es una caja recopilatoria del músico estadounidense Bob Dylan, publicada por la compañía discográfica Columbia Records en marzo de 1991.
58 temas ineditos con invitados como :George Harrison, T-Bone Burnett, The Band, Emmylou Harris, Al Kooper, Mick Ronson, Mike Bloomfield, Sugar Blue
El álbum, que supone la primera publicación de la colección The Bootleg Series, incluye tres discos con canciones inéditas y tomas alternativas de grabaciones que resumen sus primeros treinta años de carrera musical, entre 1961 y 1989. Fue certificado disco de oro por la RIAA en Estados Unidos, donde alcanzó el puesto 49 en la lista Billboard 200. En el Reino Unido, el álbum alcanzó el puesto 32 de la lista de discos más vendidos.
De los 58 temas que conforman The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3, 46 son descartes de sesiones de grabación de álbumes de estudio. Los doce restantes temas son o bien grabaciones en directo o bien demos caseras, tres de las cuales a su vez fueron publicadas también en 2010 en The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964, el noveno volumen de la colección The Bootleg Series.
Publicado en 1991 debido en parte a la gran demanda de material largamente pirateado, el recopilatorio contiene rarezas y canciones inéditas de sesiones que van desde su álbum epónimo hasta la grabación en 1989 de Oh Mercy.
Editado en 1991, cubre treinta años y no parece diseñado teniendo en mente la serie posterior. Contiene 58 canciones, 46 de las cuales son ensayos o maquetas previas a las grabaciones, pero algunos de los temas están entre lo mejor de la carrera de Dylan, sobre todo las sesiones improvisadas de sus años bencedrínicos (1965-1967), cuando era un orate capaz de llevar a su terreno, sin instrucciones previas, a los tremendos músicos que le acompañaban.
También hay dos tomas originales que luego fueron insertadas, con muchas menos aristas, en Blood on the Tracks (1975), el disco temático sobre su cruel (por ambas partes) primer divorcio.
La canción del vídeo es mi pieza favorita. Es casi milagroso proseguir el camino de cada uno por su lado inicial a la arrasadora cohesión final.
bob dylan
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 ( Rare & Unreleased ) 1961-1991
3 CDs, 59 temas ineditos + libro 70 pag.
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Volume 1
1.01 Hard Times In New York Town
Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
2:17
1.02 He Was A Friend Of Mine 4:03
1.03 Man On The Street 1:54
1.04 No More Auction Block
Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
3:02
1.05 House Carpenter
Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
4:08
1.06 Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues 3:44
1.07 Let Me Die In My Footsteps
Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
3:33
1.08 Rambling, Gambling Willie 4:11
1.09 Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues 0:50
1.10 Quit Your Low Down Ways
Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
2:37
1.11 Worried Blues
Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
2:37
1.12 Kingsport Town 3:27
1.13 Walkin' Down The Line 2:52
1.14 Walls Of Red Wing 5:01
1.15 Paths Of Victory
Piano, Harmonica – Bob DylanProducer – Tom Wilson (2)
3:17
1.16 Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues 4:24
1.17 Who Killed Davey Moore?
Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
3:08
1.18 Only A Hobo 3:28
1.19 Moonshiner 5:05
1.20 When The Ship Comes In
Piano, Vocals – Bob Dylan
2:54
1.21 The Times They Are A-Changin'
Piano, Vocals – Bob Dylan
2:58
1.22 Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie 7:08
Volume 2
2.01 Seven Curses
Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
3:46
2.02 Eternal Circle
Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
2:38
2.03 Suze (The Cough Song)
Guitar, Harmonica – Bob Dylan
1:57
2.04 Mama, You Been On My Mind
Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
2:56
2.05 Farewell, Angelina 5:26
2.06 Subterranean Homesick Blues 2:55
2.07 If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got To Stay All Night)
Bass – Joseph Macho, Jr.*Drums – Bobby GreggGuitar – Al Gorgone*, Kenny Rakin*Keyboards – Paul Griffin
2:54
2.08 Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence
