Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | AUS | UK | ||||||||
| 1962 | Bob Dylan
| — | — | 13 | ||||||
| 1963 | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
| 22 | — | 1 | US: Platinum[1] | |||||
| 1964 | The Times They Are a-Changin'
| 20 | — | 4 | US: Gold[1] | |||||
Another Side of Bob Dylan
| 43 | — | 8 | US: Gold[1] | ||||||
| 1965 | Bringing It All Back Home
| 6 | — | 1 | US: Platinum[1] | |||||
Highway 61 Revisited
| 3 | — | 4 | US: Platinum[1] CAN: Gold[2] | ||||||
| 1966 | Blonde on Blonde
| 9 | 4 | 3 | US: 2× Platinum[1] | |||||
| 1967 | John Wesley Harding
| 2 | 1 | 1 | US: Platinum[1] | |||||
| 1969 | Nashville Skyline
| 3 | 2 | 1 | US: Platinum[1] CAN: Gold[2] | |||||
| 1970 | Self Portrait
| 4 | 3 | 1 | US: Gold[1] | |||||
New Morning
| 7 | 4 | 1 | US: Gold[1] | ||||||
| 1973 | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
| 16 | 28 | 29 | US: Gold[1] | |||||
Dylan
| 17 | 33 | — | US: Gold[1] AUS: Gold[citation needed] | ||||||
| 1974 | Planet Waves
| 1 | 21 | 7 | US: Gold[1] UK: Silver[3] | |||||
| 1975 | Blood on the Tracks
| 1 | 4 | 4 | US: 2× Platinum[1] CAN: Platinum[2] UK: Gold[3] | |||||
The Basement Tapes
| 7 | 13 | 8 | US: Gold[1] UK: Gold[3] | ||||||
| 1976 | Desire
| 1 | 1 | 3 | US: 2× Platinum[1] CAN: Platinum[2] UK: Gold[3] | |||||
| 1978 | Street Legal
| 11 | 5 | 2 | US: Gold[1] CAN: Platinum[2] UK: Platinum[3] | |||||
| 1979 | Slow Train Coming
| 3 | 1 | 2 | US: Platinum[1] CAN: 2× Platinum[2] UK: Silver[3] | |||||
| 1980 | Saved
| 24 | 18 | 3 | UK: Silver[3] | |||||
| 1981 | Shot of Love
| 33 | 22 | 6 | UK: Silver[3] | |||||
| 1983 | Infidels
| 20 | 6 | 9 | US: Gold[1] CAN: Gold[2] UK: Silver | |||||
| 1985 | Empire Burlesque
| 33 | 7 | 11 | CAN: Gold[2] | |||||
| 1986 | Knocked Out Loaded
| 54 | 27 | 35 | ||||||
| 1988 | Down in the Groove
| 61 | 41 | 32 | ||||||
| 1989 | Oh Mercy
| 30 | 26 | 6 | US: Gold[1] UK: Gold[3] | |||||
| 1990 | Under the Red Sky
| 38 | 39 | 13 | UK: Silver[3] | |||||
| 1992 | Good as I Been to You
| 51 | — | 18 | ||||||
| 1993 | World Gone Wrong
| 70 | — | 35 | ||||||
| 1997 | Time Out of Mind
| 10 | 24 | 10 | US: Platinum[1] AUS: Gold[4] CAN: Gold[2] UK: Gold[3] | |||||
| 2001 | Love and Theft
| 5 | 6 | 3 | US: Gold[1] | |||||
| 2006 | Modern Times
| 1 | 1 | 3 | US: Platinum[1] AUS: Gold[5] CAN: Platinum[2] | |||||
| 2009 | Together Through Life
| 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
Christmas in the Heart
| 23 | — | 40 | |||||||
| 2012 | Tempest
| 3 | 8 | 3 | ||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||||||
Compilation albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | UK | |||||||||
| 1967 | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
| 10 | 6 | US: 5× Platinum[1] CAN: 2× Platinum[2] | ||||||
| 1971 | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II / More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits
| 14 | 12 | US: 5× Platinum[1] CAN: 2× Platinum[2] | ||||||
| 1978 | Masterpieces (Australia, New Zealand, Japan)
| — | — | |||||||
| 1985 | Biograph
| 33 | — | US: Platinum[1] | ||||||
| 1994 | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3
| 126 | 150 | US: Gold[1] | ||||||
| 1997 | The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 1 (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)
| — | 6 | UK: Gold[3] | ||||||
| 2000 | The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 2 (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)
| — | 22 | |||||||
The Essential Bob Dylan
| 67 | 9 | US: Platinum[1] UK: Platinum[3]
AUS: 2× Platinum[6]
| |||||||
| 2001 | On the Road Again
| — | — | |||||||
| 2005 | The Best of Bob Dylan (US)
| 53 | — | |||||||
| 2006 | Blues
| — | — | |||||||
Bob Dylan: The Collection
| — | — | ||||||||
| 2007 | Dylan (single disc version)
| 36 | 10 | US: Gold[1] | ||||||
Dylan (deluxe version)
| 93 | — | ||||||||
| 2009 | The Collection
| — | — | |||||||
| 2010 | The Original Mono Recordings (8 CD/vinyl Set)
| — | 157 | |||||||
The Best of The Original Mono Recordings (1 CD Set)
| — | 107 | ||||||||
| 2011 | All Time Best: Dylan
| — | — | |||||||
Pure Dylan
| — | — | ||||||||
| Beyond Here Lies Nothin' - The Collection (2 CD Set) | — | 156 | ||||||||
| 2012 | The Real Bob Dylan (3 CD Set)
| — | — | |||||||
The 50th Anniversary Collection aka 'The Copyright Extension Collection Vol. I' (4 CD Set)("Europe only")
| — | — | ||||||||
| 2013 | Bob Dylan and the New Folk Movement (2 CD Set)
| — | — | |||||||
House Of The Risin' Sun (2 CD Set)
| — | — | ||||||||
Bob Dylan
| — | — | ||||||||
Fixin' to Die
| — | — | ||||||||
A Long Time A Growin' - Volume 1-5
| — | — | ||||||||
Constructing The Legend (2 CD Set)
| — | — | ||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||||||
Live albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | UK | |||
| 1974 | Before the Flood | 3 | 8 | US: Platinum[1] UK: Silver[3] |
| 1976 | Hard Rain
| 17 | 3 | US: Gold[1] UK: Gold[3] |
| 1979 | Bob Dylan at Budokan
| 13 | 4 | US: Gold[1] CAN: Gold[2] UK: Gold[3] |
| 1984 | Real Live
| 115 | 54 | |
| 1989 | Dylan & the Dead
| 37 | 38 | US: Gold[1] |
| 1993 | The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
| 40 | — | |
| 1995 | MTV Unplugged
| 23 | 10 | US: Gold[1] |
| 2001 | Live 1961–2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances(Japan)
| — | 140 | |
| 2005 | Live at the Gaslight 1962
| — | — | |
Live at Carnegie Hall 1963
| — | — | ||
| 2011 | In Concert - Brandeis University 1963
| — | 59 | |
The Bootleg Series
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 is a compilation box set by Bob Dylan, issued on Columbia Records, catalogue C3K 86572. It is the first installment in the Dylan bootleg series, comprising material spanning the first three decades of his career, from 1961 to 1989. It has been certified with a gold record by the RIAA as of August 1997, and peaked at #49 on the Billboard 200 and #32 in the UK.[5]
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Content
Of the 58 total tracks, 47 are session outtakes from the recording sessions for Dylan studio albums. The remaining eleven tracks are with two exceptions live recordings and demo records, three of latter being later duplicated on volume 9 of the series.
Released in 1991 to satisfy enormous demand for Dylan's much-bootlegged unissued material, it contains rarities and unreleased works from the sessions for 1962's eponymous debut Bob Dylan to 1989's Oh Mercy. Unlike subsequent editions, which to date have all been double-disc packages, each volume in this set is a single compact disc, and the three volumes are not available separately.
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted; all arrangements by Bob Dylan.
Volume one
"Hard Times in New York Town" (December 22, 1961); home tape recorded by Tony Glover
"He Was a Friend of Mine" (traditional) (November 20, 1961); Bob Dylan outtake
"Man on the Street" (November 22, 1961); Bob Dylan outtake
"No More Auction Block" (traditional) (October 1962); live at the Gaslight cafe, Greenwich Village
"House Carpenter" (traditional) (November 22, 1961) Bob Dylan outtake
"Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues" (April 25, 1962) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan outtake
"Let Me Die in My Footsteps" (April 25, 1962) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan outtake
"Rambling, Gambling Willie" (April 24, 1962) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan outtake
"Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues" (April 25, 1962) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan outtake
"Quit Your Low Down Ways" (July 9, 1962) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan outtake
"Worried Blues" (traditional) (July 9, 1962) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan outtake
"Kingsport Town" (traditional) (November 14, 1962) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan outtake
"Walkin' Down the Line" (1963) demo for the Witmark Music Publishing Company
"Walls of Red Wing" (April 24, 1963) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan outtake
"Paths of Victory" (August 12, 1963) The Times They Are A-Changin' outtake
"Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" (October 26, 1963) live at Carnegie Hall
"Who Killed Davey Moore?" (October 26, 1963) live at Carnegie Hall
"Only a Hobo" (August 12, 1963) The Times They Are A-Changin' outtake
"Moonshiner" (traditional) (August 12, 1963) The Times They Are A-Changin' outtake
"When the Ship Comes In" (1963) demo for the Witmark Music Publishing Company
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" (1963) demo for the Witmark Music Publishing Company
"Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie" (April 12, 1963) poem recited live in concert at New York City's Town Hall
Volume two
"Seven Curses" (August 6, 1963) The Times They Are A-Changin' outtake
"Eternal Circle" (October 24, 1963) The Times They Are A-Changin' outtake
"Suze (The Cough Song)" (October 24, 1963) The Times They Are A-Changin' outtake
"Mama, You Been on My Mind" (June 9, 1964) Another Side of Bob Dylan outtake
"Farewell, Angelina" (January 13, 1965) Bringing It All Back Home outtake
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" (January 13, 1965) Bringing It All Back Home alternate take
"If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night)" (January 15, 1965) Bringing It All Back Home outtake
"Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence" (June 15, 1965) Highway 61 Revisited outtake
"Like a Rolling Stone" (June 15, 1965) Highway 61 Revisited outtake
"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (June 15, 1965) Highway 61 Revisited alternate take
"I'll Keep It with Mine" (January 27, 1966) Blonde on Blonde outtake
"She's Your Lover Now" (January 21, 1966) Blonde on Blonde outtake
"I Shall Be Released" (Fall 1967) Basement Tape recording
"Santa-Fe" (Fall 1967) Basement Tape recording
"If Not for You" (May 1, 1970) New Morning alternate take
"Wallflower" (November 4, 1971) previously unreleased recording
"Nobody 'Cept You" (November 2, 1973) Planet Waves outtake
"Tangled Up in Blue" (September 16, 1974) Blood on the Tracks alternate take
"Call Letter Blues" (September 16, 1974) Blood on the Tracks outtake
"Idiot Wind" (September 19, 1974) Blood on the Tracks alternate take
Volume three
"If You See Her, Say Hello" (September 16, 1974) Blood on the Tracks alternate take
"Golden Loom" (July 30, 1975) Desire outtake
"Catfish" (July 28, 1975) Desire outtake (Dylan/Levy)
"Seven Days" (April 21, 1976) live performance, Tampa, Florida
"Ye Shall Be Changed" (May 2, 1979) Slow Train Coming outtake
"Every Grain of Sand" (September 23, 1980) publishing demo for Special Rider Music
"You Changed My Life" (April 23, 1981) Shot of Love outtake
"Need a Woman" (May 4, 1981) Shot of Love outtake
"Angelina" (May 4, 1981) Shot of Love outtake
"Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart" (April 25, 1983) Infidels outtake
"Tell Me" (April 21, 1983) Infidels outtake
"Lord Protect My Child" (May 3, 1983) Infidels outtake
"Foot of Pride" (April 25, 1983) Infidels outtake
"Blind Willie McTell" (May 5, 1983) Infidels outtake
"When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky" (February 19, 1985) Empire Burlesque alternate take
"Series of Dreams" (March 23, 1989) Oh Mercy outtake; remixed January 1991
The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert is a two-disc live album by Bob Dylan, released in 1998. It was recorded at the Manchester Free Trade Hall during Dylan's world tour in 1966, hence the quotation marks around the misinformation attribution to the Royal Albert Hall. (Oldham Evening Chronicle - 25 May 1966: "So the knockers are all stations go again. I am referring to the fantastic performance given by Bob Dylan at the Free Trade Hall last Tuesday night... I think Bob put his feelings over to the knockers just great. When someone shouted out to him 'Judas!', he just calmly went to the microphone and quietly drawled 'Ya liar'...") Extensively bootlegged for decades, it is an important document in the development of popular music during the 1960s.[5]
The setlist consisted of two parts, with the first half of the concert being Dylan alone on stage performing an entirely acoustic set of songs, while the second half of the concert has Dylan playing an "electric" set of songs alongside his band The Hawks. The first half of the concert was greeted warmly by the audience, while the second half was highly criticized, with heckling going on before and after each song.
