This is the sixth part of a separate multi-year list by release date of commercially-released stereo Bob Dylan-only compilation albums (including Greatest Hits albums with non-standard tracklists) that have been referred to me but do not qualify for my Searching For A Gem list because they contain only performances which are all available on officially released Dylan albums. Nevertheless, their interest value or scarcity means they're worth listing here - as far as I know some are not included on any other Internet site. Thanks to Hans Seegers for all the exclusive CBS Japanese releases, etc.!
Promo-only Dylan compilation albums are now listed on this page. Other International Compilations are now here:
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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.
Bob Dylan Compilations
For the earlier parts of this list, see the links above. This list now includes albums with the title Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (various Volumes) with non-standard tracklists. For Greatest Hits albums with the standard US tracklists see International Albums (Regular). There are also several international Bob Dylan compilation albums such as The Essential Bob Dylan which contain rarities in the main Searching For A Gem list.
2010
"Dylan Ga Rock [DylanがRock/Dylan 'N' Rock]" -
limited edition 2CD set, Sony Music SICP 2620-1 (Japan), 10 Mar 2010:
This compilation first appeared in
Japan as a promo-only 2CD compilation with a different track list in
1993. This compilation also has graphics by
celebrated Japanese cartoonist and Dylan fan Jun Miura.
Sony Music SICP2620-1 (Japan) - picture from www.hmv.co.jp |
Because this 2CD compilation contains three rarities, full details are in
2010. Thanks to Michio Kinoshita for information. |
Sony Music SICP 2620-1 (Japan) - front with obi (2010 version, my copy) |
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Sean Wilentz - "Bob Dylan In America" - CD audio book, Random House Audio (catalogue number?) (USA), 7 Sep 2010:
Random House Audio 978-0-3077-1497-8 (USA) - front scan by Arie de Reus |
This CD audio book promises "Featuring the songs of Bob Dylan and the
music that inspired him" and has excerpts of fourteen Dylan songs. As
these are rarities, full details are in 2010. Thanks to Ian Woodward for information and to Arie de Reus for the scan. |
"Playlist: The Very Best Of Bob Dylan '80s" - compilation CD+, Columbia/Legacy 88697 73811 2 (USA), 12 Oct 2010:
Columbia/Legacy 88697 73811 2 (USA) - front with sticker, scan by Gerd Rundel |
Columbia/Legacy 88697 73811 2 (USA) - front sticker scan by Gerd Rundel |
Columbia/Legacy 88697 73811 2 (USA) - picture from www.amazon.com |
Columbia/Legacy 88697 73811 2 (USA) - rear scan by Gerd Rundel |
Columbia/Legacy 88697 73811 2 (USA) - outside of unfolded sleeve, scan by David Plentus |
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Columbia/Legacy 88697 42942 2 (USA) - front scan by Stuart Moore (2009) |
This album is the part of the Sony Legacy "Playlist" series in "eco-friendly" packaging. The disc is in a card sleeve and the liner notes, pictures, etc., are supposed to be in a PDF file on the CD+ itself, but appear not to be, at least on my copy. The PDF link on the front sticker also does not work!
Tracklist:
Silvio
Foot Of Pride (from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, 1991)
Blind Willie McTell (from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, 1991)
Jokerman
Pressing On
Everything Is Broken
Series Of Dreams (alternate version, from The Bootleg Series Vol. 8, 2008)
Most Of The Time (acoustic version, from The Bootleg Series Vol. 8, 2008)
The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar
Every Grain Of Sand
Sweetheart Like You
Brownsville Girl (thanks to Georg Thoma for information that this is the alternate 1986 mix that first appeared on the 2007 3CD compilation Dylan)
Dignity (first original 1989 Oh Mercy
sessions version, from 1998 Touched By An Angel soundtrack album, later released
on the 2007 3CD compilation Dylan)
The version of Dignity that appeared on the 1994 Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
Vol. 3 was remixed by Brendan O'Brien. The Bootleg Series Vol. 8,
2008, contains a piano demo and an alternate 1989 take of Dignity.
Dark Eyes
For the 2008 '60s and 2009 '70s compilations see International Album Releases (Dylan-Only Compilations) 2000s. Both these are CD+ discs.
Thanks to Gerd Rundel, David Plentus and Stuart Moore for information and scans.
"Playlist: The Very Best Of Bob Dylan '80s" - compilation CD+, Sony Music SICP 3638 (Japan), 8 Aug 2012:
Sony Music SICP 3638 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Jack from Canada |
The Japanese edition of this compilation was released on the same day as the Japanese editions of the 2008 '60s and 2009 '70s compilations, see International Album Releases (Dylan-Only Compilations) 2000s (Sony Music SICP 3636 and SICP 3637). All of these are CD+ discs. The obi has a price of ¥1,300 (¥1,238 plus sales tax), a release date of "12-8-8" (8 Aug 2012), an original release date of "10-10-12" (12 Oct 2010 - the US release date above) and a withdrawal date of "13-2-7" (7 Feb 2013). |
Sony Music SICP 3638 (Japan) - rear with obi, scan by Jack from Canada |
Sony Music SICP 3638 (Japan) - rear insert scan by Jack from Canada |
Sony Music SICP 3638 (Japan) - obi scan by Jack from Canada |
Sony Music SICP 3638 (Japan) - CD scan by Jack from Canada |
Sony Music SICP 3638 (Japan) - CD+ screenshot by Jack from Canada |
Sony Music SICP 3638 (Japan) - CD+ screenshot by Jack from Canada |
Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - 2CD set, Sony Music 88697 78417 2 (Europe), 1 Oct 2010:
Sony Music 88697 78417 2 (Europe) - front scan by Ian Woodward |
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This new 36-track 2CD release in a "Super Jewel Box" is an updated version of the previous 2001 European 36-track 2CD set with the same title, see International Album Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 2000s. Both previous rarities are now officially released on regular Dylan albums. The 2000 American version with 30 tracks is listed in International Album Releases. There is a four panel double-sided insert. |
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The new tracklist, with six new songs, is:
Disc 1: Blowin' In The Wind; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; The Times They Are A-Changin'; It Ain't Me, Babe; Maggie's Farm; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Mr. Tambourine Man; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Like A Rolling Stone; Positively 4th Street (3:54 stereo version from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits and Biograph); I Want You; Just Like A Woman; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; All Along The Watchtower; Lay, Lady, Lay; If Not For You; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (1971 version with Happy Traum from Greatest Hits Vol. 2/More Greatest Hits); I Shall be Released (1971 version with Happy Traum from Greatest Hits Vol. 2/More Greatest Hits); Knockin' On Heaven's Door; Tangled Up In Blue (previously on Disc 2); Forever Young (slow version from Planet Waves, previously on Disc 2).
On earlier versions of Disc 1 were: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (from Biograph); Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) ("Basement Tapes" version with The Band from Biograph); I'll Be Your Baby Tonight.
Disc 2: Shelter From The Storm; Hurricane; Gotta Serve Somebody; Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar (new); Jokerman; Everything Is Broken; Blind Willie McTell (from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3); Not Dark Yet; Make You Feel My Love (new); Dignity (Alternate Version) (formerly R-0273 from the 550 Music/Sony Music Soundtrax compilation Touched By An Angel: The Album, 1998); Things Have Changed (formerly R-0299 from film soundtrack of Wonder Boys, see 2000); Mississippi (new, from "Love And Theft"); Thunder On The Mountain (new); When The Deal Goes Down (new); Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (new).
On earlier versions of Disc 2 were: Changing Of The Guards (1978 version); Tight Connection To My Heart; Silvio.
Thanks to Fred Muller and Harold Lepidus for information that this 2CD set was released by Sony Music in Germany on 8 Feb 2013 and in the UK on 11 Feb 2013 with ten 11" x 12.5" photographs as Music and Photos in 2013, see below. It was also re-released in 2014 as The Essential Bob Dylan again. A vinyl 2LP 23 track set was released in Europe in 2016, also see below.
Thanks to Ian Woodward for information and scans.
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - promo 2CD set, Sony Music 88697 78417 2 (Thailand), 1 Oct 2010:
Sony Music
88697 78417
2 (Thailand) - detail of outside of front
insert, scan by Ger Hemel ("Made in Thailand")
Sony Music
88697 78417
2 (Thailand) - detail of rear insert, scan by
Ger Hemel ("Made in Thailand")
Thanks to Ger Hemel for information and scans.
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964" - promo sampler CD-R, Sony Music (no catalogue number) (UK), Sep 2010:
"Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man" - radio broadcast CD-Rs, Sony Music Entertainment (no catalogue number) (USA), Oct 2010/(Australia/New Zealand), Jan 2011:
This radio programme hosted by Rita Houston and named after the James Joyce novel contains songs from both The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 and The Original Mono Recordings. There are also interviews with Roy Silver, Artie Mogull, Colin Escott and Steve Berkowitz.
There are two versions of the programme: a 54 min version with time allowed for advertisements, and also a 59 min version for public service broadcasting. Thanks to Fred Muller for information that this was broadcast by Radio New Zealand in two parts on 1 Jan 2011 and 8 Jan 2011. The Australian Sony Music version shown comes in a white card sleeve with front and rear stickers. The disc is a Verbatim CD-R with handwritten text.
59:00 Version
0:00 - 20:00 Segment 1
In: "He almost single-handedly eradicated Tin Pan Alley."
Out: "I'm Rita Houston, and you're listening to Bob Dylan: Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man."
