Just giving the third disc a spin after a break, and it's a joy to listen to. It could easily be the fourth disc of Another Self Portrait. Crazy to think that this release consists of off-cuts from an off-cut collection (BS 10) of off-cuts (Dylan)!!! And crazy to think that the superb B-Side "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" is on none of them!!!
Given how well larger "box set" editions of the Bootleg Series wound up selling, the 1970 set really should have been included as extra discs on the expanded version of Another Self Portrait. I guess the upshot of waiting another 7 or 8 years is that the current 1970 set is a much more affordable purchase.
About the same thing happened to me. The 1969 Copyright set was unknown to me until the 1970 set was released. I had to do some searching. . .
Hopefully, it caused an internal re-assessment of the series by the business suits at the top. They were scaling-down, which resulted in these piecemeal 1970 collections. The material and demand is there for large sets. It's unique to Dylan (and artists of that calibre). Need to send Mike Ehrmantraut to Rosen's office with a message.
Per "Searching For A Gem", Spanish Is The Loving Tongue was also released in 2011 on the Sony Music Germany compilation Pure Dylan: An Intimate Look At Bob Dylan (see 2011) - the first occurrence of this performance to be genuinely in stereo!
As requested, this is my playlist for studio outtakes between 1961 - 66. I also included non-album singles. So this acts as a Past Masters / Stray Cats for Bob's music in this period: 1. He Was a Friend of Mine 2. Man on the Street 3. House Carpenter 4. Going to New Orleans 5. Sally Gal 6. Rambling, Gambling Willie 7. The Death of Emmett Till 8. Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues 9. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle 10. Mixed Up Confusion 11. Rocks and Gravel 12. Let Me Die in My Footsteps 13. Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues 14. Baby Please Don't Go 15. Milk Cow Calf's Blues 16. Witchita (Going to Louisiana) 17. Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic 18. Baby, I'm In The Mood For You 19. Quit Your Low Down Ways 20. Worried Blues 21. That's All Right Mama 22. Kingsport Town 23. Hero Blues 24. Whatcha Gonna Do 25. Walls of Red Wing 26. Seven Curses 27. Farewell 28. Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag 29. Eternal Circle 30. Paths of Victory 31. Moonshiner 32. Only a Hobo 33. Percy's Song 34. Lay Down Your Weary Tune 35. Suze (The Cough Song) 36. Denise 37. Mama, You Been On My Mind 38. I'll Keep It With Mine (biograph version) 39. Farewell Angelina 40. If You Gotta Go, Go Now 41. You Don't Have To Do That 42. California 43. Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence 44. Positively 4th Street (single) 45. Jet Pilot 46. Can You Please Crawl Out My Window (single) 47. I Wanna Be Your Lover 48. She's Your Lover Now (piano version). I could of course make this longer by including live tracks, Broadside recordings, Whitmark demos etc but decided to limit this to the studio recordings.
Thanks for sharing. I always love to see what different playlists that we Dylan Fans make, Also looking at your list makes me want to dig back into those songs again.
I made the playlist because I was finding it frustrating having to play these songs across various compilations and kept hoping that they would mop them up on one release, but alas that never happened. Because they were on different compilations I found I didn't play them as much as I would have liked. They are played regularly now!
1970 actually contains my favorite versions ( among many) of "Went to See the Gypsy" and "Sign on the Window.' Worth it for those two alone.
Agreed on these! Picked this up mostly thinking the tracks with multiple versions that had been released would be maybe one and dones for me. But there are a few that are my preferred versions. So glad they released this copyright collection as a wide retail release.
There are multiple versions, but the one version of each song that were released as official videos on YouTube are the best in my opinion
I didn't expect much from the 1969 and 1970 Copyright Collections because, because, because the 1962, 1963, 1964 Collections were released unmastered, heavily cut, overly compressed, sometimes sped up, and with gaps and fades imposed between the tracks. The Live 1965 download was the absolute worst in terms of these offenses as well as in the worst sound quality whereas the actual mono tapes are excellent. So naturally I expected the 1969 and 1970 Collections to be more of the same. But nope. Both sets are properly done, apart from the cherrypicking.
Any news on whether they are going to release anymore copyright collections similar to 1970? I mean wide release. Thanks!
No news. 1971 and 1972 were lean years in terms of formal Dylan recording work, but 1973 saw more activity. Doubtful they would consider a single CD with unreleased outtakes from the Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid and Planet Waves sessions to have wide commercial appeal. My guess is that it will be another very limited release. As for next year, all of the 1974 studio work has already been issued, so the focus would have to be on the live recordings from Tour ‘74.
Since there are already circulating outtakes of the PGABTK sessions, at a bare minimum there should be a CDR of Peco's Blues sold in an alleyway behind a German record store to retain EU copyright. JWH was the only material without a copyright dump (then made it onto TT, go figure) but I thought that was because there were no circulating outtakes.
That was the reason they gave for there being no John Wesley Harding copyright collection -- there were no circulating outtakes; but they must have forgotten the other reason for these things: to keep the exclusive rights to the recordings so that if they did release any of them no one else in the EU could as well, which, theoretically could happen with the few outtakes included on Travelin' Thru. Maybe that's one reason there were so few of them included even though there was plenty of room for more. There's only about two hours of music on Travelin' Thru.
Incredibly, after being on the fence about both, I got Travelin' Thru' and 1970 in a charity shop yesterday along with a Blonde On Blonde SACD. It's surprising what people give away, especially so quickly as these aren't cheap. It made my day! Is 1970 the only one of these 'year' copyright extension things to have been released on CD?
It’s the only one to get a wide commercial release. There is a 2CD set for 1969 — with a different track listing to Travelin’ Thru — which was only released in very limited numbers.
I've been ignoring this release for some reason. But I'm a huge fan of the Self Portrait / New Morning era. Is this worth getting when I've already got Another Self Portrait? And are these the famous Bromberg sessions?
