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"Bob Dylan Worldwide -The First Twenty Years" - the first instalment of what will hopefully be the definite Dylan discography, published by Christoph Maus/Maus of Music, Hamburg, Germany

. This was published in advance of Bob's 75th birthday, in mid-April 2016. Heartfelt thanks to the contributors to this site who have helped with preparing this book - they are credited for their contributions. Please buy this book from "Isis" here

. Thanks to Sonny Boy McFitzson for news the book can be bought in Japan from Disk Union here

. Sample pages from the book are shown here.

18 Oct 2020: The Yahoo! web-site is reporting that George Clooney will direct a film version of John Grisham's baseball novel "Calico Joe". The exciting news for Dylan fans is that Bob is scheduled to write the soundtrack. Bob is known to be a huge baseball fan and has recorded Catfish (a Desire out-take released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3) and Take Me Out To The Ball Game from his Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan: Baseball in 2006. Thanks to Jürgen Wasser for information that John Grisham's book has been translated into German with the title "Home Run", and is also available in French and Italian. More information about the film and the soundtrack will be added when available.

17 Oct 2020: Thanks to Harold Lepidus for news about a 2020 release of The Traveling Wilburys Volume One on orange vinyl exclusive to US retailer Barnes & Noble. This will be released on 20 Oct 2020, the 32nd anniversary of the album's original release on 20 Oct 1988. Thanks also to Rod MacBeath for news the album is also available in independent record stores as part of "National Album Day 2020". Thanks to Jürgen Wasser for news that the orange vinyl album is also available in Germany from branches of the Saturn record chain.

16 Oct 2020: Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for information that John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline will be released on white vinyl in Nov 2020 (John Wesley Harding in mono and Nashville Skyline in stereo). The albums are currently being advertised by Badlands in the UK as well as Amazon and the French retailer FNAC.

9 Oct 2020: Apparently bassist Rob Stoner has commented on Facebook that he’s been involved in the remixing and editing of the Rundown rehearsals (1977-78).This is one period that has been rumoured as a candidate for a Bootleg Series release. Some very good bootlegs are out there, but an official release would be great.

7 Oct 2020: Thanks to Freddy Ordóñez Araque, Fred Muller, Jack from Canada and André Wilbers, all of whom informed me of a new 28-track download only Columbia compilation called The Best of The Bootleg Series. It can be obtained from Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, etc. All the tracks have been previously released. Bizarrely, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, 26 May 1966, is from The Real Royal Albert Hall Concert 1966, released in 2016, and not from a Bootleg Series release at all! Two brand new shows in the series of Theme Time Radio Hour on the subject of "Whiskey" can also be downloaded from Apple Music. Artists featured include Willie Nelson, Van Morrison, Julie London, Lotte Lenya and Thin Lizzy.

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. It's always up-to-date thanks to his astounding dedication!

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	7 Jul 2014: Thanks to Jeff Gold, Bruce Mulle and several others for news of 149 Dylan acetates from the Nashville Skyline/Self Portrait/New Morning era that were found in a New York building in West Houston Street, Greenwich Village, that was once rented by Bob as a studio. These have been named "The West Houston Street Acetates" and contain many unreleased versions of Dylan songs from the period. They will be listed in full on the 2014 page when time permits. For full details, see here.
	26 Nov 2013: So long, eBay! This web-site has an ongoing huge backlog of additions, all with high quality artwork, and several important new Dylan releases to add between now and Christmas. In view of the poor quality of description and illustration of items from eBay and other online auction sites, together with the high probability that items are counterfeit, no more items from such sites will be considered for inclusion here. I've also been told that featuring eBay items on this web-site has led to higher prices. Thanks to those who have submitted eBay links in the past, but please don't do so in future under any circumstances. As an example, look at the scan by Manuel García Jara and a photo of the same single from an online auction site. The digital photo is appalling (and shows the wrong side of the sleeve)!

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