20:00 - 21:00 Break 1 with music bed
21:00 - 40:00 Segment 2
In: "Welcome back to Bob Dylan: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'm Rita
Houston."
Out: "I'm Rita Houston, and you're listening to Bob Dylan: Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man."
40:00 - 41:00 Break 2 with music bed
41:00 - 59:00 Segment 3
In: "Welcome back to Bob Dylan: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'm Rita
Houston."
Out: "I'm Rita Houston, and thanks for listening."
54:00 Version
1. Billboard (1:00)
In: "He almost single-handedly eradicated Tin Pan Alley."
Out: "I'm Rita Houston, and welcome to Bob Dylan: Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man."
2. Segment 1 (16:00)
In: "Welcome back to Bob Dylan: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'm Rita
Houston."
Out: "I'm Rita Houston, and you're listening to Bob Dylan: Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man."
3. Break 1 with music bed (1:00)
4. Segment 2 (17:00)
In: "Welcome back to Bob Dylan: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'm Rita
Houston."
Out: "I'm Rita Houston, and you're listening to Bob Dylan: Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man."
Tracklisting (both versions):
Standing On The Highway (A); Long Ago, Far Away (A); Quit Your Low Down Ways (A); Walkin' Down The Line (A); Blowin’ In The Wind (A); Tomorrow is a Long Time (A); Don't Think Twice, (A); The Times They Are a-Changin' (A); The Times They Are a-Changin' (mono) (B); I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (B); Tombstone Blues (B); Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35 (B); Highway 61 Revisited (stereo excerpt) (C); Highway 61 Revisited (B); Bob Dylan's Blues (B); Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat (B).
From (A) The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964; (B) The Original Mono Recordings; (C) Highway 61 Revisited (stereo).
The program also includes covers of Blowin' In The Wind by Peter, Paul and Mary and Sam Cooke.
Thanks to Gerd Rundel and T. J. Jenkins for information and scans.
Various Artists - "American Legends: La Discothèque Ideal En 20 Albums Originaux [American Legends: The Ideal Discothèque In 20 Original Albums]" - 20CD boxed, Sony Music (catalogue number?) (France), 31 Oct 2011:
Picture from www.amazon.fr |
Thanks to John Willy Bakke for information about this French 20CD boxed set. Bob's contribution is Bringing It All Back Home. I assume this is the 2004 remastered CD release shown on the right. The 20 albums selected are listed below. |
Columbia 512353 2 (Europe) - front scan by Tom Willems |
"The Bob Dylan Sampler" - promo compilation 3CD set, Columbia/Sony Music 12473-BDD1/2/3 (USA), 10 Nov 2010:
This is a sampler sent to people in the media to encourage the use of Bob Dylan's songs for television and in movies. Sony Music makes them to be distributed around the industry. They are not for public sale. Tracks are as follows:
The Hits: The Times They Are A-Changin’; Blowin’ In The Wind; Like A Rolling Stone; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; All Along The Watchtower; Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door; Tangled Up In Blue; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Mr. Tambourine Man; Lay, Lady, Lay; Forever Young; Gotta Serve Somebody
Best of The Bootleg Series: Series Of Dreams; I Was Young When I Left Home; Mama, You Been On My Mind; Abandoned Love; Blind Willie McTell; Mississippi; I Wanna Be Your Lover; I’ll Keep It With Mine; Born In Time; Farewell Angelina; Up To Me; Paths Of Victory
Forgotten Gems (by whom? Not by me!): Ring Them Bells; Dignity; Not Dark Yet; Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?; It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue; Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine); If Not For You; Simple Twist Of Fate; Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar; Trying To Get To Heaven; High Water (For Charley Patton); When the Deal Goes Down
Thanks to Hervé from France for finding this on eBay and to Ian Woodward and Arie de Reus for further information.
"Chroniques Volume 1" - book + compilation CD in box, Folio/Sony Music 88697806262 (France), 18 Nov 2010:
Tracklist: Blowin' In The Wind; Mr. Tambourine Man; New Morning; Man In The Long Black Coat; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Just Like A Woman; One More Night; Spanish Harlem Incident; Desolation Row; I Want You.
Box closed, open showing contents, plus spine, pictures by Franck Faugere
Thanks to Franck Faugere for information and pictures.
2011
"All Time Best" - compilation CD, Sony Music 88697850802 (Germany), 5 Apr 2011:
Sony Music 88697850802 (Germany) - front picture from www.amazon.co.uk |
This exclusive German release produced in conjunction with the German
book company Reclam is actually the 18-track single CD release of Dylan
from 2007 with new artwork!
The front insert is a 16-page stapled booklet in German. Other titles in the series include albums from Johnny Cash and Santana. For more details see the Dylan page of International Album Releases (Regular Albums). Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin, Dr. Hanns Peter Bushoff and Gerd Rundel for information. |
Sony Music 88697850802 (Germany) - rear picture from www.amazon.co.uk |
Columbia/Legacy 88697 16131 2 (Austria for Europe) - front of 2007 single CD release, scan by Stuart Moore |
"Beyond Here Lies Nothin': The Collection" - compilation 2CD set, Sony Music/Camden Deluxe/Legacy 88697983862 (UK/Australia/NZ), 10 Oct 2011; Camden Deluxe/Sony Music/Legacy S30762C/88697983862 (South Korea), 2011:
Camden Deluxe/Legacy 88697983862 (UK) - front of slipcase (my copy) |
This budget 2CD collection in a slipcase is on sale in the UK for only £4.82
(€5.52/$7.46)! The front insert is a single folded card. Thanks to Fred Muller for the information - the track
listing is on the Australian press release below. For The Collection, a 2009 Camden single CD compilation in this series, see International Album Releases (Dylan-Only Compilations) 2000s. |
Camden Deluxe/Legacy 88697983862 (UK) - outside of unfolded front insert |
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Camden 88697538692 (UK) - front (2009 release, my copy) |
Camden Deluxe/Legacy 88697983862 (UK) - rear of slipcase |
Camden Deluxe/Legacy 88697983862 (UK) - inside of unfolded front insert |
Camden Deluxe/Legacy 88697983862 (UK) - detail of rear of slipcase |
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Camden Deluxe/Legacy 88697983862 (UK) - rear insert |
Camden Deluxe/Legacy 88697983862 (UK) - reverse of rear insert (under clear CD tray) |
Camden Deluxe/Legacy 88697983862 (UK) - CD1 |
Camden Deluxe/Legacy 88697983862 (UK) - CD2 |
Camden Deluxe/Legacy 88697983862
(UK) - spine of slipcase
Sonny Boy McFitzson has sent me a link to HMV Online in Japan where the catalogue number is given as "88697983872". I can only assume this is a mistake and there are not two different versions.
2012
"Pure Dylan: An Intimate Look At Bob Dylan" - CD release, Sony Music 88697988082 (Germany), 21 Oct 2011; Sony Music 886979880825 (Australia), 2012:
Sony Music 88697988082 (Germany) - front of digipak with sticker, scan by Gerd Rundel |
Because this album in a two fold digipak released only in Germany, Switzerland and Austria contains three Dylan rarities, full details are in 2011. The copy sold in Australia comes in a regular jewel case. Thanks to Dirk Krah, Éamonn Ó Catháin and Fred Muller for information and to Gerd Rundel and Stuart Moore for the scans. Special thanks to Dr. Hanns Peter Bushoff for his hard work in creating this compilation! |
Sony Music 886979880825 (Australia) - front scan by Stuart Moore |
"L'Explosion Rock 61/66" - 2CD release, Sony Music 88691944972 (France), 6 Mar 2012:
Sony Music 88691944972 (France) - front of 2CD set with sticker, scan by Jack from Canada |
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Sony Music 88691944972 (France) - CD2 scan by Jack from Canada |
Sony Music 88691944972 (France) - detail of front sticker from 2CD set, scan by Jack from Canada |
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Sony Music 88691944972 (France) - Musique & Photos rear scan by Tom Willems |
Sony Music 88691944972 (France) - page from inside of booklet, scan by Jack from Canada |
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"Télérama" magazine - picture from Hervé from France |
Sony Music 88691944972 (France) -
front sticker from 2CD set, scan by Jack
from Canada
Thanks to John Willy Bakke and Hervé from France for information about a Bob Dylan exhibition called "L'Explosion Rock 61-66" at the Cité de la Musique, Paris, France from 6 Mar 2012 to 15 Jul 2012. For more details, see here . This is being accompanied by a French Sony Music 2CD release being sold by www.amazon.fr called L'Explosion Rock 61/66 or as Musique & Photos in a limited edition 11½" x 13" box with ten Jerry Schatzberg frameable prints (approx 9½" x 11" each). The Musique & Photos set does not have the French language booklet that comes with the regular 2CD release.
The tracklisting goes up to 1966's Blonde On Blonde:
CD1: Blowin' In The Wind; Girl From The North Country; Masters Of War; One Too Many Mornings; Song To Woody; A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall; Like A Rolling Stone; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; To Ramona; I Shall Be Free; The Times They Are A-Changin'; With God On Our Side; Only A Pawn In Their Game; Boots Of Spanish Leather; All I Really Want To Do.
CD2: Mr. Tambourine Man; Chimes Of Freedom; My Back Pages; It Ain't Me, Babe; Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues; Desolation Row; Subterranean Homesick Blues; She Belongs To Me; Love Minus Zero/No Limit; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; Mama, You Been On My Mind (from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, 1991); One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later); I Want You; Just Like A Woman.
