All the songs listed in the Official
Rarities section are cross-referenced by song title in these
alphabetical pages.
A-E
F-J
K-O
P-S
T-Z
This yearly page now contains only the main Rarities List. Promotional Items (Albums and Singles) are now here. All Honourable Mentions are now here.
If you have any entries to add to the list or additions/corrections to existing entries, please let me know! Please note I cannot value your Dylan rarities - see the Mission page for reasons why. Contact the dealers on my Trading page for assistance!
Revised: 07 January, 2024.
Titles in red are not available on a currently released Bob Dylan CD (for these see bobdylan.com )
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Performances currently available on commercial CD are marked by
(these are the ones that count as obscurities
rather than as rarities)
Audience recordings are indicated by (A).
"Bob Dylan at WBAI" - CD-R and cassette releases, Pacifica Radio Archives IZ 1156 (USA), Mar 2011:
R-0916
Going To New Orleans
- second out-take from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan,
recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 24 Apr 1962
Now released on the Sony Music Europe 4CD set The 50th Anniversary
Collection, Dec 2012.
R-0917 Corrina,
Corrina
- solo version, out-take from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan,
recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 24 Apr 1962 (take 2)
Now released on the Sony Music Europe 4CD set The 50th Anniversary
Collection, Dec 2012.
R-0918 The Death Of
Emmett Till
- out-take from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, recorded
at Columbia Studios, New York, 24 Apr 1962, lyrics on bobdylan.com
here
Now released on the Sony Music Europe 4CD set The 50th Anniversary
Collection, Dec 2012.
R-0009-2
(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
(listed as [Lonesome Whistle Blues]
(Hank Williams/Jimmie Davis)
- out-take from The
Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 24 Apr 1962
This song was one of those short-listed for The Bootleg Series Vols.
1-3, 1991, also found on a Columbia acetate which surfaced in
1980.
Now released on the Sony Music Europe 4CD set The 50th Anniversary
Collection, Dec 2012.
R-0919 Farewell
-
out-take from The Times They Are A-Changin', recorded at Columbia
Studios, New York, 6 Aug 1963,
CO 78975, take 4
This is not the version on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos
1962-1964, 2010. Now also officially released on the Nonesuch Records film soundtrack album Inside Llewyn Davies,
Sep 2013.
I'll Keep It With Mine released on Biograph, 1985
R-0018-4 Talkin' John Birch Society Blues - still
unreleased studio version, the one released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
in 1991 is a live performance from Carnegie Hall, New York, 26 Oct 1963
For the original release of this performance on the withdrawn version of The
Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, see
1963. Amazingly,
this performance was not released on the Sony Music Europe 4CD set The 50th Anniversary
Collection, Dec 2012!
If Not For You released on New Morning, 1970
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere released on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II, 1971
Tim adds "For the most part the quality is good but "I'll Keep It With Mine" and "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" are just OK."
Thanks to Tim Dunn for information and to Larry Crum for further information and scan.
"Bob Dylan: Assorted Interviews" - CD-R and cassette releases, Pacifica Radio Archives IZ 1209 (USA), Mar 2011:
[The actual CD title is BOB DYLAN ON THE BILLY FAIER SHOW, 1962; BOB DYLAN ON THE SKIP WESHNER SHOW, 1963; BOB DYLAN INTERVIEW OUTTAKES FROM "NO DIRECTION HOME", 2000; a bit different but close enough on the cassette.]
R-0909 Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (Rev Gary Davies) - performed by Bob during an interview on the Billy Faier radio show, WBAI New York, Oct 1962
R-0910 Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues - performed by Bob as R-0909
R-0911 The Death Of Emmett Till - performed by Bob as R-0909
R-0912 Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (Traditional) - performed by Bob as R-0909
R-0913 Tomorrow Is A Long Time - performed by Bob during an interview on the Skip Weshner radio show, WBAI New York, Feb 1963 (last verse only)
R-0914 Masters Of War - performed by Bob as R-0913
R-0915 Bob Dylan’s Blues - performed by Bob as R-0913
Thanks to Tim Dunn for information and to Jeff Friedman for the scan.
