Bob Dylan (album) - Outtakes

Outtakes

Three additional songs recorded during the Bob Dylan sessions were included on Volume 1 of the Bootleg Series: "House Carpenter," "He Was a Friend of Mine," and another original composition, "Man on the Street." A fourth outtake, "Ramblin' Blues" written by Woody Guthrie, remains unreleased.

Of these four, the most celebrated is perhaps "House Carpenter," a new rendition of the 16th century Scottish ballad "The Daemon Lover" and the final song recorded for Bob Dylan. Biographer Clinton Heylin described the song as "the most extraordinary performance of the sessions, as demonically driven as anything Robert Johnson put out in his name." Though it was a favorite at the time in folk circles, Dylan apparently never played "House Carpenter" in any documented performance.

An alternate (shortened) version of "House of the Rising Sun," heavily overdubbed with electric instruments in 1964 (produced by Tom Wilson), was later included on the Highway 61 Interactive CD-ROM.