Sony Music 88691944962 (France) - box front scan by Jack from Canada |
The CDs are seven of the same discs as in the 2009 Dutch "De Volkskrant" 10CD boxed set The Bob Dylan 60s Collection, see International Album Releases (Multi-Packs) 2000s, dated 2009.The Other Side Of The Mirror: Bob Dylan Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 |
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Thanks also to Hervé for information about a special issue of the French magazine "Télérama" called "Dylan is Dylan" issued on 27 Feb 2012 to tie in with the Bob Dylan exhibition. A tie-in French-language book with DVD will also be released shortly. Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for further information, including the fact that Mama, You Been On My Mind is incorrectly credited to "Bob Dylan/Jeff Rosen" with a copyright date of 1991 (the year The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 was released) and Rainy Day Women #21 & 35 is mistitled "Rainy Day Woman...". Éamonn also thinks the sound of this compilation is superior, although the essay in French is full of errors, particularly with names of songs and albums. Thanks to Tom Willems and Renaud Depierreux for scans of the Musique & Photos 2CD set. Thanks to "Isis" newsletter 165½ for news that a Music & Photos set will be released by Sony Music in Germany on 8 Feb 2013 and in the UK on 11 Feb 2013, although not with the same tracklist, see below. Thanks to Fred Muller for scans of his exhibition ticket and eight-page programme.
Thanks to John Willy Bakke, Hervé, Fred Muller and Jack from Canada from France for information and scans.
"Super Hits" - compilation CD release, Sony Music 88725406342 (USA), 29 May 2012; reissue: Sony Music Entertainment 88843021682 (USA), 5 May 2015:
This budget compilation ($5) in the "Super Hits" series exclusive to Wal-Mart includes Like A Rolling Stone, Blowin' In The Wind and Knockin' On Heaven' Door. It was released generally in 2015 with a new catalogue number.
Thanks to Hank Wellman, Hans Seegers, Tim Dunn and Jack from Canada for information and scans.
"The Real... Bob Dylan: The Ultimate Bob Dylan Collection" - compilation 3CD release, Sony Music/Columbia Legacy 88725496802 (UK), 1 Oct 2012; Sony Music/Columbia Legacy 887254968023 (Australia), Oct 2012:
Sony Music/Columbia Legacy 88725496802 (UK):
This is one of a series of budget 3CD sets called The Real... xxx: The Ultimate xxx Collection (shown on the right at the top is the equivalent Elvis Presley compilation - RCA Victor was part of BMG, which merged with Sony in 2008). For The Real.. Blues Collection and The Real... Country Collection, both with Dylan tracks, see the 2015 and 2016 pages of International Compilations: Various Artists Albums with Dylan Songs. This set comes in a three panel folded digipak - there is no booklet. The CDs are designed to look like vinyl LPs. The compilation contains a few interesting choices as shown below. Tracklisting:
CBS CDCBS 66509 (NL for Europe) - front of CD release box, scan by Manuel García Jara |
CD1: Talkin' New York; Song To Woody; A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall; The Times They Are A-Changin'; With God On Our Side; Chimes Of Freedom; Boots Of Spanish Leather; Mr. Tambourine Man; It's All Right, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding); Like A Rolling Stone; I Want You; Positively 4th Street* (3:54); Down Along The Cove; All Along The Watchtower; I'll Be Your Baby Tonight; Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You. *This version of Positively 4th Street is the stereo version of the original single which is now to be found on CD only on 1985's Biograph. The stereo version on the non-US release The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 (see 2000) and on the 2012 remastered Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (US release) is a longer mix at 4:12. Thanks to Roger Ford for correcting this statement. |
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Columbia COL 494788 2 (Europe, 1999) - front scan by Franck Faugere |
CD2: If Not For You; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (the 1971 version from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 2, not the 1968 version from The Basement Tapes); Forever Young (unusually, the "fast" version from Planet Waves); Watching The River Flow; Knockin' On Heaven's Door; On A Night Like This; The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo); Precious Angel; Tangled Up In Blue; Gotta Serve Somebody; One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below); Changing Of The Guards (7:03, from 1999 remastered version of Street-Legal); Hurricane; Buckets Of Rain. | |
Columbia/Legacy 88697357952 (Europe, 2008) - front of slipcase with sticker (my copy) |
CD3: Silvio; Foot Of Pride; Blind Willie McTell; Jokerman; Pressing On;
Everything Is Broken; Series Of Dreams (6:25, alternate version from CD2 of 2008's
The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006);
Most Of The Time (3:35, alternate version from CD1 of 2008's The Bootleg Series
Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006); The Groom's Still
Waiting At The Altar (from revised LP and CD releases of Shot Of Love); Every Grain Of Sand; Sweetheart Like You; Brownsville
Girl*; Dignity** (5:36, original 1989 Oh Mercy out-take produced by Daniel
Lanois); Dark Eyes. *This version of Brownsville Girl is the alternate mix that first appeared on the 2007 Columbia/Legacy compilation Dylan and again on the US Columbia/Legacy compilations Playlist: The Very Best Of Bob Dylan '70s (2010). Thanks to Roger Ford for the information. The original mix of Brownsville Girl can be found on Knocked Out Loaded and Greatest Hits Vol. III. **This version of Dignity is not the 1994 Brendan O'Brien remixed version for Greatest Hits Vol. 3, but from the 550 Music/Sony Music Soundtrax compilation Touched By An Angel: The Album, see 1998. It was later included on the 2000 European/Japanese Columbia compilations The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, see 2000. It is now no longer a rarity since it is also included on the 3CD set Dylan (2007) on the bobdylan.com albums page. |
550 Music/Sony Music Soundtrax BK 68971 (USA, 1998) - front of jewel case with sticker (my copy) |
Thanks to Dag Braathen and Renaud Depierreux for information.
Sony Music/Columbia Legacy 887254968023 (Australia):
"Bob Dylan: The Essential" - compilation CD given away with "Correo Semanal [Weekly Mail]" newspaper, (no catalogue number) (Peru), 2012:
It has a unique tracklist: Knockin' On Heaven's Door; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Blowin' In The Wind; Highway 61 Revisited; Like A Rolling Stone; Mr. Tambourine Man; California*; A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall; Lay, Lady, Lay; Tell Me That It Isn't True.
*California is an early version of Outlaw Blues from Bringing It All Back Home with different lyrics (which appear in "Writings and Drawings" under this title, lyrics on bobdylan.com here), recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 13 Jan 1965. California was officially first released on NCIS: The Official TV Series Soundtrack Vol. 2 in 2009, when it was a rarity (now see International Album Releases (Various Artist Compilations) 2009), but is no longer a rarity since it was released in Nov 2015 on The Best of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12.
Thanks to Stuart Moore for information and scans.
"The 50th Anniversary Collection" - limited edition 4CD-R set, Sony Music 8876546022 (Europe), 28 Dec 2012:
Sony Music 8876546022 (Europe) - front scan from badlands.com |
This amazing 4CD-R set limited to 100 copies has been
released in order to keep the European copyrights for the included material out of
the public domain. It contains 86 tracks from 1962 including
studio sessions tracks and live recordings, almost all officially
unreleased, including 24 tracks previously uncirculating. For the full track listings see
2012. Thanks to Steven Jump of Badlands for the information and the copy! |
Sony Music 8876546022 (Europe) - alternate front found by Freddy Ordóñez Araque |
2013
"Music & Photos" - 2CD set, Sony Music 9781908709301 (mainland Europe), 8 Feb 2013/(UK), 11 Feb 2013:
Sony Music 9781908709301 (Europe) - front with sticker, scan by Jack from Canada |
This 2CD set comes with ten 11" x 12.5" photographs and is part of the new "Music & Photos" series, made to attract fans who still enjoy purchasing physical product, as opposed to intangible downloads. The initial releases in the "Music & Photos" series also feature Jeff Buckley, Elvis Presley, and Miles Davis. Each CD set in the series will be packaged with ten photographic prints, housed in a large book-style wallet (11.4" x 0.4" x 12.9"). The tracks included in the Dylan release are the same as the Oct 2010 European revised version of The Essential Bob Dylan (see above and 2014 below). It was not released in the USA. Jack from Canada's copy has an English language sticker on the front and a French language sticker with a price of €25 on the rear. A vinyl 2LP 23 track set of The Essential Bob Dylan was released in Europe in 2016, also see below. A single LP called Vinyle & Photos with the same front artwork was released in France on 25 Nov 2018, see below. |
Sony Music 9781908709301 (Europe) - front sticker scan by Jack from Canada |
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Sony Music 9781908709301 (Europe) - front scan by Manuel García Jara |
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Sony Music 9781908709301 (Europe) - picture from www.examiner.com (slightly different front design) |
Sony Music 9781908709301 (Europe) - CD1 scan by Manuel García Jara |
Sony Music 9781908709301 (Europe) - inside of book unfolded with discs and photos, scan by Manuel García Jara |
Sony Music 9781908709301 (Europe) - inside of book unfolded with discs but with photos removed showing tracklist, scan by Manuel García Jara |
Sony Music 9781908709301 (Europe) - CD2 scan by Manuel García Jara |
Thanks to Fred Muller, Harold Lepidus, Manuel García Jara and Jack from Canada for information and scans.
