This page includes rarities from the Sony Custom Mix CD site . This facility lasted from Feb to Dec 2003 and featured several rarities including a couple that were exclusive to the site. They are all therefore listed below. Also included are exclusive rarities from the Apple iTunes Online Music Store , which started in May 2003, and still continues.

R-0271 Roving Gambler - live,  El Rey Theater, Los Angeles, 17 Dec 1997 (A), from Love Sick CD singles, see 1998

R-0273 Dignity - original Oh Mercy out-take from the Touched By An Angel soundtrack album, also see 1998
Now no longer a rarity since it is included in The Essential Bob Dylan (2000) on the bobdylan.com albums page.

R-0552 Waitin' For You - from the Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood soundtrack album, see 2002

R-0268 Cocaine Blues (Traditional) - live, El Rey Theater, Los Angeles, 16 Dec 1997 (A), from the European Columbia Love Sick singles, also on a bonus disc included with the Australian tour limited edition of Time Out Of Mind, for both see 1998.

This web-site misdated this performance as from 20 Dec 1997, the 1998 releases date it correctly - see Cold Irons Bound below for a second misdating. Bob did indeed perform Cocaine Blues on 20 Dec 1997 but that performance has never been officially released.

R-0267 Cold Irons Bound - live, El Rey Theater, Los Angeles, 16 Dec 1997 (A) - same as BDC7 (see above), from the European Columbia Love Sick singles, also on a bonus disc included with the 1998 Australian tour limited edition of Time Out Of Mind (see 1998), and several 1999 promo releases, see 1999. Now also available on the 2001 Japanese live compilation Bob Dylan Live 1961-2000: Thirty Nine Years Of Great Concert Performances, see 2001.

This web-site repeated the mistake on several of the releases that the performance is from 20 Dec 1997. Bob did indeed perform Cold Irons Bound on 20 Dec 1997 but that performance has never been officially released. The web-site also introduced a new mistake by misdating Cocaine Blues, see above.

R-0205 Dead Man, Dead Man - live, New Orleans, LA, 10 Nov 1981, B-side of Everything Is Broken Columbia single (see 1989). Later released on the 1993 Japanese promo CD Mr. D's Collection # 3 (see 1993), and now also available on the 2001 Japanese live compilation Bob Dylan Live 1961-2000: Thirty Nine Years Of Great Concert Performances (see 2001).

The Sony Custom Mix web-site said George Jackson was the solo acoustic version (R-0085, as confirmed by the online excerpt), but it was actually the "big band" version (R-0084) until the end of April 2003, when it was replaced by the correct track. However, I heard at the end of May 2003 that the latest Custom CDs were again including R-0084. This was very confusing for customers! Amy Dickerson tells me she ordered a CD containing the acoustic version but received the "big band" version - she complained and was sent a replacement with the acoustic version.

R-0435 Highlands - live, Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA, 16 Mar 2000 (A), from the bonus CD released with the limited edition of The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, 2000.

R-0606 I Threw It All Away - this is a new out-take, previously officially unreleased, although not new to collectors. Wrongly described as a 1969 studio outtake from the Nashville Skyline sessions, it was recorded with George Harrison during the New Morning sessions at Columbia Studios, New York, 1 May 1970. Seven other tracks from this session (R-0419 - R-0425) turned up on the market in 1986 on Columbia acetates, now known as The Gelston Acetates (see 1986), and If Not For You released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 in 1991 is also from this session.

R-0279 Million Miles - live, Broome County Arena, Binghamton, NY, 19 Feb 1999 (A), from the Columbia promo CD Million Miles: Live Recordings 1997-1999, see 1999.

R-0202 Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie) - from the 1988 Columbia Woody Guthrie/Leadbelly tribute album Folkways: A Vision Shared (see 1988), also on the 1993 Japanese promo CD Mr. D's Collection # 3 (see 1993). For the 1989 video and DVD release, see VHS & DVD 1980s.

R-0130 Rita May - Desire out-take, recorded Jul 1975, B-side of 1976 single Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again from the Hard Rain album (also released in France as the A-side), see 1976. Some say this sounds like an alternate version, but it's possible it's been remastered.

R-0443 Make You Feel My Love - live, Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 21 May 1998 (A), from the European Things Have Changed CD single, May 2000 (see 2000), same as BDC26 from bobdylan.com, Jun 1998 (see above).

R-0552 Waitin' For You - from the soundtrack of the 2002 film The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, see 2002.

This is described as a new out-take, previously unreleased, but it is in fact exactly the same take as on the soundtrack album!

