All the songs listed in the Official
Rarities section are cross-referenced by song title in these
alphabetical pages.
A-E
F-J
K-O
P-S
T-Z
This yearly page now contains only the main Rarities List. Promotional Items (Albums and Singles) are now here. All Honourable Mentions are now here.
If you have any entries to add to the list or additions/corrections to existing entries, please let me know! Please note I cannot value your Dylan rarities - see the Mission page for reasons why. Contact the dealers on my Trading page for assistance!
Revised: 16 September, 2024.
Titles in red are not available on a currently released Bob Dylan CD (for these see bobdylan.com )
Key to symbols used:
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Performances currently available on commercial CD are marked by
(these are the ones that count as obscurities
rather than as rarities)
Audience recordings are indicated by (A).
Various Artists - "Verano 08 1 [Summer 08 1]" - promo compilation CD, Sony BMG PCD 618 (Argentina), Jan 2008:
Various Artists - "A Tribute To Johnny Cash" - compilation CD, Immortal Records IMA 104125 (Holland), 17 Feb 2008:
R-0554-2 Train Of Love (Johnny Cash) - from the Johnny Cash Tribute TV special, broadcast from the Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, 5 Apr 1999 (Bob's performance had been recorded earlier and was shown on video)
For the original appearance of this song on the compilation Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash, see 2002. There is also a DVD with this title, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 4.
Thanks to John Willy Bakke and Hans Seegers for information. Jack from Canada thinks both the album and the DVD are probably unauthorised.
Various Artists - "Bar Nashville: Classic & New Country Flavours" - compilation 2CD set, Nascente Records NSBARCD 015 (UK), 4 Mar 2008:
Nascente Records NSBARCD 015 (UK) - front of slipcase (my copy) |
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for information on this album, part of the Nascente "Bar" series, which includes titles such as Bar Paris, Bar Rio and Bar Tokyo. Nascente is a "world music" label from the UK Demon Music Group. The two CDs in this set come in separate jewel cases inside an outer slipcase and are named "Classic" and "New". The "New" CD contains a Dylan rarity: R-0090-11 (Is Anybody
Going To) San Antone (Dave Kirby-Glen Martin)
- Bob plays guitar, organ and provides backup vocals
for Doug Sahm and Band |
Nascente Records NSBARCD 015/2 (UK) - outside of unfolded front insert for CD1, scan by Peter Oudejans |
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Nascente Records NSBARCD 015/2 (UK) - inside of unfolded front insert for CD1, scan by Peter Oudejans |
Nascente Records NSBARCD 015/2 (UK) - rear insert for CD1, scan by Peter Oudejans |
Nascente Records NSBARCD 015/2 (UK) - outside of unfolded front insert for CD2 |
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This Doug Sahm track was also released on CD as follows:
The Best Of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975, see 1990
Doug Sahm & Friends: The Best Of Doug Sahm (Atlantic Sessions) -
see 1992
Promo compilation US 2CD set
Rhino ● Atlantic ● Remasters
(Various Artists), also see 1992
Promo compilation CD Wex On Wax: A Tribute To Jerry Wexler
(Various Artists), see
1999
Jesus' Son - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Various Artists), see
2000
and
VHS & DVD 2000s Part 1
Rhino Handmade 2CD US compilation The Genuine Texas Groover, see 2003
Rhino US promo 2CD
compilation Rhino Presents Atlantic And Atco Remasters Series
(Various Artists), see below
Thanks to Peter Oudejans for extra scans.
Various Artists - "Rhino Presents Atlantic And Atco Remasters Series" - promo compilation 2CD set, Rhino Records PRO2 90120 (USA), 2008:
Rhino Records PRO2 90120 (USA) - front of promo card sleeve, scan by Manuel García Jara |
R-0090-12 (Is Anybody
Going To) San Antone (Dave Kirby-Glen Martin)
- Bob plays guitar, organ and provides backup vocals
for Doug Sahm and Band For details of the original release on the Atlantic album Doug Sahm & Band, see 1973 |
Rhino Records PRO2 90120 (USA) - rear of promo card sleeve, scan by Manuel García Jara |
Rhino Records PRO2 90120 (USA) - promo CD1 scan by Manuel García Jara |
This track was also released as a 7" stereo single in 1973 and on CD as listed immediately above.
This is CD1 of a 2CD set - CD2 is not shown.
Thanks to Manuel García Jara for information and scans.
Amaral/Bob Dylan - Llegará La Tormenta [A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall] - promo two CD-ROM set, Expo Zaragoza 2008 (no catalogue number) (Spain), Apr 2008:
Bob has recorded a new version of A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall for the International Expo Zaragoza 2008, 14 Jun - 14 Sep 2008, Spain, an exposition on Water and Sustainable Development (for the web-site, see ). The promo CD-ROM set also includes a Spanish-language cover by Amaral, a Spanish band reportedly chosen personally by Bob to record the song. The second CD-ROM also includes the original version by Bob from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and many clips from 1962 to 2007.
