Side A
Artist	Song
Bob Dylan	1. 'Cross the Green Mountain Gods and Generals soundtrack 2003, also on The Bootleg Series vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs 2008
Bob Dylan	2. Two Soldiers World Gone Wrong 1993
Bob Dylan	3. Shenandoah Down In The Groove 1988
Bob Dylan	4. Most of the Time recorded 1989, The Bootleg Series vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs 2008
Bob Dylan	5. I Shall Be Released Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits vol. 2 1971
Bob Dylan	6. Knockin' On Heaven's Door Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973
Bob Dylan	7. Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) Street Legal 1978
Bob Dylan	8. I Believe In You Slow Train Coming 1979
Bob Dylan	9. I and I Infidels 1983
Bob Dylan	10. Foot of Pride recorded 1983, The Bootleg Series vols. 1-3 1991
Bob Dylan	11. TV Talkin' Song Under the Red Sky 1990
Bob Dylan	12. When I Paint My Masterpiece Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits vol. 2 1971
Bob Dylan	13. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread recorded 1967, The Basement Tapes 1975
Bob Dylan	14. Too Much of Nothing recorded 1967, The Basement Tapes 1975
Bob Dylan	15. Copper Kettle Self Portrait 1970
Bob Dylan	16. Forever Young solo version recorded 1973, Biograph 1985
Bob Dylan	17. Mama, You Been On My Mind with Joan Baez, The Bootleg Series vol. 6: Live 1964
Bob Dylan	18. Girl on the Greenbriar Shore live 1992, The Bootleg Series vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs 2008
Bob Dylan	19. Red River Shore recorded 1997, The Bootleg Series vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs 2008
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Bob Dylan	1. Up To Me recorded 1974, Biograph 1985
Bob Dylan	2. Mama, You Been On My Mind recorded 1964, The Bootleg Series vols. 1-3 1991
Bob Dylan	3. Angelina recorded 1981, The Bootleg Series vols. 1-3 1991
Bob Dylan	4. Wedding Song Planet Waves 1973
Bob Dylan	5. I Shall Be Released with Joan Baez, The Bootleg Series vol. 5: Rolling Thunder Revue, Live 1975 2002
Bob Dylan	6. Man on the Street recorded 1962, The Bootleg Series vols. 1-3 1991
Bob Dylan	7. Blind Willie McTell recorded 1983, The Bootleg Series vols. 1-3 1991
Bob Dylan	8. Call Letter Blues recorded 1975, The Bootleg Series vols. 1-3 1991
Bob Dylan	9. House Carpenter recorded 1962, The Bootleg Series vols. 1-3 1991
Bob Dylan	10. Moonshiner recorded 1963, The Bootleg Series vols. 1-3 1991
Bob Dylan	11. Let Me Die In My Footsteps recorded 1962, The Bootleg Series vols. 1-3 1991
Bob Dylan	12. I'll Keep It With Mine recorded 1965, Biograph 1985
Bob Dylan	13. Abandoned Love recorded 1975, Biograph 1985
Bob Dylan	14. Forever Young Planet Waves 1973
Bob Dylan	15. Every Grain of Sand recorded 1980, The Bootleg Series vols. 1-3 1991
Bob Dylan	16. Dark Eyes Empire Burlesque 1985
Bob Dylan	17. Eternal Circle recorded 1963, The Bootleg Series vols. 1-3 1991
Bob Dylan	18. Tomorrow is a Long Time live 1963, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, vol. 2 1971

Comment:

A two-disc "best of the rest", custom-compiled to introduce a frie nd to some Dylan he hasn't heard before. He already has a solid set of Bob Dylan records: all the albums released during the sixties, plus New Morning, Blood on the Tracks, and Desire from the seventies, and from the Indian Summer, Time Out of Mind, Love and Theft and Modern Times. This set is limited to songs that aren't on those records. His favorite Dylan album is Blood On the Tracks and mine is John Wesley Harding, which may help explain the contours of this comp.

I couldn't help Disc Two e nding up almost a "Best of The Bootleg Series vols. 1-3", because so much is so good. On the other hand, I couldn't see fit to include anything from Saved!, Shot Of Love, Knocked Out Loaded, MTV Unplugged, Oh Mercy or even Good As I Been To You (a favorite), though for some of these, Bootleg Series al ternate cuts are here instead. Also out of the running is all the stuff I don't have: Hard Rain, At Budokan, No Direction Home and others.

I feel funny about leaving out "Farewell, Angelina", but after trying to find a place for it here I realized I'm not that wild about this song (plods, images too arbitrary), and I prefer Joan Baez singing it.

I've been listening a lot to the new and momentous Bootleg Series vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs. Much greatness, and "Cross the Green Mountain" and "Red River Shore" in particular strike me as downright giants: deep, expansive, full of honed detail, world-creating epics you can really inhabit.

For some other Dylan mix: all the full-on Gospel rockers from Saved!, which I love but they didn't fit in here.

"He can ride down Niagara Falls in the barrels of your skull" is from "Man of Peace", which is on Infidels.

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