Bob Dylan - Tomorrow Is a Long Time - Non-Album Tracks (1963)

Here's the next in a long series of albums scooping up Bob Dylan's many, many stray tracks. In this case, it's the last of three albums collecting his songs between the release of his first album "Bob Dylan" in 1962 and his classic "Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" album in 1963. As usual,  I tried to gather up all the good songs I could find that weren't actually on official albums such as those.

I've been sorting these many early songs chronologically, both between albums and with the song order on the albums. Two of the songs here are from late 1962 while the rest are from early 1963. That's the same time that the "Freewheelin'" album was being finalized. But nearly all of these are not proper studio outtakes. Instead, they come from various other sources, especially demos Dylan recorded for the Whitmark company in hopes that other musicians would like some of his unreleased songs and release their own versions. Of course, Dylan's songwriting quality was so high that many did.

Other songs here come from even more obscure sources. For instance, three of the songs were only played by him in concert. (I removed the audience noise, as I often do.) For others, such as this version of "Who Killed Davey Moore," I didn't have to worry about crowd noise because it was done for a radio show with no audience there.

For one song, "Bound to Lose, Bound to Win," i felt compelled to make some edits. The song was performed for the "Broadside" political magazine, which would print the lyrics in the next issue. As a result, part way through the song, Dylan briefly talked over his guitar playing about how he'd forgotten the lyrics and would write them out later. I cut that talking out. I also edited in a repeat of the chorus at the end, since the song is very short (only about a minute long) and ended abruptly with more of Dylan's talking. Hopefully it now sounds more like a proper song.

Because so many of the songs were recorded for publishing demos and the like, Dylan didn't expect these would ever get released, so there often was a little talking by him at the beginning or the end. I generally cut those bits out to make this sound more like a proper studio album.

Most of these are really good songs; it's just that Dylan had more songs than he knew what to do with at the time. I'm sure this album would have done very well if it had actually been released in 1963, even though it falls short of the classic "Freewheelin' Bob Dylan."

01 Quit Your Low Down Ways (Bob Dylan)
02 Tomorrow Is a Long Time (Bob Dylan)
03 The Ballad of the Gliding Swan (Bob Dylan)
04 Talking Devil (Bob Dylan)
05 Bound to Lose, Bound to Win (Bob Dylan)
06 I'd Hate to Be You on that Dreadful Day (Bob Dylan)
07 Long Time Gone (Bob Dylan)
08 All Over You (Bob Dylan)
09 Walkin' Down the Line (Bob Dylan)
10 Goin' Back to Rome (Bob Dylan)
11 Farewell (Bob Dylan)
12 Train A-Travelling (Bob Dylan)
13 Walls of Red Wing (Bob Dylan)
14 Ramblin' Down through the World (Bob Dylan)
15 Dusty Old Fairgrounds (Bob Dylan)
16 Hiding Too Long (Bob Dylan)
17 Who Killed Davey Moore (Bob Dylan)

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I didn't have any great ideas on what to call this album, so I picked the name of probably the most accclaimed song on it. If anyone has a better idea, please let me know. I also didn't find any really great photo to use for the cover, mostly because I much prefer color photos and it seems Dylan's early 1960s life was entirely in black and white! The pic I chose is an outtake from the same photo session that resulted in the cover to the "Freewheelin'" album. Like that one, he's pictured with his girlfriend at the time, Suze Rotolo.