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The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991

The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991
A black-and-white photograph of Dylan playing harmonica
Box set by Bob Dylan
Released March 26, 1991 (1991-03-26)
Recorded November 1961 – March 1989
Genre Folk rock, folk blues
Length 229:37
Label Columbia
Producer Jeff Rosen
Bob Dylan chronology
Under the Red Sky
(1990)Under the Red Sky1990
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991
(1991)
Good as I Been to You
(1992)Good as I Been to You1992
Bob Dylan Bootleg Series chronology
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991
(1991) The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–19911991
The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
(1998) The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert1998
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Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars
Robert Christgau (2-star Honorable Mention)
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars
Stereophile Favorable

The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 is a box set by Bob Dylan issued on Columbia Records. It is the first installment in the Dylan bootleg series, comprising material spanning the first three decades of his career, from 1961 to 1989. It has been certified with a gold record by the RIAA as of August 1997, and peaked at #49 on the Billboard 200 and #32 in the UK.

Released in 1991 to satisfy enormous demand for Dylan's much-bootlegged unissued material, it contains rarities and unreleased works from the sessions for 1962's eponymous debut Bob Dylan to 1989's Oh Mercy. Of the 58 total tracks, 45 are session outtakes from recording sessions for Dylan studio albums. Of the remaining 13 tracks, one is an outtake from the session for the "George Jackson" single of 1971, two are further releases from the Basement Tape sessions of 1967, five are live recordings, and five are demo records, three of latter being later duplicated on Volume 9 of the series.

The material is spread across five vinyl records and three compact discs/cassettes, each labeled in the box set as "volumes". Subsequent albums in the Bootleg Series continue the CD/Cassette volume numbering and, contrary to the single-disc "volumes" in the box set, appear in double-disc packages as their primary non-limited edition format.

A remastered version in smaller packaging was issued on August 19, 1997, on Legacy Recordings, the reissue imprint of Sony Records.


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