History
After touring North America from the fall of 1965 through the winter of 1966, Dylan, accompanied by The Hawks (later renamed as The Band), embarked on a six-week spring tour that began in Australia, wound through western Europe and the United Kingdom, and wrapped up in London. Dylan's move to electric music, and his apparent disconnection from traditional folk music, continued to be controversial, and his UK audiences were particularly disruptive with some fans believing Dylan had "sold out".
The electric part of this concert first surfaced in late 1970 or early 1971 on bootleg LPs with various titles. On June 3, 1971, critic Dave Marsh reviewed one bootleg in Creem magazine, writing "It is the most supremely elegant piece of rock 'n' roll music I've ever heard...The extreme subtlety of the music is so closely interwoven with its majesty that they appear as one and the same."
The same month, critic Jon Landau reviewed another edition of the concert:
“ Needless to say, the album is both musically great and an amazing path back into the temperament of the sixties. Listening to it, it isn't hard to remember Dylan on stage of the Donnelly Memorial Theatre in Boston or at Forest Hills in New York standing toe to toe, eyeball to eyeball with Robbie Robertson between every verse of practically every song, while the guitarist played his fills. Nor is it hard to remember that long, lean, frail look that sometimes made you wonder what gave him the strength to stand up there in the first place, as he remembered the unbelievably complex lyrics to his unbelievably long songs, without ever faltering...It isn't hard for me to remember the booing, the names, the insults he endured just to be standing there with an electric band...On this album the audience claps at the wrong time, claps rhythmically as if to deliberately throw his timing off. At the beginning of 'One Too Many Mornings' he tells a completely psychotic story in a very low voice while the audience makes its noise. As they gradually lose their energy, he finds his and his voice gets louder, until, when they are almost completely silent he says plainly, 'if you only wouldn't clap so hard.' The audience applauds the statement. ”
The early bootleg LPs attributed the recording to one of Dylan's tour-closing concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall that was also recorded, as was a show in Liverpool (May 14), supervised by Dylan producer Bob Johnston. However, Dylan's now-legendary confrontation with a heckler calling out "Judas" from the audience, clearly heard on the recording, was well documented as having occurred at Manchester's Free Trade Hall on May 17, 1966. After "Judas!", there is clapping, followed by more heckles. One of those shouts, barely audible on the record, is a man shouting, "I'm never listening to you again, ever!" Dylan then says "I don't believe you", then after a long pause, "You're a liar." Someone, not in the audience but not Bob Dylan, can be heard telling them to "get fuckin' loud" as they begin "Like a Rolling Stone." At the end, the audience erupts into applause and Dylan says, "Thank you."
After years of conflicting reports and speculation among Dylan discographers, the Manchester source was verified after the preliminary mix of a proposed Columbia edition was bootlegged in 1995 as Guitars Kissing & The Contemporary Fix. Dylan rejected that edition; three years later, he authorized a markedly different version for his second "Bootleg Series" release. One song recorded at Dylan's real Royal Albert Hall concert had been previously released: his May 26, 1966 performance of "Visions of Johanna" on the Box set Biograph. Excerpts from other 1966 UK performances are included in Martin Scorsese's 2005 television documentary No Direction Home. Film footage of the "Judas" incident was discovered and used at the end of the documentary.
When Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert finally was released in 1998, it was a commercial and critical success, reaching #19 in the U.K. The inside leaflet reveals useful information about the conditions of how the concert was recorded and transferred to disc and it confirms that the version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", previously released on the Box set Biograph, duly comes from this concert.[6]
On July 29, 1966, two months after finishing his spring tour, Dylan suffered a motorcycle accident. As a result of his long recuperation, Dylan had to cancel the remaining shows he had scheduled for 1966. However, Dylan would continue to collaborate with the Hawks, and over the next year or so, they would produce some of their most celebrated recordings, many of which were eventually released on The Basement Tapes. Dylan would not embark on another tour until 1974.
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted
Disc 1 (solo acoustic)
"She Belongs to Me" – 3:27
"4th Time Around" – 4:37
"Visions of Johanna" – 8:08
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" – 5:45
"Desolation Row" – 11:31
"Just Like a Woman" – 5:52
"Mr. Tambourine Man" – 8:52
Disc 2 (with The Hawks)
"Tell Me Momma" – 5:10
"I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" – 6:07
"Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" (Eric von Schmidt. Arr. Dylan) – 3:46
"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" – 6:50
"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" – 4:50
"One Too Many Mornings" – 4:22
"Ballad of a Thin Man" – 7:55
"Like a Rolling Stone" – 8:01
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue is a live album by Bob Dylan released by Columbia Records in 2002. It documents the Rolling Thunder Revue, led by Bob Dylan prior to the release of the album Desire. Until the release of this album, the only official live documentation of the Rolling Thunder Revue was the Hard Rain recorded during the second leg of the revue.
The 2-CD set got a warm reception from critics and fans, though some lamented that it does not document, or emulate, a typical complete show from the tour.[5] Fans have also expressed exasperation at the omission of certain revered performances, notably the cover of Johnny Ace's "Never Let Me Go".
The album debuted on the Billboard 200 chart on December 14, 2002 at number 56. It spent 9 weeks on the chart. It was certified and awarded a gold record on March 12, 2003 by the RIAA. The album reached #69 in the U.K.
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted. All songs recorded live in concert.
Disc one
"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" (Forum de Montreal, Canada 12/4/75) – 3:55
"It Ain't Me Babe" (Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA 11/20/75) – 5:25
"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (Forum de Montreal, Canada 12/4/75) – 5:16
"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 5:25
"Romance in Durango" (Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA 11/20/75) (Dylan and Levy) – 5:22
"Isis" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) (Dylan and Levy) – 5:11
"Mr. Tambourine Man" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – First Show) – 5:39
"Simple Twist of Fate" (Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA 11/20/75) – 4:17
"Blowin' in the Wind" (Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA 11/20/75) – 2:43
"Mama, You Been on My Mind" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 3:11
"I Shall Be Released" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – First Show) – 4:33
Disc two
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Forum de Montreal, Canada 12/4/75) – 4:34
"Love Minus Zero/No Limit" (Forum de Montreal, Canada 12/4/75) – 3:13
"Tangled Up in Blue" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 4:41
"The Water Is Wide" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 - Second Show) (Traditional) – 5:16
"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 3:12
"Oh, Sister" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) (Dylan and Levy) – 4:04
"Hurricane" (Memorial Auditorium, Worcester, MA 11/19/75) (Dylan and Levy) – 8:15
"One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 4:14
"Sara" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 4:29
"Just Like a Woman" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 4:31
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA 11/20/75) – 4:22
The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall
The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall is a complete recording of Bob Dylan's October 31, 1964 "Halloween" show at New York's Philharmonic Hall. It was released in 2004.
The set list was dominated by Dylan’s protest songs, including "The Times They Are a-Changin’," "A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall," and "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll". Joan Baez, a major supporter of Dylan's in his early career, duets with Dylan on three songs, as well as singing another alone ("Silver Dagger"). However, Dylan performed these songs alongside early versions of three songs from the soon-to-be-recorded Bringing It All Back Home. New compositions like "It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" showed Dylan moving in a new direction, becoming more immersed in evocative, stream-of-consciousness lyrics and moving away from social, topical songwriting. Even as he was moving in this new direction, Dylan was still portrayed as a symbol of the civil rights and anti-war movements, and the Halloween concert of 1964 caught Dylan in transition.
The album debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart on April 17, 2004 at number 28. It spent 4 weeks on the chart. It also reached number 33 in the U.K.
Preparing The Bootleg Series Vol. 6
When Dylan and Sony began planning for The Bootleg Series Vol. 6, they weren't sure what to release. Steve Berkowitz, an A&R head at Sony Music who worked on all the Bootleg Series discs with Dylan's office, stresses that Dylan's office is behind the brainstorming and decision-making for the Bootleg Series, not Sony. Concerts held at Carnegie Hall and New York's Town Hall, both in 1963, were considered for The Bootleg Series Vol. 6, according to Berkowitz, but they were ultimately rejected.
The Halloween concert of 1964 had been previously bootlegged on vinyl and CD, but those releases were incomplete and taken from poor dubs of the soundboard tapes. The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 presented the entire concert for the first time from the original master tapes.
A few critics, including biographer Clinton Heylin, were dismissive. "I’ve never rated [the Halloween show] as a performance," Heylin explained in a phone interview. "Dylan is very focused when he comes to doing the new songs...But the old material, he’s completely and totally bored with. It’s not a good performance. He’s clearly stoned...The concert was a real landmark, not in the positive sense, but in the negative sense because it looked at the time like Dylan was going off the rails."[5]
However, the set was well received by most critics, with NME's Rob Fitzpatrick giving it the magazine's highest rating (a 10 out of 10) and called it "utterly brilliant."
