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

Bob in Civil War disguise from the video of 'Cross The
Green Mountain from the 2003 DVD release of Gods And Generals
This second part of the 2000s list collects non-album song performances and interviews by Bob Dylan on VHS video and DVD (and laserdisc where I have information) from 2003-04. I would be grateful for any additional information on these items and other material to place here. Video material included on CD-ROMs or CD Plus discs is still in the main directory in the appropriate part. Unauthorised documentaries or compilations of performance footage are now included in Questionable Video. For 2003-04 films with Dylan album tracks, see VHS & DVD: Films with Dylan Album Tracks 2000s Part 1.
Films are listed by date of original appearance (in theatres or on TV), not when the VHS video or
DVD came out, often some years later. This page does not include songs from regular albums that appear in films or
videos without performance footage, nor do I include music videos
of standard album tracks - for a full Dylan filmography, see "Expecting Rain"
or "TV Talkin'"
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For informed discussion of all Bob's screen appearances, see C.P. Lee's well-received book "Like A Bullet Of Light ".
Thanks to Jean-Pierre Mercier for laserdisc details and catalogue numbers and Michel Pomarede for scans. Thanks also to Larry Crum for checking these entries against his own collection, "Positively Bob Dylan" by Michael Krogsgaard, "Bob Dylan on Video" (article in "Record Collector" magazine, Sep 1992), and several other sources. All scans that aren't credited are from my own collection or amazon.com
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: 15 March, 2010.
Titles in red are not available
on a currently released Bob Dylan CD (for these see bobdylan.com
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Key to symbols used:
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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)
2003
"Rock 'N' Roll Forever" + "Rock 'N' Roll Revolution" [Various] - 2 DVD/VHS set, Ed Sullivan Show (catalogue numbers?) (USA), 2003:
![]() US DVD release - Region 1 |
Even though Bob never actually appeared on the Ed Sullivan
show (because they wouldn't let him perform John Birch Society
Paranoid Blues), this compilation of 1960s clips from the show includes him!
Hans Seegers informs me that the Dylan content is an interview clip (when asked how many folk
protest singers there are Bob replies
"136":
R-0506-5 Excerpt from interview with Bob at Columbia Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 16 Dec 1965 For the complete interview, R-0608, see Interviews with Bob. Excepts from this interview (all listed as R-0506) were used in these video documentaries:
R-0319-9 I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - recorded with the Hawks at Edinburgh, Scotland, 20 May 1966, from the unreleased documentary "Eat The Document" Both R-0506 and R-0319 were also used in the 1979 video Heroes Of Rock & Roll (see VHS & DVD 1970s), and the 1987 video - The Fabulous 60s Vol. 7 (see VHS & DVD 1980s). R-0319 also appears in the 1994 Robbie Robertson video Going Home (see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1, and in the 1996 boxed sets The Golden Age Of Rock 'N' Roll and Dancing In The Street (for both see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 2). Thanks to Hans Seegers and Harold Lepidus for information. Thanks to Larry Crum for the information that the excerpt of R-0319 shown here includes "the ENTIRE last verse, but not the instrumental break included in the Going Home VHS release." |
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Joni Mitchell - "A Woman Of Heart And Mind: A Life Story" - documentary
shown on PBS in the "American Masters "series, USA, DVD: Red Distribution Inc
(catalogue number?) (USA), 3 Jun 2003:
Thanks to Harold Lepidus for information
about this item.
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Joni Mitchell is of course Canadian! (A long-standing friend of mine was
at school with her in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, when she was Roberta Joan
Anderson.) This 92 min documentary contains some footage of Dylan at Newport
and from Don't Look Back. For the 1967 film, see
VHS & DVD 1960s, for the 2000 DVD release see above. There is also a scene
where Joni sings along to Bob's record of Positively 4th Street. Both are in
the segment called "Greenwich Village/Laurel Canyon". Fred Muller says: "About 20 minutes in, there's a brief portion in which she mentions Dylan and how "Positively 4th Street" opened the doors to songwriters: now they could write about anything. On the soundtrack one hears the first lines of Bob's single with Joni emulating it - I think the two recordings were superimposed afterward. On-screen there are snippets from "Don't Look Back" (Dylan at the typewriter, side-on and from behind) and of him in his Newport polka-dot shirt. I'd guess the latter few seconds come from the soundcheck footage in the "Festival!" documentary. This whole sequence lasts about 30 seconds." |
US DVD (my copy) |
Thanks to Fred Muller and Keith Cattell for the screenshots below of Bob at Newport and from Don't Look Back. For the 2005 Joni Mitchell Collector's Edition 2DVD set including this DVD, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3.