"Threads + Grooves" - CD + T-shirt, Columbia/Legacy 88765 45046 2 (USA), 12 Feb 2013:
Columbia/Legacy 88765 45046 2 (USA) - front picture from www.amazon.com |
This release in a new "Threads + Grooves" series is a 8½" x 5¼" x 2" box with a large black T-shirt (a 1966 photo of Dylan in shades) and the 2008 compilation CD+ Playlist: The Very Best Of Bob Dylan '60s (see International Album Releases (Dylan-Only Compilations) 2000s). The CD is in a plastic jewel box (unlike its earlier namesake which came in a card sleeve) with a different catalogue number than the complete package, and its predecessor: 88697 84573 2 (number on disk and spine of jewel box). The front is the same on both issues but the rear is somewhat different as the earlier release has text "what makes the perfect playlist?" and "100% recycled paperboard" while the new release does not. More scans required! (Hank Wellman says that the album is on sale in "Best Buy" separately in a jewel case) Thanks to Tim Dunn for information. |
"Un Ora Con Bob Dylan [An Hour With Bob Dylan]" - compilation CD, Sony Music 8883753692 (Italy), 10 Jul 2013:
Thanks to Tim Price for information about this single CD compilation exclusive to Italy and to Jack from Canada for further information and scans.
"Bob Dylan: Seleção Essencial - Grandes Sucessos" - compilation CD, Sony Music 88725480042 (Brazil), 2013:
Sony Music 88725480042 (Brazil) - front scan by Manuel García Jara |
This is a limited edition re-release of The Collection from 2009,
restricted to 5000 copies. For full details see
International
Album Releases (Dylan-Only Compilations) 2000s. Thanks to Manuel García Jara for information and scan. |
"Bootleg 10 - Compilation 1" - promo compilation CD-R, Columbia (no catalogue number) (USA), Aug 2013:
"The Complete Album Collection Vol. One Sampler" - 3CD-R promo set, Columbia/Sony Music (no catalogue number) (USA), Oct 2013/(Europe), 4 Nov 2013:
Insert front scan by Anthony Perry |
This 3CD-R sampler for the 47CD set below comes in three
plastic wallets with paper inserts. The front of each insert is the same.
The CD-Rs are numbered and watermarked. This sampler contains one track from
each of the 41 albums below and CD-R1 contains a rarity,
Lily Of The West
from 1973's Dylan, so the set is listed in
2013. Thanks to Gerd Rundel for finding this on eBay and to Anthony Perry for scans. |
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Rear of insert 1, scan by Anthony Perry |
CD-R1 scan by Anthony Perry |
Rear of insert 2, scan by Anthony Perry |
CD-R2 scan by Anthony Perry |
Rear of insert 3, scan by Anthony Perry |
CD-R3 scan by Anthony Perry |
"The Very Best Of Bob Dylan" - compilation CD (Standard Edition), Sony Music 88883784442 (Europe), 4 Nov 2013/Sony Music 88883784442 (Australia), 27 Jul 2018; compilation 2CD set (Deluxe Edition), Sony Music 88883784432 (Europe), 4 Nov 2013; Sony Music SICP 30135-6 (Japan), 7 Dec 2016:
The contents of the CDs are as follows:
Single CD set: | Deluxe 2CD set: | |
1. Like A Rolling Stone 2. Blowin' In The Wind 3. Subterranean Homesick Blues 4. Lay, Lady, Lay 5. Knockin' On Heaven's Door 6. I Want You 7. All Along The Watchtower 8. Tangled Up In Blue 9. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 10. Hurricane 11. Just Like A Woman 12. Mr. Tambourine Man 13. It Ain't Me, Babe 14. The Times They Are A-Changin' 15. Duquesne Whistle 16. Baby, Stop Crying* 17. Make You Feel My Love 18. Thunder On The Mountain |
Disc 1 (same as single CD): 1. Like A Rolling Stone 2. Blowin' In The Wind 3. Subterranean Homesick Blues 4. Lay, Lady, Lay 5. Knockin' On Heaven's Door 6. I Want You 7. All Along The Watchtower 8. Tangled Up In Blue 9. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 10. Hurricane 11. Just Like A Woman 12. Mr. Tambourine Man 13. It Ain't Me, Babe 14. The Times They Are A-Changin' 15. Duquesne Whistle 16. Baby, Stop Crying* 17. Make You Feel My Love 18. Thunder On The Mountain |
Disc 2: 1. Maggie's Farm 2. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 3. Girl From The North Country 4. Positively 4th Street (from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, included on Side Tracks) 5. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 6. Shelter From The Storm 7. Mississippi 8. (Quinn the Eskimo) The Mighty Quinn (live at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival from Self Portrait*) 9. I Shall Be Released (from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II, included on Side Tracks) 10. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 11. Forever Young (slow version) 12. Gotta Serve Somebody 13. Things Have Changed (from the Wonder Boys soundtrack, see 2000, and The Essential Bob Dylan, included on Side Tracks) 14. Jokerman 15. Not Dark Yet 16. Ring Them Bells 17. Beyond Here Lies Nothin' |
*remastered for The Complete Album Collection Vol. One.
Standard Edition (1CD): Sony Music 88883784442 (Europe), 4 Nov 2013:
Sony Music
88883784442
(Europe) - detail of rear insert, scan by Jack from Canada ("Made in the
EU")
Standard Edition (1CD): Sony Music 88883784442 (Australia), 27 Jul 2018:
Deluxe Edition (2CD): Sony Music 88883784432 (Europe), 4 Nov 2013:
Sony Music
88883784432 (Europe) - detail of rear insert
The Deluxe Edition comes in a slimline 2CD jewel case with a card slipcase. The front insert is an eight-page stapled booklet with The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 - Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) and The Complete Album Collection Vol. One advertised in the centre. Both the packaging and the CDs were made in the EU.
Sony Music SICP 30135-6 (Japan), 7 Dec 2016:
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The Japanese 2CD release belatedly issued in Dec 2016 has an obi price of
¥2,500 plus sales tax. The CDs are in Blu-spec CD2 format and it has a rear
insert exclusive to Japan with artwork by Jun Miura.
The front has the same sticker as the Japanese release of
the 36CD boxed set The 1966 Live Recordings celebrating Bob being
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, with text: The answer, my friend, is in this. The Japanese booklet has essays by Jun Miura and Naoki Urasawa. |
Sony Music SICP 30135-6 (Japan), Deluxe 2CD Edition (35 tracks) - rear photo from www.discogs.com |
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin, Wil Gielen, Stuart Moore and Jack from Canada for information and scans.
"Side Tracks" - 2CD set, Columbia/Legacy 88691924312JK42 (USA/Europe), 4 Nov 2013; Sony Music SICP 30519-20 (Japan), 26 Mar 2014; Limited edition 3LP set, Columbia/Legacy 88883772551 (USA), 29 Nov 2013; Columbia/Legacy/Music On Vinyl MOVLP964 (NL for Europe), 29 Nov 2013:
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88691924312JK42 (USA/Europe) - outside of unfolded card sleeve of 2CD set (my copy) |
This 2CD non-album track compilation from The Complete Album Collection Vol. One contains a rarity (R-0085, George Jackson - acoustic version, B-side of 1971 Columbia single, see 1971). Also, Mixed-Up Confusion is now confirmed as the alternate take from the 1985 release of Biograph (R-0748, see 1985), not the stereo mix of the original 1962 single that appeared on the 1997 remastered edition of Biograph (R-0007, see 1997)! Because of the rarities, full details are in 2013. The Japanese 2CD set comes on Blu-Spec CD2 discs and has an orange/white top obi. There is also a Japanese language booklet. Side Tracks was also released in the USA and Europe as a Record Store Day limited numbered edition 3LP set in a three panel gatefold sleeve. Thanks to Gerd Rundel and Sonny Boy McFitzson for information and scans. |
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Sony Music SICP 30519-20 (Japan) - front of card sleeve of 2CD set with obi, scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson |
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"50th Anniversary Collection 1963" - 6LP stereo/mono vinyl boxed set, Columbia/Legacy 88883799701 (Europe), 2 Dec 2013:
Columbia/Legacy 88883799701 (Europe) - front of box (my copy) |
Thanks to Derek Barker, Harold Lepidus, Philip Jump and Ronald Born for news of a second instalment of the 50th Anniversary Collection to be released on 2 Dec 2013. The 2012 release was a very limited 4CD-R set covering unreleased studio and live performances from 1962, this 2013 release is a 6LP stereo/mono vinyl boxed set covering unreleased studio and live performances from 1963. The set will be on sale from independent retailers only in the UK, France, Germany and Scandinavia. The tracklisting is pasted on the rear of the box. The individual LPs are come in inner sleeves numbered 88883799701JK1 to 88883799701JK6 on the rear of the sleeves at bottom right. Because every track of this set is a rarity, full details are in 2013. |
Columbia/Legacy 88883799701 (Europe) - rear of box (my copy) |
2014
"The 60s" - compilation CD, Sony Music 88883780142 (USA), 27 Jan 2014:
This is not a reissue of the 14-track 2008 compilation Playlist: The Very Best Of Bob Dylan '60s, see International Album Releases (Dylan-Only Compilations) 2000s. In fact it has only four tracks in common!
The reverse of the rear insert (under the clear tray) is two shades of grey, with the catalogue number at lower right.
Thanks to Dag Braathen, Tim Dunn, Hans Seegers and Jack from Canada for information and scans.
"The 70s" - compilation CD, Sony Music 88883780162 (USA), 27 Jan 2014:
This is not a reissue of the 14-track 2009 compilation Playlist: The Very Best Of Bob Dylan '70s, see International Album Releases (Dylan-Only Compilations) 2000s. Again it has only four tracks in common. It's unusual in that This Wheel's On Fire is a 1960s song (although released on 1975's The Basement Tapes), and Tangled Up In Blue is missing!