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted
Disc one
"The Times They Are a-Changin'" – 3:29
"Spanish Harlem Incident" – 3:07
"Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" – 4:06
"To Ramona" – 6:01
"Who Killed Davey Moore?" – 4:46
"Gates of Eden" – 8:32
"If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night)" – 4:06
"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" – 11:26
"I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" – 4:01
"Mr. Tambourine Man" – 6:33
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" – 7:44
Disc two
"Talkin' World War III Blues" – 5:52
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" – 4:34
"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" – 6:57
"Mama, You Been on My Mind" – 3:35
"Silver Dagger" (Traditional) – 3:47
"With God on Our Side" – 6:17
"It Ain't Me, Babe" – 5:11
"All I Really Want to Do" – 4:01
The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack
The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack is the third most recent installment in the Bob Dylan "Bootleg Series" of rare and/or officially unissued recordings.
It was released in 2005 in conjunction with the Martin Scorsese television documentary on Dylan, called No Direction Home, which aired in late September, and features previously unreleased material from Dylan's formative years to his legendary 1966 world tour.
The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack was compiled with Scorsese's input. It fared well commercially, debuting on the Billboard 200 album chart on September 17, 2005 at number 16, with sales of 50,987 copies. It remained on the chart for 11 weeks. It was certified a gold record on October 21, 2005 by the RIAA. It also reached #21 in the UK.
Preparing The Bootleg Series Vol. 7
The project eventually titled as No Direction Home began to take shape in 1995 when Dylan's manager, Jeff Rosen, began scheduling interviews with Dylan's friends and associates. Among those interviewed were poet Allen Ginsberg and folk musician Dave Van Ronk, both of whom died before the film was ever completed. Dylan's old girlfriend Suze Rotolo also granted a rare interview, and she later told Rolling Stone Magazine that she was very pleased with the project's results. Dylan himself also sat for ten hours in a relaxed and open conversation with Rosen in 2000.
According to Rolling Stone Magazine, an unnamed source close to the project claimed that Dylan himself had no involvement with the project apart from the interview, saying that "[Dylan] has no interest in this...Bob truly does not look back." However, work on the first installment of Dylan's autobiography, Chronicles, Vol. 1, did overlap production of the project, though it's unclear how much, if any, influence Chronicles may have had on No Direction Home.
Though raw material was being gathered for the project, Rosen needed someone to edit and shape it into a quality picture, and celebrated filmmaker Martin Scorsese was approached to 'direct' the documentary planned from the project. Scorsese eventually agreed and came aboard in 2001.
In the meantime, Dylan's office gathered hundreds of hours of historical film footage dating from the time covered in No Direction Home. These included a scratchy recording of Dylan's high school rock band, his 1965 screen test for Andy Warhol, and newly-discovered footage of the famous Manchester, England concert from May 17, 1966, when an angry fan called out "Judas!" just before Dylan and the Hawks performed "Like a Rolling Stone." Shot by D. A. Pennebaker, the onstage, color footage was found in 2004 in a pile of water-damaged film recovered from Dylan's vaults.
At the same time, musical recordings from Dylan's archives were also being explored for an accompanying soundtrack. As originally planned, the soundtrack included live performances featured in the film, such as Dylan's first live electric performance - "Maggie's Farm," backed by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band - at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Producer Steve Berkowitz helped create the first multitrack mix of this performance which was ultimately used for the soundtrack, saying "it's raw, it's punk rock...There was nothing overdubbed, nothing changed. Everything in the soundtrack was mixed and mastered to sound like it sounded then." A large number of performances could not be remixed, including a 1966 performance of "Ballad of a Thin Man" which was taken from a mono recording, the only one ever made. "It's totally distorto, but I love it," says Berkowitz. "Talk about verite—it's [absolutely] perfect." Despite the praise, the recording appears in 'fake' stereo on the compilation.
However, as the soundtrack was compiled, it was eventually decided to include material that was not featured in the documentary, including a large number of studio outtakes that were previously unreleased.
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted
Disc one
"When I Got Troubles" (1959) – 1:31
Recorded by Dylan's high school friend, Ric Kangas
"Rambler, Gambler" (Home recording) (Traditional, arranged Bob Dylan) – 2:28
Recorded in late 1960 by Cleve Petterson
"This Land Is Your Land" (Live version) (Woody Guthrie) – 5:58
Recorded live in New York City on November 4, 1961
"Song to Woody" – 2:42
Originally released in March 1962 on Bob Dylan
"Dink's Song" (Minnesota Hotel Tape) (Traditional, arranged Bob Dylan) – 5:03
"I Was Young When I Left Home" (Minnesota Hotel Tape) – 5:25
Above two recorded on December 22, 1961 in Minneapolis
"Sally Gal" – 2:38
Outtake from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, recorded on April 24, 1962
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Witmark demo) – 3:36
Recorded in New York City in March 1963
"Man of Constant Sorrow" (Traditional, arranged Bob Dylan) – 3:24
Recorded in March 1963 for the TV broadcast Folk Songs and More Folk Songs
"Blowin' in the Wind" (live) – 4:24
"Masters of War" (live) – 4:43
Above two recorded at Town Hall in New York City on April 12, 1963
"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (live) – 8:22
"When the Ship Comes In" (live) – 3:37
Above two recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City on October 26, 1963
"Mr. Tambourine Man" – 6:43
Outtake from the Another Side of Bob Dylan sessions on June 9, 1964, performed with Ramblin' Jack Elliott
"Chimes of Freedom" (live) – 8:04
Recorded at the Newport Folk Festival on July 26, 1964
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (alternate take) – 3:34
Recorded at the Bringing It All Back Home sessions on January 16, 1965
Disc two
"She Belongs to Me" (alternate take) – 4:10
Recorded at the Bringing It All Back Home sessions on January 14, 1965
"Maggie's Farm" (live) – 5:03
Recorded at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25, 1965
"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (alternate take) – 3:35
Recorded at the Highway 61 Revisited sessions on June 15, 1965
"Tombstone Blues" (alternate take) – 3:37
Recorded at the Highway 61 Revisited sessions on July 29, 1965
"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" (alternate take) – 5:44
Recorded at the Highway 61 Revisited sessions on August 2, 1965
"Desolation Row" (alternate take) – 11:45
Recorded at the Highway 61 Revisited sessions on July 29, 1965
"Highway 61 Revisited" (alternate take) – 3:40
Recorded at the Highway 61 Revisited sessions on August 2, 1965
"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" (alternate take) – 6:26
Recorded at the Blonde on Blonde sessions on January 25, 1966
"Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" (alternate take) – 5:45
Recorded at the Blonde on Blonde sessions on February 17, 1966
"Visions of Johanna" (alternate take) – 6:38
Recorded with The Hawks in New York City on November 30, 1965
"Ballad of a Thin Man" (live) – 7:46
Recorded at the ABC Theatre in Edinburgh on May 20, 1966
"Like a Rolling Stone" (live) – 8:12
Recorded at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on May 17, 1966; previously released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
Outtakes
Three outtakes were released as an internet single for download entitled Exclusive Outtakes from No Direction Home'.
"Baby Please Don't Go" (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan outtake) – 1:56
"Mr. Tambourine Man" (Live) – 7:21
Recorded at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964
"Outlaw Blues" (Acoustic Version) – 2:15
The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 – Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006
The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 – Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006 is a compilation album by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in his official "bootleg series" of rare and unissued recordings.[1] It was originally released as a double, and (limited edition) triple album. It was later released as a single album, consisting of disc one of the double set. The three-disc version of Tell Tale Signs includes a detailed 56 page book annotating the recordings by Larry Sloman, and a book of photos of "The Collected Single Sleeves of Bob Dylan" drawing on Dylan releases from around the world, plus a 7" vinyl single with two tracks from the set: "Dreamin' Of You" and "Ring Them Bells".
The album spans the recording sessions for Oh Mercy, World Gone Wrong, Time Out of Mind, and Modern Times as well as a number of soundtrack contributions and previously unreleased live tracks from 1989 through 2006.[2] The collection also includes a track from an abandoned album Dylan had started to record with David Bromberg in 1992, and Dylan's duet with Ralph Stanley, 'The Lonesome River'. Although Under the Red Sky, Good as I Been to You and Love and Theft were all recorded during this time period, no tracks from these sessions are included on Tell Tale Signs. An alternate version of "Series of Dreams" was included on Vol. 3 of the Bootleg Series. "Dreamin' Of You", an outtake from the Time Out of Mind sessions, was offered for free download on Bob Dylan's site and was also sent to radio stations as a promotional single. In its first week it opened with #6 on the Billboard 200, selling over 600,000 copies to date and becoming Dylan's 17th album to open in the top 10.
In the first week of October 2008, the entire album was made available in a free streaming format on National Public Radio's official website.[3] CBS's announcement that the two-CD set would sell for $18.99 and the three-CD version for $129.99 drew charges of "rip-off pricing" from Dylan biographer Michael Gray and other critics.[4][5][6]
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan except as indicated.
Disc one
"Mississippi" – 6:04 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
"Most of the Time" – 3:46 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
"Dignity" – 2:09 (Piano demo, Oh Mercy)
"Someday Baby" – 5:56 (Alternate version, Modern Times)
"Red River Shore" – 7:36 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
"Tell Ol' Bill" – 5:31 (Alternate version of song released on the North Country soundtrack)
"Born in Time" – 4:10 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
"Can't Wait" – 5:45 (Alternate version, Time Out of Mind)
"Everything Is Broken" – 3:27 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
"Dreamin' of You" – 5:54 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
"Huck's Tune" – 4:09 (From the Lucky You soundtrack)
"Marchin' to the City" – 6:36 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
"High Water (For Charley Patton)" – 6:40 (Live, August 23, 2003, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)
Disc two
"Mississippi" – 6:24 (Alternate version #2, Time Out of Mind)
"32-20 Blues" – 4:22 (Robert Johnson) (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong)
"Series of Dreams" – 6:27 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
"God Knows" – 3:12 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
"Can't Escape from You" – 5:22 (Unreleased, December 2005 recording)
"Dignity" – 5:25 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
"Ring Them Bells" – 4:59 (Live at The Supper Club, November 17, 1993, New York, NY)
"Cocaine Blues" – 4:40 (T. J. "Red" Arnall) (Live, August 24, 1997, Vienna, VA)
"Ain't Talkin'" – 6:13 (Alternate version, Modern Times)
"The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore" – 2:51 (A. P. Carter) (Live, June 30, 1992, Dunkerque, France)
"Lonesome Day Blues" – 7:37 (Live, February 1, 2002, Sunrise, FL)
"Miss the Mississippi" – 3:20 (Bill Halley) (Unreleased, 1992)
"The Lonesome River" – 3:04 (Ralph and Carter Stanley)
"'Cross the Green Mountain" – 8:15 (from the Gods and Generals soundtrack)
Deluxe Edition
The official Bob Dylan website offered a deluxe edition of the album, including a 150-page book and a bonus disc of tracks on top of the regular edition. Fans who pre-ordered the deluxe set directly from Bob Dylan's website also received an exclusive 7" vinyl. The first 5000 customers were also given a Theme Time Radio Hour poster.[7] The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 was also released on vinyl as 4 x 180g. LPs, plus a digital download and a 12" x 12" version of the book authored by Sloman.[8]
Bonus disc
"Duncan & Brady" – 3:47 (traditional) (Unreleased, 1992)
"Cold Irons Bound" – 5:57 (Live at Bonnaroo, 2004)
"Mississippi" – 6:24 (Alternate version #3, Time Out of Mind)
"Most of the Time" – 5:10 (Alternate version #2, Oh Mercy)
"Ring Them Bells" – 3:18 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
"Things Have Changed" – 5:32 (Live, June 15, 2000, Portland, OR)
"Red River Shore" – 7:08 (Unreleased version #2, Time Out of Mind)
"Born in Time" – 4:19 (Unreleased version #2, Oh Mercy)
"Tryin' to Get to Heaven" – 5:10 (Live, October 5, 2000, London, England)
"Marchin' to the City" – 3:39 (Unreleased version #2, Time Out of Mind)
"Can't Wait" – 7:24 (Alternate version #2, Time Out of Mind)
"Mary and the Soldier" – 4:23 (traditional) (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong)
7" vinyl
"Dreamin' of You" – 3:34 (Single Edit) (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)
"Ring Them Bells" – 3:18 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964
The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 is an album of demo recordings Bob Dylan made for his first two publishing companies, Leeds Music and M. Witmark & Sons, from 1962 to 1964.
