Rare Tracks in The Collection, from Apple iTunes

The “Rare Tracks from the Vaults”, only available when you buy The Collection, the impressive 773 track Dylan compilation from Apple’s iTunes, are a mixture of real rarities – songs that only serious collectors will already possess - and semi-rarities that many more hardcore fans will know well.

The better-known tracks in the list below include those from Live At Carnegie Hall 1963, released as a promo freebie in 2005, the content of Live 1961-2000, widely available as a Japanese import in 2001, and the Masked & Anonymous recordings. Much of the other stuff is possible to source, but buying from Apple makes the job easy (and legal).



Rarities from The Collection:

I Was Young When I Left Home (1961)
Wade In the Water (1961 Minnesota Hotel Tape)
Handsome Molly (Live At the Gaslight 1962)
Baby Please Don't Go (1962 Freewheelin' Sessions)
The Times They Are A-Changin' (Live Carnegie Hall 1963)
Ballad of Hollis Brown (Live Carnegie Hall 1963)
Boots of Spanish Leather (Live Carnegie Hall 1963)
Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Live Carnegie Hall 1963)
North Country Blues (Live Carnegie Hall 1963)
With God On Our Side (Live Carnegie Hall 1963)
Mr. Tambourine Man (Newport Folk Festival 1964)
To Ramona (Live Sheffield England 1965)
Outlaw Blues (Acoustic Version 1965)
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (1966 B Side Version)
I Ain't Got No Home (Tribute to Woody Guthrie)
The Grand Coulee Dam (Tribute to Woody Guthrie)
Went to See the Gypsy (1970 New Morning Sessions)
George Jackson (Acoustic Version)
George Jackson (Big Band Version)
People Get Ready (1975 Promo EP)
Never Let Me Go (1975 Promo EP)
Rita May (1977 B Side Version)
Dead Man, Dead Man (Live New Orleans 1981)
I and I (Reggae Mix)
Night After Night (Hearts of Fire Soundtrack)
Pretty Boy Floyd (Folkways Soundtrack)
Cold Irons Bound (Live El Rey Theater 1997)
Born In Time (Live NJ 1998)
Somebody Touched Me (Live Portsmouth 2000)
Country Pie (Live Portsmouth 2000)
Things Have Changed (Live Portsmouth 2000)
Return to Me (The Sopranos Soundtrack)
Waitin' for You (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Soundtrack)
Man of Peace (With the Grateful Dead)
'Cross the Green Mountain (Gods and Generals Soundtrack)
Gonna Change My Way of Thinking (With Mavis Staples)
Down In the Flood (Masked and Anonymous Soundtrack)
Diamond Joe (Masked and Anonymous Soundtrack)
Dixie (Masked and Anonymous Soundtrack)
Went to See the Gypsy
Love Sick (2004 Remix)
Tell Ol' Bill (North Country Soundtrack)

The other bonus in the $200/£170 The Collection is the Digital Booklet. Tempting extras, I’d say.




Gerry Smith