The reverse of the rear insert (under the clear tray) is two shades of grey, with the catalogue number at lower right.
Thanks to Dag Braathen, Tim Dunn and Jack from Canada for information and scans.
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - 2CD set, Sony Music 88843059232 (Europe), 28 Apr 2014; gold 2CD release: Sony Music 19075978222 (Australia), 2019:
This new 32-track 2CD release in a "Super Jewel Box" is yet another updated version of the previous 2001 European 2CD set with the same title, see 2001. See above for the 2010 release.
Tim Dunn's copy has a red sticker as shown on the shrink wrap, with black and white print which reads "2 CDs of Essential Bob Dylan Updated Edition".
The new tracklist, with one new song and some restored from previous Essential releases, is:
Disc 1: Blowin' In The Wind; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; The Times They Are A-Changin'; It Ain't Me, Babe; Maggie's Farm; ; Mr. Tambourine Man; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Like A Rolling Stone; Positively 4th Street (3:54 stereo version from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits and Biograph); Just Like A Woman; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; All Along The Watchtower; Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) ("Basement Tapes" version with The Band from Biograph); I'll Be Your Baby Tonight; Lay, Lady, Lay; If Not For You;
On earlier versions of Disc 1 were: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (from Biograph); I Want You.
Disc 2: I Shall be Released (1971 version with Happy Traum from Greatest Hits Vol. 2/More Greatest Hits); You Ain't Going Nowhere (1971 version with Happy Traum from Greatest Hits Vol. 2/More Greatest Hits); Knockin' On Heaven's Door; Forever Young (slow version from Planet Waves, back on Disc 2); Tangled Up In Blue (back on Disc 2); Hurricane; Ring Them Bells; Gotta Serve Somebody; Jokerman; Not Dark Yet; Things Have Changed (formerly R-0299 from film soundtrack of Wonder Boys, see 2000); Make You Feel My Love; Mississippi (from "Love And Theft"); Beyond Here Lies Nothin'; Duquesne Whistle (new, from Tempest); When The Deal Goes Down.
On earlier versions of Disc 2 were: Changing Of The Guards (1978 version); Shelter From The Storm; Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar; Tight Connection To My Heart; Silvio; Everything Is Broken; Blind Willie McTell (from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3); Dignity (Alternate Version) (formerly R-0273 from the 550 Music/Sony Music Soundtrax compilation Touched By An Angel: The Album, 1998); Thunder On The Mountain.
A vinyl 2LP 23 track set was released in Europe in 2016, also see below. A "Gold Series" edition with exactly the same 32 tracks was released in Australia in 2019.
Thanks to Tom Willems, Tim Dunn and Stuart Moore for information and scans.
"Playlist: The Very Best Of Bob Dylan" - compilation CD, Columbia/Legacy 88875002312 (USA), 23 Sep 2014; Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88875002312 (Europe/Australia), 22 Sep 2014; Columbia/Legacy 88875166212 (Canada), 2014; Columbia/Legacy 88875166222 (USA), 11 Dec 2015:
Columbia/Legacy 88875002312 (USA), 23 Sep 2014; Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88875002312 (Europe/Australia), 22 Sep 2014:
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88875002312 (Europe) - picture from www.amazon.co.uk (2014 release - 2014 US Columbia/Legacy release is the same) |
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin
and Tim Dunn for information about this 14-track single CD compilation. Tim Dunn's US copy (not shown) has a front sticker including the text "THE HITS PLUS THE FAN FAVORITES". |
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88875002312 (Australia) - outside of front insert, scan by Jack from Canada |
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88875002312 (Australia) - front scan by Jack from Canada |
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88875002312 (Australia) - rear insert scan by Jack from Canada |
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88875002312 (Australia) - inside of front insert, scan by Jack from Canada |
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88875002312 (Australia) - detail of CD, scan by Jack from Canada |
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88875002312 (Australia) - CD scan by Jack from Canada |
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88875002312 (Australia) -
detail of rear insert, scan by Jack from Canada (2014 release)
This set comes with a 12 page booklet of photos with liner notes by Tom Piazza.
Tracklisting: Blowin In The Wind; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Mr. Tambourine Man; Like A Rolling Stone; Just Like A| Woman; Lay, Lady, Lay; Tangled Up In Blue; Hurricane; Gotta Serve Somebody; Jokerman; Make You Feel My Love; Things Have Changed; Thunder On The Mountain; Duquesne Whistle.
Scans of the US and European releases required!
Columbia/Legacy 88875166212 (Canada), 2014; Columbia/Legacy 88875166222 (USA), 11 Dec 2015:
Columbia/Legacy 88875166212 (Canada) - front scan by Jack from Canada |
These release have a different front design and catalogue number. Tim Dunn has a second US copy, probably from 2015, with this different front. The rear (not shown) is the same as that of the first copy, except for the catalogue number. Jack from Canada's 2014 Canadian release has the same front design. |
Columbia/Legacy 88875166222 (USA) - picture from www.alibris.com (2015 release) |
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Columbia/Legacy 88875166212 (Canada) - rear insert scan by Jack from Canada |
Columbia/Legacy 88875166212 (Canada) - outside of front insert, scan by Jack from Canada |
Columbia/Legacy 88875166212 (Canada) - detail of CD, scan by Jack from Canada |
Columbia/Legacy 88875166212 (Canada) - CD scan by Jack from Canada |
Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.
Bob Dylan/The Band - "The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 - The Basement Tapes Sampler" - promo CD and reel-to-reel tape releases, Columbia/Legacy 88875033852 (USA), Oct 2014:
This 15 track promo sampler CD comes in a jewel case with a clear CD tray, a single card front insert and a rear insert.
Track list (all presumably selected from the Raw 2CD set): Odds And Ends; Million Dollar Bash; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (take 1); Ain't No More Cane; One Too Many Mornings; Dress It Up, Better Have It All; Too Much Of Nothing; Lo And Behold!; All You Have To Do Is Dream; Nothing Was Delivered; Folsom Prison Blues; Don't Ya Tell Henry; 900 Miles From My Home; I'm Your Teenage Prayer; I Shall Be Released.
Front of tape box scan by Gerd Rundel |
Tape reel scan by Arie de Reus |
There is also a limited promotional edition of 100 copies of a ten-track reel-to-reel tape, packaged in a reproduction tape box of the type used by Garth Hudson in 1967. Track list: Million Dollar Bash; Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread; Please, Mrs. Henry; Crash On The Levee; Lo And Behold!; Tiny Montgomery; This Wheel's On Fire; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere; I Shall Be Released; Too Much Of Nothing. Thanks to Arie de Reus for information that these ten tracks are the original Garth Hudson mixes, and not taken from either the CD releases. The ten performances are therefore rarities and have been added to 2014.
Thanks to Tim Dunn, Gerd Rundel and Arie de Reus for information and pictures.
Bob Dylan/The Band - "The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 - The Basement Tapes One Hour Radio Special: 59:00 Version" - promo CD-R release, Columbia/Legacy (no catalogue number) (USA), Nov 2014:
"50th Anniversary Collection 1964" - 9LP stereo/mono vinyl boxed set, Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88875040861 (Europe), 8 Dec 2014:
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88875040861 (Europe) - front picture found by Freddy Ordóñez Araque |
Thanks to Keith Venturoni, Freddy Ordóñez Araque, Tom Schreck and Hervé from France for information about this 9LP set. Because every track of this set is a rarity, full details are in 2014. |
2015
Bob Dylan/The Band - "The Basement Tape" - mono vinyl LP releases, Other People's Music OPM 281/ Columbia/Legacy 88875064261 (USA/UK/NL), 18 Apr 2015:
Other People's Music OPM 281/ Columbia/Legacy 88875064261 (USA) - front with wraparound cover, photo by Steven Fant (200gm "Big Pink" vinyl edition, red text) |
As part of Record Store Day on 18 Apr 2015 in the USA and UK (also Holland) there were three vinyl releases of The Basement Tape signed by Garth Hudson, available in mono only. They reproduce the original 1968 Emidisc UK 14 track test pressing LP, reportedly the source of the songs made available to UK groups such as Manfred Mann (The Mighty Quinn), The Brian Auger Trinity/Julie Driscoll (This Wheel's On Fire), Fairport Convention (Million Dollar Bash), etc., see 1968. |
Other People's Music OPM 281/ Columbia/Legacy 88875064261 (USA) - front with wraparound cover, photo by Steven Fant (180gm "Bootleg Black" vinyl edition, blue text) |
Other People's Music OPM 281/ Columbia/Legacy 88875064261 (USA) - front with wraparound cover (my copy, 130gm "Basic Black" vinyl edition, black text |
As none of the tracks are now rarities, these releases have been added to The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 - The Basement Tapes Complete/Raw page of International Albums (Regular).
Thanks to Steven Fant for information and pictures.
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: Bob Dylan 1965-1966 The Cutting Edge Sampler" - promo compilation CD release, Columbia/Legacy 88875170652 (USA), Oct 2015:
Columbia/Legacy 88875170652 (USA) - detail of
rear, scan by Stephan Pickering
Thanks to Stephan Pickering and Michel Pomarede for information and scans.
