Artist	Song
Bob Dylan [Bob Dylan]	Gospel Plow (1961 - 1:43)
Bob Dylan ["Love and Theft", bonus disc]	I Was Young When I Left Home (1961 - 5:23)
Bob Dylan [Live at the Gaslight 1962]	Rocks and Gravel [live] (1962 - 4:58)
Bob Dylan [Bootleg Vol. 2]	Seven Curses (1963 - 3:47)
Bob Dylan [The Times They Are A-Changin']	North Country Blues (1963 - 4:32)
Bob Dylan [Bootleg Vol. 1]	Paths of Victory (1963 - 3:16)
Bob Dylan [Biograph, disc 1]	Lay Down Your Weary Tune (1963 - 4:34)
Bob Dylan [Another Side of Bob Dylan]	Spanish Harlem Incident (1964 - 2:23)
Bob Dylan [Highway 61 Revisited]	Desolation Row (1965 - 11:22)
Bob Dylan [Live 1966, disc 1 = Biograph, disc 2]	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [live] (1966 - 5:32)
Bob Dylan [Hard To Find bootleg = vinyl single]	George Jackson (1971 - 3:30)
Bob Dylan [Biograph, disc 3]	Forever Young (1973 - 2:02)
Bob Dylan [Live 1975, disc 2]	Tangled Up In Blue [live] (1975 - 4:32)
Bob Dylan [Bootleg Vol. 3]	Every Grain of Sand (1980 - 3:36)
Bob Dylan [Empire Burlesque]	Dark Eyes (1985 - 5:04)
Bob Dylan [Good As I Been To You]	Arthur McBride (1992 - 6:20)
Bob Dylan [The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration]	Girl of the North Country [live] (1992 - 4:32)
Bob Dylan [World Gone Wrong]	Lone Pilgrim (1993 - 2:39)

Comment:

I suppose it started at a local Barnes & Noble, where I was flipping through Our Ambient Century, Mark Prendergast's (CORRECTION: not Simon Reynolds's) new tome about the history of ambient music; quite to my surprise the kingpins of rock and roll were all listed: ambient artists, apparently, without even their own self-knowledge. Acoustic songs like Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row" were perfect pieces of ambience, it was argued, and the statement became doubly true for me upon finally acquiring Biograph, whose story ballads like "Percy's Song" were quite comfortable seats for grooving all in the mind, and whose greatest unheard track in my opinion was the godly-confident acoustic anthem "Lay Down Your Weary Tune", a song that would have quite brightened the oh-so-somber mood of the Times They Are A-Changin' album it was recorded for. A full-length set of 18 acoustic Dylan tracks like this one (total time 79:55) then becomes something to slowly sink into; this isn't wild mercury Bob grasping at your lapels. In a mirroring of a number of Dylan's official career-long compilations, and quite unusually for my own mixes, I've decided to put these tracks in chronological order, with the possible exception of "Seven Curses" and "North Country Blues", both recorded on 6 August 1963 (thanks to Daniel Martin's excellent Dylan page for recording dates). All are solo acoustic except "Desolation Row" (which obviously couldn't have been left out) and "Every Grain of Sand" (which fills in the 1975-1985 gap nicely, plus it's quite beautiful), each of which features only one other player. Title comes from one of the greatest, most overlooked songs in Dylan's repertoire: "Dark Eyes", the first acoustic song to feature on a Dylan studio album in 20 years, and putting a magnificent cap on an album sometimes remembered as the man's flirtation with disco.Well the French girl, she's in Paradise, and the drunken man is at the wheel;Hunger pays a heavy price to the fallen gods of speed and steel.Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that fliesA million faces at my feet, and all I see are dark eyes.Well, performing these songs up on stage by himself, Bob may well feel that way....

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