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I Am The Man, Thomas, Continental Airlines Arena, E. Rutherford, NJ, 11/13/99 { listen } Another gem from the Stanley Brothers. Song To Woody, Continental Airlines Arena, E. Rutherford, NJ, 11/13/99 { listen } Originally released on Bob Dylan It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding, Continental Airlines Arena, E. Rutherford, NJ, 11/13/99 { listen } Originally released on Bringing It All Back Home Ring Them Bells, Continental Airlines Arena, E. Rutherford, NJ, 11/13/99 { listen } Originally released on Oh Mercy Visions of Johanna, Continental Airlines Arena, E. Rutherford, NJ, 11/13/99 { listen } Originally released on Blonde On Blonde Hoochie Coochie Man, Continental Airlines Arena, E. Rutherford, NJ, 11/13/99 { listen } The Willie Dixon classic known for Muddy Water's recording. The Johnny Cash classic.
New Video has released a new version of D.A. Pennebaker's classic film Don't Look Back on DVD and VHS. The DVD includes five bonus audio tracks, all uncut performances never before released. Here's "To Ramona" from the opening night and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" from the closing night of Bob Dylan's 1965 UK tour. "To Ramona" was originally released on Another Side of Bob Dylan. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" was originally released on Bringing It All Back Home. The Buddy Holly classic.
"Man In The Long Black Coat" was first released on Oh Mercy.
"To Be Alone With You" was first released on Nashville Skyline.
"Never Gonna Be The Same Again" was first released on Empire Burlesque.
"Silvio", written with Robert Hunter, was first released on Down In The Groove.
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" was first released on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
Visions of Johanna has been performed only a handful of times over the years. Originally released on Blonde on Blonde, live versions from 1966 are highlights of Live 66 and Biograph.
The Grateful Dead's classic written by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia
"Watching The River flow" was first released on Greatest Hits, Vol. II.
"Make You Feel My Love" was first released on Time Out Of Mind.
Tears of Rage, written with Richard Manuel, was first released on the Band's album Music From Big Pink. Bob Dylan recorded the song with the Band during the Basement Tapes sessions in 1967, and it was released in 1975. { listen }. A recently released live Jerry Garcia Band album, How Sweet It Is, features a 1990 performance of the song.
"Blowin' In The Wind" was first released on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
"Love Sick" was first released on Time Out Of Mind.
"Across The Borderline" was written by Ry Cooder, John Hiatt and Jim Dickinson, and originally appeared on the soundtrack to the Jack Nicholson movie, "The Border." That version was recorded by Freddy Fender. Subsequently, it's been recorded by Ry Cooder, Ruben Blades, Willie Nelson, John Hiatt and Flaco Jimenez. You can read more about the song on Manfred Helfert's Roots site. Bob Dylan has been singing the song since the mid-1980's. This recent performance, while not the best recording, appeared in the same concert as another rare performance, below, of "I Believe In You."
"I Believe In You" was originally released on Slow Train Coming and hasn't been played much in recent years. This recent performance, while not the best recording, appeared in the same concert as another rare performance, of "Across The Borderline."
Bob Dylan's performance of an old song arranged by A.P. Carter (sometimes credited to Bert A. Williams and Earle C. Jones). The Carter Family's archetypal recording { listen } can be found on the Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music, compiled by Harry Smith. Jeremy Jones has created a Carter Family Home Page using materials from the University of North Carolina's Southern Folklife Collection. Manfred Helfert's Roots site has a page (with lyrics) about this song and another about the Carter Family.
A song by Charles Aznavour, dedicated by Bob Dylan in honor of the great French-Armenian singer who had a Broadway engagement this autumn in New York. Bob Dylan has spoken of his enthusiasm for Aznavour since the early sixties. He mentioned the singer in the "11 Outlined Epitaphs" printed on the back cover of The Times They Are A-Changin'. This is Bob Dylan's only concert performance of this song.
Another Elizabeth Cotten song. Find out more on the Cowboy Angel Sings website. Itsuko Nishimura has created a web site called In Search of Elizabeth Cotten.
The Elizabeth Cotten (1895-1987) song, sometimes known as "I've Got A Secret." Find out more on the Cowboy Angel Sings website. There's also an interesting exigesis of "Shake Sugaree" in an essay by Gary Knigge. Itsuko Nishimura has created a web site called In Search of Elizabeth Cotten. Bob Dylan has also performed the Cotten composition "Oh, Babe, It Ain't No Lie."
A performance of the Albert E. Brumley composition, made popular by the Stanley Brothers. You can read more about the song and about the Stanley Brothers on Manfred Helfert's superb Roots, Routes and Ramblings Web site devoted to Bob Dylan's musical roots. "Rank Strangers" was released by Bob Dylan on his Down In The Groove album.
A performance of the Hunter-Garcia classic, "Friend of the Devil."
A traditional song also known as "The Wild and Wicked Youth" and "The Roving Blade," Bob Dylan introduced this performance in Belfast thus: "I'm going to sing a song I haven't sung for a long time, but I learned it a long time ago. Somebody just told me that the song came from around here...". Find out more on the Cowboy Angel Sings website.
"I and I" was officially released on Infidels and on the 1984 live album Real Live. This performance comes from Bob Dylan's recent European tour.
"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" was officially released on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. This performance comes from Bob Dylan's recent European tour.
"Senor" was officially released on Street Legal. This performance comes from a public square in Italy on Bob Dylan's recent European tour. "Senor" was covered regularly by the Jerry Garcia Band.