"Bob Fass With Bob Dylan, January 1966" - 2CD-R release, Pacifica Radio Archives IZ 1210 (USA), Mar 2011:
Pacifica Radio Archives IZ 1210 (USA) - CD-R1 scan by Jack from Canada |
R-0762-2 Interview with Bob on Bob Fass radio
show "Radio Unnameable", WBAI radio, New York, 20 Jan 1966 This is the show where several of Bob's friends are also in the studio, and Bob refers to Al Kooper as "Roosevelt Gook". This set is also listed in Interviews with Bob. An excerpt is included in the 2013 US DVD Radio Unnameable (see VHS & DVD 2010s). |
Pacifica Radio Archives IZ 1210 (USA) - CD-R2 scan by Jack from Canada |
Kino Lorber K 1095 (USA) - DVD front scan by Jack from Canadav (2013) |
Bob Fass died on 24 Apr 2021 at the age of 87.
Thanks to Tim Dunn and Jack from Canada for information and scans.
"Bob Dylan And Cynthia Gooding" - CD-R and cassette releases: Pacifica Radio Archives IZ 1211 (USA), Mar 2011; "Folksinger's Choice With Cynthia Gooding" - 2CD set: Pacifica Radio Archives IZ 1256 (USA), 2011
R-0900 (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle [listed as Lonesome Whistle Blues] (Hank Williams/Jimmie Davis)
R-0901 Fixin’ To Die (Bukka White)
R-0902 Smokestack Lightning (Howlin' Wolf [Chester Burnett])
R-0903 Hard Travelin’ (Woody Guthrie)
R-0904 The Death Of Emmett Till (Bob Dylan)
R-0905 Standing On The Highway (Bob Dylan)
R-0516-2 Roll On, John (Traditional)
Previously released on CD on the Smithsonian Folkways album There Is No Eye: Music For Photographs, Nov 2001, accompanying a
book of photographs "There Is No Eye" by John Cohen (of the New Lost City Ramblers),
see 2001
R-0906 Stealin’, Stealin’ (Will Shade)
R-0907 Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad (Traditional)
R-0908 Baby Please Don’t Go (Big Joe Williams)
R-0922 Hard Times In New York Town
Tim Dunn's copy cuts off during R-0908, so I missed R-0922 off this original listing, which is why it has a later R-number. Larry Crum had a similar copy, but emailed Pacifica and they sent a replacement with the full interview. The 2010 Left Field Media UK release has the interview in full, see Questionable Releases.
The 2CD set IZ 1256 contains the same material as IZ 1211, split over two discs: CD1 - 30:04, CD2 - 26:02. The CDs come in white paper sleeves.
Thanks to Tim Dunn for information and to Larry Crum and Jack from Canada for further information and scan.
Beastie Boys - "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" - CD release, Capitol (catalogue number?) (USA), 3 May 2011; Parlophone (catalogue number?) (UK), 2 May 2011:
Picture from Beastie Boys web-site |
R-0887
Bob introduces the Beastie Boys' track No Sleep 'Til
Brooklyn from the album Licensed To Ill in an excerpt from Bob Dylan's
Theme Time Radio Show
Episode 48 "New York" broadcast 4 Apr 2007
André Wilbers says this is not actually included on the album! For more information, see here . The Beastie Boys' album Check Your Head contained a sample of Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues from Highway 61 Revisited on the track Finger Lickin' Good, see 1992. The Beastie Boys also quote two lines from Subterranean Homesick Blues in the song Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win. Thanks to Harold Lepidus, Derek Barker and André Wilbers for information. |
"Subterranean Homesick Blues (The Ting Tings Remix)" - 7" stereo single, Columbia/Sony Music 88697 900227 2 (USA/Europe), 16 Apr 2011:
R-0889 Subterranean Homesick Blues - track from Bringing It All Back Home remixed by the Ting Tings, A-side of US/European Columbia single, 2011
The B-side is blank. The single comes in a custom sleeve with a front cut-out for the A-side label. The record and sleeve of my copy were made in the EU.
