Audio: International Album Releases (Regular)

The Essential Bob Dylan (2000)

This page is part of a list of original releases by release date of international commercially-released regular stereo Dylan albums. They do not contain rarities or obscurities and are not eligible for the Searching For A Gem list. 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. Promo releases of regular albums are now listed here and no longer in the former yearly Promo sections.

For releases of this album in Columbia multi-packs, see International Album Releases (Regular) - Multi-Packs.

The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975 (2002)

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US release, Columbia CK 85975, 11 Sep 2001. The album title, the only one of Bob's album titles to be in quotes, is believed to reference a 1993 book by Eric Lott, "Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class".

For Limited Editions with a bonus disc, see 2001.

For a Chinese release which may not be authorised see Questionable Releases.

Tracklisting: Tweedle Dee And Tweedle Dum; Mississippi; Summer Days; Bye And Bye; Lonesome Day Blues; Floater (Too Much To Ask); High Water (For Charlie Patten); Moonlight; Honest With Me; Po' Boy; Cry A While; Sugar Baby.

This is a new recording of Mississippi - three unreleased takes of the original version from the 1997 Time Out of Mind sessions were released in 2008 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs.

This title is one of the fifteen Dylan albums released in Sep 2003 as a hybrid CD/SA-CD. This is playable both in stereo on an ordinary CD player and in enhanced stereo on an SA-CD player or a DVD player that also plays SA-CDs (Sony's higher range models all do this). "Love And Theft" is also available on the SA-CD in 5.1 surround sound.

Thanks to Gerd Rundel for scans of an postcard-sized Columbia US advertising flyer promoting the album and Bob's 2001 US tour, with the chance to win prizes by entering an ID number at bobdylan.com.

Detailed rear scans are shown for comparison with the European release below. The album has the same inner sleeves as below with the rear slightly raised to allow the record to be removed more easily. The record matrix numbers for Francisco's copy are as follows: Side 1- AL-86078-1B, Side 2 - BL-86078-1B, Side 3- AL-86079-1B, Side 4 - BL-86079-1B. Gerd Rundel's copy has the same matrix numbers with "STERLING" also stamped on each side which means the album was mastered by Sterling Sound, Edgewater, NJ.

Francisco Espinoza Cárcamo's copy of the US 2LP set has a front sticker with the same text as the one with the regular single CD US release (see below). Gerd Rundel's copy has this sticker plus a second sticker boasting of a five-star rating from the US rock magazine "Rolling Stone". Gerd also has a copy with a promo sticker on the rear sleeve covering the barcode.

Columbia C2 85975 (USA) - front sticker scan by Fede Bé

Columbia C2 85975 (USA) - front with two stickers, scan by Gerd Rundel

Columbia C2 85975 (USA) - detail of front, scan by Fede Bé

Columbia C2 85975 (USA) - detail of rear, scan by Gerd Rundel

Columbia C2 85975 (USA) - Record 1 inner sleeve rear, scan by Gerd Rundel

Columbia C2 85975 (USA) - Side 2 scan by Gerd Rundel

Columbia C2 85975 (USA) - Side 4 scan by Gerd Rundel

Thanks to Augie Krater for information and scans.

Detailed rear scans are shown for comparison with the US release above.

Columbia COL 504364 1 (NL for Europe) - rear

Columbia COL 504364 1 (NL for Europe) - detail of rear

Columbia COL 504364 1 (NL for Europe) - detail of rear

Columbia COL 504364 1 (NL for Europe) - detail of rear with UK sticker, scan by Sergio Mariano Romay

Columbia COL 504364 1 (NL for Europe) - Record 1 inner sleeve front

Columbia COL 504364 1 (NL for Europe) - Record 1 inner sleeve rear

Columbia COL 504364 1 (NL for Europe) - Side 1

Columbia COL 504364 1 (NL for Europe) - Side 2

Columbia COL 504364 1 (NL for Europe) - Record 2 inner sleeve front

Columbia COL 504364 1 (NL for Europe) - Record 2 inner sleeve rear

Columbia COL 504364 1 (NL for Europe) - Side 3

Columbia COL 504364 1 (NL for Europe) - Side 4

Thanks to Dag Braathen for information and scans.

Thanks to Stuart Moore for information and scans.

Columbia 504364 4 (Australia) - cassette Side 1 scan by Stuart Moore

Columbia 504364 4 (Australia) - cassette Side 2 scan by Stuart Moore

Thanks to Wil Gielen for information and scans.

Columbia/Music On Vinyl MOVLP 506 (NL for Europe) - front scan by Gerd Rundel

Front of UK insert - scan by Ian Stewart

The German promo CD-R came in a slimline CD single jewel case without an insert. Bye And Bye is again mis-spelled "By And By". There is no album title or catalogue number. For a German CD-R 4-track single with the same disc design and the same song title mistake, see International Singles (2000s).

Thanks to John Gaylor, Ian Stewart and Gerd Rundel for information and scans.