R-0613 Everything Is Broken - alternate take with different lyrics from the version on Oh Mercy (not an alternate mix as described)

Spanish Harlem Incident, live from New York Philharmonic Hall, 31 Oct 1964, released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 6

R-0614 Hero Blues - live from New York Town Hall, 12 Apr 1963, not the 1963 studio version which surfaced in 1980 as a Columbia acetate, see 1980

Thanks to Paul S. Levine for information about this item.

Note that the timing of George Jackson (5:53) is a mistake. It's 3:38 and is the acoustic version (R-0085) and not the "Big Band" version (R-0084).

Thanks to David Plentus for scans.

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information about this item.

R-0626 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat - live with The Hawks, Dublin, Ireland, 5 May 1966 (not 2 May 1966 as listed), excerpt (1:34)

R-0732 Mr. Tambourine Man - live, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 6 May 1966, excerpt (2:40)

Thanks to Artur Jarosinski for finding this and Ian Woodward for additional information.

Note the title is misspelled "Carnagie"! This track was available in the US only and is not on iTunes.

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information about this item.

R-0726 Mr. Tambourine Man - live, Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 26 Jul 1964 (evening performance)
Note this is not the audio of the bonus track from the Martin Scorcese documentary film "Bob Dylan: No Direction Home", DVD release, Sep 2005, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3. That track is dated incorrectly as 26 Jul 1964 but is actually from the afternoon workshop on the 24th and not from the evening performance on the 26th. Thanks to Bob Stacy for identifying these performances.

This track was available from the iTunes store in the USA only.

Thanks to Jack from Canada for information. Thanks to Paul S. Levine for information that this track was also available in Dec 2005 from iTunes:

R-0544 Man Of Peace - recorded with the Grateful Dead during rehearsals at Club Front, San Rafael, CA, 9 Jun 1987, from the Grateful Dead Records/Arista album Postcards Of The Hanging: The Grateful Dead Play The Music Of Bob Dylan, 2002

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information. This album was downloadable from the 17 European iTunes music stores, but not the US, Canadian, Australian and Japanese stores, and was removed on 13 Jan 2006. As above, I shall not be listing the material except for reference.

As the three Greatest Hits albums plus Biograph, The Essential Bob Dylan (US version) and The Best Of Bob Dylan (US version) are included in this download some of the tracks are duplicated! For details of the bonus video tracks offered, see 2006.

Thanks to Artur Jarosinski, HwyCDRrev, Éamonn Ó Catháin and Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information.

The 1973 Dylan album:

R-0096 Spanish Is The Loving Tongue (Charles Badger Clark/Billy Simon) - band version with backing singers, Self Portrait out-take recorded at Columbia Studios, Nashville, TN, 24 Apr 1969, not the solo version R-0072 released in 1971 as a single B-side, which was a 1970 New Morning out-take
See the note about writer credits for this song in the entry for R-0072 in 1971.

R-0097 Lily Of The West (Traditional, arranged E. Davies/J. Peterson) - New Morning out-take, recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 3 Jun 1970

R-0098 Sarah Jane (traditional) - New Morning out-take, recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 1 Jun 1970

R-0099 A Fool Such As I (Bill Trader) - Self Portrait out-take recorded at Columbia Studios, Nashville, TN, 26 Apr 1969
This is the stereo version, a mono version (presumably a reduction from stereo) was released on Columbia 7" singles (R-0453, see 1974) This song was written by Bill Trader, but occurs frequently on releases of this album and Columbia singles wrongly credited to "B. Abner" - see a page on the authorship here!

R-0100 Can't Help Falling In Love (H. Peretti/L. Creatore/Donna Weiss) - New Morning out-take, recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 3 Jun 1970, this track was reportedly also the A-side of a South Korean single, see Questionable Releases

R-0101 Mr. Bojangles (Jerry Jeff Walker) - New Morning out-take, recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 1 Jun 1970

R-0102 Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) - New Morning out-take, recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 4 Jun 1970
This track is available on bobdylan.com in its entirety and also appeared on a 1991 Columbia promo CD single Dylan Originals (see 1991)

R-0103 Mary Ann (traditional) - New Morning out-take, recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 1 Jun 1970

R-0104 Ballad of Ira Hayes (Peter La Farge) - New Morning out-take, recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 1 Jun 1970

Rare Tracks From The Vaults - a "virtual" Rarities album:

R-0514 I Was Young When I Left Home (traditional) - from the "Minnesota Hotel Tape", Minneapolis, MN, 22 Dec 1961, bonus track on the limited edition of "Love And Theft", see 2001 and 2002)
Now also released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home, Sep 2005, but in a version with a spoken intro

