Act One Scene One: Roll 2-A

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Tape Roll	CD Track	Time	Title	Description
2A	6	01:34	Let It Down (001)	George introduces another candidate for the project: Let It Down. John offers accompaniment. Afterwards, John makes a joking comment about the song being ‘the same three chords’. George stops after playing a particular chord reassuring John that it is “a great chord” and then goes on to show John how to form the chord. George later recorded this song for his All Thing Must Pass LP released in November, 1970.
2A	7	01:05	Everybody Had A Hard Year (001)	John plays this song fragment left over from their trip to India in February of 1968. Later in today's session, it becomes obvious that the idea of joining this fragment to Paul’s song I’ve Got a Feeling had already been decided.
2A	8	01:44	Child Of Nature (001)	John plays another song dating from their 1968 India adventure (the song failed to make it onto the White album) with great energy and enthusiasm supplied by George. George appears to favor this song as he asks to rehearse it several times during Let It Be. This song was later given a new set of lyrics and a softer, more feminine approach by John and re-titled Jealous Guy. It appeared on John’s Imagine LP released in 1972.
2A	9	01:58	I Shall Be Released (001)	John starts this cut with a rambling guitar riff and then observes “we’ll probably write some fast ones, here together, all of us”. This proves to be a problem in that everyone has a wealth of slowish candidate tunes, but nary a fast one. Then George exhibits the first instance of a behavior he repeats throughout Let it Be. That is, he makes apparent musical commentary on the moment at hand by playing slices of various Dylan tunes. This particular song is one he returns to on several occasions during Let It Be. John is obviously familiar with the song and joins in. After finishing the White album George had spent the previous Thanksgiving visiting Dylan in his home in New York having been invited by The Band. George was deeply impressed with both Dylan, and The Band: their style, their approach to making music, and their choice of material. George will go on and on regarding his admiratiion of The Band in the coming weeks to the point of irritating John. This particular song is on both Dylan’s Basement Tapes LP (which George liked enough to give to Ringo as a gift) and the Music From Big Pink LP.
2A	10	01:41	Sun King (001)	At this stage, John has a musical fragment that he appears fond of as it surfaces multiple times during Let It Be. It is recognizable as the instrumental bit that went on to form the song Sun King, found on their final Opus: the Abbey Road LP. This is a nice performance of that instrumental fragment by John and George.