Dylan rarities

Evan Marshall goes off the beaten tracks to explore the Uncollected Bob Part One: The 60s

Okay, so you’ve bought all 31 studio albums – every last one of them, late 80s disasters included. You’ve bought the 10 live releases – from the brilliance of the Manchester Free Trade Hall to the mistake that was Dylan & The Dead. You’ve bought the four releases featuring out-takes and previously unreleased studio material such as The Basement Tapes, Biograph and a couple of Bootleg Series volumes.

You’ve even bought the three volumes of Greatest Hits and The Essential… as some of them include tracks unavailable elsewhere. You’ve even been enterprising enough to track down a copy of last year’s Starbucks-only release of Live At The Gaslight on eBay. That’s a whopping 50 albums of Dylan – more than some of your friends’ entire CD collections. So you’ve got every single Dylan track that has ever been released. Right? Err, no. Just another 162 tracks to go.

The sheer number of Dylan tracks which have been officially released down the years, beyond those included on his albums, is almost frightening to anyone tentatively approaching the task of tracking them all down – and those 162 tracks aren’t even counting appearances where he merely contributes guitar, harmonica or backing vocals to other artists’ work.

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by Evan Marshall
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