R-0841-2 A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
- new studio performance recorded with
Bob's touring band in
Nashville, TN, 2007 (video version with closing remarks by Bob)
The video can be viewed here
These performances were able to be downloaded from the International Expo Zaragoza 2008 web-site from Nov 2007, see Online Performances (Other).
Thanks to Hervé from France and Gerd Rundel for information and scans.
Various Artists - "The Influence Of Jimmie Rodgers: Let Me Be Your Side Track" - 6CD boxed set, Bear Family BCD 16863 FH (Germany), Apr 2008:
Bear Family BCD 16863 FH (Germany) - picture from Bear Family web-site |
R-0258-2 My Blue-Eyed
Jane (Jimmie Rodgers/Lulu Belle White)
- from the Egyptian Records album The Songs
Of Jimmie Rodgers (A Tribute), see 1997 R-0258 has now also been released on the Sony Music Latin US Various Artists 3CD compilation The Roots Of Popular Music: The Ralph S. Peer Story, see 2017. Thanks to Tobias Levander for information about this set. More scans required! |
David Bromberg - "David Bromberg"/"Demon In Disguise" - CD release, Beat Goes On/Sony BMG BGO CD811 (UK), 2008:
Beat Goes On/Sony BMG BGO CD811 (UK) - front scan by Manuel García Jara |
This "2 on 1" CD release by Beat Goes
On (BGO) Records under licence from Sony BMG contains two original 1972
Columbia albums by David Bromberg, David Bromberg (recorded 1971) and
Demon In Disguise (recorded 1972).
R-0073-3 Sammy's Song
(David Bromberg) - Bob plays harmonica Thanks to Manuel García Jara for information and scans. |
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Beat Goes On/Sony BMG BGO CD811 (UK) - rear insert scan by Manuel García Jara |
Beat Goes On/Sony BMG BGO CD811 (UK) - reverse of rear insert, scan by Manuel García Jara |
Beat Goes On/Sony BMG BGO CD811 (UK) - outside of unfolded front insert, scan by Manuel García Jara |
Beat Goes On/Sony BMG BGO CD811 (UK) - CD scan by Manuel García Jara |
Beat Goes On/Sony BMG BGO CD811 (UK) - detail of CD, scan by Manuel García Jara |
Various Artists -
CD release,
"Bakhålls Litterära Ljud Vol. 1 [The Ambush's Literary Sounds Vol. 1]", BAKCD
0857 (Sweden), 2008:
This was a compilation CD in a folded card sleeve
with a booklet included with an issue of the literary
magazine "Bakhåll" (The Ambush), but which was also sold separately in some
record and book stores in Sweden.
Dylan
is interviewed by Oscar Brand (approx. 9 mins) and performs two songs. He was
apparently at the time preparing for a concert at
Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York
on
November 4 that year, 1961.
All the other tracks on the CD are of authors
reading from their works - they include
Guillaume Apollinaire, Leo Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse
and Jorge Luis Borges.
Bakhåll BAKCD 0857 (Sweden) - front of card sleeve, scan by Tommy Lidgren |
R-1907 Sally Gal (Woody Guthrie) - recorded live for the Oscar Brand Folk Festival, WYNC Radio, New York, 29 Oct 1961 R-1908 The Girl I Left Behind (Traditional) - recorded live for the Oscar Brand Folk Festival, WYNC Radio, New York, 29 Oct 1961 For Bakhålls Litterära Röster [The Ambush's Literary Voices] with another early Dylan performance, see 1994. |
Bakhåll BAKCD 0857 (Sweden) - inside of unfolded card sleeve, scan by Tommy Lidgren |
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Bakhåll BAKCD 0857 (Sweden) - rear of card sleeve, scan by Tommy Lidgren |
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Bakhåll BAKCD 0857 (Sweden) - outside of booklet, scan by Tommy Lidgren |
Thanks to Tommy Lidgren for information and scans.
"Dreamin' Of You" - 2-track promo CD singles, Columbia/Legacy
88697 35802 2
(USA);
Columbia/Legacy 88697 35802 2 (Austria for Europe), Aug 2008:
Who's the lady that Bob's dreamin' of?
Columbia/Legacy 88697 35802 2 (USA):
R-0354 Dreamin' Of You - radio edit (3:34) of previously unreleased 1997 out-take from Time Out Of Mind
This 2-track promo CD-R single comes in a slimline CD single jewel case with a folded insert. It also contains the album version of the song (5:54, shown incorrectly as 6:23) from The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006, Oct 2008.