The album, released on October 19, 2010,[1] features 47 tracks with Dylan accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, harmonica and occasionally piano. The recordings were only available as bootlegs until the 1991 release of The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991, which included three of the demos.[2] A fourth demo, a version of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", was included on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack, which came out in 2005. The remaining tracks on The Witmark Demos were officially released for the first time in 2010. While Dylan recorded subsequent versions of most of the songs, the album features 15 that were produced exclusively as demos and had never been heard before except as bootlegs.[3][4]
The Witmark Demos was released in two formats: a double CD and a 4 LP set. Both releases featured a booklet with an account on the album's significance by historian Colin Escott, along with photos of Dylan from the period when the demos were recorded. The album peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in its first week, becoming Dylan's 20th album to debut in the top 20.[5
Background
Leeds Music demos
Dylan recorded his debut album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records in November 1961, when he was 20.[6] The album included two original tracks, "Song to Woody" and "Talkin' New York", the first songs he had written after arriving in New York City's Greenwich Village in January 1961.[7][8] In addition, Dylan recorded one other original during the Columbia sessions, "Man on the Street", which did not appear on the album.[9][10]
Based on the songs Dylan was writing, his producer at Columbia, John Hammond, arranged for the young artist to meet with Lou Levy at Leeds Music Publishing.[11][12] Dylan was offered a $1,000 advance and signed with a Leeds subsidiary, Duchess Music, on January 5, 1962.[13][14] In addition to agreeing to publish Dylan's songs and pay royalties on sales by other artists, Levy suggested the possibility of producing a songbook once they had enough material, a prospect that excited Dylan as much as anything else.[15] Dylan returned to Leeds the next week and recorded five songs in one demo session: "Poor Boy Blues", "Ballad for a Friend", "Rambling, Gambling Willie", "Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues", and "Standing on the Highway".[16][17] To this he added the two songs from the Columbia sessions that were not used on his album.[18] After signing with Leeds, Dylan pursued songwriting with a new vigor. As he reflected later, "I wrote wherever I happened to be. Sometimes I'd spend a whole day sitting at a corner table in a coffeehouse, just writing whatever came into my head."[12][19]
M. Witmark & Sons demos
In the spring of 1962, folk music manager Albert Grossman began to take an active interest in Dylan. One of the organizers of the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959 and manager of a small stable of folksingers, Grossman had recently launched a new act composed of three musicians he had handpicked, Peter, Paul & Mary.[20][21] Grossman had been watching Dylan from the sidelines for nearly year and played a peripheral part in some of the events leading up to his contract with Columbia.[22][23][24] While Grossman was negotiating Peter, Paul & Mary's contract with Warner Bros. Records, he closed a unique arrangement with Music Publishers' Holding Company, a Warner-owned operation that was the industry's leading publisher. The deal, finalized that spring, gave Grossman half of MPHC's royalties share for any artist he could sign to a publishing contract. Dylan became his first prospect.[25][26][27]
Grossman proposed that Dylan sign with the prestigious publisher M. Witmark & Sons, one of MPHC's eight subsidiaries.[28] After playing some songs for Witmark executive Artie Mogull, Dylan mentioned a complication: he was already under contract with Leeds/Duchess.[29] Dylan was given $1,000 in early July 1962 and approached Leeds about buying out his contract. Since the folksinger had yet to produce any sales, Leeds accepted the money and released Dylan from the agreement.[28][30] Dylan signed a new contract with Witmark on July 12 and immediately recorded a demo of what would become his breakthrough song, "Blowin' in the Wind".[28] Four months passed before Dylan returned to record another song, "Ye Playboys and Playgirls", but the next month, in December, he showed up with seven new compositions, including three that would become classics of his, "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", "Ballad of Hollis Brown", and "Tomorrow Is a Long Time".[31]
In all, Dylan visited Witmark about a dozen times, registering his last demos in mid-1964. He recorded a total of 39 songs for Witmark, all of which are included on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos, along with the eight recordings originally registered with Leeds.[32][33][34] Besides early versions of many of his classics, as well as rarities that have appeared on other editions of The Bootleg Series, the set includes 15 songs, an album's worth of material, that had never been officially released in any form.[3][35]
Production
The recordings for the Leeds and Witmark demos were never intended for public consumption, but were made to sell Dylan's songs to other artists.[36][37] The demo sessions took place in a tiny 6-by-8-foot studio at Witmark's offices in the Look Building at 51st Street and Madison Avenue, where an engineer would capture the performances on a reel-to-reel. To save tape, the demos were recorded at 7.5 inches per second, half the speed used in professional studios. A Witmark copyist would then transcribe the lyrics and music from the tape, and song sheets would be printed and mailed to recording companies. When a company's artist expressed an interest in a song, Witmark would cut an acetate, a recording on inexpensive plastic, that would be sent to the artist for preview purposes. If acceptable, the song would be recorded.[30][38]
Royalties
Royalties from sales of the songs were paid to Witmark, which gave Dylan two cents per record and split its two-cent share with Grossman. In addition, Grossman received 25% of Dylan's payments under the terms of their management contract, which was signed on August 20, 1962, six weeks after the Witmark agreement.[28][30][39] Dylan and Grossman subsequently set up their own publishing company, Dwarf Music, in a contract signed in mid-1965 but back-dated to January of that year[40] By late 1965, more than a year after the last of the Witmark demos, Music Publishers' Holding Company reported in Billboard that at least 237 recordings had been made of Dylan's songs under the copyrights it held.[41]
Demo session dates
While the recording dates of the Leeds and Witmark Demos had previously been published, they were not included in the information distributed with the CD or LP. On disc 1, tracks 1–8 are from the demos recorded at Leeds Music on 2 February 1962. Track 9, a demo of "Blowin' in the Wind" and the first song recorded for Witmark is from July 1962. Track 10 was recorded on 1 November 1962, followed by tracks 11–17, which were recorded in December 1962. Tracks 18–22 were registered as recorded in winter 1963, probably February. Tracks 23–25 of disc 1 and Tracks 1–2 of disc 2 were recorded in March 1963. Tracks 3–6 date from April 1963, 7–9 from May 1963, and 10–15 were all recorded in August 1963. Track 16, "The Times They Are a-Changin'", was recorded in October 1963, and Track 17 is from December 1963. Tracks 18–19 were the last demos recorded at the Witmark studio, in January 1964. Tracks 20–22 were registered to Witmark in June 1964, though they had been recorded elsewhere.[42]
Witmark Demos received positive responses from critics. It achieved a 86% positive ("Universal acclaim") at Metacritic based on reviews by 8 critics.[46] Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine said about the songs on Witmark Demos, "...they’ve never been presented as completely and in as great fidelity as they are on this two-disc set."[47]
Track listing
All songs were written by Bob Dylan, except where noted.
Disc one
"Man on the Street" (Fragment) – 1:07
"Hard Times in New York Town" – 1:57
"Poor Boy Blues" – 3:01
"Ballad for a Friend" – 2:23
"Rambling, Gambling Willie" – 3:38
"Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues" – 3:42
"Standing on the Highway" – 2:32
"Man on the Street" – 1:30
"Blowin' in the Wind" – 2:38
"Long Ago, Far Away" – 2:29
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" – 6:49
"Tomorrow Is a Long Time" – 3:46
"The Death of Emmett Till" – 4:32
"Let Me Die in My Footsteps" – 1:37
"Ballad of Hollis Brown" – 4:08
"Quit Your Low Down Ways" – 2:50
"Baby, I'm in the Mood for You" – 1:36
"Bound to Lose, Bound to Win" – 1:19
"All Over You" – 3:52
"I'd Hate to Be You on That Dreadful Day" – 2:00
"Long Time Gone" – 3:46
"Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" – 3:17
"Masters of War" – 4:23
"Oxford Town" – 2:33
"Farewell" – 3:58
Disc two
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" – 3:38 previously issued in part on The Bootleg Series Volume VII
"Walkin' Down the Line" – 3:23 previously issued on The Bootleg Series Volume I
"I Shall Be Free" – 4:30
"Bob Dylan's Blues" – 1:58
"Bob Dylan's Dream" – 3:53
"Boots of Spanish Leather" – 5:49
"Girl from the North Country" – 3:09
"Seven Curses" – 3:13
"Hero Blues" – 1:36
"Whatcha Gonna Do?" – 3:36
"Gypsy Lou" – 3:45
"Ain't Gonna Grieve" – 1:28
"John Brown" – 4:19
"Only a Hobo" – 2:25
"When the Ship Comes In" – 2:56 previously issued on The Bootleg Series Volume I
"The Times They Are a-Changin'" – 3:03 previously issued on The Bootleg Series Volume I
"Paths of Victory" – 4:11
"Guess I'm Doing Fine" – 4:08
"Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" (Eric Von Schmidt, Reverend Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk) – 1:56
"Mama, You Been on My Mind" – 2:14
"Mr. Tambourine Man" – 5:55
"I'll Keep It with Mine" – 3:34
Limited Edition bonus disc: In Concert at Brandeis University 10/05/1963
In Concert at Brandeis University 10/05/1963 disc was given as a limited edition bonus with purchases of Bootleg Series Vol. 9 or Original Mono Recordings at a variety of retailers.
The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971)
The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971) is an album of unreleased recordings, demo recordings, and alternative takes from Bob Dylan's 1970 albums Self Portrait and New Morning, released on August 27, 2013. It is the latest addition in the series of official "bootleg" recordings issued by Columbia Records.
The cover is new artwork by Bob Dylan. The liner notes have been written by Greil Marcus, who wrote the original Self Portrait review for Rolling Stone that infamously asked, "What is this shit?." Also included is an extensive essay from journalist Michael Simmons. The set also contains rare photographs of that era from John Cohen and Al Clayton.
NPR has posted a 46 minute "First Listen" preview of this album.
You can listen to this below:
Background
The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971) "reveals fresh aspects of Dylan's vocal genius as he reimagines traditional and contemporary folk music as well as songs of his own. Across these unvarnished performances, Dylan is the country singer from Nashville Skyline ("Country Pie" and "I Threw It All Away"), an interpreter of traditional folk ("Little Sadie," "Pretty Saro") who's right at home singing the songs of his contemporaries (Tom Paxton's "Annie's Gonna Sing Her Song" and Eric Andersen's "Thirsty Boots") before returning to writing and singing his own new music ("Went to See the Gypsy," "Sign on the Window")".[4]
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan except as indicated; traditional songs arranged by Dylan.
