Bob Dylan: The Complete Album Collection Vol. One Explained

The Complete Album Collection Vol. One
Type:box set
Artist:Bob Dylan
Cover:Bob_Dylan_-_The_Complete_Album_Collection_Vol._One_Crop.jpg
Alt:A line drawing of Dylan saluting
Recorded:1962–2012
Length:34:38:43
Label:Columbia
Prev Title:The Bootleg Series Vol. 10
Prev Year:2013
Next Title:The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963
Next Year:2013

The Complete Album Collection Vol. One is a 47-disc box set released on November 4, 2013, by Bob Dylan. It includes 35 albums released between 1962 and 2012, six live albums, and a compilation album unique to the set, Side Tracks, which contains previously released material unavailable on regular studio or live albums.

Contents

This release is the first time that the 1973 album Dylan has been released on CD in North America. Fourteen of the albums have been remastered for this release.[1] Also included was a hardcover book featuring extensive new album-by-album liner notes penned by Clinton Heylin and a new introduction written by Bill Flanagan.

The Bob Dylan Complete Album Collection Vol. One was also available as a limited-edition harmonica-shaped USB stick containing all the music, in both MP3 and FLAC lossless formats, with a digital version of the hardcover booklet, housed in a deluxe numbered box.

The 2013 remasters, 14 of which have never been remastered before, were prepared for the release of this box set.

Although Shot of Love was omitted from the list of the 14 newly remastered titles announced in the pre-release promotional material, it is in fact remastered like the other 2013 remasters. However, the 2013 remaster of Self Portrait that is used is the remaster that first appeared in the deluxe edition of The Bootleg Series Vol. 10, released in August 2013.

The new 2013 remastered albums are available only in this box set with the sole exception of the Japanese-only CD versions released by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) in 2014. These albums are marked as including cardboard mini LP sleeves + Blu-spec CD2.

Disc #AlbumYearVersion
Disc 1Bob Dylan19622005 Remaster
Disc 2The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan19632003 Remaster
Disc 3The Times They Are a-Changin'19642005 Remaster
Disc 4Another Side of Bob Dylan2003 Remaster
Disc 5Bringing It All Back Home1965
Disc 6Highway 61 Revisited
Disc 7Blonde on Blonde1966
Disc 8
Disc 9John Wesley Harding1967
Disc 10Nashville Skyline1969
Disc 11Self Portrait19702013 Remaster
Disc 12New Morning2009 Remaster
Disc 13Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid19732013 Remaster
Disc 14Dylan
Disc 15Planet Waves19742003 Remaster
Disc 16Before the Flood2009 Remaster
Disc 17
Disc 18Blood on the Tracks19752003 Remaster
Disc 19The Basement Tapes2009 Remaster
Disc 20
Disc 21Desire19762003 Remaster
Disc 22Hard Rain2013 Remaster
Disc 23Street-Legal (1978 original mix)1978
Disc 24Bob Dylan at Budokan1979
Disc 25
Disc 26Slow Train Coming2003 Remaster
Disc 27Saved19802013 Remaster
Disc 28Shot of Love1981
Disc 29Infidels19832003 Remaster
Disc 30Real Live19842013 Remaster
Disc 31Empire Burlesque1985
Disc 32Knocked Out Loaded1986
Disc 33Down in the Groove1988
Disc 34Dylan & the Dead19892009 Remaster
Disc 35Oh Mercy2003 Remaster
Disc 36Under the Red Sky19902013 Remaster
Disc 37Good as I Been to You1992
Disc 38World Gone Wrong1993
Disc 39MTV Unplugged1995Original CD master
Disc 40Time Out of Mind1997
Disc 41Love and Theft20012003 Remaster
Disc 42Modern Times2006Original CD master
Disc 43Together Through Life2009
Disc 44Christmas in the Heart
Disc 45Tempest2012
Disc 46Side Tracks20132013 Remaster
Disc 47

Side Tracks

Side Tracks
Type:Compilation album
Artist:Bob Dylan
Released:November 4, 2013
Recorded:1962–2000
Genre:Rock
Prev Title:The Bootleg Series Vol. 10
Prev Year:2013
Next Title:The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963
Next Year:2013

This album collects all "rare" tracks previously released on Greatest Hits Vol. II and 3 and Biograph, as well as a few additional tracks previously only released as separate singles.[2]

All songs written and composed by Bob Dylan, except where noted.[3] [4]

Missing songs

Despite the "completeness" of this collection there are still several released recordings which were not included:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bob Dylan: The Complete Albums Collection, Vol. 1. Erlewine, Stephen . November 9, 2013. May 2, 2014. allmusic.com.
  2. News: Dylan's Side Tracks Puts Rarities On Right Track. Smotroff. Mark. Audiophile Review. 2018-07-09. en.
  3. Web site: RSDBF '13 Special Release: Bob Dylan - Side Tracks. recordstoreday.com. en. 2018-07-09.
  4. Web site: Bob Dylan Rarities Compilation 'Side Tracks' Gets Standalone Vinyl Release. exclaim.ca. en. 2018-07-09.