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Bob Dylan - Boots of Spanish Leather (The Times They Are A-Changin' Alternate Take - Official Audio)

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 22h

I know what you mean. Although sometimes I’m on the side of the other person. Take the hint, take the present and stop writing me letters.

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Ian Boucher @desolationrow5.bsky.social · 1d

Take heed, take heed of the Western winds…a song that makes me instantly sad every time I hear it no matter what. But there is beauty in its sadness.

Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 1d

New track from the upcoming Bootleg v. 18 - posted recently by Bob Dylan's official YT channel.

Outtake of Boots of Spanish Leathers from the Times album sessions. Guitar sounds brighter and higher in the mix. Song is still glorious.

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Michael Gray @michaelgray1.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly a tad less marvellous than the originally released version, except for a beautiful, distinctively light-hearted (perhaps, in context, philosophically light-hearted) harp solo in the middle:

Dag B @dagb.bsky.social · 1d

One we haven't heard before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EF8...

Boots of Spanish Leather (The Times They Are A-Changin' Alternate Take, NYC, 1963)

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Dylan - Boots of Spanish Leather (The Times They Are A-Changin' Alternate Take - Official Audio)

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent. It’ll be interesting to see if much changes for the RaRW set. You going to any of the UK shows?

Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 2d

Play my assassinations playlist on shuffle Mr Wolfman Jack

Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 2d

And the likely target market for the app is the kind of person who wants books to provide hacks they can use in their hustle. Like how Tony Soprano used his therapy insights to be a better crook. If you’d like the latest Pynchon summed up in two thousand words, you’re missing the point.

The Minnesota Party Tape (May 1961)

Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 3d

“I learned this from Woody. He said I sung it better than anybody.”

In May 1961, Bob Dylan returned to his home state and basically showed off about his relationship with Woody Guthrie.

Check out my revisit to the Minnesota Party Tape:
dylanrevisited.com/2025/10/04/t...

The 18th edition of The Bootleg Series is coming on October 31st. It promises official versions of home tapes, live recordings and outtakes from Bob Dylan’s early career. Ahead of this exciti…

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 3d

Still excited to hear better quality versions of the material I already know. Two things I would have loved were: complete 61 Gaslight set as Terri Thal had said the original tape still sounds great; complete Town Hall 63 set as it’s one of my favourites.

Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 4d

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 4d

On the latest episode of the Dylan Revisited podcast,
hear me talk about how the hope in the title track of The Times They Are a-Changin' is not matched by the rest of the record’s darker narratives of injustice and heartbreak.

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 5d

As long as it has an epic What Goes On, I’m easy.

The Minnesota Party Tape (May 1961)

Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 7d

The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 is coming on October 31st with home tapes, live recordings and outtakes from Bob Dylan's early career.

To get in the mood, I'm revisiting unofficial bootlegs from this period, starting with May 1961's Minnesota Party Tape.

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The 18th edition of The Bootleg Series is coming on October 31st. It promises official versions of home tapes, live recordings and outtakes from Bob Dylan’s early career. Ahead of this exciti…

The Times They Are a-Changin’ (1964)

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Harold Lepidus @hlepidus.bsky.social · 8d

RSD

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 8d

So weird that he recorded New Orleans Rag during the Times sessions. Read the room Bob.

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 8d

These are the songs originally slated for inclusion in the first Bootleg Series but didn't make the final cut

The following songs from the previous list didn't make it this time:

Lonesome Whistle Blues - Freewheelin' outtake (10/6/62)
Long Ago, Far Away - Witmark demo (?)
Farewell - Witmark demo (?)
John Brown - Witmark demo (?)
Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag - The Times outtake
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - alternate version from 1/15/65
+ Medicine Sunday - complete version
She's Your Lover Now - piano version from February 1966
* Silent Weekend
It Ain't Me Babe - LIVE from Renaldo & Clara
+ No Man Righteous - Slow Train outtake
Ain't Gonna Go To Hell - LIVE from 1979
Shot Of Love - LIVE from Avignon 1981
* fur Slippers

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 9d

I revisited The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 and enjoyed its selection of outtakes and alternate versions from Bob Dylan's mid-60s-70s

Even if much of the material has since appeared in subsequent Bootleg collections.

My three-thread revisit starts here: bsky.app/profile/dyla...

Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 18d

The first volume of The Bootleg Series covers three remarkable years in Bob Dylan’s early career where he performed his songs solo.

The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 takes in the next decade where Dylan and his new musical allies explored an electrifying range of sounds. 🧵

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 9d

Check out the conclusion of my revisit here: bsky.app/profile/dyla...

Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 11d

While Bootleg Vol. 2’s alternate takes of songs from Bob Dylan’s mid-60s electric era were interesting, they lacked the mystique of the outtakes from Blood on the Tracks.

The collection’s unreleased New York versions from that album were a glimpse into a parallel universe. 🧵

Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 10d

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In this revisit Bob Dylan’s album The Times They Are a-Changin’, I explore its themes of protest, societal change, and personal despair, contrasting the hopeful title track with the alb…

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 10d

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 10d

The latest episode of the Dylan Revisited podcast is out now.

Listen now to revisit the peak and completion of Bob Dylan’s protest phase on The Times They Are a-Changin'.

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 10d

Ultimately it was too early in my Dylan journey for the alternate versions to really register. I didn't have the context or stories behind their creation. So I was all about vol. 1 and the wealth of new standalone songs.

Obviously a lot different now but we also have so many other sources.