The Bob Dylan Albums

Second Edition

Anthony Varesi

• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781771837606
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music Biographies

Bob Dylan has created a body of work unparalleled in popular music. As a songwriter and as a singer, Dylan expanded the boundaries for song. In this substantially revised and updated second edition of The Bob Dylan Albums, Anthony Varesi analyzes the massive Dylan canon through a detailed discussion of each of the artist's officially released albums. The book follows Dylan's career chronologically from 1962's Bob Dylan through to 2021's Bootleg Series release Springtime in New York. All of Dylan's studio albums, live albums, collections and archival releases are examined in the text and in the detailed, annotated, cross-referenced discography, as are Dylan's notable soundtrack contributions, side projects and benefit concert appearances.

The Bob Dylan Albums, 2nd Edition also discusses Dylan's other writings, such as Chronicles and his Nobel Prize lecture, and reviews the films Dylan has appeared in or been the subject of. The book contains frank analyses of the more controversial aspects of Dylan's career, including songs Dylan wrote about George Jackson, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Joey Gallo and Lenny Bruce, the use of Dylan's music in advertisements, and Dylan's 2011 trip to China.

The book looks at recurring themes in Dylan's songs, the influence of other artists on Dylan's music, and the ongoing relevance of Dylan's work. In the process, The Bob Dylan Albums, 2nd Edition unearths new meaning in both Dylan's most famous works and in his songs and albums that have received less attention..

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Introduction to the Second Edition
• A Note on the Albums Included in the Text
• PART I – 1959–October 1962 Early years . . . Bob Dylan . . . Cynthia Gooding radio show . . . Live at the Gaslight 1962 . . . The 50th Anniversary Collection: the Copyright Extension Collection, Volume 1
• PART II – November 1962–April 1964 The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan . . . 1963 Town Hall concert . . . Bob Dylan in Concert: Brandeis University 1963 . . . 1963 Newport Folk Festival . . . March on Washington . . . The Times They Are A-Changin’ . . . Live at Carnegie Hall 1963 . . . 1963 Emergency Civil Liberties Committee’s Tom Paine award ceremony . . . 50th Anniversary Collection 1963 . . . The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964
• PART III – May 1964–December 1964 Another Side of Bob Dylan . . . 1964 Newport Folk Festival . . . The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 — Concert at Philharmonic Hall . . . 50th Anniversary Collection 1964
• PART IV – January 1965–July 1966 Bringing It All Back Home . . . Don’t Look Back . . . Highway 61 Revisited . . . 1965 Newport Folk Festival . . . Tarantula . . . 1965 band tour . . . Blonde on Blonde . . . The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 . . . The 1966 Live Recordings . . . The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Live 1966, The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert . . . The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert . . . Eat the Document . . . No Direction Home . . . The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack . . . Bob Dylan Live 1962–1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections
• PART V – August 1966–August 1969 Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits . . . The Basement Tapes . . . The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes . . . Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes . . . John Wesley Harding . . . 1968 Woody Guthrie memorial concert . . . Nashville Skyline . . . Bob Dylan (featuring Johnny Cash) — Travelin’ Thru, 1967–1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 . . . 50th Anniversary Collection 1969 . . . 1969 Isle of Wight festival
• PART VI – September 1969–November 1973 Self Portrait . . . New Morning . . . The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait . . . Bob Dylan 1970 . . . Concert for Bangladesh . . . Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Volume II . . . “George Jackson” . . . Rock of Ages . . . Doug Sahm and Band . . . Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid . . . Writings and Drawings . . . Dylan
• PART VII – December 1973–June 1974 Planet Waves . . . Before the Flood
• PART VIII – July 1974–January 1978 Blood on the Tracks . . . More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 14 . . . Desire . . . The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975 — The Rolling Thunder Revue . . . The Rolling Thunder Revue: the 1975 Live Recordings . . . Renaldo & Clara . . . Rolling Thunder Revue . . . Hard Rain . . . The Last Waltz
• PART IX – February 1978–December 1978 Bob Dylan at Budokan . . . Masterpieces . . . Street-Legal
• PART X – January 1979–November 1981 Slow Train Coming . . . Live in San Diego November 28, 1979 . . . Saved . . . Shot of Love . . . Trouble No More — The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979–1981
• PART XI – December 1981–December 1984 Infidels . . . Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 16 (1980–1985) . . . Real Live
• PART XII – January 1985–May 1988 Empire Burlesque . . . Live Aid . . . Lyrics, 1962–1985 . . . Biograph . . . Knocked Out Loaded . . . 1986 tour . . . Down in the Groove . . . Dylan & the Dead . . . 1987 European tour . . . Hearts of Fire
• PART XIII – June 1988–May 1992 A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly . . . Traveling Wilburys, Volume One . . . Oh Mercy . . . Under the Red Sky . . . Traveling Wilburys, Volume Three . . . 1991 Grammy ceremony . . . The Bootleg Series, Volumes 1–3 [Rare & Unreleased], 1961–1991 . . . David Letterman’s tenth anniversary celebration
• PART XIV – June 1992–October 1996 Good as I Been to You . . . Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration . . . World Gone Wrong . . . MTV Unplugged . . . Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Volume 3
• PART XV – November 1996–April 2001 Time Out of Mind . . . soundtrack contributions . . . international compilations . . . The Essential Bob Dylan
• PART XVI – May 2001–November 2005 Love and Theft . . . “’Cross the Green Mountain” . . . Masked and Anonymous . . . SACD remasters . . . Chronicles . . . The Lyrics: 1962–2001 . . . The Best of Bob Dylan
• PART XVII – December 2005–October 2008 Modern Times . . . Theme Time Radio Hour . . . “Huck’s Tune” . . . I’m Not There . . . Dylan . . . The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs, Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006
• PART XVIII – November 2008–December 2011 Together Through Life . . . Christmas in the Heart . . . The Original Mono Recordings . . . The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
• PART XIX – January 2012–October 2014 Tempest . . . The Complete Album Collection, Vol. One . . . The Lyrics: Since 1962
• PART XX – November 2014–December 2017 Shadows in the Night . . . 2015 MusiCares award . . . Fallen Angels . . . Triplicate . . . Nobel Prize in Literature
• PART XXI – January 2018–February 2022 Rough and Rowdy Ways
• Annotated Discography
• Selected Bibliography
• About the Author