Album Info

The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991

Rock - 1991

1985's Biograph was a perfect tease, offering a smattering of obscurities among Bob Dylan's greatest hits. But 1991's first volumes... more

Tracklist

1

Hard Times In New York Town (Live)

2:17 min
2

He Was a Friend of Mine

4:01 min
3

Man On the Street

1:54 min
4

No More Auction Block (Live)

3:01 min
5

House Carpenter

4:07 min
6

Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues

3:43 min
7

Let Me Die In My Footsteps

3:32 min
8

Rambling, Gambling Willie

4:12 min
9

Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues

0:51 min
10

Quit Your Low Down Ways

2:38 min
11

Worried Blues

2:37 min
12

Kingsport Town

3:27 min
13

Walkin' Down the Line

2:51 min
14

Walls of Red Wing

5:03 min
15

Paths of Victory

3:16 min
16

Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues (Live)

4:24 min
17

Who Killed Davey Moore? (Live)

3:07 min
18

Only a Hobo

3:28 min
19

Moonshiner

5:05 min
20

When the Ship Comes In

2:54 min
21

The Times They Are A-Changin'

2:58 min
22

Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie (Live)

7:07 min
1

Seven Curses

3:46 min
2

Eternal Circle

2:37 min
3

Suze (The Cough Song)

1:56 min
4

Mama, You Been On My Mind

2:55 min
5

Farewell, Angelina

5:25 min
6

Subterranean Homesick Blues

2:53 min
7

If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night)

2:54 min
8

Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence

3:51 min
9

Like a Rolling Stone

1:34 min
10

It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

3:20 min
11

I'll Keep It With Mine

3:37 min
12

She's Your Lover Now

6:08 min
13

I Shall Be Released

3:54 min
14

Santa-Fe

2:08 min
15

If Not for You

3:31 min
16

Wallflower

2:47 min
17

Nobody 'Cept You

2:39 min
18

Tangled Up In Blue

6:50 min
19

Call Letter Blues

4:27 min
20

Idiot Wind

8:51 min
1

If You See Her, Say Hello

3:44 min
2

Golden Loom

4:25 min
3

Catfish

2:48 min
4

Seven Days (Live)

3:59 min
5

Ye Shall Be Changed

4:07 min
6

Every Grain of Sand

3:36 min
7

You Changed My Life

5:12 min
8

Need a Woman

5:41 min
9

Angelina

6:57 min
10

Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart

4:31 min
11

Tell Me

4:23 min
12

Lord Protect My Child

3:56 min
13

Foot of Pride

5:56 min
14

Blind Willie McTell

5:51 min
15

When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky

5:37 min
16

Series of Dreams

5:51 min

About The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991

1985's Biograph was a perfect tease, offering a smattering of obscurities among Bob Dylan's greatest hits. But 1991's first volumes of The Bootleg Series—a three-CD set at the time—was what hardcore Dylan fans had craved for decades. It acknowledged the vast bootleg market that Dylan had inspired with the first rock "bootleg," The Great White Wonder. Suddenly, in the best fidelity ever unearthed for these rare songs—and with many welcome surprises—were recordings as important to the Dylan legacy as those officially released over the years. The original versions of songs from Blood on the Tracks (especially the slow, brooding acoustic take of "Idiot Wind"), the long-rumored "She's Your Lover Now" (still incomplete but brilliantly executed), the eloquent heartbreaking demo of "Every Grain of Sand," and studio outtakes of "Blind Willie McTell" and "Series of Dreams" comprised an alternate history of one of popular music's most important and influential figures.