R-0240 Wade In The Water (traditional) - from the "Minnesota Hotel Tape", Minneapolis, MN, 22 Dec 1961, previously released on Bakhålls Litterära Röster (The Ambush's Literary Voices), compilation CD given away with an issue of the literary magazine "Bakhåll", Sweden (see 1994). A short excerpt was also included in the Highway 61 Interactive CD-ROM (see 1995). It also appeared on the 2001 Japanese live compilation Bob Dylan Live 1961-2000: Thirty Nine Years Of Great Concert Performances (see 2001)

R-0467 Handsome Molly (Traditional) - previously released on the Japan only CD Bob Dylan Live 1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years Of Great Concert Performances, Feb 2001 see 2001

R-0725 Baby, Please Don't Go (Big Joe Williams) - out-take from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 25 Apr 1962, previously available on the iTunes downloadable 3-track single Exclusive Out-takes From "The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack", Nov 2005, see above

R-0709 The Times They Are A-Changin' - live at Carnegie Hall,  New York, 26 Oct 1963, from the limited edition six-track CD Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963, Sony Music (USA/Japan), 2005

R-0710 Ballad Of Hollis Brown - live at Carnegie Hall,  New York, 26 Oct 1963, from the limited edition six-track CD Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963, Sony Music (USA/Japan), 2005

R-0711 Boots Of Spanish Leather - live at Carnegie Hall,  New York, 26 Oct 1963, from the limited edition six-track CD Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963, Sony Music (USA/Japan), 2005

R-0370 Lay Down Your Weary Tune - included on the unreleased US Columbia Bob Dylan In Concert album, see 1964, and also appeared on the "Goldmine" acetates, see 1980, released on bobdylan.com (BDC5, see Online Performances (bobdylan.com) ), and the limited edition six-track CD Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963, Sony Music (USA/Japan), 2005

R-0712 North Country Blues - live at Carnegie Hall,  New York, 26 Oct 1963, from the limited edition six-track CD Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963, Sony Music (USA/Japan), 2005

R-0713 With God On Our Side - live at Carnegie Hall,  New York, 26 Oct 1963, from the limited edition six-track CD Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963, Sony Music (USA/Japan), 2005

R-0726 Mr. Tambourine Man - live, Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 26 Jul 1964 (evening performance), previously available on the iTunes downloadable 3-track single Exclusive Out-takes From "The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack", Nov 2005, see above

R-0294 To Ramona - unidentified live performance, misdated as The Oval, City Hall, Sheffield, England, 30 Apr 1965, from the 2000 DVD release of D.A. Pennebaker's 1965 film Don't Look Back, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 1
This performance is definitely not the one known by Dylan collectors to be from Sheffield (from an audience tape containing six songs which could only have been recorded at Sheffield). My guess is that it's from City Hall, Newcastle, England, 6 May 1965, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 1.

R-0727 Outlaw Blues -  alternate take from Bringing It All Back Home, recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 13 Jan 1965, previously available on the iTunes downloadable 3-track single Exclusive Out-takes From "The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack", Nov 2005, see above

R-0054 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues live at Liverpool with the Hawks, 14 May 1966, B-side
This live version, never released on a regular Columbia album, was also on the Japanese promo LP Mr. D's Collection #1 (see 1974), the Japanese promo EP Mr. D's Collection #2 (see 1977), the 1978 Australian set Masterpieces (see 1978), the Japanese Mr. D's Collection #3 promo CD (see 1993), and the Capitol/EMI boxed set The Band: A Musical History (see 2005). All versions are as far as I know still in mono as originally recorded. Sadly, it does not appear on the B-side of a withdrawn CBS Spanish EP (see 1972), because the record was mispressed with It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry from Highway 61 Revisited instead!

R-0064 I Ain't Got No Home - recorded live with The Band at the Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Carnegie Hall, New York, 20 Jan 1968 (afternoon show), from the Tribute to Woody Guthrie Part 1 album  (see 1972)
This performance also appears on the Japanese Mr. D's Collection #3 limited edition CD (see 1993), and the Capitol/EMI boxed set The Band: A Musical History (see 2005).

R-0066 Grand Coulee Dam - with The Band, New York City, 21 Jan 1968, previously released on  the 1972 Tribute to Woody Guthrie Columbia/Warner Bros album (see 1972).  It also appeared on the 2001 Japanese live compilation Bob Dylan Live 1961-2000: Thirty Nine Years Of Great Concert Performances (see 2001)

R-0683 Went To See The Gypsy - unreleased demo version of track from New Morning, with Bob on piano, previously was available from the iTunes US store in Oct 2004, see above

R-0085 George Jackson (Acoustic version) - from 7" single, see 1971
This track also appeared on the Japanese limited edition compilations Mr. D's Collection #1 (LP, see 1974), Mr. D's Collection #3 (CD, see 1993) and on a "Limited Tour Edition Bonus Disc" with the 3CD compilation The Essential Bob Dylan in Holland, see 2003.

