These early copies (which may have no artwork and be on CD-Rs) are rarities - scans required! Later promo copies of the set and the commercial release omit the stage announcement.

Thanks to "HwyCDRrev" for the information and Jens Winter for the scan of a later version with artwork but without the stage announcement.

R-0658 Love Sick - exclusive remix, slightly longer than Time Out Of Mind version
This track was one of the 42 rarities included for download with the Aug 2006 Apple iTunes Bob Dylan Collection, see Online Performances (Other).

R-0299 Things Have Changed from the Wonder Boys soundtrack album as well as Columbia compilations and singles, lyrics on bobdylan.com
Now no longer a rarity since it is included in The Essential Bob Dylan (2000) on the bobdylan.com albums page.

Tracklisting:

1. She Belongs To Me

2. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

3. To Ramona

4. Boots Of Spanish Leather

5. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

6. Love Sick (remix) (R-0658)

7. Make You Feel My Love

8. Things Have Changed (R-0299)

9. Sugar Baby

The remix of Love Sick has a much cleaner sound than on the original Time Out Of Mind album, and it's possible it comes from the as yet unreleased remixed/remastered album that was scheduled to be included as one of the 15 Dylan albums released on hybrid SACD in Sep 2003, see International Albums (Regular).

There is a folded front insert, inside which is a folded leaflet advertising the latest Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964 release and other Dylan albums. The pictures below are of two sheets of artwork prior to being cut up for use in the CDs, offered for auction on eBay.

Thanks to Dag Braathen and Keith Venturoni for finding this item and to Ian Woodward for further information. Thanks especially to Jim and Gail Paboucek for the CD.

Sony A72812 (USA) - front insert artwork sheet, picture from eBay

Sony A72812 (USA) - outside of advertising leaflet

Sony A72812 (USA) - reverse of front  insert artwork sheet, picture from eBay

This is a "Best Of" compilation from a series of "New Woman" compilations of songs by (mostly) female artists that started in 1999. This implies that R-0359 appeared previously on a "New Woman" CD, but I can't find it (several of the albums have other songs by Gabrielle).

For the original single and album by Gabrielle, see 2000.

For details of the original album, see 1962.

For details of the original album, see 1962.

Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.

RCA/BMG Heritage 82876-59069-2 (Canada) - booklet page detail, scan by Jack

The set is in a purple digipak with no information except a tracklisting. R-0250 is not listed as the alternate version.

Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for information about this set. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for finding this was re-released in France on 11 Sep 2006 with a redesigned cover (same front photo).

Sony Music Media SMM 516344-2 (France) - inside of digipak with CD (rear of CD tray is plain purple)

R-0074-5 Nashville Skyline Rag - version with Earl Scruggs on banjo and Bob on guitar, recorded at Tom Allen's home, Carmel, NY, Dec 1970
For the original 1971 Columbia release of Earl Scruggs Performing With His Family and Friends, see 1971.

R-0216-3 Heartland (Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson) - Bob duets with Willie on this co-written song from his 1993 album Across The Borderline, lyrics on bobdylan.com

R-0215-4 Boots Of Spanish Leather - Bob plays harmonica on Nanci Griffith's cover version, from her 1993 Elektra album Other Voices, Other Rooms, see 1993

Other artists featured are Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, The Byrds and Emmylou Harris.

Thanks to Tim Dunn for this information about a promo copy of this album: "If there are other promos, I don’t know, but this one merely had the UPC (Universal Price Code) on the back cover blacked out by a marker. The catalog number is Shout! Factory DK 37487. The disc reads ‘Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment Inc.” It is a gatefold package, with a sticker on the shrink-wrap listing five artists, with a six-page booklet tucked in a sleeve on the left inside. The notes are by Eddie Gorodetsky, he of "Christmas with Eddie G." and “Dharma & Greg.” Oddly, only “Nashville Skyline Rag” mentions Dylan as a guest although “Heartland’ is from Willie Nelson’s Across The Borderline and “Boots of Spanish Leather” is from Nanci Griffith’s Other Voices, Other Rooms. There is even an ISBN (something I’ve never understood for music recordings): 0-7389-2812-7."