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Martin Carthy - "Martin Carthy: English Roots" - documentary shown on BBC4 in the UK, 2003(?)
"Gods And Generals" - movie released in the USA in Feb 2003, DVD: Warner
Home Video 23413/VHS: Warner Home Video 23296 (USA), 15 Jul 2003:
"Gods And Generals" is the prequel to
"Gettysburg" by the same director, Ron Maxwell, both based on
novels by Jeff M. Shaara. For more information, see
. Thanks to Tim Dunn for the US catalogue numbers. This DVD is double sided so
has no label design, and comes in a card case with black plastic edges and a
plastic holder for the DVD itself.
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Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information about AristoMedia Country Compilation Reel #27, a five song promo NTSC video tape from AristoMedia of Nashville, TN, dated 28 Jan 2003. It contains R-0601 plus Going Home by Mary Fahl from this film. The tape is in a generic card slipcase. | ||
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R-0603 'Cross The Green Mountain - second edit of original song from film version of Gods And Generals, Feb 2003 (3:38) Thanks to "LostTreeLane" and Gino Galvez for the information that the song is edited. "LostTreeLane" adds: "I just saw Gods And Generals and thought I'd let you know that, interestingly, when 'Cross The Green Mountain plays over the closing credits, it's neither the full length version nor the video edit. It's yet another cut somewhere in between the two: after the "avenging God" line, it goes directly into the final verse: "I'm ten miles outside the city"." As the film is 219 mins long, the DVD is double-sided, with the film and extras on both sides. Side 1 of the DVD also contains this video as well as : R-0601-3 'Cross The Green Mountain - edit of original song from video (3:10) This video was recorded in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA, on 23 Nov 2002. Thanks to Harold Lepidus for the information that an "advance screener" of this DVD was being distributed in early Jun 2003 by Warner Home Video - this has no artwork in the packaging or on the DVD itself, and no extras. For details of the film soundtrack album with the full 8:12 version of the song (R-0586), see 2003. The full version of 'Cross The Green Mountain was released in Oct 2008 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006, see here. This means R-0586 has ceased to be a rarity. R-0601 and R-0603 remain rarities. Thanks to Juergen Wasser for scans of the Russian release of this film.
This is in English with Russian subtitles. Thanks also to Stanislav Tomik
for scans of the Czech Republic/Slovakia release and to Jack from Canada
for scans of the US DVD double feature including the previous film
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Russian DVD release, outside scan by Juergen Wasser |
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![]() War Double Feature - "Gettysburg"/"Gods And Generals" US 2DVD set, front scan by Jack from Canada |
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Bob in 'Cross The Green Mountain video (R-0601) in period dress with a wig and beard!
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"Masked And Anonymous" - movie released in the USA by Sony Pictures Classics on 25 Jul 2003; DVD (Region 1): Sony Pictures Classics 01443 (USA), 17 Feb 2004; VHS (NTSC): Sony Pictures Classics 01441 (USA), 17 Feb 2004; DVD (Region 2): BBC Video BBCDVD 1511 (UK), 10 May 2004, Monolith Video DVD 206 (Poland), 19 May 2004; MiB 1653 (Germany), 2005; Shochiku Home Video DZ-0194 (Japan) - 2003/2005:
![]() "Masked And Anonymous" - film poster |
The soundtrack album was released in the USA on 22
Jul 2003. The Columbia soundtrack album has
not been included on the bobdylan.com albums page
This film starring Bob as singer Jack Fate was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT, on 22 Jan 2003. It was commercially released in New York and Los Angeles on 25 Jul 2003, and received limited release at major cities in the USA and Canada in 2003.