The Ting Tings are an English indie pop duo composed of Jules de Martino and Katie White. They had a UK No. 1 hit with That's Not My Name in 2008 and their album We Started Nothing has sold over 2 million copies.
Thanks to Dag Braathen for information.
"Joan Baez Concert" - 12" acetate LP, Riverside Records (no catalogue number) (USA), recorded 1963, surfaced May 2011:
R-0891 Only A Pawn In Their Game - live at Joan Baez concert, Forest Hills, New York, 17 Aug 1963
R-0892 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - live at Joan Baez
concert, Forest Hills, New York, 17 Aug 1963
This song also has a spoken introduction.
All the tracks on this acetate are not yet known, but Side 1 also has Joan singing All My Trials and We Shall Overcome. Two Dylan-Baez duets from this concert, Troubled and I Don't Know Why (R-0219) and Blowin' In The Wind (R-0377), can be found on a Vanguard acetate of the time (see 1964). R-0219 was released officially on the Joan Baez Vanguard boxed set Rare, Live & Classic, (see 1994). The performance is also included on the CD Songs From Sing Out! which accompanies Vol. 45 #3 (Fall 2001) issue of "Sing Out!" magazine (see 2001).
Thanks to Harold Lepidus for finding this on eBay.
Various Artists - "The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams" - CD release, Egyptian Records/CMF Records/Columbia 88697090102 (USA), 4 Oct 2011; Egyptian Records/CMF Records/Columbia/Sony Music 88697090102 (Europe), 3 Oct 2011:
Egyptian Records/CMF Records/Columbia 88697090102 (USA), 4 Oct 2011:
Egyptian Records/CMF Records/Columbia
88697090102 (USA) - detail of rear insert, scan by Peter Oudejans
Gerd Rundel's US promo CD-R comes in a generic Columbia red and white card sleeve with an information sticker on the back. The CD-R was personalised but the number identifying the recipient has been removed from the scan.
R-0896 The Love That Faded [Hank Williams/Bob Dylan] - previously unreleased Hank Williams song with music by Bob
Other artists included are Bob's son Jakob Dylan, Norah Jones, Jack White and Sheryl Crow. For Timeless, the first Hank Williams tribute album with a song by Bob, see 2001. For more information, see .
Egyptian Records/CMF
Records/Columbia/Sony Music 88697090102 (Europe), 3 Oct 2011:
US Radio Releases:
Thanks to Harold Lepidus, Dag Braathen, Sonny Boy McFitzson, Gerd Rundel and Arie De Reus for information and scans.
Various Artists - "The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams" - 180gm stereo vinyl LP release: Third Man Records TMR 119 (USA), Oct 2011:
Various Artists - "The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams" - CD release, Egyptian Records/Sony Music 88697090102 (Australia), 3 Oct 2011:
Various Artists - "The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams" - promo CD-R and CD releases plus commercial CD release, Sony Music SICP 3240 (Japan), 26 Oct 2011:
As well as the 28-page stapled booklet in English there is a 40-page stapled booklet in English and Japanese. The Japanese booklet has a translation of Michael McCall's liner notes and "The story of this project back to 1967", both by Heckel Sugano, plus commentaries on Hank Williams, the twelve songs on the album and a list of Hank songs covered by Bob by Katsu Suzuki, Sep 2011. Wil Gielen has a promo CD-R of this release, which came in a single CD jewel case without inserts accompanied by a double-sided press sheet, and issued to music magazines and journalists well before the official release date. The twelve CD-R tracks (same as the commercial release) are numbered to 10 correctly and then numbered 12 and 13! He also has a promo copy, which is the commercial release with a numbered promo sticker on the rear insert and text "SAMPLE LOANED" printed on the centre of the CD itself. This was issued to radio stations, DJs and record stores shortly before the official release.