Columbia/Legacy 88697 35802 2 (Europe):
For promo CD-R singles with just the album version, see International Singles 2000s. For a 3:10 video edit of this track, see VHS & DVD 2007-09.
Thanks to Ian Woodward and Martin Schaefer for information and to Arie de Reus, Ronald Born, Hervé from France and Gerd Rundel for pictures. Thanks also to Dr. Hanns Peter Bushoff of Sony BMG in Germany for a copy of the European single.
"Dreamin' Of You" - promo 2-track CD-R single, Sony BMG 88697358022 (Europe), Sep 2008:
For promo CD-R singles with just the album version, see International Singles 2000s. For promo CD-Rs with just the radio edit, see above.
Thanks to Anthony Pignataro for finding the this single on eBay and to Gerd Rundel for scans.
"Dreamin' Of You" - promo CD-R singles, Columbia/Legacy (no catalogue number) (UK/Germany), Aug 2008:
The UK release comes in a plastic wallet with an insert. The title on the CD-R is "Dreaming Of You", not "Dreamin'". Gerd Rundel and Hans Seegers' copies are the same but for different contact addresses. The German release comes without a sleeve. For promo CD-R singles with just the album version, see International Singles 2000s.
Thanks to Arie de Reus, Hervé from France, Hans Seegers and Gerd Rundel for information and scans.
Various Artists - "Ones To Watch - Sept" - promo CD, Sony BMG (no catalogue number) (Ireland), Sep 2008:
This promo CD comes in a jewel case with a folded card insert - there is no rear insert. Dreamin' Of You is not listed as the edit.
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for information and scans.
"Dreamin' Of You" - promo CD-R singles, Sony BMG (no catalogue numbers) (Australia/Ireland), Sep/Oct 2008:
"Dreamin' Of You" - promo 2-track CD-R "acetates", Sony BMG (no catalogue number) (Argentina), Sep 2008:
Various Artists - "Sony Music On Air Vol. 18" - promo 2CD set, Sony Music 88697450012 (Portugal), Oct 2008:
Sony Music 88697450012 (Portugal) - front scan by Manuel García Jara |
Bob's contribution to this 2CD promo set is the radio edit of Dreamin' Of You from The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006, Oct 2008, track 13 on CD2. This is followed by a song from Jakob Dylan. R-0354-7 Dreamin' Of You - radio edit (3:34) of previously unreleased 1997 out-take from Time Out Of Mind For Sony Music On Air Vol. 5 and Sony Music On Air Vol. 21 in this promo series with Dylan album tracks, see International Album Releases (Various Artists Compilations) 2006 and International Album Releases (Various Artists Compilations) 2009. |
Sony Music 88697450012 (Portugal) - rear scan by Manuel García Jara |
Thanks to Manuel García Jara for information and scans.
"Dreamin' Of You" - promo 2-track CD single, Sony BMG (no catalogue number) (Poland), Oct 2008:
Photo by Szymon Strużyna |
R-0354-8 Dreamin' Of You
- radio edit (3:34) of previously unreleased
1997 out-take from Time Out Of Mind This 2-track promo CD single in a jewel case without inserts also has the album version of the song (5:54) from The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006, Oct 2008. The unique CD design has an illustration of the album sleeve and text in Polish. For promo CD-R singles with just the album version, see International Singles 2000s. Thanks to Szymon Strużyna for information and photo. |
Various Artists - "Alternative Sampler Vol. 10" - promo compilation CD, Sony BMG ALT10 (Poland), 2008:
Sony BMG ALT10 (Poland) - front scan by Peter Oudejans |
This Polish promo compilation contains the edit of Dreamin' Of You from The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006, Oct 2008. R-0354-9 Dreamin' Of You - radio edit of previously unreleased 1997 out-take from Time Out Of Mind, timed at 3:38 For other Sony BMG/Sony Music releases in this series with Dylan tracks, see 2007 and the 2009 page of this Various Artists Compilations list. |
Sony BMG ALT10 (Poland) - rear insert scan by Peter Oudejans |
Sony BMG ALT10 (Poland) - CD scan by Peter Oudejans |
Thanks to Peter Oudejans for information and scans.
"Dreamin' Of You" - promo 1-track CD-R single, Sony Music (no catalogue number) (Japan), Oct 2008:
Various Artists - "Hit's A Sony Music Express 10 October 2008 Vol. 68" - promo compilation CD, Sony Music SDCI 80679 (Japan), Oct 2008:
For other volumes in this series with Dylan rarities, see 2001, 2006 and 2007. For 2000s volumes in this series with Dylan album tracks, see International Album Releases (Various Artist Compilations) 2000s. For 1990s promotional albums in this series with Dylan album tracks, see International Album Releases (Various Artist Compilations) 1990s.