Disc 1
"Went to See the Gypsy" (demo version) - 3:00
"Little Sadie" (without overdubs, Self Portrait) (Traditional) - 2:02
"Pretty Saro" (unreleased, Self Portrait) - 2:16
"Alberta #3" (alternate version, Self Portrait) (Traditional) - 2:37
"Spanish is the Loving Tongue" (unreleased, New Morning) (Charles Badger Clark) - 3:51
"Annie's Going to Sing Her Song" (unreleased, Self Portrait) (Tom Paxton) - 2:22
"Time Passes Slowly #1" (alternate version, New Morning) - 2:18
"Only a Hobo" (unreleased, Greatest Hits II) - 3:25
"Minstrel Boy" (unreleased, The Basement Tapes) - 1:39
"I Threw It All Away" (alternate version, Nashville Skyline) - 2:25
"Railroad Bill" (unreleased, Self Portrait) (Traditional) - 2:44
"Thirsty Boots" (unreleased, Self Portrait) (Eric Andersen) - 4:06
"This Evening So Soon" (unreleased, Self Portrait) - 4:49
"These Hands" (unreleased, Self Portrait) - 3:43
"In Search of Little Sadie" (without overdubs, Self Portrait) (Traditional) - 2:26
"House Carpenter" (unreleased, Self Portrait) (Traditional) - 5:59
"All the Tired Horses" (without overdubs, Self Portrait) - 1:15
Total length: 50:57
Disc 2
"If Not for You" (alternate version, New Morning) - 2:29
"Wallflower" (alternate version, 1971) - 2:18
"Wigwam" (original version without overdubs, Self Portrait) - 3:10
"Days of '49" (original version without overdubs, Self Portrait) (Alan Lomax, John Lomax, Frank Warner) - 5:13
"Working on a Guru" (unreleased, New Morning) - 3:43
"Country Pie" (alternate version, Nashville Skyline) - 1:27
"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969) - 3:31
"Highway 61 Revisited" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969) - 3:39
"Copper Kettle" (without overdubs, Self Portrait) (Alfred Frank Beddoe) - 3:35
"Bring Me a Little Water" (unreleased, New Morning) - 3:58
"Sign on the Window" (with orchestral overdubs, New Morning) - 3:51
"Tattle O'Day" (unreleased, Self Portrait) (Eric Andersen) - 3:49
"If Dogs Run Free" (alternate version, New Morning) - 4:10
"New Morning" (with horn section overdubs, New Morning) - 4:04
"Went to See the Gypsy" (alternate version, New Morning) - 3:33
"Belle Isle" (without overdubs, Self Portrait) (Traditional) - 2:35
"Time Passes Slowly #2" (alternate version #2, New Morning) - 3:02
"When I Paint My Masterpiece" (demo version) - 3:53
Total length: 62:00
Disc 3: Isle of Wight Festival 1969 (2013 remaster)
"Intro" - 0:40
"She Belongs to Me" - 3:01
"I Threw It All Away" - 3:07
"Maggie's Farm" - 4:00
"Wild Mountain Thyme" (Traditional) - 2:51
"It Ain't Me Babe" - 3:09
"To Ramona" - 2:25
"Mr. Tambourine Man" - 3:08
"I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" - 3:32
"Lay Lady Lay" - 3:54
"Highway 61 Revisited" - 3:47
"One Too Many Mornings" - 2:38
"I Pity the Poor Immigrant" - 3:47
"Like a Rolling Stone" - 5:25
"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" - 3:30
"Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" - 2:49
"Minstrel Boy" - 3:48
"Rainy Day Women#12 & 35" - 3:17
Total length: 60:41
Disc 4: Self Portrait (2013 remaster)
"All the Tired Horses" – 3:12
"Alberta #1" (Traditional) - 2:57
"I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" (Cecil A. Null) – 2:23
"Days of 49" (Alan Lomax, John Lomax, Frank Warner)– 5:27
"Early Mornin' Rain" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 3:34
"In Search of Little Sadie" (Traditional) – 2:28
"Let It Be Me" (Gilbert Bécaud, Mann Curtis, Pierre Delanoë) – 3:00
"Little Sadie" (Traditional) – 2:00
"Woogie Boogie" – 2:06
"Belle Isle" (Traditional) – 2:30
"Living the Blues" – 2:42
"Like a Rolling Stone" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969) – 5:18
"Copper Kettle" (Alfred Frank Beddoe) – 3:34
"Gotta Travel On" (Paul Clayton, Larry Ehrlich, David Lazar, Tom Six) – 3:08
"Blue Moon" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:29
"The Boxer" (Paul Simon) – 2:48
"The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969) – 2:48
"Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)" (Boudleaux Bryant) – 3:03
"Take a Message to Mary" (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:46
"It Hurts Me Too" (Traditional) – 3:15
"Minstrel Boy" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969) – 3:33
"She Belongs to Me" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969) – 2:44
"Wigwam" – 3:09
"Alberta #2" (Traditional) – 3:12
Total length: 73:15
Promotion
The first songs released from The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971) were an unreleased demo of "Wigwam" backed with a previously unreleased recording of "Thirsty Boots" on 7" vinyl for Record Store Day 2013.[10] On August 8, 2013, a video for the song "Pretty Saro," a traditional English ballad, was released. The video featured photos taken from the Farm Security Administration archive at the Library of Congress.[11] A week later, the song was released as a download single.
Editions
The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971) is available in a standard two disc configuration as well as in a four-disc deluxe boxed set which includes, for the first time, the complete historic performance by Bob Dylan and The Band from the Isle of Wight Festival on Sunday, August 31, 1969. Housed in a slipcase, the deluxe edition includes a newly remastered version of the 1970 Self Portrait album, in its entirety with original sequencing, in addition to two hardcover books featuring revisionist liner notes penned by Greil Marcus (author of the notorious "What is this shit?" 1970 Self Portrait review in Rolling Stone). A vinyl version of The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971) includes the album's 35 tracks on three LPs plus a 12" × 12" booklet.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bootleg_Series_Vol._10_%E2%80%93_Another_Self_Portrait_(1969%E2%80%931971)
The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert is a two-disc live album by Bob Dylan, released in 1998. It was recorded at the Manchester Free Trade Hall during Dylan's world tour in 1966, hence the quotation marks around the misinformation attribution to the Royal Albert Hall. (Oldham Evening Chronicle - 25 May 1966: "So the knockers are all stations go again. I am referring to the fantastic performance given by Bob Dylan at the Free Trade Hall last Tuesday night... I think Bob put his feelings over to the knockers just great. When someone shouted out to him 'Judas!', he just calmly went to the microphone and quietly drawled 'Ya liar'...") Extensively bootlegged for decades, it is an important document in the development of popular music during the 1960s.[5]
The setlist consisted of two parts, with the first half of the concert being Dylan alone on stage performing an entirely acoustic set of songs, while the second half of the concert has Dylan playing an "electric" set of songs alongside his band The Hawks. The first half of the concert was greeted warmly by the audience, while the second half was highly criticized, with heckling going on before and after each song.
History
After touring North America from the fall of 1965 through the winter of 1966, Dylan, accompanied by The Hawks (later renamed as The Band), embarked on a six-week spring tour that began in Australia, wound through western Europe and the United Kingdom, and wrapped up in London. Dylan's move to electric music, and his apparent disconnection from traditional folk music, continued to be controversial, and his UK audiences were particularly disruptive with some fans believing Dylan had "sold out".
The electric part of this concert first surfaced in late 1970 or early 1971 on bootleg LPs with various titles. On June 3, 1971, critic Dave Marsh reviewed one bootleg in Creem magazine, writing "It is the most supremely elegant piece of rock 'n' roll music I've ever heard...The extreme subtlety of the music is so closely interwoven with its majesty that they appear as one and the same."
The same month, critic Jon Landau reviewed another edition of the concert:
“ Needless to say, the album is both musically great and an amazing path back into the temperament of the sixties. Listening to it, it isn't hard to remember Dylan on stage of the Donnelly Memorial Theatre in Boston or at Forest Hills in New York standing toe to toe, eyeball to eyeball with Robbie Robertson between every verse of practically every song, while the guitarist played his fills. Nor is it hard to remember that long, lean, frail look that sometimes made you wonder what gave him the strength to stand up there in the first place, as he remembered the unbelievably complex lyrics to his unbelievably long songs, without ever faltering...It isn't hard for me to remember the booing, the names, the insults he endured just to be standing there with an electric band...On this album the audience claps at the wrong time, claps rhythmically as if to deliberately throw his timing off. At the beginning of 'One Too Many Mornings' he tells a completely psychotic story in a very low voice while the audience makes its noise. As they gradually lose their energy, he finds his and his voice gets louder, until, when they are almost completely silent he says plainly, 'if you only wouldn't clap so hard.' The audience applauds the statement. ”
The early bootleg LPs attributed the recording to one of Dylan's tour-closing concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall that was also recorded, as was a show in Liverpool (May 14), supervised by Dylan producer Bob Johnston. However, Dylan's now-legendary confrontation with a heckler calling out "Judas" from the audience, clearly heard on the recording, was well documented as having occurred at Manchester's Free Trade Hall on May 17, 1966. After "Judas!", there is clapping, followed by more heckles. One of those shouts, barely audible on the record, is a man shouting, "I'm never listening to you again, ever!" Dylan then says "I don't believe you", then after a long pause, "You're a liar." Someone, not in the audience but not Bob Dylan, can be heard telling them to "get fuckin' loud" as they begin "Like a Rolling Stone." At the end, the audience erupts into applause and Dylan says, "Thank you."
After years of conflicting reports and speculation among Dylan discographers, the Manchester source was verified after the preliminary mix of a proposed Columbia edition was bootlegged in 1995 as Guitars Kissing & The Contemporary Fix. Dylan rejected that edition; three years later, he authorized a markedly different version for his second "Bootleg Series" release. One song recorded at Dylan's real Royal Albert Hall concert had been previously released: his May 26, 1966 performance of "Visions of Johanna" on the Box set Biograph. Excerpts from other 1966 UK performances are included in Martin Scorsese's 2005 television documentary No Direction Home. Film footage of the "Judas" incident was discovered and used at the end of the documentary.
When Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert finally was released in 1998, it was a commercial and critical success, reaching #19 in the U.K. The inside leaflet reveals useful information about the conditions of how the concert was recorded and transferred to disc and it confirms that the version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", previously released on the Box set Biograph, duly comes from this concert.[6]
On July 29, 1966, two months after finishing his spring tour, Dylan suffered a motorcycle accident. As a result of his long recuperation, Dylan had to cancel the remaining shows he had scheduled for 1966. However, Dylan would continue to collaborate with the Hawks, and over the next year or so, they would produce some of their most celebrated recordings, many of which were eventually released on The Basement Tapes. Dylan would not embark on another tour until 1974.
