Rare and Unreleased 1961-1991 (The Bootleg Series, Volumes 1-3) (1991)

1. Hard Times in New York Town - (live)
2. Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence (from "Highway 61 Revisited") - (outtake)
3. Like a Rolling Stone
4. He Was a Friend of Mine (from Bob Dylan) - (outtake)
5. Man on the Street (from Bob Dylan) - (outtake)
6. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - (Alternate version)
7. No More Auction Block - (live)
8. I'll Keep It with Mine
9. House Carpenter (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) - (outtake)
10. Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) - (outtake)
11. Let Me Die in My Footsteps (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) - (outtake)
12. Rambling, Gambling Willie (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) - (outtake)
13. Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) - (outtake)
14. Quit Your Low Down Ways (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) - (outtake)
15. Worried Blues (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) - (outtake)
16. Kingsport Town (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) - (outtake)
17. Walkin' Down the Line - (Demo version)
18. Walls of Redwing (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) - (outtake)
19. Paths of Victory (from The Times They Are A-Changin') - (outtake)
20. Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues - (live)
21. Who Killed Davey Moore? - (live)
22. Only a Hobo (from The Times They Are A-Changin') - (outtake)
23. Moonshiner (from The Times They Are A-Changin') - (outtake)
24. When the Ship Comes In - (Demo version)
25. The Times They Are A-Changin' - (Demo version)
26. Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie - (live)
27. Seven Curses (from The Times They Are A-Changin') - (outtake)
28. Eternal Circle (from The Times They Are A-Changin') - (outtake)
29. Suze (The Cough Song) (from The Times They Are A-Changin') - (outtake)
30. Mama, You Been on My Mind (from Bringing It All Back Home) - (outtake)
31. Farewell, Angelina (from Bringing It All Back Home) - (outtake)
32. Subterranean Homesick Blues - (alternate take)
33. If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night) (from Bringing It All Back Home) - (outtake)
34. Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence (from Highway 61 Revisited) - (outtake)
35. Like a Rolling Stone
36. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - (alternate take)
37. I'll Keep It with Mine
38. She's Your Lover Now (from Blonde On Blonde) - (outtake)
39. I Shall Be Released (from The Basement Tapes) - (outtake)
40. Santa-Fe (from The Basement Tapes) - (outtake)
41. If Not for You - (alternate take)
42. Wallflower
43. Nobody 'Cept You (from Planet Waves) - (outtake)
44. Tangled Up in Blue
45. Call Letter Blues (from Blood on the Tracks) - (outtake)
46. Idiot Wind
47. If You See Her, Say Hello
48. Golden Loom (from Desire) - (outtake)
49. Catfish (from Desire) - (outtake)
50. Seven Days - (live)
51. Ye Shall Be Changed (from Slow Train Coming) - (outtake)
52. Every Grain of Sand - (Demo version)
53. You Changed My Life (from Shot of Love) - (outtake)
54. Need a Woman (from Shot of Love) - (outtake)
55. Angelina (from Shot of Love) - (outtake)
56. Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart
57. Tell Me (from Shot of Love) - (outtake)
58. Lord Protect My Child (from Infidels) - (outtake)
59. Blind Willie McTell (from Infidels) - (outtake)
60. When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky
61. Series of Dreams (from Oh Mercy) - (outtake)

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From The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:

"Bootleg Series Vols. 1–3 [1991] A 3-CD (or, optionally in Europe, 5-LP) box set ranging over
Dylan’s career from 1961 to 1989, composed entirely of never-released material. Most artists
couldn’t muster a single outtake to hold alongside any of this; Dylan can provide 58 recordings almost
every one of which is of numinous excellence. There are the perfectly controlled solo performances
of the infinitely variegated pre-electric period (‘Kingsport Town’, ‘Worried Blues’, ‘Walls of
Red Wing’, ‘Moonshiner’ and the unique ‘Last Thoughts on WOODY GUTHRIE’); the electric acid
glory of the fast ‘It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry’ and of ‘She’s Your Lover Now’, a gleeful
masterpiece more redolent of its era than most things that came out at the time; on through incomparable
studio performances of ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ and ‘Idiot Wind’ and other, more fragile,
faltering works from the 1970s; riches from the 1980s which it was madness to have left unissued:
‘Need a Woman’, ‘Angelina’, ‘Someone’s Got a Hold of My Heart’, ‘Lord Protect My Child’, ‘Foot of
Pride’ and ‘Blind Willie McTell’; and finishing with an outtake from Oh Mercy perhaps as strong as any-
thing on the album, the compelling ‘Series of Dreams’. This well-received collection could, of itself,
establish Dylan’s place as the pre-eminent songwriter and performer of the age and as one of
the great artists of the 20th century."

Best Song:
"She's Your Lover Now"
According to Alias

Favorite Lyric:
"Yes, you, you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can't you reach?"
According to Alias