Thanks to Dave Plentus for scans, and thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for finding the CD-R promo.

Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque for information about the Columbia 2CD set The Essential Earl Scruggs, released 2 Mar 2004 - this compilation has a version of Nashville Skyline Rag on CD2, but it's a version by Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, and the Foggy Mountain Boys, not R-0074. The original release was on a 1970 Flatt & Scruggs album called Final Fling.

The Essential Earl Scruggs - this 2004 release has a version of Nashville Skyline Rag, but it's a version by Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt, not R-0074

Shout! Factory DK 37487 (USA) - inside of digipak with booklet in pocket and CD, scan by David Plentus

R-0074-5 Nashville Skyline Rag - version with Earl Scruggs on banjo and Bob on guitar, recorded at Tom Allen's home, Carmel, NY, Dec 1970
For the original 1971 Columbia release of Earl Scruggs Performing With His Family and Friends, see 1971.

This track is on CD1, which also contains Love Is Just A Four Letter Word with Joan Baez and You Ain't Goin' Nowhere with The Byrds, both also from the 1971 album.

Thanks to "HwyCDRrev" for information about this set.

To present the material more effectively it's been moved to 1964.

Thanks to Keith Venturoni and Jeff Gold for information and scans.

R-0665 I And I - dub remix of track from Infidels

The reggae remix features legendary drum and bass duo Sly & Robbie (Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare).

The other songs on the set are The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Michael Rose); Maggie's Farm (Toots Hibbert); Blowin' In The Wind (Don Carlos); Mr Tambourine Man (Gregory Isaacs); One Too Many Mornings (Abijah); The Times They Are A-Changin' (Apple Gabriel); Gotta Serve Somebody (Incline); A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Billy Mystic); Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (J C Lodge), Lay, Lady, Lay (The Mighty Diamonds), Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Luciano), Subterranean Homesick Blues (Sizzla) and Just Like A Woman (Beres Hammond). The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest (Yellowman) was originally included in the tracklist but has not made it on to the final album.

Information from "HwyCDRrev" and Larry Crum. Thanks also to Clayton Bushong of Gigante Media for the picture of the US release. The front insert is a 16 page booklet and both CDs mimic Columbia vinyl releases with "365° SOUND"/"STEREO" logos.

Thanks to David Plentus for scans of the US set and the UK promo, which came in a card sleeve and contains CD1 only.

For more information about the album, here is the link to its web-site .
 

RAS/Sanctuary RZDDD008 (UK) - CD2 with R-0664

RAS/Sanctuary RZDDD008 (UK) - outside of front insert booklet

RAS/Sanctuary 06076-89914-2 (USA) - outside of front insert booklet, scan by David Plentus (note closer crop of rear picture than UK booklet)

The US CDs are of slightly different design from the UK CDs, with CD1 being white/black on red instead of black on red, and CD2 being green/red on black instead of black on green. The UK promo CD is black with white text.

Thanks also to Ole Lien and Clayton Bushong of Gigante Media. Thanks to Jack from Canada for scans of the Canadian single CD release.

RAS/Sanctuary 06076-89914-2 (Canada) - inside of jewel case with CD,  scan by Jack

RAS/Sanctuary RZDPR008 (UK) - rear of promo card sleeve, scan by David Plentus

RAS/Sanctuary RZDPR008 (UK) - promo CD scan by David Plentus

RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89914-1 (USA) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89914-1 (USA) - Side 3 scan by Hans Seegers (R-0664)

RAS/Sanctuary Records RZDLP 008 (UK for Europe) - front sticker scan by Hans Seegers

RAS/Sanctuary Records RZDLP 008 (UK for Europe) - Side 3 scan by Hans Seegers (R-0664)

Columbia CSK 54798 (USA) - front of jewel case with red sticker

Columbia CSK 54798 (USA) - bonus disc information sticker

This promo CD has been released by Columbia Records to promote the publication of the first part of Bob's autobiography "Chronicles Volume One" by Simon & Schuster in the USA. It has two previously unreleased tracks. The CD is in a jewel case with a clear tray and a red sticker on the front describing the disc. The front insert is a single card. The disc itself is plain red with a spoof white "361° SOUND STEREO" logo as on 1960s stereo LPs. The reverse of the rear insert (under the CD tray) has an excerpt of typescript from the book. Two further parts of this autobiography are promised. There is also an unabridged audio book on 6CDs read by Sean Penn, thanks to Franck Faugere for the scan.