R-0084 George Jackson ("Big Band" version) - from 7" single, see 1971
This track also appeared on the 1978 Japanese/Australian compilation Masterpieces (see 1978), and on the Japanese limited release compilations Mr. D's Collection #1 (LP, see 1974), Mr. D's Collection #2 (EP, see 1977), Mr. D's Collection #3 (CD, see 1993) and Dylan Ga Rock (also see 1993).

Knockin' On Heaven's Door from MTV Unplugged (1995)

Subterranean Homesick Blues from Don't Look Back (1967)

Emotionally Yours video from Empire Burlesque (1985)

Series Of Dreams video from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 (1991)

Sweetheart Like You video from Infidels (1983)

When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky video from Empire Burlesque (1985)

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information, also that a seventh video of When the Deal Goes Down from Modern Times (2006) featuring Scarlett Johansson was added on 20 Sep 2006.

For mainland Europe and UK promo CD singles with a different edit, see 2006 and 2007.  For an iTunes UK download of the radio edit, see below. In this video version, the "art of love/fit me like a glove" verse is missing; in the radio edit version, it is present but the later "tough sons of bitches/orphanages" verse is cut out. Thanks to Moise Potie for reminding me that this video contains an out-take of "Eat The Document" showing Bob with John Lennon in a London taxi, see VHS & DVD 1960s.

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux and Martin Schaefer for information.

This is the show where several of Bob's friends are also in the studio, and Bob refers to Al Kooper as "Roosevelt Gook".

Thanks to Rob Carson for information about this show - to download it, see here

This download of the radio edit version available from iTunes UK from 6 Apr 2007 is timed at 4:00. For mainland Europe and UK promo CDs containing this edit see 2006 and 2007. For the different video edit, see above.

Thanks to Gino Galvez for information.

There are currently four videos:

R-0826 Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) - 2007 Mark Ronson "Re-Version" (3:36)

Trailer for the upcoming Dylan 3CD set (1:18)

R-0760 Thunder On The Mountain - edited version of track (3:59) from Modern Times (see above)

When the Deal Goes Down from Modern Times (again see above)

Six new videos were added on 26 Sep 2007, making ten (shown on left):

Tangled Up In Blue; Blood In My Eyes (R-0671, 1993, see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1); Things Have Changed; Jokerman; Knockin' On Heaven's Door from MTV Unplugged (1995, see above)

More details will be added when the other videos are positively identified.

As well as the original track from Blonde On Blonde, the third track on the download CD single is either:

R-0697 Down Along The Cove - live, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN, 11 Jun 2004
This soundboard track was first released on the US Sanctuary Records 2CD set Bonnaroo Music Festival 2004, 2005.

or an exclusive previously unreleased live performance:

R-0830 High Water (For Charley Patton) - live, Oakes Garden Theatre, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 23 Aug 2003

Thanks to Evan Marshall, "HwyCDRrev" and Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information.

R-0826 Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) - remix by Mark Ronson of track from Blonde On Blonde

Five new videos were added in Sep 2007, making eleven (Sweetheart Like You and Emotionally Yours have been removed):

As well as R-0826, Tangled Up In Blue; Blood In My Eyes (R-0671, 1993, see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1); Things Have Changed; Jokerman.

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information.

R-0436 Blowin' In The Wind - live, Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA, 16 Mar 2000, previously found on the limited edition bonus CD single given away with The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 in the UK, 2000
This is listed as "Recorded in Australia, Aug 1998", but it's actually the performance shown! Thanks to Richard Hillier for confirming this.

R-0681 Tryin' To Get To Heaven - live audience recording, Portsmouth, England, 25 Sep 2000, originally released on a Columbia US promo CD single, 2004

R-0270 Can't Wait - El Rey Theater, Los Angeles, 20 Dec 1997, originally included on the 1998 European Columbia Love Sick CD singles, see 1998

Confusingly, the Dylan album information given on all screens is for the 1973 deleted album of the same name, see 1973. Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for news this has now been corrected.

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux and Éamonn Ó Catháin for information and to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for the screenshots.

There is also a page promoting the new Bob Dylan live at Newport DVD The Other Side Of The Mirror with a short clip, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 4.

R-0150 Trouble In Mind - Slow Train Coming out-take (5:10), B-side of 1979 CBS Brazil 7" single (full version), lyrics on bobdylan.com . For the original release, see 1979.

Sadly this download is for USA only.

Audio and video versions of the new recording are available on their web-site. The audio version is downloadable in MP3 format free of charge.