UK CD-R - scan by Gerd Rundel

Rear of UK insert - scan by Ian Stewart

Columbia CK 86076 (USA) - front of digipak with sticker (my copy)

There are slight differences inside the digipaks in that the inside of the US release has black bars between the three sections while they are white in the Austrian release. The US release also has a semi-circular cut-out at the left edge to assist removing the booklet, the Austrian release doesn't. The US discs are CK 85975 (same as the regular release) and CSK 54967

Columbia CK 86076 (USA) - Limited Edition, inside of fold-out sleeve with discs, scan by Moise Potié

Columbia CK 85975 (USA) - album CD scan by Moise Potié

The Austrian discs are COL 504364 2 (again same as the regular release) and COL 504364 9 (as on the spine of the Austrian digipak). My copy has a UK advertising flyer. On Gerd Rundel's copy the red "BOB DYLAN" on the spine of the digipak is missing. This copy came with a Dutch advertising flyer.

For comparison with the 2003 SA-CD edition below, the full unfolded insert is shown here.

This is the regular release without bonus disc. It comes in a jewel case with a clear plastic CD tray.

Thanks to David Plentus and Jack from Canada for information and scans.

Columbia CK 85975 (USA) - detail of front, scan by David Plentus

Columbia CK 85975 (Canada) - rear insert scan by Jack from Canada

The promo album came in a fold-out card sleeve. The CD itself is a different design from the commercial album.

Information and photos from Hervé from France.

Columbia CK 85975 (Canada) - inside of promo card fold-out sleeve, photo by Hervé from France.

This is the regular release without bonus disc. The album is the same as the US release apart from the catalogue number. The shirt picture on the inside of the rear insert wasn't reproduced on the vinyl release (see above). Thanks to Ian Woodward for scans of a sealed promo copy with a sticker on the rear.

Thanks to Dag Braathen for finding a copy with a picture disc on eBay from a Turkish seller that was actually dispatched from Russia. I suspect this to be counterfeit.

Columbia 504364 2 (Austria for Europe) - detail of front (my copy)

Columbia 504364 2 (Austria for Europe) - outside of front insert (my copy)

Columbia 504364 2 (Austria for Europe) - reverse of rear insert (under clear CD tray)

Columbia 504364 2 (Austria for Europe) - rear promo sticker scan by Ian Woodward

Columbia 504364 2 (Russia?) - rear insert scan from eBay

Columbia 504364 2 (Austria for Europe) - CD

Thanks to David Flanagan for information and photos.

There was also a promo version of this CD.

Thanks to Hervé from France for information and photo.

This is the regular release without bonus disc. The album is the same as the US release apart from the catalogue number.

Columbia 5043642000 (Australia) - outside of rear insert, scan by Stuart Moore (2001)

Columbia 5043642000 (Australia) - inside of unfolded front insert, scan by Stuart Moore (2001)

Columbia 5043642000 (Australia) - CD scan by Stuart Moore (2001)

Sony Music 19075936352 (Australia) - outside of unfolded front insert, scan by Stuart Moore (2019)

Thanks to Juergen Flicker for information and scans.

Columbia CK 85975 (Indonesia) - detail of front, scan by Juergen Flicker

This album was made in South Africa and has the RISA (Recording Industry of South Africa) logo on the rear insert and CD. The artwork is the same as other worldwide releases.

Thanks to Keith Schweiger for information and scans.

Columbia CDCOL 6309 (South Africa) - inside of front insert, scan by Keith Schweiger

Thanks to Sam Plessers for information and to Hans Seegers for further information and scans.

Columbia 512357 6 (Europe) - hybrid SA-CD

Columbia 512357 6 (Europe) - outside of digipak

Columbia 512357 6 (Europe) - inside of digipak showing picture behind CD tray

Columbia 512357 6 (Europe) - outside of booklet

Columbia 512357 6 (Europe) - first inside page of booklet

Columbia 512357 6 (Europe) - second inside page of booklet

Columbia 512357 6 (Europe) - fourth inside page of booklet

Columbia 512357 6 (Europe) - last inside page of booklet

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab UDSACD 2164 (USA) - SA-CD scan by André Wilbers

Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin and André Wilbers for information and scans.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information about the Japanese release, Sony Music MHCP 10016, which comes with a grey, red and white obi with black and white text and price ¥2,520 (¥2,400 before tax). The release date is "03-12-17" (17 Dec 2003). The original release date is "01-9-11" (11 Sep 2001) and the withdrawal date is 04-6-16" (16 Jun 2004). There is a 12-page stapled booklet in English and a 28-page stapled booklet in English and Japanese, as well as a double-sided hybrid SA-CD insert in Japanese. The copy shown is a promo, with a yellow numbered promo sticker on the rear of the digipak, and the text "SAMPLE LOANED" in the clear centre of the CD itself.

Thanks to Wil Gielen for further information and scans.

Sony Music MHCP 10016 (Japan) - promo CD scan by Wil Gielen

Thanks to Andy Jenkins and Tom Willems for information and scan.

Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.

Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88691-92431-2 (USA/Europe) - front of CD box (my copy)

The disc is actually the 2004 remastered CD layer of the hybrid SA-CD release as above, with catalogue number 512357 2, the new catalogue number is only on the sleeve.

Thanks to Dag Braathen and Tom Willems for information and scans.