Something Is Happening

Bob Dylan 1965

by

Olof Björner

A summary of recording & concert activities,

releases, tapes & books.

© 2000 by Olof Björner

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CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION

2 THE YEAR AT A GLANCE

3 CALENDAR

4 CONCERTS 1965

4.1 Solo concerts

4.2 Concerts with backing

5 RECORDINGS

6 BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME

7 HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED

8 DON'T LOOK BACK

9 SONGS 1965

10 SOURCES

11 SUGGESTED READINGS

11.1 General background

11.2 Books about 1965

11.3 Article compilations

11.4 Selected articles

1 INTRODUCTION

Bob Dylan goes electric and the tempo in his career and life accelerates: two outstanding albums in one year, two major tours, one film, the end of the folk music era at Newport. On top of that he is during the whole of this year constantly writing on his book Tarantula. He meets Sara Lowndes and they marry in November.

2 THE YEAR AT A GLANCE

3 CALENDAR

January	Sing Out! publishes a prose piece that is taken from a book called Walk Down Crooked Highway later to be Tarantula.
January	Robert Shelton interviews Dylan for Cavalier magazine.
13-15 January	Recording of Bringing It All Back Home.
17 February	Les Crane TV Show.
March	The Maura Davies interview for Cavalier, concentrating on his tie and it's importance for his song-writing.
March	Dylan again tours with Joan Baez.
14 March	Daniel Kramer photographs Dylan and Sara Lowndes at Albert Grossman's cabin in Woodstock. One shot is later included in Kramer's book about Dylan.
22 March	Release of Bringing It All Back Home.
Late March	Paul Jay Robbins from the L.A. Free Press interviews Dylan. One of the few interviews from this period that are serious through out.
April	Release of single Subterranean Homesick Blues/She Belongs To Me. In US this single spent 8 weeks at the charts, peaking at a modest #39. It fared a little better in England where it spent 9 weeks in Top 50, peaking at #9.
26 April	Dylan arrives to London for his English tour.
8 May	Shooting of the promotional film for Subterranean Homesick Blues at the side of Savoy Hotel in London. "Actors" in the background are Allen Ginsberg and Bob Neuwirth. The cards are painted by Alan Price and Joan Baez
10 May	Last show in Royal Albert Hall in London.
12 May	Laurie Henshaw from Disc and Music Echo interviews Dylan.
Mid May	Vacation in Portugal with Sara Lowndes.
1 June	Recording of two BBC shows.
2 June	Bob Dylan and Sara Lowndes leaves England.
15-16 June	Recording of Highway 61 Revisited starts in New York.
20 July	Release of single Like A Rolling Stone/Gates Of Eden. First hit single, peaked at #2 in the US with a total of 12 weeks. In England it reached #4, also 12 weeks in the Top 50.
24 July	Dylan performs All I Really Wanna Do at the afternoon workshop on the first day of the Newport Folk Festival.
25 July	Famous live electric debut with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The historic event is included in the film called Festival. This year's programme contains a new prose piece by Dylan called Off The Top Of My Head.
29 July – 4 August	Completion of Highway 61 Revisited.
28 August	The fall tour starts with a concert at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium. Dylan plays the first set solo and is backed by a band consisting of Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Harvey Brooks and Al Kooper in the second set. This format, one acoustic and one electric set is kept through out the fall and during the 1966 World tour.
30 August	Release of Highway 61 Revisited.
September	Release of single Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window/From A Buick 6. Withdrawn.
7 September	Release of single Positively 4th Street/From A Buick 6. This single reached #7 and was listed for 7 weeks. In UK it spent three months at Top 50, reaching $8.
15 September	Harvey Brooks and Al Kooper decides not to continue touring and are replaced by Garth Hudson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel, thus re-uniting the Hawks.
22 November	In the midst of the extensive fall tour Bob Dylan and Sara Lowndes gets married at a private ceremony in New York. The wedding is kept secret for a long time.
26 November	Joseph Haas from the Chicago Daily News interviews Dylan.
30 November	Release of single Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window/Highway 61 Revisited.
3 December	San Francisco press conference at the KQED studios, hosted by Ralph Gleason and with Allen Ginsberg in the audience.
16 December	Los Angeles press conference.

