Every issue of Dylan Vinyl: The Definitive Collection comes with a fantastic eight-page magazine that explores the context to the album, offering insights into the global events surrounding its creation, detailed notes for every track and information about recording sessions and personnel. Original copies have matrix numbers ending in -1A on both side (see photo below,) and include these four songs: Rocks and Gravel/Let Me Die In My Footsteps/Gamblin’ Willie’s Dead Man’s Hand/Talkin’ John Birch Blues.

An Original “Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” With 4 Withdrawn Tracks An Original “Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” With 4 Withdrawn Tracks

When I discovered the unreleased concert from Brandies in 1963, I sold it to Dylan’s office, and it was their decision to release it.In the 49 years since the release of “Freewheelin’,” a very few copies have surfaced that play the four “withdrawn” tracks–only two stereo copies are known, and fewer than 20 mono copies.

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She noticed that there was a very rare version of “Freewheelin'” and checked the matrix number and confirmed that, incredibly, this was indeed the ultra rare original. In the years since her discovery, she’d made a few half-hearted attempts to sell it, but never followed through–she lived in a rural area, and figured it would just keep increasing in value. In any case, replacement masters featuring the new songs were made, the artwork was changed, and Columbia released the revised album. I also have the Canadian original copy, With the the same as the person above, the list on the cover is not the same as on the record, Its in excellent condition and wondering how much I would get for it if I sold it, And where can I contact someone that might be interested in it?

Savour the sounds of Dylan’s first album, made up of folk standards and two original compositions, ‘Talkin’ New York’ and ‘Song to Woody’, plus learn about the influences that informed his early work.

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If you pay by Direct Debit you will receive a schedule detailing the dates all your payments will be processed. Some speculate that because CBS television’s censors wouldn’t let Dylan perform “Talkin’ John Birch Blues” on the Ed Sullivan Show, the CBS-owned Columbia Records pulled it from the album. Lori told me that she’d been given a box of old albums by her uncle in 1980, and in 1994, while pricing them for a garage sale, she discovered this was no ordinary Bob Dylan album. Experience classic tracks including ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ and ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ with Dylan’s second studio album.While his self-titled debut featured only two original compositions, eleven of the thirteen tracks on “Freewheelin” were written by Dylan. If you send in a subscription form by post please allow 14 days for confirmation your subscription is setup. Discover in your companion guide how the record became the soundtrack to the counter-culture movement.

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No one pays more than Recordmecca for collectible records, concert posters, music autographs, artist-owned items, and other music memorabilia - the rarer the better! In the last 40 years, I’ve checked thousands of copies of “Freewheelin'”–but have never found an original.