New Addition To Dylan's Bootleg Series Could Be Coming Soon

zimovain

Along with the early albums in mono. A fan has put together the known outtakes from the Witmark and Leeds sessions.


http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner~y2010m7d27-Isis-updated-information-on-new-Bob-Dylan-Bootleg-Series-mono-box-set

Isis magazine has posted updated information on two upcoming Bob Dylan archival releases.

In October, Sony Legacy be releasing The Bootleg Series Vol. 9, and a box set of the first eight Bob Dylan albums in mono. The official announcement is expected to be made next month.

The Bootleg Series will be “a set of non-live recordings, well-known to collectors”. It is based on the "Witmark Demos", but is expected to include some "Leeds Demos" as well. A total of 47 tracks are expected to be included.

The first Bob Dylan eight albums. from Bob Dylan to John Wesley Harding, were originally available in mono. They have never officially been available on compact disc before. Throughout most of the 1960s, more attention had been paid to monaural mixes than stereo. However, but the end of the decade, mono was phased out in favor of stereo. The new CDs were reportedly newly mastered, with "using first issue copies of the mono LPs for reference".

Here's a list of Witmark and Leeds demos, courtesy of Olof:

Leeds Music Demos
New York City, New York
February 1962

1. Hard Times In New York Town
2. Poor Boy Blues
3. Ballad For A Friend
4. Rambling, Gambling Willie
5. Man On The Street
6. Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
7. Standing On The Highway

Witmark & Sons Demos
New York City, New York
December 1962

1. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
2. Tomorrow Is A Long Time
3.The Death Of Emmett Till
4.Let Me Die In My Footsteps
5. Ballad Of Hollis Brown
6.Quit Your Low Down Ways
7.Baby, I'm In The Mood For You

Witmark Studio
New York City, New York
Winter 1963

1. Bound To Lose, Bound To Win
2. All Over You
3. I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day
4. Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues

Witmark Studio
New York City, New York
March 1963

1. Long Time Gone
2. Masters Of War
3. Farewell
4. Oxford Town
5. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
6. Walkin' Down The Line

Witmark Studio
New York City, New York
April 1963

1. I Shall Be Free
2.Bob Dylan's Blues
3.Bob Dylan's Dream
4. Boots Of Spanish Leather

Witmark Studio
New York City, New York
May 1963

1. Girl From The North Country
2.Seven Curses
3.Hero Blues

Witmark Studio
New York City, New York
August 1963

1. Whatcha Gonna Do
2. Gypsy Lou
3. Ain't Gonna Grieve
4.John Brown
5.Only A Hobo
6.When The Ship Comes In (Dylan, Piano)

Witmark Studio
New York City, New York
October 1963

1. The Times They Are A-Changin'

Witmark Studio
New York City, New York
December 1963

1. Paths Of Victory

Witmark Studio,
New York City, New York
January 1964

1. Guess I'm Doing Fine
2.Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Eric von Schmidt)

Unidentified Recording Studio
New York City, New York
Mid to late June 1964

1. Mr. Tambourine Man
2.Mama, You Been On My Mind
3. I'll Keep It With Mine

Amazotheamazing

Class, huge fan of the bootleg series, been waiting for these to surface for a while.

Wonder will we ever see the Dylan and Cash out-takes hit the shelves?

zimovain

I would have prefered a gospel era gig, a gig from the 80's (the Tom Petty tour in particular) or anything from the 90's to present day. I guess 1960's Bob is still a big seller and no doubt Il be shelling out for the lot!!!

Damn you Sony!!

Amazotheamazing

zimovain wrote: »

I would have prefered a gospel era gig, a gig from the 80's (the Tom Petty tour in particular) or anything from the 90's to present day. I guess 1960's Bob is still a big seller and no doubt Il be shelling out for the lot!!!

Damn you Sony!!

Iirc, Dylan has recorded most of his gigs from the mid 70's on. We'll be hearing "new" Dylan bootlegs for the foreseeable future.

I'm vaguely there's a lost 80's album out there somewhere, the Infidels sessions that never surfaced perhaps?

zimovain

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Iirc, Dylan has recorded most of his gigs from the mid 70's on. We'll be hearing "new" Dylan bootlegs for the foreseeable future.

I'm vaguely there's a lost 80's album out there somewhere, the Infidels sessions that never surfaced perhaps?

The stuff on this boot is top notch!

http://www.bobsboots.com/CDs/cd-i-32.html

duckworth

A load of that stuff is already on Bootleg series 1 isn't it? I'm almost sure there were whitmark demos on it.

Anyway, I wish they'd get their act together and release the live gospel stuff. It's some of the best music I've ever heard, and most people don't even know about it because the studio albums of the same period were muck.

Amazotheamazing

zimovain wrote: »

The stuff on this boot is top notch!

http://www.bobsboots.com/CDs/cd-i-32.html

Must check it out, would happily buy same from Sony if they bothered to release it, some those sessions are meant to be better than the official album. (and Blind Willie McTell is without a doubt better than songs on Infidel).

zimovain

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Must check it out, would happily buy same from Sony if they bothered to release it, some those sessions are meant to be better than the official album. (and Blind Willie McTell is without a doubt better than songs on Infidel).

There is a version of Blind Willie that is full band with electric guitar from Bob, well worth finding. I had it on my old laptop which is sadly dead and I never backed it up:(

www.expectingrain.com is a must visit site for Dylan fans, just for the rare recordings section alone.