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted
Disc 1 (solo acoustic)
"She Belongs to Me" – 3:27
"4th Time Around" – 4:37
"Visions of Johanna" – 8:08
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" – 5:45
"Desolation Row" – 11:31
"Just Like a Woman" – 5:52
"Mr. Tambourine Man" – 8:52
Disc 2 (with The Hawks)
"Tell Me Momma" – 5:10
"I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" – 6:07
"Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" (Eric von Schmidt. Arr. Dylan) – 3:46
"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" – 6:50
"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" – 4:50
"One Too Many Mornings" – 4:22
"Ballad of a Thin Man" – 7:55
"Like a Rolling Stone" – 8:01
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue is a live album by Bob Dylan released by Columbia Records in 2002. It documents the Rolling Thunder Revue, led by Bob Dylan prior to the release of the album Desire. Until the release of this album, the only official live documentation of the Rolling Thunder Revue was the Hard Rain recorded during the second leg of the revue.
The 2-CD set got a warm reception from critics and fans, though some lamented that it does not document, or emulate, a typical complete show from the tour.[5] Fans have also expressed exasperation at the omission of certain revered performances, notably the cover of Johnny Ace's "Never Let Me Go".
The album debuted on the Billboard 200 chart on December 14, 2002 at number 56. It spent 9 weeks on the chart. It was certified and awarded a gold record on March 12, 2003 by the RIAA. The album reached #69 in the U.K.
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted. All songs recorded live in concert.
Disc one
"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" (Forum de Montreal, Canada 12/4/75) – 3:55
"It Ain't Me Babe" (Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA 11/20/75) – 5:25
"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (Forum de Montreal, Canada 12/4/75) – 5:16
"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 5:25
"Romance in Durango" (Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA 11/20/75) (Dylan and Levy) – 5:22
"Isis" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) (Dylan and Levy) – 5:11
"Mr. Tambourine Man" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – First Show) – 5:39
"Simple Twist of Fate" (Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA 11/20/75) – 4:17
"Blowin' in the Wind" (Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA 11/20/75) – 2:43
"Mama, You Been on My Mind" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 3:11
"I Shall Be Released" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – First Show) – 4:33
Disc two
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Forum de Montreal, Canada 12/4/75) – 4:34
"Love Minus Zero/No Limit" (Forum de Montreal, Canada 12/4/75) – 3:13
"Tangled Up in Blue" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 4:41
"The Water Is Wide" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 - Second Show) (Traditional) – 5:16
"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 3:12
"Oh, Sister" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) (Dylan and Levy) – 4:04
"Hurricane" (Memorial Auditorium, Worcester, MA 11/19/75) (Dylan and Levy) – 8:15
"One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 4:14
"Sara" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 4:29
"Just Like a Woman" (Boston Music Hall, 11/21/75 – Second Show) – 4:31
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA 11/20/75) – 4:22
The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall
The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall is a complete recording of Bob Dylan's October 31, 1964 "Halloween" show at New York's Philharmonic Hall. It was released in 2004.
The set list was dominated by Dylan’s protest songs, including "The Times They Are a-Changin’," "A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall," and "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll". Joan Baez, a major supporter of Dylan's in his early career, duets with Dylan on three songs, as well as singing another alone ("Silver Dagger"). However, Dylan performed these songs alongside early versions of three songs from the soon-to-be-recorded Bringing It All Back Home. New compositions like "It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" showed Dylan moving in a new direction, becoming more immersed in evocative, stream-of-consciousness lyrics and moving away from social, topical songwriting. Even as he was moving in this new direction, Dylan was still portrayed as a symbol of the civil rights and anti-war movements, and the Halloween concert of 1964 caught Dylan in transition.
The album debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart on April 17, 2004 at number 28. It spent 4 weeks on the chart. It also reached number 33 in the U.K.
Preparing The Bootleg Series Vol. 6
When Dylan and Sony began planning for The Bootleg Series Vol. 6, they weren't sure what to release. Steve Berkowitz, an A&R head at Sony Music who worked on all the Bootleg Series discs with Dylan's office, stresses that Dylan's office is behind the brainstorming and decision-making for the Bootleg Series, not Sony. Concerts held at Carnegie Hall and New York's Town Hall, both in 1963, were considered for The Bootleg Series Vol. 6, according to Berkowitz, but they were ultimately rejected.
The Halloween concert of 1964 had been previously bootlegged on vinyl and CD, but those releases were incomplete and taken from poor dubs of the soundboard tapes. The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 presented the entire concert for the first time from the original master tapes.
A few critics, including biographer Clinton Heylin, were dismissive. "I’ve never rated [the Halloween show] as a performance," Heylin explained in a phone interview. "Dylan is very focused when he comes to doing the new songs...But the old material, he’s completely and totally bored with. It’s not a good performance. He’s clearly stoned...The concert was a real landmark, not in the positive sense, but in the negative sense because it looked at the time like Dylan was going off the rails."[5]
However, the set was well received by most critics, with NME's Rob Fitzpatrick giving it the magazine's highest rating (a 10 out of 10) and called it "utterly brilliant."
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted
Disc one
"The Times They Are a-Changin'" – 3:29
"Spanish Harlem Incident" – 3:07
"Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" – 4:06
"To Ramona" – 6:01
"Who Killed Davey Moore?" – 4:46
"Gates of Eden" – 8:32
"If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night)" – 4:06
"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" – 11:26
"I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" – 4:01
"Mr. Tambourine Man" – 6:33
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" – 7:44
Disc two
"Talkin' World War III Blues" – 5:52
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" – 4:34
"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" – 6:57
"Mama, You Been on My Mind" – 3:35
"Silver Dagger" (Traditional) – 3:47
"With God on Our Side" – 6:17
"It Ain't Me, Babe" – 5:11
"All I Really Want to Do" – 4:01
The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack
The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack is the third most recent installment in the Bob Dylan "Bootleg Series" of rare and/or officially unissued recordings.
It was released in 2005 in conjunction with the Martin Scorsese television documentary on Dylan, called No Direction Home, which aired in late September, and features previously unreleased material from Dylan's formative years to his legendary 1966 world tour.
The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack was compiled with Scorsese's input. It fared well commercially, debuting on the Billboard 200 album chart on September 17, 2005 at number 16, with sales of 50,987 copies. It remained on the chart for 11 weeks. It was certified a gold record on October 21, 2005 by the RIAA. It also reached #21 in the UK.
Preparing The Bootleg Series Vol. 7
The project eventually titled as No Direction Home began to take shape in 1995 when Dylan's manager, Jeff Rosen, began scheduling interviews with Dylan's friends and associates. Among those interviewed were poet Allen Ginsberg and folk musician Dave Van Ronk, both of whom died before the film was ever completed. Dylan's old girlfriend Suze Rotolo also granted a rare interview, and she later told Rolling Stone Magazine that she was very pleased with the project's results. Dylan himself also sat for ten hours in a relaxed and open conversation with Rosen in 2000.
According to Rolling Stone Magazine, an unnamed source close to the project claimed that Dylan himself had no involvement with the project apart from the interview, saying that "[Dylan] has no interest in this...Bob truly does not look back." However, work on the first installment of Dylan's autobiography, Chronicles, Vol. 1, did overlap production of the project, though it's unclear how much, if any, influence Chronicles may have had on No Direction Home.
Though raw material was being gathered for the project, Rosen needed someone to edit and shape it into a quality picture, and celebrated filmmaker Martin Scorsese was approached to 'direct' the documentary planned from the project. Scorsese eventually agreed and came aboard in 2001.
In the meantime, Dylan's office gathered hundreds of hours of historical film footage dating from the time covered in No Direction Home. These included a scratchy recording of Dylan's high school rock band, his 1965 screen test for Andy Warhol, and newly-discovered footage of the famous Manchester, England concert from May 17, 1966, when an angry fan called out "Judas!" just before Dylan and the Hawks performed "Like a Rolling Stone." Shot by D. A. Pennebaker, the onstage, color footage was found in 2004 in a pile of water-damaged film recovered from Dylan's vaults.
At the same time, musical recordings from Dylan's archives were also being explored for an accompanying soundtrack. As originally planned, the soundtrack included live performances featured in the film, such as Dylan's first live electric performance - "Maggie's Farm," backed by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band - at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Producer Steve Berkowitz helped create the first multitrack mix of this performance which was ultimately used for the soundtrack, saying "it's raw, it's punk rock...There was nothing overdubbed, nothing changed. Everything in the soundtrack was mixed and mastered to sound like it sounded then." A large number of performances could not be remixed, including a 1966 performance of "Ballad of a Thin Man" which was taken from a mono recording, the only one ever made. "It's totally distorto, but I love it," says Berkowitz. "Talk about verite—it's [absolutely] perfect." Despite the praise, the recording appears in 'fake' stereo on the compilation.
However, as the soundtrack was compiled, it was eventually decided to include material that was not featured in the documentary, including a large number of studio outtakes that were previously unreleased.
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted
Disc one
"When I Got Troubles" (1959) – 1:31
Recorded by Dylan's high school friend, Ric Kangas
"Rambler, Gambler" (Home recording) (Traditional, arranged Bob Dylan) – 2:28
Recorded in late 1960 by Cleve Petterson
"This Land Is Your Land" (Live version) (Woody Guthrie) – 5:58
Recorded live in New York City on November 4, 1961
"Song to Woody" – 2:42
Originally released in March 1962 on Bob Dylan
"Dink's Song" (Minnesota Hotel Tape) (Traditional, arranged Bob Dylan) – 5:03
"I Was Young When I Left Home" (Minnesota Hotel Tape) – 5:25
Above two recorded on December 22, 1961 in Minneapolis
"Sally Gal" – 2:38
Outtake from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, recorded on April 24, 1962
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Witmark demo) – 3:36
Recorded in New York City in March 1963
"Man of Constant Sorrow" (Traditional, arranged Bob Dylan) – 3:24
Recorded in March 1963 for the TV broadcast Folk Songs and More Folk Songs
"Blowin' in the Wind" (live) – 4:24
"Masters of War" (live) – 4:43
Above two recorded at Town Hall in New York City on April 12, 1963
"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (live) – 8:22
"When the Ship Comes In" (live) – 3:37
Above two recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City on October 26, 1963
"Mr. Tambourine Man" – 6:43
Outtake from the Another Side of Bob Dylan sessions on June 9, 1964, performed with Ramblin' Jack Elliott
"Chimes of Freedom" (live) – 8:04
Recorded at the Newport Folk Festival on July 26, 1964
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (alternate take) – 3:34
Recorded at the Bringing It All Back Home sessions on January 16, 1965
Disc two
"She Belongs to Me" (alternate take) – 4:10
Recorded at the Bringing It All Back Home sessions on January 14, 1965
"Maggie's Farm" (live) – 5:03
Recorded at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25, 1965
"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (alternate take) – 3:35
Recorded at the Highway 61 Revisited sessions on June 15, 1965
"Tombstone Blues" (alternate take) – 3:37
Recorded at the Highway 61 Revisited sessions on July 29, 1965
"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" (alternate take) – 5:44
Recorded at the Highway 61 Revisited sessions on August 2, 1965
"Desolation Row" (alternate take) – 11:45
Recorded at the Highway 61 Revisited sessions on July 29, 1965
"Highway 61 Revisited" (alternate take) – 3:40
Recorded at the Highway 61 Revisited sessions on August 2, 1965
"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" (alternate take) – 6:26
Recorded at the Blonde on Blonde sessions on January 25, 1966
"Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" (alternate take) – 5:45
Recorded at the Blonde on Blonde sessions on February 17, 1966
"Visions of Johanna" (alternate take) – 6:38
Recorded with The Hawks in New York City on November 30, 1965
"Ballad of a Thin Man" (live) – 7:46
Recorded at the ABC Theatre in Edinburgh on May 20, 1966
"Like a Rolling Stone" (live) – 8:12
Recorded at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on May 17, 1966; previously released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
Outtakes
Three outtakes were released as an internet single for download entitled Exclusive Outtakes from No Direction Home'.