4 CONCERTS 1965

Here’s an incomplete list of live appearances in 1965, J means that a recording has survived.

4.1 Solo concerts

February		Bridgewater, Massachusetts	State College
	12	Troy, New York	Troy Armory
March	5	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Convention Hall with Joan Baez
	6	New Haven, Connecticut	New Haven Arena with Joan Baez
		Trenton, New Jersey
		Princeton, New Jersey	Princeton University
		Newark, New Jersey	Symphony Hall, Mosque Theater
		Buffalo, New York
	24	Pittsburg, Pennsylvania	two shows with Joan Baez
	27	Santa Monica, California	Civic Auditorium	J
	28	Berkeley, California	Berkeley Community Theater
April	3	Berkeley, California	Berkeley Community Theater
		Seattle
	9	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Queen Elizabeth Theater
	30	Sheffield, England	The Oval, City Hall	J
May	1	Liverpool, England	Odeon	J
	2	Leicester, England	DeMontfort Hall	J
	5	Birmingham, England	Town Hall
	6	Newcastle, England	City Hall	J
	7	Manchester, England	Free Trade Hall	J
	9	London, England	Royal Albert Hall	J
	10	London, England	Royal Albert Hall	J
July	24	Newport, New York	Newport Folk Festival	J

4.2 Concerts with backing

July	26	Newport, New York	Newport Folk Festival	J
August	28	New York City, New York	Forest Hills Tennis Stadium	J
September	3	Los Angeles, California	Hollywood Bowl	J
	24	Austin, Texas	Austin Municipal Auditorium
	25	Dallas, Texas	Southern Methodist University Coliseum
October	1	New York City, New York	Carnegie Hall
	2	Newark, New Jersey	Symphony Hall, Mosque Theater
		Baltimore, Maryland	Civic Center
	8	Knoxville, Indiana	Knoxville Civic Coliseum
	9	Atlanta, Georgia	City Auditorium
	16	Worcester, Massachusetts	Memorial Auditorium
		Princeton, New Jersey	Princeton University
	22	Providence, Rhode Island	Rhode Island Auditorium
	23	Burlington, Vermont	UVM Patrick Gymnasium
	24	Detroit, Michigan	Cobo Hall
	29	Boston, Massachusetts	Back Bay Theater
	30	Hartfort, Connecticut	Bushnell Memorial Auditorium
	31	Boston, Massachusetts	Back Bay Theater
		Madison, Wisconsin	Orpheum Theater
November	5	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Auditorium
	6	Buffalo, New York	Kleinhans Music Hall
		Yellow Springs, Ohio	Antioch College
	12	Cleveland, Ohio	Music Hall
	14	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Massey Hall
	15	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Massey Hall
	18	Cincinnati, Ohio	Music Hall
	19	Columbus, Ohio	Veterans Memorial Auditorium
	20	Rochester, New York
	21	Syracuse, New York	Onondaga County War Memorial
	26	Chicago, Illinois	Arie Crown Theater	J
	27	Chicago, Illinois	Arie Crown Theater
	28	Washington, DC	Washington Coliseum
December	1	Seattle, Washington
	3	Berkeley, California	Community Theater
	4	Berkeley, California	Community Theater	J
	5	San Francisco, California	Masonic Memorial Auditorium
	7	Long Beach, California	Civic Auditorium
	8	Santa Monica, California	Civic Auditorium
	9	Pasadena, California	Civic Auditorium
	10	San Diego, California	Community Concourse Theater
	11	San Francisco, California	Masonic Memorial
	12	San Jose, California	Civic Auditorium
	18	Pasadena, California	Civic Auditorium
	19	Santa Monica, California	Civic Auditorium

For details about existing tapes please refer to the corresponding session pages in Still On The Road.

