BOB DYLAN : THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOLUMES 1 - 3 : RARE AND UNRELEASED 1961 - 1991

 

Disc One (77:09)

  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 Negiliah 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
  16. Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
  17. Who Killed Davey Moore?
  18. Only A Hobo
  19. Moonshiner
  20. When The Ship Comes In
  21. The Times They Are A-Changin'
  22. Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

Disc Two (76:46)

  1. Seven Curses
  2. Eternal Circle
  3. Suze (The Cough Song)
  4. Mama, You Been On My Mind
  5. Farewell Angelina
  6. Subterranean Homesick Blues
  7. If You Gotta Go, Go Now
  8. Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
  9. Like A Rolling Stone
  10. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
  11. I'll Keep It With Mine
  12. She's Your Lover Now
  13. I Shall Be Released
  14. Santa Fé
  15. If Not For You
  16. Wallflower
  17. Nobody 'Cept You
  18. Tangled Up In Blue
  19. Call Letter Blues
  20. Idiot Wind

Disc Three (76:59)

  1. If You See Her, Say Hello
  2. Golden Loom
  3. Catfish
  4. Seven Days
  5. Ye Shall Be Changed
  6. Every Grain Of Sand
  7. You Changed My Life
  8. Need A Woman
  9. Angelina
  10. Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart
  11. Tell Me
  12. Lord Protect My Child
  13. Foot Of Pride
  14. Blind Willie McTell
  15. When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
  16. Series Of Dreams

Label : Columbia

Released : 1991

Review (AllMusic) : This three-disc box set is what Dylanphiles have been waiting for, sitting patiently for years, even decades. And, even after its 1991 release, it retains the feeling of being a special, shared secret among the hardcore, since - no matter the acclaim - it's the kind of record that only the hardcore will seek out. Of course, the great irony is that even casual Dylan fans will find much to treasure in this three-disc set of unreleased material. They'll find songs as good as anything that made the records (sometimes surpassing the official releases, especially on the last disc), plus alternate versions (including original versions of songs on Blood on the Tracks) and long-fabled songs, from the incomplete "She's Your Lover Now" to songs cut from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. This doesn't just function as an alternate history of Dylan, but as an expansion of Dylan's history, enriching what is already known about the greatest songwriter of his era - after all, every song here would qualify as the best song on anybody else's album. And that's no exaggeration.

Review (Wikipedia) : 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. Of the 58 total tracks, 46 are session outtakes from the recording sessions for studio albums. The remaining dozen tracks are with one exception 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.