Thanks to Wil Gielen for information and scans.
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale
Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006"
- 3CD set in 8" box: Columbia/Legacy 8697 35797 2 (USA), 7 Oct 2008:
For the regular
2CD album release, see International
Album Releases (Regular Albums).
Columbia/Legacy 8697 35797 2 (USA) - front of sealed box with sticker (my copy) |
This is a limited edition of 5000 copies produced in the USA only. The
twelve tracks on the third CD are therefore rarities. It contains one previously
released rarity: R-0681-2 Tryin' To Get To Heaven
- live audience
recording from
Wembley Arena, London, England, 5 Oct 2000 (A) (previously wrongly identified as
the Guildhall, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, 25 Sep 2000), from a US Columbia promo CD single, see
2004 |
Columbia/Legacy 8697 35797 2 (USA) - rear of promo card sleeve for disc 3, scan from eBay |
The tracklisting of CD3 is as follows:
R-0764 Duncan & Brady (Traditional) 3:47 (Unreleased album with David Bromberg, 1992)
R-0765 Cold Irons Bound 5:57 (Live, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN, 11 Jun 2004) (A)
For Down Along The Cove from this set released on Bonnaroo Music Festival 2004, see 2005. Four further live performances from this show were added to the bobdylan.com Performances page in Jun 2004, see Online Performances (bobdylan.com). This live version of Cold Irons Bound was also released in 2017 as the B-side of a bonus 7" stereo single with the "20th Anniversary Edition" 2LP stereo vinyl release of Time Out Of Mind, see 2017.
R-0766 Mississippi 6:24 (Unreleased version #3, Time Out of Mind)
Unreleased versions #1 and #2 are on the 2CD version of The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006.
R-0767 Most Of The Time 5:10 (Alternate version #2, Oh Mercy)
Unreleased version #1 is on the 2CD version of The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006.
R-0768 Ring Them Bells 3:18 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy) (see below for appearance on B-side of single)
R-0769 Things Have Changed 5:32 (Live, Roseland Theater, Portland, OR, 15 Jun 2000) (A)
For a performance of this song live from Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, 25 Sep 2000, from Bob Dylan Live: Thirty-Nine Years Of Great Concert Performances, SME Records (Sony Music Entertainment), Japan, Feb 2001, see 2001.
R-0770 Red River Shore 7:08 (Unreleased version #2, Time Out of Mind)
Unreleased version #1 is on the 2CD version of The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006.
R-0771 Born In Time 4:19 (Unreleased version #2, Oh Mercy)
Unreleased version #1 is on the 2CD version of The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006.
R-0681-2 Tryin' To Get To Heaven 5:10 (Live, Wembley Arena, London, England, 5 Oct 2000) (A)
This is indeed R-0681, previously thought to be a performance of this song live from the same tour, recorded at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, 25 Sep 2000, from a US Columbia promo CD single, see 2004. Thanks to Evan Marshall for confirming that this performances are in fact the same and to Les Kokay for listening to a variety of circulating recordings for Portsmouth and Wembley and conforming the released performance is Wembley! The 2004 page has been corrected.
R-0772 Marchin' To The City 3:39 (Unreleased version #2, Time Out of Mind)
Unreleased version #1 is on the 2CD version of The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006.
R-0773 Can't Wait 7:24 (Alternate version #2, Time Out of Mind)
Unreleased version #1 is on the 2CD version of The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006.
R-0774 Mary And The Soldier (Traditional) 4:23 (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong)
The promo CD-R for CD3 compliments the promo 2CD-R sets in the same red/white generic Columbia card sleeves with labels listed in International Album Releases (Regular Albums). Thanks to Gerd Rundel for finding this on eBay.
The bonus 7" vinyl single included only with orders of the 3CD set from bobdylan.com includes two rarities:
Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux and Gerd Rundel for information and scans.
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006" - 3CD-R/CD promo sets: Sony Music SDCI 80657-9 (Japan), Aug/Sep 2008:
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale
Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006"
(Bonus Track Version)
- 28-track download from iTunes (UK), Oct 2008:
This UK
download consists of the 27 tracks from the 2CD version of the album plus an
exclusive live performance of Love Sick from Time Out Of Mind.
Detail of iTunes UK screenshot (Bonus Track version) showing incorrect dating
of bonus track
Thanks to Tom Willems for news in Dec 2010 that R-0355 is now available for separate download on iTunes.
Promotional/Regular Items for 2008
Stereo promo albums and singles for 2008 which don't contain rare material but which are still very collectable are now included with promo releases of regular albums and commercially released singles on the appropriate page in International Stereo Releases. |
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