5 RECORDINGS

Here’s a list of other known recordings from 1965. For details please refer to the corresponding session pages in Still On The Road.

13 January	Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, New York The first Bringing It All Back Home recording session, produced by Tom Wilson.
14 January	Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, New York The second Bringing It All Back Home recording session, produced by Tom Wilson.
15 January	Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, New York The third and last Bringing It All Back Home recording session, produced by Tom Wilson.
17 February	WABC TV Studios, New York City, New York Les Crane Show.
26 April	Press Conference Room, London Airport, London, England Short interview. From the film Don’t Look Back.
27 April	Savoy Hotel, London, England Interview by Jack DeManio.
27 April	Savoy Hotel, London, England Press conference. From the film Don’t Look Back.
3 or 4 May	A Hotel Room, Savoy Hotel, London, England Jamming with JoanBaez. From the film Don’t Look Back.
5 May	Town Hall. Birmingham, England Backstage before concert.. From the film Don’t Look Back.
6 May	A Hotel Room, Newcastle, England Jamming with Alan Price. From the film Don’t Look Back.
7 May	Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England Soundcheck before concert. From the film Don’t Look Back.
8 May	A Hotel Room, Savoy Hotel, London, England With Donovan and others. From the film Don’t Look Back.
9 May	A Restuarant, Royal Albert Hall, London England Interview by Horace Judson from Time Magazine.
9 May	Royal Albert Hall, London England Soundcheck before concert.. From the film Don’t Look Back.
12 May	Levy's Recording Studio, London England Recording of messages for Levy’s Sales Convention.
1 June	BBC Studios, London England Recording of two TV shows.
15 June	Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, New York The first Highway 61 Revisited session, produced by Tom Wilson.
16 June	Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, New York The second Highway 61 Revisited session, produced by Tom Wilson.
25 July	Freebody Park, Newport, Rhode Island Soundcheck before concert
29 July	Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, New York The third Highway 61 Revisited session, produced by Bob Johnston.
30 July	Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, New York The fourth Highway 61 Revisited session, produced by Bob Johnston.
2 August	Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, New York The fifth Highway 61 Revisited session, produced by Bob Johnston.
4 August	Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, New York The sixth and last Highway 61 Revisited session, produced by Bob Johnston.
5 October	Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, New York The first Blonde On Blonde session, produced by Bob Johnston.
24 October	Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan Interview by Allen Stone.
October - November	Columbia Office, New York City, New York Nat Hentoff interview for Playboy Magazine.
30 November	Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, New York The second Blonde On Blonde session, produced by Bob Johnston.
3 December	KQED-TV Studios, San Francisco, California San Francisco Press Conference.
17 December	Columbia Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Press Conference.

6 BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME

This album was released March 22, 1965 and on CD May 1987. Approximately 47 minutes. In some European countries this album was titled Subterranean Homesick Blues.

It was listed on the charts in US for 43 weeks, at best reaching #6. In UK it managed to reach #1 for one week, and a total of 23 weeks in Top 10.

Bringing It All Back Home was recorded during three sessions in Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios in New York City, New York.

Date	Song	# of	take released on
		takes	BIABH	Biogr.	Boot S.
13 January	Love Minus Zero/No Limit	3
	I'll Keep It With Mine	1		1
	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue	1
	Bob Dylan's 115th Dream	2
	She Belongs To Me	2
	Subterranean Homesick Blues	1			1
	Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence	1
	On The Road Again	1
	Farewell Angelina	1			1
	If You Gotta Go, Go Now	2
	You Don't Have To Do That
	Outlaw Blues	2
14 January	Love Minus Zero/No Limit	4	2
	Subterranean Homesick Blues	4	3
	Outlaw Blues	4	4
	She Belongs To Me	3	2
	Bob Dylan's 115th Dream	3	1
	On The Road Again	4
	I'll Keep It With Mine	1
	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue	1
15 January	Maggie's Farm	1	1
	On The Road Again	12	12
	It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)	2	2
	Gates Of Eden	1	1
	Mr. Tambourine Man	6	6
	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue	1	1
	If You Gotta Go, Go Now	4