R-0679 The Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird (Traditional) - recorded live at the Gaslight Club, New York, Oct 1962
This performance has since been released on Bob Dylan Live At The Gaslight 1962, Starbucks/Hear Music/Sony Music Custom Marketing Group (USA), see 2005

R-0680 Dignity - original 1989 piano demo (piano and vocal only)
This version has significantly different lyrics from the released track.

The original Oh Mercy out-take of Dignity produced by Daniel Lanois (R-0273) first appeared on the Touched By An Angel OST - see 1998. Also on The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, see 2000 and the UK/French release of The Essential Bob Dylan, see 2001, and now on the 2007 3CD compilation Dylan. The 1994 Brendan O'Brien remixed version for Greatest Hits Vol. 3 retained only Bob's vocal and piano and added new backing. R-0680 is now also on the 2005 Sony France tie-in compilation Chroniques: Volume 1, see 2005.
For Greatest Hits Vol. 3 and Dylan, see International Albums (Regular).

R-0071-2 New Morning - early copies of the album have Bob saying "OK, here we go" at start of title track

The other tracks on this CD are New Morning (album version); Father of Night (from New Morning); Political World (from Oh Mercy); Man In The Long Black Coat (from Oh Mercy). New Morning and Father Of Night appear to be remastered, and may be from a forthcoming remastered release of New Morning. New Morning includes the tuning/intro that was present on the original US and UK vinyl releases but has been absent from all CD releases of the album (R-0071, see 1970). This is a rarity at the moment, but if a new release of the New Morning album includes it, the track without the intro will become the rarity!

This six track CD is available at branches of outlets such as Tower Records, Borders, Newbury Comics and Bestbuy with purchase of the book plus a Dylan CD. Reports of a second CD single with only five tracks omitting R-0679 as listed on the Newbury Comics web-site are incorrect - Newbury Comics are supplying the same 6-track CD as everyone else, and their web-page originally gave information that had been wrongly supplied to them by Columbia Records!

Thanks to Peter Gilmer, "HwyCDRrev", Kurt Schroeder and Tim Dunn for information. Thanks to Tim Dunn for the copy of "Newsweek" with Bob on the cover, and inside talking about his book. Thanks to David Plentus for scans. Thanks to John Lettiere for the book and disc.

Thanks to Jean-Pierre Mercier and Ian Woodward for the information that this CD was available from French booksellers in May 2005 with a new European catalogue number SAMPCD 14513 2 tied in with the publication of the French translation of Bob's book. These promo CD's are scheduled to be offered as  prizes in various contests organised by various French music magazines ("Libération" "Les Inrockuptibles").

Thanks to Nol Grint for information and scans of a new European version with catalogue number SAMPCM 15043 2 being given away in Sep 2005 with copies of The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home. This CD comes in a card sleeve with Bob on the front and the New York pictures from the book cover on the rear, and was purchased in Holland from a chain called Plato. It is available also at HMV in the UK. Both this new CD SAMPCM 15043 2 and 2004's SAMPCD 14513 2 were manufactured by the Columbia plant in Austria.

Thanks to Jack from Canada for scans of the US 6CD audiobook, read by Sean Penn.

Audioworks 0-7435-4309-2 (USA) - front of audiobook box, scan by Jack from Canada

Audioworks 0-7435-4309-2 (USA) - rear of audiobook box, scan by Jack from Canada

This CD single credited to "Bob Dylan and his Band" is in a plain black card sleeve with a cut-out to show the CD label. The performance is described as "Bob Dylan field recording, UK, 2000". The CD is being given away in independent record stores in the USA to promote the release of "Chronicles Volume One" as is the CD above.

