell / 18 Train Of Love Johnny Cash / 19 Can’t Get You Off My Mind Hank Williams / 20 Voice From On High Bill Monroe

Cynthia Gooding, a traditional folk singer, is best known for her time as a presenter on WBAI radio, hosting two shows, “Cynthia and Sensible” and “Folksinger’s Choice”, on which she interviewed Bob Dylan in 1962. Gooding was the ideal person to put the often reticent Bob Dylan at ease. She was a willing listener and was able to engage Dylan through her considerable knowledge of folk music. She had met Dylan on several occasions previously, going back to 1959 when he attended a party after one of Gooding’s Minneapolis gigs. As often happened at these get-togethers, a guitar was passed around and Gooding was apparently suitably impressed and charmed by young Mr Dylan’s performance. Although Gooding says in her Folksinger’s Choice interview that Dylan “is one of the quickest rises in folk music”, at the time this show was broadcast, probably on March 11, 1962, Dylan was still pretty much an unknown. His first album had not yet been released and he had only just begun writing his own songs. Also, Dylan was still reinventing his own fanciful past. A past that would supposedly include skipping school and working in a carnival for about six years when in actual fact, Dylan graduated from Hibbing High in June 1959 and, if he did work in a carnival at all, which is highly unlikely, it would have been more like six days than six years! However, far from spoiling the show, these tall tales only go to enhance one of the best early recordings we have of Bob Dylan. The show, which is interspersed with chat between Gooding and Dylan, futures 11 songs, three of them newly minted early Dylan originals. Folksinger’s Choice contains the only known Dylan performances of ‘Smokestack Lightning’, ‘Hard Travelin’’ and ‘Roll On, John’ and features the first known outings of ‘The Death Of Emmett Till’ and ‘Standing On The Highway’. ‘Folksinger’s Choice’ is therefore an incredibly important early document.

Tracklist

  1.  (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle 
  2.  Fixin’ To Die
  3.  Smokestack Lightning 
  4.  Hard Travelin’ 
  5.  The Death Of Emmett Till
  6.  Standing On The Highway 
  7.  Roll On, John 
  8.  Stealin’, Stealin’ 
  9.  Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad
10.  Baby Please Don’t Go
11.  Hard Times In New York Town (Dylan)

Also available on Vinyl (see Vinyl section on left)

“Joan Baez The Debut Album Plus!”

Joan Baez debut album now available with 10 bonus tracks!

The 13 folk traditionals that made-up Joan’s first album – including ‘All My Trials’, ‘House Of The Rising Sun’, ‘Silver Dagger’ and ‘Little Moses’ – are now available with 10 songs from “Folksingers ’Round Harvard Square”. Originally released in 1959 on the tiny Veritas Records label these tracks are available on CD for the first time.

Woody Guthrie was indisputably the single most important influence on Bob Dylan’s early career and life. Dylan left Minnesota’s “10,000 lakes” for the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple in late December 1960. His chief reason for making the 1,200-mile journey was to meet his idol, Woody Guthrie, and on his first full day in a snowbound New York City (January 25, 1961) he ventured out to the gloomy granite building that was Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey to see his wounded hero. “It was a strange environment to meet anybody,” Dylan wrote in ‘Chronicles Volume One’, “least of all the true voice of the American Spirit.”  More Details

THE DYLAN PROJECT is a genuine supergroup. Fronted by the charismatic STEVE GIBBONS (lead vocals, harmonica, guitar) the band also includes Steve’s longtime associate P.J.WRIGHT (lead guitar, pedal steel, dobro, etc.) and three members of FAIRPORT CONVENTION in DAVE PEGG (bass, mandolin, backing vocals), SIMON NICOL (guitar, bass, vocals) and GERRY CONWAY (drums, percussion), along with Simon Nicol’s replacement, new recruit PHIL BOND (keyboards). This CD, as they say, does what it says on the label. RGF Records has acquired the rights to this second studio album, originally titled ‘DYLAN PROJECT 2’ when it was released on Fairport’s Matty Grooves label in 2005. This reissued version features five previously unreleased bonus tracks, all but one recorded in 2010, plus, as on the previous RGF release, an explanatory sleeve note by Dylan expert (and Rod Argent lookalike) Ray Dobson. Reviewing the previous double CD by THE DYLAN PROJECT (still available as RGF/DPDCD 066), Alan Clayson in ‘Record Collector’ called it “a heartfelt and thoroughly engrossing tribute” and described STEVE GIBBONS as “one of the planet’s most inspired Dylan interpreters”. Tracklist: TV Talking Song ,Someone’s Gotta Hold Of My Heart, I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight, Mama You’ve Been On My Mind, You Angel You, Eternal Circle , Subterranean Homesick Blues, Santa Fe, Ballad Of A Thin Man, One More Night, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, Heart Of Mine, Billy, Tweeter And The Monkey Man, Tombstone Blues. Bonus tracks: Born In Time, Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands, One More Weekend, Forever Young, Down Along The Cove (live)