The album track by track

Song	single	official live
Subterranean Homesick Blues	April '65
She Belongs To Me	April '65	Selfportrait
Maggie's Farm		Real Live Hard Rain At Budokan
Love Minus Zero/No Limit		At Budokan
Outlaw Blues
On The Road Again
Mr Tambourine Man		At Budokan Bangla Desh
Gates Of Eden	July '65
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)		At Budokan Before The Flood
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue		Biograph

Biograph - London, England, 1966.

Selfportrait - Isle Of Wight, 1969.

Bangla Desh - The benefit concert in Madison Square Garden, 1971.

Before The Flood - Tour with The Band, 1974.

Hard Rain - 2nd Rolling Thunder Revue, 1976.

At Budokan - Far East Leg of World Tour, 1978.

Real Live - Tour of Europe, 1984.

Live history

Outlaw Blues and On The Road Again have never been played live.

Subterrenean Homesick Blues was the regular opener at thestart of the Never-Ending Tour in 1988 and was last heard in January 1991.

Bob Dylan's 115th Dream was played at the four shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in October 1988.

All the other songs are part of Dylan’s standard repertoire.

7 HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED

This album was released August 30, 1965 and on CD 1984. Approximately 51 minutes.

It was listed on the charts in US for 47 weeks, at best reaching #3. In UK it peaked at #4 and spent a total of 12 weeks in Top 10.

Highway 61 Revisited was recorded during six sessions in Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios in New York City, New York. The producer for the June sessions was TomWilson. He was replaced by Bob Johnston for the last four sessions.

Date	Song	# of	take # released on
		takes	H61R	Single	Boot S.
15 June	It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry	11			13
	Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence	6			6
	Like A Rolling Stone	5			1
16 June	Like A Rolling Stone [1]	15	4
29 July	It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry	7	7
	Tombstone Blues	11
	Positively 4th Street	10		10
30 July	From A Buick 6	4	4
	Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? [2]	22		22
	Desolation Row	1
2 August	Highway 61 Revisited	10	10
	Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues	16	16
	Queen Jane Approximately	7	7
	Ballad Of A Thin Man	4	3
	Desolation Row	5
4 August	Desolation Row	8	6+7

The album track by track [3]

Song	single	official live
Like A Rolling Stone	20 July	Selfportrait Before The Flood At Budokan
Tombstone Blues		Real Live
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry		Bangla Desh
From A Buick 6	7 Sept
Ballad Of A Thin Man		Before The Flood At Budokan Real Live
Queen Jane Approximately	1966	Dylan & The Dead
Highway 61 Revisited	Dec. '65	Before The Flood Real Live
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues		Masterpieces
Desolation Row

Masterpieces - Liverpool, England, 1966

Selfportrait - Isle Of Wight, 1969

Bangla Desh - The benefit concert in Madison Square Garden, 1971.

Before The Flood - Tour With The Band, 1974

At Budokan - Far East Leg of World Tour, 1978.

Real Live - Tour of Europe, 1984.

Dylan & The Dead - Mini-tour with The Grateful Dead, 1987.

Live history

All songs on Highway 61 Revisited have been performed live, and with the exception of From A Buick 6 which was last performed live during the fall tour 1965, there are still part of the standard song repertoire.

8 DON'T LOOK BACK

Don't Look Back was filmed in England April-May 1965 during Dylan's tour there. It was produced by D.A. Pennebaker and premiered at the Presido Theater in San Francisco on May 17, 1967. On September 6 of that year it opened in New York City at the 34th Street Theater.