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Sony Pictures Classics 01443 (USA) - inside insert |
Sony Pictures Classics 01443 (USA) - sticker on DVD front advertising Grammy nomination |
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Sony Pictures Classics 01443 (USA) - DVD (Region 1) |
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`![]() BBC Video BBCDVD 1511 (UK) - inside of insert scan by Dag Braathen (Region 2 |
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![]() BBC Video BBCDVD 1511 (UK) - start of Cold Irons Bound in DVD extras, screenshot by Dag Braathen (Region 2) |
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![]() Roadshow Entertainment 104093-9 (Australia/New Zealand) - disc scan by Fred Muller (Region 4) |
![]() Roadshow Entertainment 104093-9 (Australia/New Zealand) - case insert unfolded, scan by Fred Muller with a fourth design (Region 4) |
![]() Czech DVD release, case insert unfolded, scan by Stanislav Tomik (uses same design as Australian release - Region 2) |
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![]() Shochiku Home Video DZ-0194 (Japan) - 2003 2DVD release, front with sticker scan by Wil Gielen (sealed copy with obi on right) |
![]() Shochiku Home Video DZ-0194 (Japan) - 2003 2DVD release, rear scan by Wil Gielen (sealed copy) |
![]() Shochiku Home Video DZ-0194 (Japan) - 2005 2DVD release, front scan by Michio Kinoshita |
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![]() Monolith Video DVD 206 (Poland) - CD scan by Artur Jarosinski (Region 2) |
![]() Shochiku Home Video DZ-0194 (Japan) - 2005 2DVD release, rear scan by Michio Kinoshita |
![]() Shochiku Home Video DZ-0194 (Japan) - 2005 2DVD release, DVD1 scan by Michio Kinoshita |
![]() Shochiku Home Video DZ-0194 (Japan) - 2005 2DVD release, DVD2 scan by Michio Kinoshita |
![]() Shochiku Home Video DZ-0194 (Japan) - 2003 2DVD release, front sticker scan by Wil Gielen |
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The songs in the film include two existing rarities, and are:
R-0615-2
Down In The Flood - live from Jack Fate and his band, recorded at Stage 6,
Ray-Art Studios, Canoga Park, CA, 18 Jul 2002 (an audio clip of this
song is available on the "Masked And Anonymous"
web-site
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R-0442-4 Come Una Pietra Scalciata [Like A Rolling Stone] (Dylan/Aleotti/Perrini)
- cover version in Italian by Articolo 31 with excerpts from Bob's original version, from their 1998 Ricordi
(Italy) album Nessuno (see 1998), and on the May 2001 BMG Germany compilation May Your Song Always Be Sung
Again: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 (see 2001)
R-0616-2 Dixie (Daniel Decatur Emmett) - live from Jack Fate and his band, recorded as R-0615
R-0618 I'll Remember You - live from Jack Fate and his band (not included on the soundtrack album), recorded as R-0615
R-0619 Amazing Grace (Traditional) - live from Jack Fate and his band (not included on the soundtrack album), recorded as R-0615
R-0612-2 Diamond Joe (Traditional) - live
from Jack Fate and his band, recorded as R-0615. This performance is available to download from the Apple iTunes Online Music Store
and a video clip is also available on the
"Masked And Anonymous" web-site
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Thanks to Paul S. Levine and Jean-Pol Hiernaux for pointing out that the iTunes
version is 10 seconds shorter.
Note this is a
different song from the one with the same name on Good As I Been To You, see
International Albums (Regular), thanks to Gil Walker for pointing this out.
R-0620 Drifter's Escape - live from Jack Fate and his band (not included on the soundtrack album), recorded as R-0615
R-0621 Simple Twist Of Fate - live from Jack Fate and his band (not included on the soundtrack album), recorded as R-0615 (Michael Smith disputes the inclusion of this - I shall find time to watch the film again to make sure.)