"50th Anniversary Collection 1965" - 208 track download, Columbia/Legacy (no catalogue number) (USA), 4 Dec 2015:
Full details of the 50th Anniversary Collection 1965 208 track download available only to purchasers of The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 - Bob Dylan 1965-1966 The Cutting Edge Collector's Edition are here. Thanks to Bob Stacy for his extensive analysis! |
2016
"Dylan Revisited: All Time Best" - 5CD boxed set, Sony Music Sony Music SICP 4761-65 (Japan), 13 Apr 2016:
The publicity says this is the first Dylan compilation exclusively released by Sony Music Japan, but reading the "Dylan-only Compilations" pages of this web-site will quickly show that this is very much untrue! There have been many exclusive Japanese compilation releases from the 1960s onwards.
Tracklisting:
CD1 1. Song to Woody 2. Blowin' in the Wind 3. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 4. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 5. The Times They Are A-Changin' 6. One Too Many Mornings 7. All I Really Want to Do 8. It Ain't Me, Babe 9. My Back Pages 10. Subterranean Homesick Blues 11. Maggie's Farm 12. Mr. Tambourine Man 13. Like a Rolling Stone 14. Highway 61 Revisited 15. Queen Jane Approximately 16. Positively 4th Street 17. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again 18. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 |
CD2 1. I Want You 2. Just Like a Woman 3. All Along the Watchtower 4. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 5. I Threw It All Away 6. Lay Lady Lay 7. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You 8. This Wheel's on Fire 9. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (from The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 - The Basement Tapes Raw, The Basement Tapes 1975 version without overdubs) 10. Wigwam 11. If Not for You 12. The Man in Me 13. I Shall Be Released (Happy Traum version from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II) 14. Watching the River Flow 15. Knockin' On Heaven's Door 16. On a Night Like This 17. Forever Young (slow version) 18. Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine (from Before the Flood) 19. Tangled Up in Blue 20. Simple Twist of Fate 21. Hurricane |
CD3 1. Mozambique 2. One More Cup of Coffee 3. Changing of the Guards 4. Gotta Serve Somebody 5. Precious Angel 6. Jokerman 7. Sweetheart Like You 8. The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar 9. Every Grain of Sand 10. Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love?) 11. Brownsville Girl 12. Silvio 13. Everything Is Broken 14. Ring Them Bells 15. Most of the Time |
CD4 1. Under the Red Sky 2. Dignity (the Oh Mercy outtake that first appeared on Touched By An Angel: the Album, 1998, and then on Dylan, 2007) 3. Not Dark Yet 4. Tryin' to Get to Heaven 5. Things Have Changed 6. Make You Feel My Love 7. Summer Days 8. Po' Boy 9. Someday Baby 10. When the Deal Goes Down 11. Workingman's Blues #2 12. Beyond Here Lies Nothin' 13. I Feel a Change Comin' On 14. Duquesne Whistle 15. Long and Wasted Years 16. That Lucky Old Sun |
CD5 - The Best of The Bootleg Series (including Biograph) 1. Dink's Song 2. Worried Blues 3. Mama, You Been on My Mind 4. Farewell, Angelina 5. I'll Keep It with Mine (Biograph version) 6. Lay Down Your Weary Tune 7. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (from The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 - The Cutting Edge) 8. Tell Me Momma (from The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 - Live 1966) 9. All You Have to Do Is Dream (Take 2) 10. Pretty Saro (Unreleased) This is actually the version from The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 - Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) (CD1, track 3), which was unreleased until 2013. 11. Blind Willie McTell 12. Abandoned Love 13. Series of Dreams (from CD2 of Tell Tale Signs) 14. Born in Time (from Tell Tale Signs) 15. Cold Irons Bound (R-0617, from Masked & Anonymous, see 2003 and VHS & DVD 2000s Part 2) 16. Mississippi (from CD1 of Tell Tale Signs) 17. High Water (For Charley Patton) (from Tell Tale Signs) |
Because this set contains a rarity, it is also listed in 2016.
Thanks to Sonny Boy McFitzson, Freddy Ordóñez Araque, Les Kokay and Jack from Canada for information and scans.
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - stereo 2LP set, Columbia
88985309551
3 (USA); Columbia/Sony Music
88985309551 (Europe), 8 Jul 2016:
Tim Dunn informs me that there is also a vinyl release in the USA which can
be bought at record stores and Barnes & Noble, although the copies being sold in
the USA on www.amazon.com are from Europe.
Columbia 88985309551 3 (USA), 8 Jul 2016:
Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - front picture from www.amazon.com |
Thanks to Matthew Cianci for information about this
2LP set, a new version of the 2000 2CD compilation album, released in
Europe on 8 Jul 2016. It contains only 23 tracks (the original 2000 CD
release had 30 tracks, although 36 track and updated versions have been released
since), but Side 4 includes three tracks not released in 2000, up to Long
And Wasted Years from Tempest in 2012. For the previous 2010 and 2014
2CD sets, see above. The set comes in a wide single sleeve that holds both records, not a gatefold sleeve. The records are in plain white paper inner sleeves. There is a double-sided insert with release dates of all the tracks, credits, etc. The records have silver Columbia record labels. |
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Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - rear Argentinean barcode sticker scan by Sergio Mariano Romay |
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Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - Side 1 scan by Sergio Mariano Romay |
Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - detail of Side 1, scan by Sergio Mariano Romay |
Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - Side 2 scan by Sergio Mariano Romay |
Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - Side 3 scan by Sergio Mariano Romay |
Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - Side 4 scan by Sergio Mariano Romay |
Columbia/Sony Music
88985309551
(USA) - detail of rear, scan by Sergio Mariano Romay
Columbia/Sony Music
88985309551
(USA) - spine scan by Sergio Mariano Romay
Tracklisting:
Side 1: Blowin' In the Wind; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; The Times They Are A-Changin'; It Ain't Me Babe; Maggie's Farm; Mr. Tambourine Man; Subterranean Homesick Blues
Side 2: Like a Rolling Stone; Positively 4th Street; Just Like a Woman; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; Lay, Lady, Lay; Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Side 3: Forever Young; 2. Tangled up in Blue; Gotta Serve Somebody; Jokerman; Make You Feel My Love
Side 4: Things Have Changed; Mississippi; When the Deal Goes Down; Beyond Here Lies Nothin'; Long and Wasted Years.
This album is listed in International Album Releases (Regular Dylan Albums), but also here for completion.
Sergio Mariano Romay's copy was bought in Argentina, and has a local barcode sticker on the rear sleeve. The records were made in the USA and have handwritten matrix numbers: Side 1 -88985 309 551-A NRP, Side 2 - 88985 309 551-B WG/NRP, Side 3 - 88985 309 551-C NRP, Side 4 - 88985 309551-D NRP. "WG/NRP" means the records were mastered by Wes Garland at Nashville Record Productions, Nashville, TN.
Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe), 8 Jul 2016:
Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - front with sticker, scan by Gerd Rundel |
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Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - insert rear scan by Gerd Rundel |
Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - detail of insert rear, scan by Gerd Rundel |
Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - Side 1 scan by Gerd Rundel |
Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - detail of Side 1, scan by Gerd Rundel |
Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - Side 2 scan by Gerd Rundel |
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Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - Side 4 scan by Gerd Rundel |
Columbia/Sony Music
88985309551
(Europe) - detail of rear, scan by Gerd Rundel
The European release has the same front sleeve and sticker. The rear sleeve now has the Sony Music logo at bottom left. The records were made in the EU and again have silver Columbia record labels, this time with handwritten matrix numbers: Side 1 - 88985309551, Side 2 - 88985309551, Side 3 - 88985309551, Side 4 - 88985309551 (different from the US record matrix numbers). There are also stamped matrix numbers opposite the handwritten matrix numbers on all four sides but they are too faint to be readable.
Thanks to Sergio Mariano Romay and Gerd Rundel for information and scans.
"The 1966 Live Recordings" - 36CD set, Columbia/Legacy 889853581924 (USA), 11 Nov 2016; Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 889853581924 (Europe), 11 Nov 2016; Sony Music SICP 5101-5136 (Japan), 23 Nov 2016:
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 889853581924 (Europe) - front of box (my copy) |
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin and Fred Muller for news that the "50th Anniversary Collection" this year will be a massive 36CD boxed set to be called The 1966 Live Recordings, released on 11 Nov 2016. Full details will be listed here. The track list of all 36 CDs is available online and more information will be given when available, but many online sources have already sold out. CDs 28-29 have been separately released on CD and vinyl as The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert!, see International Albums (Regular). CDs 1 and 2 have been separately released on vinyl in Australia only as Live In Sydney 1966, see 2016. |
Columbia/Legacy/ Sony Music 889853581924 (Europe) - rear of box |
2017
"Bob Dylan Gold: The Answer Is Blowin' In The Wind - Korean Fan's Selection" - 2CD set, Sony Music S40560C/88985425152 (South Korea), 28 Feb 2017:
This two-disc set with a very long title comes in a 5½" x 7½" three-panel digipak. There is a 20 page booklet and a 44 page book (with spine). Also included in the package is a three-panel advert and a double-sided Instagram card. All tracks can now be found on regular albums.
CD1: Knockin' On Heaven's Door; Mr. Tambourine Man; Just Like A Woman; I Shall be Released; One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below); Like A Rolling Stone; Tomorrow Is A Long Time; Lay, Lady, Lay; Positive 4th Street; Shelter From The Storm; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Forever Young; Dignity; Gotta Serve Somebody; Under The Red Sky; Queen Jane Approximately.
CD2: Blowin' In The Wind; A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Duquesne Whistle; Make You feel My Love; Hurricane; Maggie's Farm; She Belongs To Me; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Ballad Of A Thin Man; I Want You; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; Girl From The North Country (with Johnny Cash); Tangled Up In Blue; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; If Not For You; Shooting Star; Watching The River Flow; Bob Dylan's Blues.