Thanks to Sonny Boy McFitzson and Wil Gielen for information and scans.
Various Artists - "Hawaii Five-O: Original Songs From The Television Series" - TV series soundtrack CD, CBS Records CBSR034 (USA), 4 Oct 2011:
CBS Records CBSR034 (USA) - front (my copy) |
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CBS Records CBSR034 (USA) - rear insert (reverse is plain black) |
CBS Records CBSR034 (USA) - CD |
Pennies In A Jar (S-Curve 0731518012, USA, 2011) by Nikki Jean (my copy) |
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Paramount US DVD release (Season 2) - picture from www.amazon.com |
R-0897
Don't Ever Take Yourself Away
- previously unreleased
out-take from Shot Of Love, recorded Clover Recorder, Los Angeles,
CA, 23 Apr 1981 This song was used in Episode 15, Season 2: “Mai Ka Wa Kahiko [Out of the Past]”. For the Season 2 DVD release, see VHS & DVD 2010-19. This song was released in 2021 on the 2CD Standard Edition of The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 - Springtime In New York 1980-1985, but as the original outtake without the steel drum intro. Therefore R-0897 remains a rarity. The front insert is a single three fold sheet. Although the jewel case has a clear CD tray, the reverse of the rear inset is plain black. This release is on CBS Records rather than Columbia because the source is a CBS TV series. For an NCIS CBS TV series soundtrack with another Dylan rarity, see 2009. |
Freddy Ordóñez Araque,
"Pure Dylan: An Intimate Look At Bob Dylan" - CD release - Sony Music 88697988082 (Germany), 21 Oct 2011; 2LP release - Sony Music/Legacy 8 89253 12521 1 (Europe), 7 Oct 2016:
Sony Music 88697988082 (Germany) - front of digipak, picture from www.amazon.de |
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Sony Music 88697988082 (Germany) - rear of digipak, scan by Gerd Rundel |
Sony Music 88697988082 (Germany) - detail of rear of digipak (my copy) |
Sony Music 88697988082 (Germany) - front of booklet scan by Gerd Rundel |
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Sony Music 88697988082 (Germany) - outside of unfolded digipak (my copy) |
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Sony Music 88697988082 (Germany) - inside of unfolded digipak with disc and booklet |
Sony Music 88697988082 (Germany) - inside of unfolded digipak without disc and booklet |
This unique compilation and highly recommended CD, compiled by site contributor Dr. Hanns Peter Bushoff of Sony Music Germany and released only in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, includes 17 "fan favourites and rarities from five decades". The front sticker also says "Recommended by 'Rolling Stone'". As well as several tracks not usually included on compilations, the songs from 1962 to 2008 include three listed rarities. The album comes in a two-fold digipak with an eight page booklet.
R-0150-2 Trouble In Mind
- Slow Train Coming out-take, full version (5:11)
Previously appeared
(if at all) only as the B-side of 1979 Brazilian CBS 7" stereo single - it is reported that
this release had the full song while other worldwide releases had a verse
missing (R-0149, 4:17). For both R-0150 and R-0149, see
1979. Pure Dylan does have the full
version! This song was released in slightly edited form (4:50) on Disc 3 of the
8CD+DVD set
The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 - Trouble No More 1979-1981 (Deluxe
Edition), 3 Nov 2017, so R-0150 remains a rarity.
R-0072 Spanish Is The
Loving Tongue (Charles Badger
Clark-Billy Simon)
- solo version authorised by Bob, B-side of Watching
The River Flow Columbia/CBS 7" mono and stereo singles, see
1971.
This performance also appeared on the Japanese promo LP Mr. D's Collection #1 (see
1974) and the
Japanese and Australian 3LP set Masterpieces, see
1978. The
versions on the mono and stereo singles, the stereo promo LP and the stereo 3LP set are all in mono, which means this is actually the first occurrence of R-0072 (stereo)
all other entries are R-0072M (mono).