R-0622 Dirt Road Blues - live from Jack Fate and his band (not included on the soundtrack album), recorded as R-0615
R-0617-2
Cold Irons Bound - live from Jack Fate and his band, recorded as R-0615
This track was also available in Oct 2004 on the Apple iTunes Online Music
Store, see Online Performances
(Other).
R-0623 Blowin' In The Wind - edited version of R-0436, live, Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA, 16 Mar
2000 (not included on the soundtrack album)
This performance was previously found on the limited edition bonus CD single given away
with The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 in the UK (see 2000),
also on the promo CD single Live & Rare 2 (see 2002).
Thanks to Michael Smith for the information that this song plays over the
closing credits, and is edited compared to the CD version, in that approx. 45
seconds of the harmonica solo is cut. I have therefore allocated a new R-number.
The DVD extras include some new performances:
R-0657 Standing In The Doorway - live from Jack Fate and his band, recorded as R-0615
R-0661 Knockin' On Heaven's Door - live from Jack Fate and his band, recorded as R-0615 (excerpt only)
R-0662 If You See Her, Say Hello - live from Jack Fate and his band, recorded as R-0615 (audio excerpt only)
The film also includes:
My Back Pages - Japanese cover by the Magokoro Brothers (on the soundtrack album)
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - cover by The Grateful Dead (on the soundtrack
album)
Señor - cover by the Jerry Garcia Band (on the soundtrack album)
Blind Willie McTell - from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
He Was A Friend Of Mine - from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
Non Dirle Che Non E' Cosi' [If You See Her, Say Hello] - Italian cover by Francesco de Gregori
(on the soundtrack album)
On A Night Like This - English/Spanish cover by Los Lobos (on the soundtrack album)
Most Of The Time - cover by Sophie Zelmani (on the soundtrack album)
Tangled Up In Blue - from Blood On The Tracks
I Put A Spell On You (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) - John Goodman
Watching The River Flow - cover?
The Times They Are A-Changin' - cover by Tinashe Kachingwe, an eight-year-old
girl from the cast
Not Dark Yet - from Time Out of Mind
One More Cup of Coffee - cover by Sertab Erener (on the soundtrack album)
Angelina - instrumental cover by Bruce Kaphan (L.A. studio musician who
worked on the film)
The Masked And Anonymous film soundtrack album (see 2003) also includes:
Gotta Serve Somebody -
cover by Shirley Caesar from the Columbia album Gotta Serve Somebody: The
Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan (also see 2003)
City Of Gold - cover by the Dixie Hummingbirds from
their 2003 Treasure Records album Diamond Jubilation (see Bob Dylan's Unreleased Songs "C"
and "Covers" pages).
Thanks to Arthur Louie for the original list. Thanks to Jay Powers, Michael Smith and Trevor Gibb for corrections and further information. Thanks also to Tim Dunn for information about the US VHS release, which is apparently full-screen (4:3) - the DVD is widescreen (16:9/1.78:1), and to Ian Woodward for advance information about the UK release. Thanks also to Stefan Weber for information about the UK Region 2 release and to Fred Muller for the Australia/New Zealand release. Thanks to Stanislav Tomik for scans of the Czech Republic/Slovakia release, retitled "Inkognito". Thanks to Artur Jarosinski for scans of the Polish release of this film. This is in English with Polish subtitles. The title change is bizarre, to "Jeźdźcy Apokalipsy" ["Horsemen Of The Apocalypse"]. Thanks to Michio Kinoshita and Wil Gielen for scans of the 2003 and 2005 Shochiku Japanese releases which also has a booklet and a postcard inside the pack. Thanks to Gerd Rundel for scans of the 2005 German release.
Keith Venturoni tells me the UK version of the DVD has a unique full length performance of Cold Irons Bound. This is confirmed by Dag Braathen, who provided scans of the UK DVD plus a screenshot. Dag adds: "UK playing time of the movie track: 1hour 41min 53sec, US playing time of the movie track: 1hour 46min 27sec. The documentary is 6 minutes longer on the UK release, it has more behind-the-scenes footage of Dylan and interviews with the band members, also has a short clip of performing If You See Her Say Hello performed in the same setting as Dixie and I'll Remember You. There is indeed a full performance on Cold Irons Bound." The DVD chapter division on the UK disc is quite different from the US disc! There are 28 chapters in the US film (also in the Australia/New Zealand version), but in the UK film there are 18.