It is now available as commercial video, Virgin Music Video, runs about 96 minutes and features Joan Baez, Alan Price, Donovan, Albert Grossman and Bob Neuwirth. An extended version with an alternative Subterrenean Homesick Blues video, shot in a park in London and five new audio tracks was released on DVD January 2000. Assistant producer was Howard Alk who was to be co-editor with Dylan on his next film "Eat The Document" in 1966.

Don't Look Back documents Dylan's tour of England back-stage, on stage and off stage. It is filmed in black and white.

Contents

Press conference at London Airport	26 April
Subterranean Homesick Blues	Studio, 14 January
She Belongs To Me	Backstage, Royal Albert Hall, 9 May
All I Really Want To Do	Live, London, 9 May
Press Conference at Savoy Hotel, London	27 April
Maggie's Farm	Studio version, 14 January
Only A Pawn In Their Game	Silas Mages's Farm, 6 July 1963
The Times They Are A-Changin'	Live, Sheffield, 30 April
To Ramona	Live, Sheffield, 30 April
The Times They Are A-Changin'	Live, Liverpool, 1 May
The Times They Are A-Changin'	Studio, 24 October 1963
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll	Live, Leicester, 2 May
Percy's Song [sung by Joan Baez]	Savoy Hotel, London, 3 or 4 May
Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word [sung by Joan Baez]	Savoy Hotel, London, 3 or 4 May
Family Reunion [sung by Joan Baez]	Savoy Hotel, London, 3 or 4 May
Lost Highway	Savoy Hotel, London, 3 or 4 May
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	Savoy Hotel, London, 3 or 4 May
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [sung by Joan Baez]	Savoy Hotel, London, 3 or 4 May
Leaning On A Landpost [sung by Alan Price]	Hotel room in Newcastle, 6 May
Little Things [sung by Alan Price]	Hotel room in Newcastle, 6 May
Here Comes The Night [sung by Joan Baez]	Hotel room in Newcastle, 6 May
Little Things	Hotel room in Newcastle, 6 May
Interview by "the science student"	Backstage, Newcastle City Hall 6 May
Meeting with the High Sheriff's Lady"	Backstage, Newcastle City Hall 6 May
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right	Live, Newcastle, 6 May
Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do? [Donovan off record]	Savoy Hotel, London, 8 May
To Sing For You [sung by Donovan]	Savoy Hotel, London, 8 May
"Who Threw The Glass In The Street?"	Savoy Hotel, London, 8 May
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue	Savoy Hotel, London, 8 May
Horace Judson (Time) Interview	Royal Albert Hall, London, 8 May
The Times They Are A-Changin'	Live, London, 9 May
Talking World War III Blues	Live, London, 9 May
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)	Live, London, 9 May
Gates Of Eden	Live, London, 9 May
Love Minus Zero - No Limit	Live, London, 9 May

Extra audio tracks included on DVD release:

To Ramona	Sheffield 4 May
Love Minus Zeo/No Limit	Newcastle 6 May
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll	London 10 May
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue	London 10 May
It Ain’t Me, Babe	London 10 May

All tracks are complete. The songs from 10 May are heard for the first time here.

9 SONGS 1965

January	Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
	Love Minus Zero/No Limit
	Maggie's Farm
	On The Road Again
	Outlaw Blues [4]
	She Belongs To Me
	Subterranean Homesick Blues
March	Farewell Angelina
	Love Is Just A Four Letter Word [5]
June	Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window
	From A Buick 6
	Jet Pilot [6]
	Like A Rolling Stone
	Phantom Engineer [7]
	Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence [8]
July	Ballad Of A Thin Man
	Desolation Row
	Highway 61 Revisited
	It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
	Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
	Positively 4th Street
	Queen Jane Approximately
	Tombstone Blues
November	I Wanna Be Your Lover
	Long Distance Operator [9]
	Medicine Sunday [10]
	Freeze Out [11]

