> bob dylan retrospective – “dylan” 3 cd boxset

This is not new Bob Dylan material, but a retrospective covering 45 years of Bob Dylan’s remarkable career. What makes it remarkable to me is that anyone can create music for that long and still be making an impact on the music scene.

Real fans of Bob Dylan will probably have a lot of these recordings anyways, but if done right these box sets can be worth getting for the booklets, liner notes and bonus material. There is an extensive review of the album at blogcritics.org It is being released in 3 versions, a deluxe 3 disc set, a 3 disc set and a 1 disc version.

Here are the track listings for the different versions which release October 2, 2007

Single disc

1. Blowin’ in the Wind
2. The Times They Are a-Changin’
3. Subterranean Homesick Blues
4. Mr. Tambourine Man
5. Like a Rolling Stone
6. Maggie’s Farm
7. Positively 4th Street
8. Just Like a Woman
9. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
10. All Along the Watchtower
11. Lay, Lady, Lay
12. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
13. Tangled Up in Blue
14. Hurricane
15. Make You Feel My Love
16. Things Have Changed
17. Someday Baby
18. Forever Young

Deluxe edition

Disc one

1. Song to Woody
2. Blowin’ in the Wind
3. Masters of War
4. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
5. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
6. The Times They Are a-Changin’
7. All I Really Want to Do
8. My Back Pages
9. It Ain’t Me, Babe
10. Subterranean Homesick Blues
11. Mr. Tambourine Man
12. Maggie’s Farm
13. Like a Rolling Stone
14. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
15. Positively 4th Street
16. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
17. Just Like a Woman
18. Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
19. All Along the Watchtower

Disc two

1. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
2. Lay, Lady, Lay
3. If Not for You
4. I Shall Be Released
5. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
6. On a Night Like This
7. Forever Young
8. Tangled Up in Blue
9. Simple Twist of Fate
10. Hurricane
11. Changing of the Guards
12. Gotta Serve Somebody
13. Precious Angel
14. The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar
15. Jokerman
16. Dark Eyes

Disc three

1. Blind Willie McTell
2. Brownsville Girl
3. Silvio
4. Ring Them Bells
5. Dignity
6. Everything Is Broken
7. Under the Red Sky
8. You’re Gonna Quit Me
9. Blood in My Eyes
10. Not Dark Yet
11. Things Have Changed
12. Make You Feel My Love
13. High Water (For Charley Patton)
14. Po’ Boy
15. Someday Baby
16. When the Deal Goes Down