Bass – Harvey BrooksDrums – Bobby GreggGuitar – Mike BloomfieldKeyboards – Paul GriffinOrgan – Al Cooper*
3:52
2.09 Like A Rolling Stone
Bass – Harvey BrooksGuitar – Mike BloomfieldOrgan – Al Cooper*
1:35
2.10 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
Bass – Harvey BrooksDrums – Bobby GreggGuitar – Mike BloomfieldOrgan – Al Cooper*Piano – Paul Griffin
3:21
2.11 I'll Keep It With Mine
Bass – Rick DankoDrums – Bobby GreggGuitar – Robbie RobertsonOrgan – Al Cooper*Piano, Vocals – Bob Dylan
3:38
2.12 She's Your Lover Now
Bass – Rick DankoDrums – Sandy KonikoffGuitar – Robbie RobertsonGuitar, Vocals – Bob DylanOrgan – Garth HudsonPiano – Richard Manuel
6:09
2.13 I Shall Be Released
Bass, Vocals – Rick DankoDrums, Vocals – Levon HelmGuitar – Robbie RobertsonGuitar, Vocals – Bob DylanOrgan – Garth HudsonPiano, Vocals – Richard Manuel
3:54
2.14 Santa-Fe
Bass – Rick DankoDrums – Levon HelmGuitar – Robbie RobertsonGuitar, Vocals – Bob DylanOrgan – Garth HudsonPiano – Richard Manuel
2:08
2.15 If Not For You
Bass – Charlie DanielsDrums – Russ KunkelGuitar – George Harrison
3:32
2.16 Wallflower
Bass – Russell BridgesDrums – Kenneth Buttrey*Guitar – Bob DylanSteel Guitar [Pedal] – Ben Keith
2:48
2.17 Nobody 'Cept You
Bass – Rick DankoDrums – Levon HelmGuitar – Robbie RobertsonGuitar, Vocals – Bob DylanOrgan – Garth HudsonPiano – Richard Manuel
2:39
2.18 Tangled Up In Blue
Bass – Tony Brown (3)Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
6:50
2.19 Call Letter Blues
Bass – Tony Brown (3)Drums – Richard CrooksGuitar – Barry Kornfeld, Charles Brown, III*, Eric WeissbergGuitar, Vocals – Bob DylanKeyboards – Thomas McFaul
4:27
2.20 Idiot Wind
Bass – Tony Brown (3)Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
8:52
Volume 3
3.01 If You See Her, Say Hello
Guitar – Barry Kornfeld, Charles Brown, III*, Eric Weissberg
3:44
3.02 Golden Loom
Backing Vocals – Emmy-Lou Harris*Bass – Rob StonerDrums – Howie Wyeth*Guitar, Vocals – Bob DylanViolin – Scarlet Rivera
4:25
3.03 Catfish
Bass – Rob StonerGuitar, Vocals – Bob DylanHarmonica – SugarblueMusic By, Lyrics By – Jacques LevySlide Guitar – Erik Frandsen
2:48
3.04 Seven Days
Bass – Rob StonerCongas – Gary BurkeDrums – Howie Wyeth*Guitar – Bobby Neuwirth*, Mick Ronson, Steven Soles, T-Bone BurnettGuitar, Vocals – Bob DylanMandolin – David MansfieldViolin – Scarlet Rivera
3:59
3.05 Ye Shall Be Changed
Bass – Tim DrummondDrums [Drum] – Pick WithersGuitar – Mark KnopflerGuitar, Vocals – Bob DylanKeyboards – Barry Beckett
4:07
3.06 Every Grain Of Sand
Backing Vocals – Jennifer WarnesGuitar – Fred TackettPiano, Vocals – Bob Dylan
3:37
3.07 You Changed My Life
Backing Vocals – Clydie KingBass – Tim DrummondDrums – Jim KeltnerGuitar – Danny Kortchmar, Steve RipleyGuitar, Vocals – Bob DylanOrgan – Ben Tench*Producer – Bob Dylan, Chuck Plotkin
5:13
3.08 Need A Woman
Producer – Bob Dylan, Chuck Plotkin
5:43
3.09 Angelina
Producer – Bob Dylan, Chuck Plotkin
6:57
3.10 Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart
Bass – Robbie ShakespeareDrums – Sly DunbarGuitar – Mick TaylorGuitar, Producer – Mark KnopflerKeyboards – Alan ClarkProducer – Bob Dylan
4:33
3.11 Tell Me
Backing Vocals – Full ForceBass – Robbie ShakespeareDrums – Sly DunbarGuitar – Mick TaylorGuitar, Producer – Mark KnopflerKeyboards – Alan ClarkProducer, Guitar, Vocals – Bob Dylan
4:24
3.12 Lord Protect My Child
Bass – Robbie ShakespeareDrums – Sly DunbarGuitar – Mick TaylorGuitar, Producer – Mark KnopflerKeyboards – Alan ClarkProducer – Bob Dylan
3:56
3.13 Foot Of Pride
Bass – Robbie ShakespeareDrums – Sly DunbarGuitar – Mick TaylorGuitar, Producer – Mark KnopflerOrgan – Alan ClarkProducer – Bob Dylan
5:56
3.14 Blind Willie McTell
Guitar, Producer – Mark KnopflerPiano, Vocals, Producer – Bob Dylan
5:51
3.15 When The Night Comes Falling Down From The Sky
Bass – Robbie ShakespeareDrums – Sly DunbarGuitar – Little StevenGuitar, Vocals – Bob DylanKeyboards – Roy Bittan
5:37
3.16 Series Of Dreams
Bass – Glen FukunagaDrums – Roddy ColonnaDrums [Talking Drum] – Cyril NevilleGuitar – Mason RuffnerGuitar [Overdubs] – Rick DiFonzoGuitar, Guitar [Twelve String], Bass, Percussion, Producer – Daniel LanoisGuitar, Vocals – Bob DylanKeyboards [Overdubs] – Peter Wood (2)Remix – Rick Chertoff, Bill Whitman*