This take is different from the take released in 2013 on The
Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 - Another Self Portrait (1969-1971), so R-0072
remains a rarity!
Another performance unauthorised by Bob of the song with band and backing singers appeared on the
Columbia album Dylan, see 1973. An
unexpected 1974 version appeared on Disc 3 of the 6CD set
The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 - More Blood, More
Tracks" (Deluxe Edition), 2 Nov 2018.
R-0704-2 Moonshiner - live, Gaslight Café, New York, Oct 1962, from Bob Dylan Live At The Gaslight 1962, Starbucks/Hear Music/Sony Music Custom Marketing Group (USA), see 2005
Tracklisting:
- Trouble In Mind (R-0150, see 1979)
- Girl From The North Country - from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
- Most Of The Time - from Oh Mercy
- She Belongs To Me - from Bringing It All Back Home
- Billy 1 - from Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
- Shooting Star - from Oh Mercy
- Sugar Baby - from "Love And Theft"
- You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - from Blood On The Tracks
- Tomorrow Night - from Good As I Been To You
- Every Grain Of Sand - from Shot Of Love
- Percy's Song - from Biograph
- Born In Time - from Under The Red Sky
- Boots Of Spanish Leather - from The Times They Are A-Changin'
- This Dream Of You - from Together Through Life
- Spanish Is The Loving Tongue (R-0072, see 1971)
- If You See Her, Say Hello - from Blood On The Tracks
- Moonshiner (R-0704, see 2005)
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for finding the 2LP vinyl version, released on 7 Oct 2016, which is available from "Isis" magazine www.bobdylanisis.com. Thanks to Sonny Boy McFitzson for information that the set was available in Japan from 10 Oct 2016.
Sony Music/Legacy
8 89853 18621 1 (Europe) - detail of rear of gatefold sleeve
Tracklisting:
Side 1: Trouble In Mind; Girl From The North Country; Most Of The Time; She Belongs To Me; Billy 1.
Side 2: Shooting Star; Sugar Baby; You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go; Tomorrow Night.
Side 3: Every Grain Of Sand; Percy's Song; Born In Time; Boots Of Spanish Leather.
Side 4: This Dream Of You; Spanish Is The Loving Tongue; If You See Her, Say Hello; Moonshiner.
Thanks to Dirk Krah, Éamonn Ó Catháin and Fred Muller for information and to Gerd Rundel for scans. Special thanks to Dr. Hanns Peter Bushoff for his hard work in creating this compilation!
"Pure Dylan: An Intimate Look At Bob Dylan" - CD release, Sony Music
886979880825 (Australia), 2012:This release bought in Australia comes in a regular jewel case, not a digipak. The front insert is a 12 page stapled booklet with song lyrics, completely different from the eight page German booklet. The copyright information is different from the German release above, there's no country of origin listed while the German release is identified as having been made in the EU.
Thanks to Stuart Moore for information and scans.
Various Artists - "The Best Of Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame + Museum Live" - 3CD boxed set, Time-Life Records 26397-D (USA), 1 Nov 2011:
These performances were recorded at the Grand Ballroom, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, 20 Jan 1988, when Bob was inducted into the Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen, and are originally from the 2009 Time-Life 9DVD set The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Live, see VHS & DVD 2007-09. Bob also performed at the Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, OH, 2 Sep 1995 - the audio performance of All Along The Watchtower is on the Columbia 2CD set The Concert For The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, see 1996.
Thanks to Larry Crum, Paul S. Levine and Jack from Canada for information ansd scans. Thanks also to Larry Crum for information that both R-0699 and R-0700 were available as downloads from 15 Nov 2011, individually and as part of Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Volume 1: 1986-1991.
Promotional/Regular Items for 2011
Stereo promo albums and singles for 2011 which don't contain rare material but which are still very collectable are now included with promo releases of regular albums and commercially released singles on the appropriate page in International Stereo Releases. |
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