I Shall Be Released, Tomorrow Is A Long Time and Watching The River Flow are from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 2. Forever Young is the Slow Version from Planet Waves. Dignity is the original out-take version from Oh Mercy that first appeared on the Touched By An Angel TV series soundtrack album (formerly R-0273, see 1998, but no longer a rarity after appearing on 2007's Dylan).
The set also comes with two booklets, lots of photos, and liner notes in South Korean. Mike Richardson says the tracklist has enough "outside-of-the-box" choices (e.g. Queen Jane Approximately, Shooting Star and Bob Dylan's Blues) to keep it interesting.
Sony Music S40560C/88985425152 (South Korea) -
detail of outside of digipak, scan by Jack from Canada
Sony Music S40560C/88985425152 (South Korea) -
spine of digipak, scan by Jack from Canada
Thanks to Mike Richardson and Jack from Canada for information and pictures.
"Triplicate" - promo CD sampler, Columbia 88985423452 (USA), Mar 2017:
"Originals/Covers" - promo 2CD compilation, Sony Music/ATV (no catalogue number) (Germany), 2017:
Front with notepad and discs (my copy) |
Front with notepad but without discs |
Rear |
Detail of rear |
CD1 (Originals) |
CD2 (Covers) |
This 2017 2CD set created for promotional purposes by Sony Music/ATV Germany has two discs fixed to a thick 12" card, one disc of Dylan originals, one disc of Dylan covers. The image is a still from Bob's 1965 Subterranean Homesick Blues video. There is also a notepad with a quote from Tombstone Blues from Highway 61 Revisited on the top sheet. The tracklist is:
Originals: I Want You; Shelter From The Storm; Forever Young (Slow Version); Duquesne Whistle; Like A Rolling Stone; Love Sick; Jokerman; Gotta Serve Somebody; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; New Morning; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Simple Twist Of Fate; Hurricane; Thunder On the Mountain; Every Grain Of Sand; I Shall Be Released (all standard album versions).
Covers: Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat [Beck]; Ring Them Bells [Sufjan Stevens]; Outlaw Blues [Queens Of The Stone Age]; Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again [Cat Power]; Mama, You Been On My Mind [Jeff Buckley]; Make You Feel My Love [Bryan Ferry]; One More Cup Of Coffee [Robert Plant]; Just Like A Woman [Nina Simone]; It Ain't Me, Babe [Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash]; Lord Protect My Child [Susan Tedeschi]; Nobody 'Cept You [16 Horsepower]; It's All Over, Baby Blue [Them]; The Times They Are A-Changin' [Keb' Mo']; All Along The Watchtower [Jimi Hendrix]; Maggie's Farm [Rage Against The Machine]; Knockin' On Heaven's Door [Anthony And The Johnsons].
Thanks to Manuel García Jara for this 2CD promo set!
"Deep Dylan: Das Beste Aus Der Legendären Bootleg-Series [Deep Dylan: The Best Of The Legendary Bootleg-Series]" - CD included with "Rolling Stone" magazine Nov 2017, Rolling Stone (no catalogue number) (Germany), 27 Oct 2017.
This selection compiled by German "Rolling Stone" editor Maik Brüggemeyer is included with the Nov 2017 issue of the German edition of the magazine, and includes ten tracks from editions of The Bootleg Series including a currently unreleased "country-style" version of Caribbean Wind from The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 - Trouble No More 1979-1981. This compilation has been put together with the permission of Bob's business manager Jeff Rosen and the assistance of Searching For A Gem contributor Dr. Hanns Peter Bushoff of Sony Music Germany.
My CD comes in a jewel case with a clear tray and a single folded front insert. Lars-Arne Klintworth says his CD comes in a card sleeve, not a jewel case. Thanks to Jürgen Wasser for clarifying that the CDs in jewel cases come with magazines sold in shops, the CDs in card sleeves come with the magazines sent by post to subscribers. Lars-Arne also points out that the magazine cover from the "Rolling Stone" web-site is not the same as the one on newsstands. For example, the top line "Der traurige Abschied von Tom Petty [The sad Departure of Tom Petty] has been changed to the more positive "Tom Petty: das Herz des Rock 'n' Roll [Tom Petty: the Heart of Rock 'n' Roll]". Also, the text lines on the right are differently ordered.
Tracklist:
Thanks to Christoph Maus for information and the
album! Thanks to Lars-Arne Klintworth and Jürgen Wasser for further
information and scans.
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 - Trouble No More 1979-1981 (Sampler)" - promo CD sampler, Columbia (catalogue number?) (USA), Nov 2017:
Tracklist:
Thanks to Freddy Ordóñez Araque, Gerd Rundel, Sonny Boy McFitzson and Paul S. Levine for information and pictures.
"The Very Best Of Bob Dylan" - CD included with "El País" newspaper, Ediciones El País, S.L. (no catalogue number) (Spain), 17 Dec 2017.
Detail of rear of book, scan by Manuel García Jara
This CD-Book was published on 17 Dec 2017 and sold together with the Spanish newspaper El País. It was released by Prisanoticias Colecciones, part of PRISA, the group owner of El País, on behalf of Sony Music España ("Columbia" is still not used in Spain). The CD includes an exclusive compilation of 18 tracks with remastered versions of Knockin' On Heaven's Door and Baby, Stop Crying. The book has a lot of pictures and text in Spanish by journalist Fernando Navarro, and by musicians Coque Malla (leader of the former band, Los Ronaldos, very popular in Spain from the late 1980s until the mid 1990s) and Quique González (who covered Is Your Love In Vain? in Spanish as ¿Es Tu Amor En Vano? in his album Delantera Mítica [Legendary Forwards] released in 2013). Manuel explains that "Delantera Mítica" can mean the "legendary forwards" of a football team, but also has an adult slang meaning applying to a woman such as Sophia Loren!
Thanks to Manuel García Jara for information and scans.
2018
"The Music Which Inspired 'Girl from The North Country'" - 2CD compilation, Columbia/Sony Music 19075810362 (UK), 12 Jan 2018:
This 2CD set contains all Bob's versions of the songs covered in the hit musical play, performed in London in 2017-18. The songs cover the whole of Bob's career from the show's title track from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963 to Duquesne Whistle from Tempest in 2012. The set comes in a slimline 2CD jewel case with a clear tray. Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for information that this release was also made available for download by Amazon in Aug 2018.
Anders Lindh thinks that track 4 on CD 1 on this compilation, Slow Train, is a substantially different mix than on the 2003 remaster of Slow Train Coming. Soundwise, it more resembles the mixes on the 2017 release The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 - Trouble No More 1979-1981, to his ears.
For the original Sony Music/Silvertone cast recording of Girl From The North Country see Honourable Mentions.
Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.
"Bob Dylan Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances From The Copyright Collections" - 2CD set, Sony Music SICP 31180~1 (Japan), 18 July 2018; Columbia/Legacy 19075865322 (USA), 27 Jul 2018; Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 19075865322 (Europe), 27 Jul 2018; Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 19075865322 (Australia), 27 Jul 2018:
Sony Music SICP 31180~1 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Steve Perrin |
This 2CD set contains rarities from the 2012-2015 50th Anniversary Collections 1962-65 and also 2016's The 1966 Live Recordings. The Japanese discs are Blu-spec CD2 format. The set was also released in the USA, Europe and Australia on standard CDs on 27 Jul 2018. Because this album is now listed on the bobdylan.com Albums Page, full details are now in International Album Releases (Regular). |
Columbia/Legacy 19075865322 (USA) - front picture from www.discogs.com |
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Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 19075865322 (Australia) - front scan by Stuart Moore |
There are two versions, one with 14 tracks on CD2, and the other with only 13. The 14-track version is available in Japan only and costs ¥3,024. Reports of a 13-track Japanese version costing ¥1,852 now seem incorrect and must relate to imports only. The following track is available only on the Japanese release:
Like A Rolling Stone (8:05 including intro with the infamous “Judas!” shout) – recorded live at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 17 May 1966, released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 - Bob Dylan Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert, 1998, also released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack, 2005, and the Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music Europe/Japan 36CD set The 1966 Live Recordings, Nov 2016, so not a rarity. Thanks to Fred Muller for reminding me about the 2005 release, where Richard Manuel is also not credited.
Thanks to Jack from Canada, Harold Lepidus, Steve Perrin, Éamonn Ó Catháin, Sonny Boy McFitzson, Colin Hindson and Stuart Moore for information and scans.
"Dylan: The Best Of The Bootleg Series" - compilation CD, Columbia/Uncut UNCUT 2018 12 (UK), 18 Oct 2018:
Tracklisting:
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 - More Blood, More Tracks" (Sampler)" - promo download release, Columbia/Legacy (no catalogue number) (USA/Europe), 2 Nov 2018:
This promo sampler has a different track list from the commercial single CD release. It may be download only, without a CD version.
As the 6CD release is a Strictly Limited Edition, the tracks exclusive to it on this compilation are rarities and will be allocated R-numbers in due course.
Thanks to Freddy Ordóñez Araque for information.
"Vinyle & Photos" - stereo vinyl release, Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 19075871011 (France), 25 Nov 2018:
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 19075871011 (France) - detail
of rear of gatefold sleeve, scan by Michel Pomarede
Tracklist:
Side 1 - Like A Rolling Stone; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; All Along The Watchtower; I Want You; Forever Young
Side 2 - The Times They Are A-Changin'; Just Like A Woman; Mr. Tambourine Man; Positively 4th Street, Knockin' On Heaven's Door.