"Baby Please Don't Go" (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan outtake) – 1:56
"Mr. Tambourine Man" (Live) – 7:21
Recorded at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964
"Outlaw Blues" (Acoustic Version) – 2:15
The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 – Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006
The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 – Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006 is a compilation album by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in his official "bootleg series" of rare and unissued recordings.[1] It was originally released as a double, and (limited edition) triple album. It was later released as a single album, consisting of disc one of the double set. The three-disc version of Tell Tale Signs includes a detailed 56 page book annotating the recordings by Larry Sloman, and a book of photos of "The Collected Single Sleeves of Bob Dylan" drawing on Dylan releases from around the world, plus a 7" vinyl single with two tracks from the set: "Dreamin' Of You" and "Ring Them Bells".
The album spans the recording sessions for Oh Mercy, World Gone Wrong, Time Out of Mind, and Modern Times as well as a number of soundtrack contributions and previously unreleased live tracks from 1989 through 2006.[2] The collection also includes a track from an abandoned album Dylan had started to record with David Bromberg in 1992, and Dylan's duet with Ralph Stanley, 'The Lonesome River'. Although Under the Red Sky, Good as I Been to You and Love and Theft were all recorded during this time period, no tracks from these sessions are included on Tell Tale Signs. An alternate version of "Series of Dreams" was included on Vol. 3 of the Bootleg Series. "Dreamin' Of You", an outtake from the Time Out of Mind sessions, was offered for free download on Bob Dylan's site and was also sent to radio stations as a promotional single. In its first week it opened with #6 on the Billboard 200, selling over 600,000 copies to date and becoming Dylan's 17th album to open in the top 10.
In the first week of October 2008, the entire album was made available in a free streaming format on National Public Radio's official website.[3] CBS's announcement that the two-CD set would sell for $18.99 and the three-CD version for $129.99 drew charges of "rip-off pricing" from Dylan biographer Michael Gray and other critics.[4][5][6]
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan except as indicated.
Disc one
"Mississippi" – 6:04 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
"Most of the Time" – 3:46 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
"Dignity" – 2:09 (Piano demo, Oh Mercy)
"Someday Baby" – 5:56 (Alternate version, Modern Times)
"Red River Shore" – 7:36 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
"Tell Ol' Bill" – 5:31 (Alternate version of song released on the North Country soundtrack)
"Born in Time" – 4:10 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
"Can't Wait" – 5:45 (Alternate version, Time Out of Mind)
"Everything Is Broken" – 3:27 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
"Dreamin' of You" – 5:54 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
"Huck's Tune" – 4:09 (From the Lucky You soundtrack)
"Marchin' to the City" – 6:36 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
"High Water (For Charley Patton)" – 6:40 (Live, August 23, 2003, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)
Disc two
"Mississippi" – 6:24 (Alternate version #2, Time Out of Mind)
"32-20 Blues" – 4:22 (Robert Johnson) (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong)
"Series of Dreams" – 6:27 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
"God Knows" – 3:12 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
"Can't Escape from You" – 5:22 (Unreleased, December 2005 recording)
"Dignity" – 5:25 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
"Ring Them Bells" – 4:59 (Live at The Supper Club, November 17, 1993, New York, NY)
"Cocaine Blues" – 4:40 (T. J. "Red" Arnall) (Live, August 24, 1997, Vienna, VA)
"Ain't Talkin'" – 6:13 (Alternate version, Modern Times)
"The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore" – 2:51 (A. P. Carter) (Live, June 30, 1992, Dunkerque, France)
"Lonesome Day Blues" – 7:37 (Live, February 1, 2002, Sunrise, FL)
"Miss the Mississippi" – 3:20 (Bill Halley) (Unreleased, 1992)
"The Lonesome River" – 3:04 (Ralph and Carter Stanley)
"'Cross the Green Mountain" – 8:15 (from the Gods and Generals soundtrack)
Deluxe Edition
The official Bob Dylan website offered a deluxe edition of the album, including a 150-page book and a bonus disc of tracks on top of the regular edition. Fans who pre-ordered the deluxe set directly from Bob Dylan's website also received an exclusive 7" vinyl. The first 5000 customers were also given a Theme Time Radio Hour poster.[7] The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 was also released on vinyl as 4 x 180g. LPs, plus a digital download and a 12" x 12" version of the book authored by Sloman.[8]
Bonus disc
"Duncan & Brady" – 3:47 (traditional) (Unreleased, 1992)
"Cold Irons Bound" – 5:57 (Live at Bonnaroo, 2004)
"Mississippi" – 6:24 (Alternate version #3, Time Out of Mind)
"Most of the Time" – 5:10 (Alternate version #2, Oh Mercy)
"Ring Them Bells" – 3:18 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
"Things Have Changed" – 5:32 (Live, June 15, 2000, Portland, OR)
"Red River Shore" – 7:08 (Unreleased version #2, Time Out of Mind)
"Born in Time" – 4:19 (Unreleased version #2, Oh Mercy)
"Tryin' to Get to Heaven" – 5:10 (Live, October 5, 2000, London, England)
"Marchin' to the City" – 3:39 (Unreleased version #2, Time Out of Mind)
"Can't Wait" – 7:24 (Alternate version #2, Time Out of Mind)
"Mary and the Soldier" – 4:23 (traditional) (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong)
7" vinyl
"Dreamin' of You" – 3:34 (Single Edit) (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)
"Ring Them Bells" – 3:18 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964
The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 is an album of demo recordings Bob Dylan made for his first two publishing companies, Leeds Music and M. Witmark & Sons, from 1962 to 1964.
The album, released on October 19, 2010,[1] features 47 tracks with Dylan accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, harmonica and occasionally piano. The recordings were only available as bootlegs until the 1991 release of The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991, which included three of the demos.[2] A fourth demo, a version of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", was included on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack, which came out in 2005. The remaining tracks on The Witmark Demos were officially released for the first time in 2010. While Dylan recorded subsequent versions of most of the songs, the album features 15 that were produced exclusively as demos and had never been heard before except as bootlegs.[3][4]
The Witmark Demos was released in two formats: a double CD and a 4 LP set. Both releases featured a booklet with an account on the album's significance by historian Colin Escott, along with photos of Dylan from the period when the demos were recorded. The album peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in its first week, becoming Dylan's 20th album to debut in the top 20.[5
Background
Leeds Music demos
Dylan recorded his debut album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records in November 1961, when he was 20.[6] The album included two original tracks, "Song to Woody" and "Talkin' New York", the first songs he had written after arriving in New York City's Greenwich Village in January 1961.[7][8] In addition, Dylan recorded one other original during the Columbia sessions, "Man on the Street", which did not appear on the album.[9][10]
Based on the songs Dylan was writing, his producer at Columbia, John Hammond, arranged for the young artist to meet with Lou Levy at Leeds Music Publishing.[11][12] Dylan was offered a $1,000 advance and signed with a Leeds subsidiary, Duchess Music, on January 5, 1962.[13][14] In addition to agreeing to publish Dylan's songs and pay royalties on sales by other artists, Levy suggested the possibility of producing a songbook once they had enough material, a prospect that excited Dylan as much as anything else.[15] Dylan returned to Leeds the next week and recorded five songs in one demo session: "Poor Boy Blues", "Ballad for a Friend", "Rambling, Gambling Willie", "Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues", and "Standing on the Highway".[16][17] To this he added the two songs from the Columbia sessions that were not used on his album.[18] After signing with Leeds, Dylan pursued songwriting with a new vigor. As he reflected later, "I wrote wherever I happened to be. Sometimes I'd spend a whole day sitting at a corner table in a coffeehouse, just writing whatever came into my head."[12][19]
M. Witmark & Sons demos
In the spring of 1962, folk music manager Albert Grossman began to take an active interest in Dylan. One of the organizers of the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959 and manager of a small stable of folksingers, Grossman had recently launched a new act composed of three musicians he had handpicked, Peter, Paul & Mary.[20][21] Grossman had been watching Dylan from the sidelines for nearly year and played a peripheral part in some of the events leading up to his contract with Columbia.[22][23][24] While Grossman was negotiating Peter, Paul & Mary's contract with Warner Bros. Records, he closed a unique arrangement with Music Publishers' Holding Company, a Warner-owned operation that was the industry's leading publisher. The deal, finalized that spring, gave Grossman half of MPHC's royalties share for any artist he could sign to a publishing contract. Dylan became his first prospect.[25][26][27]
Grossman proposed that Dylan sign with the prestigious publisher M. Witmark & Sons, one of MPHC's eight subsidiaries.[28] After playing some songs for Witmark executive Artie Mogull, Dylan mentioned a complication: he was already under contract with Leeds/Duchess.[29] Dylan was given $1,000 in early July 1962 and approached Leeds about buying out his contract. Since the folksinger had yet to produce any sales, Leeds accepted the money and released Dylan from the agreement.[28][30] Dylan signed a new contract with Witmark on July 12 and immediately recorded a demo of what would become his breakthrough song, "Blowin' in the Wind".[28] Four months passed before Dylan returned to record another song, "Ye Playboys and Playgirls", but the next month, in December, he showed up with seven new compositions, including three that would become classics of his, "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", "Ballad of Hollis Brown", and "Tomorrow Is a Long Time".[31]
In all, Dylan visited Witmark about a dozen times, registering his last demos in mid-1964. He recorded a total of 39 songs for Witmark, all of which are included on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos, along with the eight recordings originally registered with Leeds.[32][33][34] Besides early versions of many of his classics, as well as rarities that have appeared on other editions of The Bootleg Series, the set includes 15 songs, an album's worth of material, that had never been officially released in any form.[3][35]
Production
The recordings for the Leeds and Witmark demos were never intended for public consumption, but were made to sell Dylan's songs to other artists.[36][37] The demo sessions took place in a tiny 6-by-8-foot studio at Witmark's offices in the Look Building at 51st Street and Madison Avenue, where an engineer would capture the performances on a reel-to-reel. To save tape, the demos were recorded at 7.5 inches per second, half the speed used in professional studios. A Witmark copyist would then transcribe the lyrics and music from the tape, and song sheets would be printed and mailed to recording companies. When a company's artist expressed an interest in a song, Witmark would cut an acetate, a recording on inexpensive plastic, that would be sent to the artist for preview purposes. If acceptable, the song would be recorded.[30][38]
Royalties
Royalties from sales of the songs were paid to Witmark, which gave Dylan two cents per record and split its two-cent share with Grossman. In addition, Grossman received 25% of Dylan's payments under the terms of their management contract, which was signed on August 20, 1962, six weeks after the Witmark agreement.[28][30][39] Dylan and Grossman subsequently set up their own publishing company, Dwarf Music, in a contract signed in mid-1965 but back-dated to January of that year[40] By late 1965, more than a year after the last of the Witmark demos, Music Publishers' Holding Company reported in Billboard that at least 237 recordings had been made of Dylan's songs under the copyrights it held.[41]
Demo session dates
While the recording dates of the Leeds and Witmark Demos had previously been published, they were not included in the information distributed with the CD or LP. On disc 1, tracks 1–8 are from the demos recorded at Leeds Music on 2 February 1962. Track 9, a demo of "Blowin' in the Wind" and the first song recorded for Witmark is from July 1962. Track 10 was recorded on 1 November 1962, followed by tracks 11–17, which were recorded in December 1962. Tracks 18–22 were registered as recorded in winter 1963, probably February. Tracks 23–25 of disc 1 and Tracks 1–2 of disc 2 were recorded in March 1963. Tracks 3–6 date from April 1963, 7–9 from May 1963, and 10–15 were all recorded in August 1963. Track 16, "The Times They Are a-Changin'", was recorded in October 1963, and Track 17 is from December 1963. Tracks 18–19 were the last demos recorded at the Witmark studio, in January 1964. Tracks 20–22 were registered to Witmark in June 1964, though they had been recorded elsewhere.[42]
Witmark Demos received positive responses from critics. It achieved a 86% positive ("Universal acclaim") at Metacritic based on reviews by 8 critics.[46] Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine said about the songs on Witmark Demos, "...they’ve never been presented as completely and in as great fidelity as they are on this two-disc set."[47]
Track listing
All songs were written by Bob Dylan, except where noted.
