Ipod Shuffle 18: Dylan 03-Outtakes & B-Sides Quiz

Answer: Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler is the lead singer for Dire Straits. He has long maintained that had he been present at the final mixing and track selection for "Infidels", it would have been a much different album. Knopfler had to go on tour during the final production of the album.

Answer: Black Crow Blues

Bob recorded the album "Another Side of Bob Dylan" in a single day, June 9th, 1964. He recorded "Denise, Denise" first, and used the same music as "Black Crow Blues". The song circulates among collectors, and is on the famous 1985 ten disk vinyl disk bootleg "Ten of Swords".

Answer: Gotta Serve Somebody

"Trouble in Mind" was released as the B-Side to "Gotta Serve Somebody", "Slow Train Coming", and "Precious Angel". The main single, with ID 1-11072, had "Gotta Serve Somebody" as its A-Side.

Answer: April and May

There are a few songs from the religious era that were only given live performances. Another great track is "Ain't Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody" from April 1980 (at the same show and the song immediately before "Cover Down, Break Through"). "Ain't Gonna Go To Hell" was shortlisted for the first "Bootleg Series" release but was not included. "Thief on the Cross" is another live only religious song, from 1978.

Answer: Waiting for the Morning Light

Bob cowrote two songs with Gene Simmons. The first is "Laughing When You Want To Cry" back in 1991. The second is "Waiting for the Morning Light", which Dylan and Simmons wrote during one day at Simmon's residence in Los Angeles. This is what Gene Simmons has to say.

"Bob came up with the chords, most of them, and then I took it and wrote lyrics, melody, the rest of it," says Simmons, adding that he kept urging Dylan through the years to put lyrics to the song. "I'd see him on tour, and I'd say, 'Bob, you wanna write the song? And he would say, 'No, man, you write it, Mr. Kiss.'"

"We understood each other right away. He picked up an acoustic guitar, and we just tossed it back and forth, 'How 'bout this, how 'bout that?' And he started to strum, because he -- at least with me -- tended to talk and strum guitar at the same time. And as soon as I heard the first three or four chords, I went, 'Wait, wait, what's that? Do that again.' So I went and started to write a lyric around that."

Answer: Knocked Out Loaded

Dylan recorded the song at Cherokee Studios in California on April 17, 1985. Not much is known about the song. Al Kooper stated once that most of the outtakes from "Knocked Out Loaded" were better than one made the final cut.

Answer: You Belong To Me

In 1992, Dylan convened with the producer David Bromberg. Dylan recorded an entire album's worth of songs with Bromberg. He then went to his home in Miami Florida as he wanted an acoustic song to end the album, and ended up recording "Good As I Been To You".

The only four songs in circulation are "Catskill Serenade", "Sloppy Drunk," "Polly Vaughan," and "Miss the Mississippi". "The Bootleg Series 8" marked the first release of any of these sessions with two songs, "Duncan and Brady" and "Miss the Mississippi".

My personal favorite is "Catskill Serenade" which is an amazing song. "You Belong To Me" is a "Good As I Been To You" outtake that appeared on the "Natural Born Killers" soundtrack.

Wikipedia gives the following list of known songs recorded during these sessions: "I'll Rise Again" (trad.), "Nobody's Fault But Mine" (Blind Willie Johnson), "Lady From Baltimore" (Tim Hardin), "Polly Vaughan" (trad.), "Casey Jones" (trad.), "Duncan And Brady" (trad.), "Kaatskill Serenade" (David Bromberg), "World Of Fools" (David Bromberg), "Sloppy Drunk", and "Miss the Mississippi."

Answer: The Searchers

Bob performed the song live in St. Paul, Minnesota, on October 31, 1978. The Searchers recorded the song for their 1979 album "The Searchers". The UK version of that same album had the Dylan cover replaced by a John Hiatt song. Both the John Hiatt song and the Dylan song are available on the compilation disk "The Sire Sessions - Rockfield Recordings 1979-80".

Answer: Long Time Gone

The song is "Long Time Gone". The song was originally recorded during the Whitmark Demo sessions, and as of 2009 has never been officially released. In 1963, Columbia pressed a vinyl album with the simple title of "Songs By Bob Dylan" before "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" was released.

This disk was not meant for commercial release, but rather to preview songs for other artists who would possibly want to record Dylan's songs.

Answer: Together Through Life

The song was recorded in 2008 for the "Together Through Life" album. Some of the pre-release copies of the album featured the song. Here is a section of Bob's interview with Bill Flanagan regarding the song.

"Bill Flanagan: In that song CHICAGO AFTER DARK, were you thinking about the new President?

Bob: Not really. It's more about State Street and the wind off Lake Michigan and how sometimes we know people and we are no longer what we used to be to them. I was trying to go with some old time feeling that I had."