This same front artwork was used for the Music & Photos/Musique & Photos sets released in 2012/2013, see above.
Thanks to Michel Pomarede for information and scans.
2019
"Make You Feel My Love: Love Songs Of Bob Dylan" - Blu-spec CD2 release, Sony Music SICP 31227(Japan), 27 Feb 2019:
Sony Music SICP 31227 (Japan) - front with obi and sticker, scan by Jack from Canada |
This love song collection exclusive to Japan featuring the movie Seven Meetings theme song Make You Feel My Love is an original project supervised by Goro Nakagawa. It contains liner notes in Japanese plus lyrics in Japanese and English. The price is ¥2,400 plus tax. The 18 track CD contains two bonus tracks including one rarity: Make You Feel My Love (Live), recorded at Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 21 May 1998. As this is a rarity, full details are in 2019. |
"Seven Meetings" - film poster picture from www.asianwiki.com |
The album was also available as a 16 track download in Japan only as Make You Feel My Love: 16 Love Songs Of Bob Dylan, omitting the two bonus tracks. For the Japanese film Seven Meetings see VHS & DVD (Films with Dylan Album Tracks) 2010s.
Thanks to Wil Gielen,
Jack from Canada and Colin Hindson for information and scans.
"Isis Anthology Volume 3" - book plus CD, Red Planet (no catalogue number) (UK), 20 Apr 2019:
Picture from www.bobdylanisis.com |
Derek Barker of "Isis" magazine says: "I’m
now very pleased to be able to confirm details about the special Deluxe
Edition of “ISIS Anthology Volume 3”. Published by Red Planet to celebrate
ISIS reaching our landmark 200th issue, this very special edition will be an
Author Signed and Individually Numbered, Limited Edition Hardback with a
print run of just 500. Any ISIS customer who orders the Anthology before
January 21, 2019 can have their name printed in the book. We are pleased and
proud to announce that this edition of the book will contain a unique
70-plus-minute, 18-track compilation CD featuring songs from across Bob
Dylan’s illustrious career. This officially sanctioned album, featuring
tracks from Boots of Spanish Leather to Long and Wasted Years, is only
available with the Deluxe Edition of the ISIS Anthology. Several tracks are
not available on regular albums; George Jackson (Big
Band Version), Heart of Mine (extended version) and When I Paint My
Masterpiece (Leon Russell out-take version). This collection would not be
complete without a live performance of Isis (Boston Music Hall, November 21,
1975). Many of the tracks included on this compilation are 2005-2013
re-masters." This is a completely legitimate CD authorised by Sony Music. I have ordered my copy and more information will be added when available. |
CD (my copy) |
Track Listing:
1 Boots of Spanish Leather (4:37)
2 To Ramona (3:51)
3 Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) (3:27)
4 Dear Landlord (3:15)
5 Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You (3:22)
6 The Man in Me (3:05)
7 Time Passes Slowly (2:35)
8 When I Paint My Masterpiece, studio out-take with Leon Russell, 1971 (3:21)
This is not the demo version from The Bootleg Series Vol. 10:
Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) with just Bob on piano (3:53), but a
previously unreleased version new to this compilation!
9 George Jackson (Big Band Version), Single (5:33)
10 Going, Going, Gone (3:26)
11 Isis, live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, 21 Nov 1975, from The Bootleg
Series Vol. 5: Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue (5:11)
12 We Better Talk This Over (4:03)
13 The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar (4:04)
14 Heart of Mine, live at Saenger Performing Arts Center, New Orleans, 10 Nov
1981 from Biograph (3:42)
15 Man in the Long Black Coat (4:33)
16 High Water (For Charley Patton) (4:03)
17 Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ (3:48)
18 Long and Wasted Years (3:46)
As this compilation contains rarities, full details are in 2019.
"The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings" - 14CD set, Columbia/Legacy 19075928282 (USA), 7 Jun 2019; Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 19075928282 (Europe), 7 Jun 2019; Sony Music SICP 6101-6114 (Japan), 7 Jun 2019:
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Columbia/Legacy 19075928282 (USA) - box picture from bobdylan.com (without card on rear) |
Thanks to Hermann Rechberger, Jack from Canada and Tim Dunn for news of a 14CD set called The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings to be released by Sony Music on 7 Jun 2019. It is reported to be limited to 3000 copies and Amazon are offering it for sale at $109.98 (US) £59.99 (UK). This will be released in conjunction with Martin Scorsese's documentary Rolling Thunder Revue - A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese, which contains a great deal of performance footage plus an exclusive interview with Bob by Jeff Rosen, and will be available on Netflix about the same time. As this is a Limited Edition, all previously unreleased tracks will be rarities and allocated R-numbers in due course. For details of the documentary film see VHS & DVD 2010s. |
As this compilation contains rarities, full details are in 2019.
Thanks to Steve Perrin for information and scan.
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 - Travelin' Thru 1967-1969 Sampler", promo 15-track release, Columbia/Legacy (no catalogue number) (USA), 1 Nov 2019:
Picture from https://itsonlyrockandroll.info/ |
As far as I know this promo 15-track sampler is available as a download only, there is no physical CD. |
Tracklisting:
1. I Pity the Poor Immigrant (Take 4) (2:33)
2. I Am a Lonesome Hobo (Take 4) (2:56)
3. To Be Alone with You (Take 1) (2:27)
4. Lay, Lady, Lay (Take 2) (3:25)
5. Tell Me That It Isn’t True (Take 2) (2:07)
6. Country Pie (Take 2) (2:07)
7. I Still Miss Someone (Take 5) (3:35)
8. Matchbox (Take 1) (3:05)
9. Big River (Take 1) (2:04)
10. Girl from the North Country (Rehearsal) (3:04)
11. Guess Things Happen That Way (Take 3) (1:46)
12. Wanted Man (Take 1) (3:11)
13. Ring of Fire (Outtake) (2:28)
14. East Virginia Blues (Mono) (2:35)
15. All Along the Watchtower (Take 3) (2:31)
Thanks to Fred Muller and Freddy Ordóñez Araque for information.
"Top 40 Bob Dylan", 2CD release: Sony Music 19075991162 (NL), 11 Oct 2019; stereo LP release: Sony Music 19075991161 (NL), 11 Oct 2019:
Sony Music 19075991162 (NL) - front of digipak (my copy) |
This 2CD compilation of Dylan Top 40
singles from Holland was compiled using the Dutch Top 40 chart positions.
This is why tracks such as Wigwam (which was Bob's biggest hit in Holland)
are included. CD2 includes several rarities, exclusive singles that are not
on Bob's regular albums and single versions of album tracks, so the set is
also listed in
2019. Tracklisting: CD1: Blowin' In The Wind; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall; The Times They Are A-Changin'; It Ain't Me, Babe; Like A Rolling Stone; Mr. Tambourine Man; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Maggie's Farm; Positively 4th Street' I Want You; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (mistitled as "Rainy Day Woman"); Just Like A Woman; All Along The Watchtower; Girl From The North Country (with Johnny Cash); Lay, Lady, Lay; I Threw It All Away; If Not For You; The Man In Me; Wigwam; Must Be Santa. CD2: Knockin' On Heaven's Door; George Jackson (Acoustic Version); Watching The River Flow; Forever Young (Slow Version); Shelter From The Storm; Tangled Up In Blue; Simple Twist Of Fate; Hurricane (Part I); One More Cup Of Coffee; Changing Of The Guard (Single Version); Gotta Serve Somebody; Jokerman; Make You Feel My Love; Not Dark Yet (Single Version)*; Things Have Changed; Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) (Mark Ronson Remix); Duquesne Whistle; Melancholy Mood. |
Sony Music 19075991162 (NL) - outside of digipak |
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Sony Music 19075991162 (NL) - inside of digipak with CDs |
Sony Music 19075991162 (NL) - inside of digipak without CDs showing tracklistings |
*As far as I know, exclusive to this compilation!
Sony Music 19075991161 (NL) - front of LP release, scan by Arie de Reus |
Arie de Reus has a 16-track single LP release
called His Ultimate Collection extracted from the above set. It
contains one rarity only, Hurricane (Part I).
*Not on the 2CD set! Again, this album is also listed in 2019. |
CBS 5122 (NL, 1970) - front scan by Hans Seegers (7" mono single) |
For other Dutch Top 40 compilations with Dylan album tracks, see the 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 pages of International Album Releases (Various Artists Compilations).
Thanks to Dag Braathen, Arie de Reus, Hans Seegers and Éamonn Ó Catháin for information and scans.
"50th Anniversary Collection 1969", 2CD release: Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK), 6 Dec 2019:
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK) - front of card sleeve, picture from Badlands web-site |
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for information about 50th Anniversary Collection 1969, a very limited 2CD set in a fold-out card sleeve. Apparently there are only 200 copies for sale in Europe - the UK, France and Germany. The set consists of out-takes from Nashville Skyline and Self Portrait, all of which are rarities, so a full listing is in 2019. |
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK) - rear of card sleeve, scan by Martin Andrzejewki |
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Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK) - CD1 scan by Martin Andrzejewki |
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK) - outside of card sleeve, scan by Martin Andrzejewki |
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK) - inside of card sleeve, scan by Martin Andrzejewki |
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK) - CD2 scan by Martin Andrzejewki |
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin and Martin Andrzejewki for information and scans.
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