When he was on holiday in South Africa Fred Muller saw a copy of the Masked And Anonymous DVD with a different cover yet again - scans required!
Various Artists - "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues - A Musical
Journey" - 7 DVD set, Hip-O (catalogue number?) (USA), 14 Oct 2003:
This 7DVD set is from a seven part TV series about the blues, presented by film director Martin Scorsese.
For the 5CD soundtrack set see
International Releases
(Various Artist Compilations) 2000s Part 2.
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Bob's contribution, included in Episode 5, "Godfathers and Sons", directed by Marc Levin, is Maggie’s Farm, the electric performance from Newport, 1965. R-0300-4 Maggie's Farm - recorded live with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 25 Jul 1965 (footage from Murray Lerner's "Festival!" film, see VHS & DVD 1960s). |
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![]() Hip-O B000074109 (USA) - DVD scan by Jack from Canada |
Thanks to Fred Muller for the following information about the Dylan content: "A series of stills of Dylan at Newport in 1965 (afternoon soundcheck with polka-dot shirt) is shown about halfway through the film, during an interview with Marshall Chess. The soundtrack has an excerpt of the live Newport recording of Maggie's Farm at that point. Immediately thereafter there's about 15 seconds of monochrome film of Dylan with the band members, presumably shortly after the show. It seems to be slowed down somewhat and Dylan holds a wine bottle to his left ear as the camera pans away from him." Thanks to Jack from Canada for scans.
2004
"The Terminal" - feature film directed by Steven Spielberg, Dreamworks (USA), Jun 2004/DVD: Umvd/Dreamworks (catalogue number?) (USA), 23 Nov 2004/ Universal Pictures Video 8301797 (UK), 31 Jan 2005; DreamWorks UWBF-70005 (Japan), 2006:
R-0337-14 End Of The Line (Traveling Wilburys) - from the 1988 Wilbury Records/Warner Bros. album The Traveling Wilburys Volume One, see Traveling Wilburys 1988
This song is most appropriate for a film starring Tom Hanks about a man stuck in an airline terminal for months!
Thanks to Tim Dunn for information about this film. This song was featured in the TV and theatre trailer but is sadly not on the film soundtrack album, which features only music by John Williams, and also not on any release of the DVD, even the two-disc editions. Thanks to Moise Potie for scans of the Japanese Two-Disc Special Edition.
"Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues" - American PBS TV broadcast in "American Masters" series, 2004, DVD release American Masters WT 234 (USA), Jul 2004:
![]() American Masters WT 234 (USA) - picture from PBS TV web-site |
This 60 min documentary includes a clip of Bob singing
Lost Highway by Hank Williams from the 1967
documentary Don't Look Back. For the 1967 film, see
VHS & DVD 1960s, for the 2000 DVD release see above. Thanks to Harold Lepidus for information about this item. |
Willie Nelson And Friends - "Outlaws And Angels" - USA Network TV broadcast 31 May 2004, DVD release: Red Distribution Inc. EE 39059-9 (USA), 19 Oct 2004; Eagle Rock Entertainment EREDV418 (UK), 2004:
Various Artists - "Apollo At 70 - Hot Night In Harlem" - US TV broadcast aired 19 Jun 2004, DVD: WEA Home Video (catalogue number?) (USA), 12 Oct 2004:
Various Artists - "Live Aid" - US/UK TV broadcast aired 13
Jul 1985, 4 DVD set: Warner Music Vision R29-70383 (USA/Canada), 16 Nov 2004/Warner
Music Vision 2564 61895-2 (UK), 8 Nov 2004:
For a single DVD released in 2005 with highlights including an excerpt
of R-0690 and R-0750 in full,
see VHS &
DVD 2000s Part 3.

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