10 SOURCES

Tim Dunn	I Just Write 'Em As They Come. An Annotated Guide to the Writings of Bob Dylan. A Not-A-Ces Publishing Venture 1990
Glen Dundas	Tangled Up In Tapes — 4th Edition A Recording History of Bob Dylan SMA Services, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada 1999. Softcover 334 pages.
John Baldwin	The fiddler now upspoke, Volumes 1–5 A collection of Bob Dylan interviews and press conferences. Desolation Row Promotions, 1995.
Clinton Heylin	A Life In Stolen Moments. Bob Dylan Day By Day 1941-1995. Schirmer Books 1996, 404 pages.
Clinton Heylin	Bob Dylan, The Recording Sessions 1960-1994 St. Martin's Press, 1995, 233 pages.
Michael Krogsgaard	Positively Bob Dylan A Thirty-Year Discography, Concert & Record Session Guide 1960-1991. Popular Culture, Ink. 1991. 500 pages
Michael Krogsgaard	Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions (Part 1). The Telegraph #52, Summer 1995, pp. 128–129.

11 SUGGESTED READINGS

11.1 General background

James Ensor & Bob Dylan	The Superhuman Crew The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 1999, 32 pages. The James Ensor painting Christ’s Entry in Brussels from 1889 juxtaposed to the lyrics of Desolation Row. This book comes with a one-track CD.
Michael Gray	Song & Dance Man III. The Art Of Bob Dylan Cassell 1999. Hardback 918 pages (!!)
Levon Helm	This Wheel's On Fire. Levon Helm and the story of The Band. William Morrow, 320 pages.
Clinton Heylin	Behind The Shades. A Biography. Summit Books 1991, 500 pages.
Barney Hoskyns	Across The Great Divide. The Band and America.Viking, 440 pages
Anthony Scaduto	Bob Dylan. An intimate biography. New American Library 1973
Robert Shelton	No Direction Home. The Life and Music of Bob Dylan. New American Library 1986.
Robert Witting	Orpheus Revisited: A Celebration Of Highway 61 Revisited. Exploding Rooster Books 1995, 108 pages.

11.2 Books about 1965

Chris Cooper	The Circus Is In Town. 1985.
Daniel Kramer	Bob Dylan. Citadel Press (hardback) or Pocket Books. Great photo book from 1964-1965.
D.A. Pennebaker	Don't Look Back. Ballantine Books 1968

11.3 Article compilations

Carl Benson (ed)	The Bob Dylan Companion — Four Decades of Commentary. Schirmer Books, New York 1998. Softcover 306 pages.
Craig McGregor (ed)	Bob Dylan. A Retrospective. William Morrow 1972
Stephen Pickering	A Commemoration. 1971.
Stephen Pickering	Praxis: One. 1972.
Elizabeth M. Thomson (ed)	Conclusions On The Wall. New Essays On Bob Dylan. Thin Man 1980.

11.4 Selected articles

A Chat with Al Aronowitz – Derek Barker, Isis #81

A Chat with D.A: Pennebaker – Derek Barker, Isis #79

A Conversation with Tony Glover – by Glen Dundas, On The Tracks #2 (Fall/Winter 1993)

A gallery of unpublished 1965 photos (plus short interview) – The Telegraph 51 (Summer 1995)

A Lot Is In My Head – interview in Occasionally #4

Al Kooper on Highway 61 Revisited – The Telegraph 47 (Winter 1993)

Austin Interview, 1965 – in Positively Tie Dream

BBC TV Shows 1965: Photos! – The Telegraph 39 (Summer 1991)

Blonde On Blonde – article by Stephen Pickering in Stephen Pickering: A Commemoration

Bob and The Bluesbreakers? – John Bauldie, The Telegraph #36

Bob Dylan '65: Meeting "The Press" – interview in Rolling Stone Rock 'n' Reader

Bob Dylan as Bob Dylan – Paul J Robbins interview in Stephen Pickering: A Commemoration

Bob Dylan's Publications in Broadside Magazine 1962-1965 – article by David Pichaske in The Telegraph #20