Also some new news on probable tracklisting

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner~y2010m7d29-Update--Bob-Dylans-Bootleg-Series-Vol-9--The-probable-complete-track-listing

InTheTrees

Wohoo. We just bought tickets to see him play in Seattle, sept 4th

zimovain

InTheTrees wrote: »

Wohoo. We just bought tickets to see him play in Seattle, sept 4th

Nice one! Enjoy the gig dude, seen him 3 times over the last few years and loved it!

zimovain

116 dollars for the MONO box set

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003XRDYX2?tag=expectingrain-20&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=B003XRDYX2&creative=373489&camp=2111
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This box collects Bob Dylan’s first eight 12-inch LPs, his albums from Bob Dylan in 1962 to John Wesley Harding in 1968, as most people heard them, as they were expected to be heard, and as most often they were meant to be heard: in mono. --- Greil Marcus, taken from the liner notes of BOB DYLAN: THE ORIGINAL MONO RECORDINGS

Bob Dylan’s first 8 studio albums in mono for the first time ever on CD:
Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Time They Are A-Changin'
Another Side Of Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde On Blonde
John Wesley Harding

-Each CD housed in a digipak, matching previous Bob Dylan reissues
-60 page, full color book with new liner notes, rare photos, memorabilia, discographical information and more
-Rigid slipcase to hold the 8 digipaks and book (measurements: 5.5”L x 3”W x 5”H)

Amazotheamazing

Ah good old Griel Marcus, still managing to get writing gigs despite most of his stuff being unreadable nonsense, I've tried in vain to find merit in his books on Dylan. For some reason, writing about Dylan brings out the worst in writers.

zimovain

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Ah good old Griel Marcus, still managing to get writing gigs despite most of his stuff being unreadable nonsense, I've tried in vain to find merit in his books on Dylan. For some reason, writing about Dylan brings out the worst in writers.

I agree mate, totally up his own arse.

MyLifeInClay

Check out the genuine bootleg series vol 1-3 (9 CDs) at btjunkie. Lots of great stuff.

zimovain

Really gutted it's the sessions from the early 60's and not some of the stuff in the vault from later years ala 'Tell Tale Signs'. It's a Dylan compilation I will never tire of.

Amazotheamazing

Bob Dylan Announces New Rarities CollectionSet includes legendary Witmark Demos. Also slated: mono reissues of 1962-1968 albums

By Daniel Kreps
Aug 24, 2010 9:48 AM EDT
Bob Dylan will release the ninth volume of his Bootleg Serieson October 19th, he has announced, confirming recent rumors. This edition will be the first official collection of the Witmark Demos, 47 songs that Dylan recorded between 1962 and 1964 for his first two publishers, Leeds Music and M. Witmark & Sons. The tracks -- which Dylan performed with only acoustic guitar, harmonica and some piano, all before he was 24 -- include early versions of classics like "Blowin' in the Wind," "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'," plus 15 more recorded exclusively for the sessions, including "Ballad for a Friend," "The Death of Emmett Till" and "Guess I'm Doing Fine." The deluxe set will feature a booklet of photos from those sessions and in-depth liner notes by Colin Escott.

Also on October 19th, Columbia/Legacy will also release Bob Dylan — The Original Mono Recordings, which feature Dylan's first eight LPs newly mastered from their first-generation mono mixes. The set — which spans 1962's Bob Dylan through 1968's John Wesley Harding — will come as a deluxe box and on 180-gram vinyl, and include a booklet of vintage photographs and an essay by Rolling Stone

The complete tracklist for The Bootleg Series Volume 9 — The Witmark Demos:

Disc 1:
1. "Man On The Street (Fragment)"
2. "Hard Times In New York Town"
3. "Poor Boy Blues"
4. "Ballad For A Friend"
5. "Rambling, Gambling Willie"
6. "Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues"
7. "Standing On The Highway"
8. "Man On The Street"
9. "Blowin' In The Wind"
10. "Long Ago, Far Away"
11. "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"
12. "Tomorrow Is A Long Time"
13. "The Death of Emmett Till"
14. "Let Me Die In My Footsteps"
15. "Ballad Of Hollis Brown"
16. "Quit Your Low Down Ways"
17. "Baby, I'm In The Mood For You"
18. "Bound To Lose, Bound To Win"
19. "All Over You"
20. "I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day"
21. "Long Time Gone"
22. "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues"
23. "Masters Of War"
24. "Oxford Town"
25. "Farewell"

Disc 2
1. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
2. "Walkin' Down The Line"
3. "I Shall Be Free"
4. "Bob Dylan's Blues"
5. "Bob Dylan's Dream"
6. "Boots Of Spanish Leather"
7. "Walls of Red Wing"
8. "Girl From The North Country"
9. "Seven Curses"
10. "Hero Blues"
11. "Whatcha Gonna Do?"
12. "Gypsy Lou"
13. "Ain't Gonna Grieve"
14. "John Brown"
15. "Only A Hobo"
16. "When The Ship Comes In"
17. "The Times They Are A-Changin'"
18. "Paths Of Victory"
19. "Guess I'm Doing Fine"
20. "Baby Let Me Follow You Down"
21. "Mama, You Been On My Mind"
22. "Mr. Tambourine Man"
23. "I'll Keep It With Mine"

henryporter

Looking forward to it.

I would agree with Greil Marcus that listening to the Mono recordings is the way to hear the original albums - got myself an original 'Another Side of Bob Dylan' mono vinyl and it is even more stunning than can be described.

zimovain

It's my least favorite release of the 'Bootleg Series' but some of the tracks are right little gems. I hope the next release in the series will bring us a gospel gig or some of the great shows he performed in 1994.