Masterpieces

This article is about the Bob Dylan album. For the HammerFall album, see Masterpieces (HammerFall album).

Masterpieces
Greatest hits album by Bob Dylan
Released	March 1978
Genre	Rock Folk Country music
Length	164:15
Label	Columbia

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Masterpieces is a compilation album by Bob Dylan. The 3-LP set was released in Japan and Australia in anticipation of his 1978 tour. Primarily a greatest hits collection spanning Dylan's career up that point, the album features three previously unreleased tracks, including "Rita May", "George Jackson" and a unique (1962) outtake version of "Mixed Up Confusion". It also includes a live performance of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" from Dylan's 1966 World Tour, which was first released as the B-side of his "I Want You" single in 1966 and later appeared on Self Portrait. Masterpieces was reissued on CD in 1991 by Sony Music (Cat. No. 4624489), but is no longer in print.

Track listing

All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted.

Disc 1

1. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (from Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid) – 2:30
2. "Mr. Tambourine Man" (from Bringing It All Back Home) – 5:9
3. "Just Like a Woman" (from Blonde on Blonde) – 4:56
4. "I Shall Be Released" (from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II) – 3:05
5. "Tears of Rage" (from The Basement Tapes) (Dylan, Richard Manuel) – 4:14
6. "All Along the Watchtower" (from John Wesley Harding) – 2:32
7. "One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)" (from Desire) – 3:47
8. "Like a Rolling Stone" (Self Portrait version) – 5:17
9. "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" (Self Portrait version) – 2:49
10. "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" (Live at Town Hall 1963, first released on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II) – 3:02
11. "Lay, Lady, Lay" (Live 1976, Hard Rain) – 5:00
12. "Idiot Wind" (Live 1976, Hard Rain) – 10:06

Disc 2

1. "Mixed-Up Confusion" (outtake version from the 1962 Freewheelin' sessions) – 2:30
2. "Positively 4th Street" (single, 1965) – 3:56
3. "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" (single 1965, also found on Biograph) – 3:35
4. "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" (live version recorded at Odeon Theatre, Liverpool, England, 14 May 1966 found on B-side of 1966 "I Want You" single) – 5:40
5. "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" (B-side of 1971 "Watching the River Flow" single) (Traditional) – 3:38
6. "George Jackson" ("Big Band" version, single, 1971) – 5:38
7. "Rita May" (single, 1976) (Dylan, Jacques Levy) – 3:13
8. "Blowin' in the Wind" (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) – 2:47
9. "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) – 6:54
10. "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) – 3:16
11. "Masters of War" (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) – 4:33
12. "Hurricane" (from Desire) (Dylan, Levy) – 8:36

Disc 3

1. "Maggie's Farm" (Live 1976, Hard Rain version) – 5:30
2. "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (from Bringing It All Back Home) – 2:20
3. "Ballad of a Thin Man" (from Highway 61 Revisited) – 5:57
4. "Mozambique" (from Desire) (Dylan, Levy) – 3:01
5. "This Wheel's on Fire" (from The Basement Tapes) (Rick Danko, Dylan) – 3:52
6. "I Want You" (from Blonde on Blonde) – 3:09
7. "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" (from Blonde on Blonde) – 4:38
8. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) – 3:40
9. "Song to Woody" (from Bob Dylan) – 2:41
10. "It Ain't Me Babe" (from Another Side of Bob Dylan) – 3:35
11. "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" (from Bringing It All Back Home) – 2:50
12. "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (from John Wesley Harding) – 2:39
13. "If Not for You" (from New Morning) – 2:44
14. "If You See Her, Say Hello" (from Blood on the Tracks) – 4:48
15. "Sara" (from Desire) – 5:31

References

1. ^ Ruhlmann, William. Masterpieces at Allmusic

External links

• http://theband.hiof.no/albums/masterpieces.html