A Primer on My Favorite Bob Dylan Tracks

3 Favorite Songs from each Bob Dylan album (studio/selected live/bootleg series): A Primer (subject to change on a whim)

Studio Albums (Plus Greatest Hits with new songs)

Bob Dylan – Song to Woody, Talkin’ New York, House of the Risin’ Sun

Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – Masters of War, Blowin’ in the Wind, A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall

The Times They Are A-Changin – The Times They Are A-Changin’, Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, Boots of Spanish Leather

Another Side of Bob Dylan – It Ain’t Me Babe, Spanish Harlem Incident, Chimes of Freedom

Bringing it All Back Home – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, It’s Alright Ma (I’m only Bleeding), Love Minus Zero/No Limit

Highway 61 Revisited – Like a Rolling Stone, Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, Desolation Row

Blonde on Blonde – Just Like a Woman, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Visions of Johanna

John Wesley Harding – I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine, Drifter’s Escape, Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest

Nashville Skyline – Lay Lady Lay, Tell Me That it isn’t True, Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You

Self Portrait – Gotta Travel On, Wigwam, Copper Kettle

New Morning – Man in Me, Went to See the Gypsy, Sign on the Window

Greatest Hits Volume 2: I Shall Be Released, Down in the Flood, You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid – Knockin on Heaven’s Door, Billy 4, River Theme

Dylan – Mary Ann, Lily of the West, Sarah Jane

Planet Waves – Forever Young, Hazel, Never Say Goodbye

Blood on the Tracks – Tangled Up in Blue, Idiot Wind, Simple Twist of Fate

The Basement Tapes – This Wheel’s on Fire, Tears of Rage, Goin’ to Acapulco

Desire – Isis, Black Diamond Bay, Oh Sister

Street Legal – Changing of the Guards, Senor (Tales of Yankee Power), Where are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)

Slow Train Coming – Gotta Serve Somebody, Slow Train, Precious Angel

Saved – Pressing On, Solid Rock, Covenant Woman

Shot of Love – Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar, Every Grain of Sand, Heart of Mine

Infidels – Jokerman, Neighborhood Bully, Union Sundown

Empire Burlesque – Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love), Dark Eyes, Clean Cut Kid

Biograph – Up to Me, Abandoned Love, Positively 4^th Street

Knocked Out Loaded – Brownsville Girl, You Wanna Ramble, Under Your Spell

Down in the Groove – Silvio, Let’s Stick Together, Ugliest Girl in the World

Oh Mercy – Most of the Time, Shooting Star, Political World

Under the Red Sky – Handy Dandy, TV Talkin’ Song, Cat’s in the Well

Good As I Been to You – Blackjack Davey, Sittin’ on Top of the World, Froggie Went a-Courtin’

World Gone Wrong – Blood in My Eyes, Delia, World Gone Wrong

Time out of Mind – Love Sick, Tryin’ to Get to Heaven, Cold Irons Bound

Love and Theft – Mississippi, High Water (For Charlie Patton), Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

Modern Times – Thunder on the Mountain, Someday Baby, Workingman’s Blues #2

Together Through Life – My Wife’s Home Town, Shake Shake Mama, Beyond Here Lies Nothin’

Christmas in the Heart – Must be Santa, Little Drummer Boy, Winter Wonderland

Tempest – Long and Wasted Years, Pay in Blood, Tin Angel

Shadows in the Night – The Night We Called It a Day, Stay with Me, That Lucky Old Sun

Fallen Angels – Young At Heart, Melancholy Mood, On a Little Street in Shanghai

Triplicate – I Could Have Told You, Stardust, Stormy Weather

Selected Live Albums

 Before the Flood – It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding), Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine), Like a Rolling Stone

Hard Rain – Idiot Wind, Shelter from the Storm, Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again

At Budokan – Shelter From the Storm, Love Minus Zero/No Limit, I Want You

Real Live – Tangled Up In Blue, Ballad of a Thin Man, It Ain’t Me Babe

Bootleg Series

Volume 1 – 3: 1961-1991 – Idiot Wind, Angelina, Series of Dreams

Volume 4: Live 1966 – Like a Rolling Stone, Tell Me Momma, I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)

Volume 5: Live 1975 – Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, It Ain’t Me Babe, Romance in Durango

Volume 6: Live 1964 – Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right, Mama You Been on My Mind, Talkin’ World War III Blues

Volume 7: No Direction Home – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, Visions of Johanna, Maggie’s Farm

Volume 8: Tell Tale Signs – Born in Time, Most of the Time, Red River Shore

Volume 9: Whitmark Demos: All Over You, Gypsy Lou, I’ll Keep it With Mine

Volume 10: Another Self Portrait: Time Passes Slowly, Pretty Saro, Thirsty Boots

Volume 11: Complete Basement Tapes – Edge of the Ocean, I’m Not There, Sign on the Cross

Volume 12: The Cutting Edge – Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window, Instrumental, Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again