Daniel Kramer Interview – by Marjorie Kaufman, On The Tracks #6 (Vol. 3, No 2)

Desolation Row – Homer, the Slut #2

Edith (Edie) Mintburn Sedgwick – by Ben Cruikshank, Isis #64

Eye To Eye – A Conversation With D.A. Pennebaker in The Telegraph #26

Highway 61 Revisited – article by Roger Ford in The Bridge #7

Hotel Blues: Robin Denselow's encounter with Dylan at the Savoy – The Telegraph 54 (Spring 1996)

Interview: Al Kooper – The Telegraph 37 (Winter 1990)

Interview: Anthea Joseph – The Telegraph 38 (Spring 1991)

Interview: Harvey Brooks – The Telegraph 47 (Winter 1993)

Interview: Ken Pitt, Dylan's press man in England. 1964-1966 – The Telegraph 46 (Autumn 1993)

It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) – Homer, the Slut #10

Jack de Manio Interview 1965 – Occasionally #1

London Press Conference 1965 – in The Circus Is In Town

Love Minus Zero/No Limit – Homer, the Slut #6

Minneapolis Auditorium 1965 – article in Occasionally #5

Newport ’65. The Saturday Afternoon Workshops – by Ed Grazda, On The Tracks #13 (Spring 1998)

Rick Danko Interview – by Marjorie Kaufman, On The Tracks #10 (Spring 1997)

Rick Danko Interview – by Tony Norman, On The Tracks #16 (Spring 1999)

Sheffield Interview 1965 – in The Circus Is In Town

Tarantula – a perspective article by Elia Katz in Stephen Pickering: Praxis: One

Tarantula: A Question Of Interpreting – article by Stephen Pickering in A Commemoration

The Complete 1965 Los Angeles Free Press Interview – On The Tracks #9 (Winter 1996)

The D.A. Pennebaker Interview – in The Telegraph #16

The Laurie Henshaw Interview 1965 – in The Circus Is In Town

The March 1965 New Buffalo Consolidated High School Interview with Bob Dylan – by Maura Davis, On The Tracks #16 (Spring 1999)

The March 1965 Press Conference – in Occasionally #5

The Memoirs of Michael Bloomfield – The Telegraph 47 (Winter 1993)

The Story Of DCC's Golden Highway 61 Revisited CD – The Telegraph 44 (Winter 1992)

The Teen Scene Interview 1965 – in The Circus Is In Town

The Wanted Man Interview: Robert Shelton – The Telegraph 54 (Spring 1996)

Thin Wild Mercury Sounds On Tyneside - Bob Dylan in Newcastle 1965 & 1966 – by Terry Kelly, The Bridge No. 1. Summer 1998

Unreleased Tarantula-Released! – article by Stephen Pickering in Talkin' Bob Zimmerman Blues #5

Walking Like Rimbaud – by C.P. Lee, Isis #80

What Do You Want Me To Say? – Ralph J. Gleason in Rolling Stone Interviews Vol 2

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[1] Parts of take 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15 released on Highway 61 Interactive.

[2] Take 22 mistakenly released as Positively Fourth Street on single September 1965

[3] Note that the tracks are arranged in the order they were actually recorded!

[4] An earlier version of this song is California.

[5] No known recording with Bob Dylan. Presumably written for Joan Baez. Covered by Joan Baez on a number of albums, both studio and live. The version on "Any Day Now" has an unpublished extra verse, which may be written by Bob Dylan.

[6] Original title was Pilot Eyes.

[7] The working title for an early version of It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry.

[8] Considered for release on Biograph.

[9] Performed live late in 1965, e.g. in Chicago, November 26. Recorded “in the basement”, 1967.

[10] Circulating version is incomplete. It is generally thought to be an early version of Temporary Like Achilles. Considered for release on Biograph.

[11] Also Seems Like A Freeze Out - working titles for Visions Of Johanna