Superb double CD from the great Steve Gibbons Band. Any Road Up was first released in 1976 with Rollin’ On following in 1977 and which featured the huge hit single, Chuck Berry’s Tulane. Both albums have been digitally remastered with Steve Gibbons in attendance, and the 20 page booklet includes the lyrics to the 26 original compositions by Gibbons.
Disc One - Any Road Up
Take Me Home / Johnny Cool / Rollin' / Spark Of Love / Standing On The Bridge / Natural Thing / Speed Kills / Strange World / Sweetheart / Back Street Cat / Dick Malone
Disc Two - Rollin On
Wild Flowers /  Light Up Your Face / Now You Know Me / Mr Jones / Till The Well Runs Dry /  Tulane / Cross Me Over The Road / Till The Fire Burns Out /  Low Down Man / Right Side Of Heaven / Rollin' On / Please Don't Say Goodbye / Tupelo Mississippi Flash / Rounden / Gave His Life To Rock 'n' Roll /  Make The Good Times Last / Dick Leaps In

This double CD brings together two albums which were initially released 25 years apart, tracks include Bob Dylan’s You're a Big Girl Now and Man in the Long Black Coat

Disc One – Short Stories
Leader Of The Band / Now You're Leaving / Last Farewell / One Of Those Days / Alright Now / You've Gotta Pay / Bye Bye Buffalo / Brown Girl / Until She Comes Home / Don't Wanna Let You Down / Trouble. Bonus Tracks: Lamb To The Slaughter / I'm Going Home / Tired Clock
Disc Two – Stained Glass
Take It Easy / You're A Big Girl Now / Last Farewell / Oh What A Thrill / Grace / Looking Glass In The Rain / One Day / Looking For The Heart Of Saturday Night / New Leather Shoes / Stolen Hearts / Hey Buddy / Man In The Long Black Coat / Immaculate Conception. Bonus Tracks:  Where Was I Last Night / Smoky Joe's

Reissue of a hard to find 1988 album. With 6 bonus tracks including Steve's four motorcycling songs (which have never previously all appeared together on a CD)

In Over My Heart / Don't Trade Me In / Schoolboy / Chain / World Stops Turning / Don't Let 'em Get Ya / Let There Be Bop / Train / Your World / Manyana / Slow Down. Bonus Tracks: Wonderful World / Don't Wanna Let You Down / TT92 / Triumph Bonneville / Harley Davidson / BSA

29 brilliant live tracks including Bob Dylan’s Watching the River Flow, To Be Alone with You, Like a Rolling Stone and Man in the Long Black Coat.

Disc One - Caught In The Act
Watching The River Flow /  Light Up Your Face /  Shopping For Clothes /  Git It / He Gave His Life To Rock 'N' Roll /  And The Music Plays On / Day Tripper / One Of The Boys / You Gotta Pay /  Tulane / Speed Kills / Rollin' / Tupelo Mississippi Flash. Bonus Tracks:  Standing On The Bridge / Natural Thing / Mr. Jones / There's Always Tomorrow
Disc Two - On The Loose
Down The Road Apiece / Chuck In My Car / Absolutely Gone / Love Part One / Trucker / On The Loose / To Be Alone With You / Love 'N' Peace / Like A Rolling Stone. Bonus Tracks:  A Muse In The Club / Another Three Steps To Heaven / New York

Includes two of Bob Dylan’s songs From A Buick 6 and Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)

Johnny Cool /  No Spitting On The Bus /  No Money Down /  Don't Trade Me In /  Let There Be Bop /  The Chain /  Personal Problem /  Speed Kills /  Harley Davidson /  Triumph Bonneville /  Eddy Vortex /  From A Buick 6 /  Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) /  Buddy Holly /  Lemonade /  Believe What You Say /  After The Thrill /  Midnight Moon

Steve Gibbons’ latest album. Chasing Tales, includes a dozen songs written by Steve, only one of which, 'Where Was I Last Night?', has previously appeared on an album.

Where Was I Last Night /  The Chase /  Velda /  Stuck In A Groove /  The King's New Clothes /  Jazz /  Bad Day At The Office /  Hot Club In Dreamland /  Still In The Dark /  Darwin And All That /  Limbo No More /  Wonderful Life

11 splendid tracks plus 8 bonus tracks. This album has been unavailable for around five years.

No Spitting on the Bus / Any Road Up / Down in the Bunker / Big J.C. /Mary Ain't Goin' Home / Down in the City / Let's Do It Again / Eddy Vortex / Chelita / When You Get Outside / Grace. Bonus Tracks: Tulane / Gold Coast / Body Talk / Let Me Go / Satisfying Moves / I Am Here / The Great Escape / Get Up and Dance 

19 tracks, includes Bob Dylan’s Sweetheart Like You

You Can't Catch Me / It'll Be Me / More Than I Can Say / Boppin' The Blues / Jaguar And The Thunderbird / TT92 / Memphis Flash / Sweetheart Like You / Bonnie / Alright Now / Love Letters / Bird With No Song / Waiting Game / 20 Flight Rock / Trucker / Nothin' But You / Absolutely Gone / Well All Right / British Rock and Roll