First Installment in the Long-Running Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Is on Vinyl for the First Time in 25 Years: Volumes 1-3 Spans 1961 Through 1991, Includes Dozens of Previously Unreleased Songs
Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 forever changed the face of archival reissues upon release in 1991. It also kickstarted Dylan's re-entrance into the public conversation about music and triggered an artistic rebirth that continues to this day. In this cornucopia of previously unissued material comprised of rare and unreleased recordings covering the period from 1961 through to its release in 1991 are stashed home recordings, demo recordings, outtakes, alternative takes, coffeehouse recordings, concert recordings, and more. Much of it teaches us a good deal about the way in which Dylan developed as a songwriter and performer. These are performances of staggering power, subtlety, seemingly infinite variety.
The main focus in this collection is on Dylan as the songwriter: 38 songs that had never been released on an official album, as well as demo and rehearsal versions of well-known songs. Untold delights make this volume consistently revelatory. And for exhaustive and insatiable collectors are bunches of previously unsuspected tracks that never made it to the underground trading circuit. Whatever reputation Dylan enjoyed as a writer and performer in his recording career began to be reviewed in the light of this historic collection.
This legendary first installment in the now long running Bob Dylan Bootleg Series is now reissued on vinyl for the first time in 25 years. Hear it anew in warm, detailed analog.
1. Hard Times In New York Town
2. He Was a Friend of Mine
3. Man On the Street
4. No More Auction Block
5. House Carpenter
6. Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
7. Let Me Die In My Footsteps
8. Rambling, Gambling Willie
9. Talkin’ Hava Negeilah Blues
10. Quit Your Low Down Ways
11. Worried Blues
12. Kingsport Town
13. Walkin’ Down the Line
14. Walls of Red Wing
15. Paths of Victory
LP2
1. Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues
2. Who Killed Davey Moore?
3. Only a Hobo
4. Moonshiner
5. Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
6. When the Ship Comes In
7. The Times They Are A-Changin’
8. Seven Curses
9. Eternal Circle
10. Suze (The Cough Song)
11. Mama, You Been On My Mind
12. Farewell, Angelina
LP3
1. Subterranean Homesick Blues
2. If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night)
3. Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence
4. Like a Rolling Stone
5. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
6. I’ll Keep It with Mine
7. She’s Your Lover Now
8. I Shall Be Released
9. Santa-Fe
10. If Not for You
11. Wallflower
12. Nobody ‘Cept You
13. Tangled Up in Blue
LP4
1. Call Letter Blues
2. Idiot Wind
3. If You See Her, Say Hello
4. Golden Loom
5. Catfish
6. Seven Days
7. Ye Shall Be Changed
8. Every Grain of Sand
9. You Changed My Life
10. Angelina
LP5
1. Need a Woman
2. Someone’s Got a Hold of My Heart
3. Tell Me
4. Lord Protect My Child
5. Foot of Pride
6. Blind Willie McTell
7. When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky
8. Series of Dreams