"Mama, You Been On My Mind" has been part of Bob Dylan's performing repertoire for over thirty years. It was first officially released on The Bootleg Series, vols. 1-3. This performance is from Bob Dylan's recent European tour.
"Boots Of Spanish Leather" was originally released on The Times They Are A-Changin'. This performance is from Bob Dylan's recent European tour.
"Shelter From The Storm" was originally released on Blood on the Tracks. Live versions were released on Hard Rain and At Budokan. This performance is from Bob Dylan's three night stand in 1994 at New York City's Roseland.
A recent live performance of a song written Gordon Lightfoot, whom Bob Dylan has called "one of my favorite songwriters." Dylan performed the song for the first time just ten days before, in Vancouver. "I'm Not Supposed To Care" was released on Lightfoot's album Summertime Dream.
A recent live performance of the Time Out Of Mind ballad which has recently been covered by Garth Brooks and Billy Joel.
Bob Dylan sings "The Lonesome River" with bluegrass great Ralph Stanley on the new release Clinch Mountain Country, an album of duets with singers like George Jones, Junior Brown, Patty Loveless, BR5-49 and Dwight Yoakam. Ralph Stanley and his late brother Carter recorded the classic songs "Rank Strangers," "The White Dove" and "Stone Walls and Steel Bars", which Bob Dylan has performed in recent concerts. Here's a recent article about Ralph Stanley from the Washington Post.
Another performance from the Supper Club shows, Delia is a traditional song recorded on World Gone Wrong. You can read Bob Dylan's comments about the song in the World Gone Wrong liner notes.
Tears of Rage, written with Richard Manuel, was first released on the Band's album Music From Big Pink. Bob Dylan recorded the song with the Band during the Basement Tapes sessions in 1967, and it was released in 1975. { listen }. A recently released live Jerry Garcia Band album, How Sweet It Is, features a 1990 performance of the song.
Born In Time was first released on Under The Red Sky in 1990 { listen }. Eric Clapton's new album, Pilgrim, features a cover of the song with slightly different lyrics, derived from an unreleased version of "Born In Time" recorded during the Oh Mercy sessions.
The Man In Me was first released on New Morning in 1970 { listen }. The New Morning version is featured prominently in the film The Big Lebowski
Girl Of The North Country was first released on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. The song has also appeared on Nashville Skyline (as a duet with Johnny Cash), Real Live and The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration. This is a recording from Bob Dylan's five-night stand at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York in January, 1998.
Love Sick is the lead-off track on Time Out of Mind. This recording is Bob Dylan's performance from the 1998 Grammy Awards ceremony.
Bob Dylan and his band played four sets of acoustic music in November, 1993, at the Supper Club, a small, elegant midtown Manhattan room, where the audience sat at tables on the ballroom floor. The sets were comprised of Bob Dylan compositions, old favorites and real rarities, and some traditional songs, many of which had been recorded for Good As I Been To You and World Gone Wrong. Here are some selections from the fourth set. Tight Connection To My Heart was originally released on Empire Burlesque in 1985. An earlier incarnation, called Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart, was released on The Bootleg Series, vols. 1-3. With the exception of its two performances at The Supper Club, the song has only been performed by Bob Dylan eleven times, all in 1990. Weeping Willow is a Blind Boy Fuller song of 1937. So far, this has been Bob Dylan's sole live performance of the song. Listen to some of Blind Boy Fuller's original recording: { listen }
Idiot Wind has been in Bob Dylan's live repertoire only in 1976, during the second Rolling Thunder Review, and in 1992. Originally released on Blood on the Tracks, a live version from 1976 was a highlight of Hard Rain. An alternate studio version, recorded at the original Blood on the Tracks sessions, was released on The Bootleg Series in 1991. This performance is from Bob Dylan's five night stand in 1992 at the Historic Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis.
A performance intended for Bob Dylan In Concert, a 1964 album of nine songs that was never released (see below for three more performances from that album). Seven Curses was recorded on August 6, 1963, in Columbia Records' Studio A; that version was released on The Bootleg Series in 1991.
'Til I Fell In Love With You appears on Time Out of Mind.
Another song intended for Bob Dylan In Concert, a 1964 album of nine songs that was never released (see below for two more performances from that album). Percy's Song was recorded two days before the Carnegie Hall concert in Columbia Records' Studio A; that version was released on Biograph in 1985.
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll was originally released on The Times They Are A-Changin' in 1964.
You're A Big Girl Now was originally released on Blood On The Tracks in 1975. This is a recent performance.
Cold Irons Bound, from Time Out Of Mind, has been nominated for a Grammy award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. Here is a recent live version from Bob Dylan's December, 1997, club tour.
Two songs intended for Bob Dylan In Concert, a 1964 album of nine songs that was never released. Recorded at Bob Dylan's first major New York City concerts, these performances have never been officially available. Lay Down Your Weary Tune was recorded the same week in Columbia Records' Studio A; that version was released on Biograph. John Brown was never officially released on a Bob Dylan album until the 1995 Unplugged album.
Mr. Tambourine Man has been part of Bob Dylan's performing repertoire since the song was originally released on Bringing It All Back Home in 1965. The performance here is from 1997.
Visions of Johanna has been performed only a handful of times over the years. Originally released on Blonde on Blonde, a live version from 1966 was a highlight of Biograph.
Blind Willie McTell made its live debut appearance in the summer of 1997. One of the revelations of the 1991 The Bootleg Series, this song was originally recorded during the Infidels sessions in 1983.
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