Thanks to Hervé from France for information and to Éamonn Ó Catháin for the disc.

R-0683 Went To See The Gypsy - unreleased demo version of track from New Morning, with Bob on piano

On the insert for this album this performance is identified as "live in Australia", which is incorrect as Bob has never performed this song in Australia! There was speculation it was the live performance of Mutineer from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, 11 Oct 2002, that was up on bobdylan.com that month, see Online Performances (bobdylan.com), but it's now confirmed it comes from Red Bluff, CA, 7 Oct 2002.

Bob's son Jakob Dylan and the Wallflowers perform Lawyers, Guns And Money, a song also performed live by Bob in 2002.

Thanks to Jim Paboucek, Michael G Smith, Hervé from France and Jack from Canada for information and scans.

Acetate 3 - Sheffield, 16 May 1966, scan by Annie West (R-0685, R-0686)

R-0686 Desolation Row - live as R-0685

These two single-sided acetates were found by Annie West in Oct 2004. One is from Sheffield, 16 May 1966, and contains It's All Over Now, Baby Blue and Desolation Row, otherwise officially unreleased. The second is from Manchester, 17 May 1966, but the exact contents are not known. She says: "I'm in Sligo Ireland by the way, and the story of the acetates is that they came from Bob Johnson when he was here producing an album for the Waterboys. he gave them away (after trying to sell them) and they ended up in my house where I found them at the very bottom of a box full of albums for throwing out!"

For the long-awaited release of the Manchester 1966 concert in 1998 as The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966 - The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert, see  International Albums (Regular).

For acetates of the 1966 live performance with The Hawks, see Promotional Albums 1969-85. For performances included in 1991 on a CD with Il Dizionario del Rock, an Italian part-work magazine, which are probably from the Manchester Free Trade Hall concert, see Questionable Releases.

Thanks to Annie West and C P Lee for information and scans.

R-0691     All Over You -  lyrics on bobdylan.com Witmark demo, recorded Mar 1963, previously unreleased

R-0035-2  The Death Of Emmett Till - Witmark demo, recorded Dec 1962, surfaced in 1967 on a 12" Warner Bros/7 Arts acetate LP, see 1967
For the May 1962 Broadside recording R-0082, not released until Nov 1971, see 1971

R-0031-2  Ain't Gonna Grieve No More - Witmark demo, recorded Aug 1963, surfaced in 1967 on a 12" Warner Bros/7 Arts acetate LP, see 1967

R-0692     Talkin' John Birch Society Blues - Witmark demo, recorded Mar 1963, previously unreleased

The version of this song released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 in 1991 is a live performance from Carnegie Hall, New York, 26 Oct 1963. For the studio version from the Columbia test pressing and promotional copies of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, see 1963.

R-0036     (I'd Hate To Be You On That) Dreadful Day - Witmark demo, recorded Mar 1963, surfaced in 1967 on a 12" Warner Bros/7 Arts acetate LP, see 1967
For the May 1962 Broadside recording R-0081, not released until Nov 1971, see 1971.

R-0693     Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag - out-take from The Times They Are A-Changin', Aug or Oct 1963, previously unreleased (this is the only song here where a Witmark version is not known)

For a live version recorded 12 Apr 1963, Town Hall, New York, from the unreleased 1964 Columbia album Bob Dylan In Concert, see 1964.

More information will be given when available.

Thanks to A J LaRue and John Rush for information and scans

Warner Bros. XTV 221567 (USA, 1967) - acetate label scan by Hans Seegers

Stereo promo albums and singles for 2004 which don't contain rare material but which are still very collectable are now here: International Promotional Releases. Promo releases of regular albums and commercially released singles are now located on the appropriate page in International Stereo Releases.

Living In Another Country: International Stereo Releases