Disc one
"Man on the Street" (Fragment) – 1:07
"Hard Times in New York Town" – 1:57
"Poor Boy Blues" – 3:01
"Ballad for a Friend" – 2:23
"Rambling, Gambling Willie" – 3:38
"Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues" – 3:42
"Standing on the Highway" – 2:32
"Man on the Street" – 1:30
"Blowin' in the Wind" – 2:38
"Long Ago, Far Away" – 2:29
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" – 6:49
"Tomorrow Is a Long Time" – 3:46
"The Death of Emmett Till" – 4:32
"Let Me Die in My Footsteps" – 1:37
"Ballad of Hollis Brown" – 4:08
"Quit Your Low Down Ways" – 2:50
"Baby, I'm in the Mood for You" – 1:36
"Bound to Lose, Bound to Win" – 1:19
"All Over You" – 3:52
"I'd Hate to Be You on That Dreadful Day" – 2:00
"Long Time Gone" – 3:46
"Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" – 3:17
"Masters of War" – 4:23
"Oxford Town" – 2:33
"Farewell" – 3:58
Disc two
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" – 3:38 previously issued in part on The Bootleg Series Volume VII
"Walkin' Down the Line" – 3:23 previously issued on The Bootleg Series Volume I
"I Shall Be Free" – 4:30
"Bob Dylan's Blues" – 1:58
"Bob Dylan's Dream" – 3:53
"Boots of Spanish Leather" – 5:49
"Girl from the North Country" – 3:09
"Seven Curses" – 3:13
"Hero Blues" – 1:36
"Whatcha Gonna Do?" – 3:36
"Gypsy Lou" – 3:45
"Ain't Gonna Grieve" – 1:28
"John Brown" – 4:19
"Only a Hobo" – 2:25
"When the Ship Comes In" – 2:56 previously issued on The Bootleg Series Volume I
"The Times They Are a-Changin'" – 3:03 previously issued on The Bootleg Series Volume I
"Paths of Victory" – 4:11
"Guess I'm Doing Fine" – 4:08
"Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" (Eric Von Schmidt, Reverend Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk) – 1:56
"Mama, You Been on My Mind" – 2:14
"Mr. Tambourine Man" – 5:55
"I'll Keep It with Mine" – 3:34
Limited Edition bonus disc: In Concert at Brandeis University 10/05/1963
In Concert at Brandeis University 10/05/1963 disc was given as a limited edition bonus with purchases of Bootleg Series Vol. 9 or Original Mono Recordings at a variety of retailers.
The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971)
The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971) is an album of unreleased recordings, demo recordings, and alternative takes from Bob Dylan's 1970 albums Self Portrait and New Morning, released on August 27, 2013. It is the latest addition in the series of official "bootleg" recordings issued by Columbia Records.
The cover is new artwork by Bob Dylan. The liner notes have been written by Greil Marcus, who wrote the original Self Portrait review for Rolling Stone that infamously asked, "What is this shit?." Also included is an extensive essay from journalist Michael Simmons. The set also contains rare photographs of that era from John Cohen and Al Clayton.
NPR has posted a 46 minute "First Listen" preview of this album.
You can listen to this below:
Background
The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971) "reveals fresh aspects of Dylan's vocal genius as he reimagines traditional and contemporary folk music as well as songs of his own. Across these unvarnished performances, Dylan is the country singer from Nashville Skyline ("Country Pie" and "I Threw It All Away"), an interpreter of traditional folk ("Little Sadie," "Pretty Saro") who's right at home singing the songs of his contemporaries (Tom Paxton's "Annie's Gonna Sing Her Song" and Eric Andersen's "Thirsty Boots") before returning to writing and singing his own new music ("Went to See the Gypsy," "Sign on the Window")".[4]
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan except as indicated; traditional songs arranged by Dylan.
Disc 1
"Went to See the Gypsy" (demo version) - 3:00
"Little Sadie" (without overdubs, Self Portrait) (Traditional) - 2:02
"Pretty Saro" (unreleased, Self Portrait) - 2:16
"Alberta #3" (alternate version, Self Portrait) (Traditional) - 2:37
"Spanish is the Loving Tongue" (unreleased, New Morning) (Charles Badger Clark) - 3:51
"Annie's Going to Sing Her Song" (unreleased, Self Portrait) (Tom Paxton) - 2:22
"Time Passes Slowly #1" (alternate version, New Morning) - 2:18
"Only a Hobo" (unreleased, Greatest Hits II) - 3:25
"Minstrel Boy" (unreleased, The Basement Tapes) - 1:39
"I Threw It All Away" (alternate version, Nashville Skyline) - 2:25
"Railroad Bill" (unreleased, Self Portrait) (Traditional) - 2:44
"Thirsty Boots" (unreleased, Self Portrait) (Eric Andersen) - 4:06
"This Evening So Soon" (unreleased, Self Portrait) - 4:49
"These Hands" (unreleased, Self Portrait) - 3:43
"In Search of Little Sadie" (without overdubs, Self Portrait) (Traditional) - 2:26
"House Carpenter" (unreleased, Self Portrait) (Traditional) - 5:59
"All the Tired Horses" (without overdubs, Self Portrait) - 1:15
Total length: 50:57
Disc 2
"If Not for You" (alternate version, New Morning) - 2:29
"Wallflower" (alternate version, 1971) - 2:18
"Wigwam" (original version without overdubs, Self Portrait) - 3:10
"Days of '49" (original version without overdubs, Self Portrait) (Alan Lomax, John Lomax, Frank Warner) - 5:13
"Working on a Guru" (unreleased, New Morning) - 3:43
"Country Pie" (alternate version, Nashville Skyline) - 1:27
"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969) - 3:31
"Highway 61 Revisited" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969) - 3:39
"Copper Kettle" (without overdubs, Self Portrait) (Alfred Frank Beddoe) - 3:35
"Bring Me a Little Water" (unreleased, New Morning) - 3:58
"Sign on the Window" (with orchestral overdubs, New Morning) - 3:51
"Tattle O'Day" (unreleased, Self Portrait) (Eric Andersen) - 3:49
"If Dogs Run Free" (alternate version, New Morning) - 4:10
"New Morning" (with horn section overdubs, New Morning) - 4:04
"Went to See the Gypsy" (alternate version, New Morning) - 3:33
"Belle Isle" (without overdubs, Self Portrait) (Traditional) - 2:35
"Time Passes Slowly #2" (alternate version #2, New Morning) - 3:02
"When I Paint My Masterpiece" (demo version) - 3:53
Total length: 62:00
Disc 3: Isle of Wight Festival 1969 (2013 remaster)
"Intro" - 0:40
"She Belongs to Me" - 3:01
"I Threw It All Away" - 3:07
"Maggie's Farm" - 4:00
"Wild Mountain Thyme" (Traditional) - 2:51
"It Ain't Me Babe" - 3:09
"To Ramona" - 2:25
"Mr. Tambourine Man" - 3:08
"I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" - 3:32
"Lay Lady Lay" - 3:54
"Highway 61 Revisited" - 3:47
"One Too Many Mornings" - 2:38
"I Pity the Poor Immigrant" - 3:47
"Like a Rolling Stone" - 5:25
"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" - 3:30
"Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" - 2:49
"Minstrel Boy" - 3:48
"Rainy Day Women#12 & 35" - 3:17
Total length: 60:41
Disc 4: Self Portrait (2013 remaster)
"All the Tired Horses" – 3:12
"Alberta #1" (Traditional) - 2:57
"I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" (Cecil A. Null) – 2:23
"Days of 49" (Alan Lomax, John Lomax, Frank Warner)– 5:27
"Early Mornin' Rain" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 3:34
"In Search of Little Sadie" (Traditional) – 2:28
"Let It Be Me" (Gilbert Bécaud, Mann Curtis, Pierre Delanoë) – 3:00
"Little Sadie" (Traditional) – 2:00
"Woogie Boogie" – 2:06
"Belle Isle" (Traditional) – 2:30
"Living the Blues" – 2:42
"Like a Rolling Stone" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969) – 5:18
"Copper Kettle" (Alfred Frank Beddoe) – 3:34
"Gotta Travel On" (Paul Clayton, Larry Ehrlich, David Lazar, Tom Six) – 3:08
"Blue Moon" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:29
"The Boxer" (Paul Simon) – 2:48
"The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969) – 2:48
"Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)" (Boudleaux Bryant) – 3:03
"Take a Message to Mary" (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:46
"It Hurts Me Too" (Traditional) – 3:15
"Minstrel Boy" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969) – 3:33
"She Belongs to Me" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969) – 2:44
"Wigwam" – 3:09
"Alberta #2" (Traditional) – 3:12
Total length: 73:15
Promotion
The first songs released from The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971) were an unreleased demo of "Wigwam" backed with a previously unreleased recording of "Thirsty Boots" on 7" vinyl for Record Store Day 2013.[10] On August 8, 2013, a video for the song "Pretty Saro," a traditional English ballad, was released. The video featured photos taken from the Farm Security Administration archive at the Library of Congress.[11] A week later, the song was released as a download single.
Editions
The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971) is available in a standard two disc configuration as well as in a four-disc deluxe boxed set which includes, for the first time, the complete historic performance by Bob Dylan and The Band from the Isle of Wight Festival on Sunday, August 31, 1969. Housed in a slipcase, the deluxe edition includes a newly remastered version of the 1970 Self Portrait album, in its entirety with original sequencing, in addition to two hardcover books featuring revisionist liner notes penned by Greil Marcus (author of the notorious "What is this shit?" 1970 Self Portrait review in Rolling Stone). A vinyl version of The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971) includes the album's 35 tracks on three LPs plus a 12" × 12" booklet.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bootleg_Series_Vol._10_%E2%80%93_Another_Self_Portrait_(1969%E2%80%931971)
