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It’s been bandied about for a little bit now, but it looks like it’s true: there’s an Amazon listing for Bob Dylan’s The Original Mono Recordings. It’s an eight-disc set of the first eight Dylan LPs – his 1962 self-titled debut to 1967’s John Wesley Harding in their original mono mixes (or more specifically, according to this Rolling Stone article: “reportedly mastered using ‘first issue copies of the mono LPs’ in order to recreate the sound of the original LPs”) – with a new 60-page book of liner notes by Greil Marcus and discographical information.

It’s not the only catalogue project planned from Dylan’s camp: The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 is also set to drop in October, alongside the mono box. A purported track list from the RS article – as well as reminders of the track lists for each record in the box – can be found after the jump. (Thanks to Pause & Play for the dates.)

Bob Dylan, The Original Mono Recordings (Columbia/Legacy, 2010)

Disc 1: Bob Dylan (Columbia CL 1779, 1962)

1. She’s No Good
2. Talkin’ New York
3. In My Time of Dyin’
4. Man of Constant Sorrow
5. Fixin’ to Die Blues
6. Pretty Peggy-O
7. Highway 51 Blues
8. Gospel Plow
9. Baby Let Me Follow You Down
10. House of the Risin’ Sun
11. Freight Train Blues
12. Song to Woody
13. See That My Grave is Kept Clean

Disc 2: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (Columbia CL 1986, 1963)

1. Blowin’ in the Wind
2. Girl from the North Country
3. Masters of War
4. Down the Highway
5. Bob Dylan’s Blues
6. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
7. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
8. Bob Dylan’s Dream
9. Oxford Town
10. Talkin’ World War III Blues
11. Corrina, Corrina
12. Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance
13. I Shall Be Free

Disc 3: The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Columbia CL 2105, 1964)

1. The Times They Are A-Changin’
2. Ballad of Hollis Brown
3. With God on Our Side
4. One Too Many Mornings
5. North Country Blues
6. Only a Pawn in Their Game
7. Boots of Spanish Leather
8. When the Ship Comes In
9. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
10. Restless Farewell

Disc 4: Another Side of Bob Dylan (Columbia CL 2193, 1964)

1. All I Really Want to Do
2. Black Crow Blues
3. Spanish Harlem Incident
4. Chimes of Freedom
5. I Shall Be Free No. 10
6. To Ramona
7. Motorpsycho Nitemare
8. My Back Pages
9. I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
10. Ballad in Plain D
11. It Ain’t Me Babe

Disc 5: Bringing It All Back Home (Columbia CL 2328, 1965)

1. Subterranean Homesick Blues
2. She Belongs to Me
3. Maggie’s Farm
4. Love Minus Zero/No Limit
5. Outlaw Blues
6. On the Road Again
7. Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
8. Mr. Tambourine Man
9. Gates of Eden
10. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
11. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

Disc 6: Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia CL 2389, 1965)

1. Like a Rolling Stone
2. Tombstone Blues
3. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
4. From a Buick 6
5. Ballad of a Thin Man
6. Queen Jane Approximately
7. Highway 61 Revisited
8. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
9. Desolation Row

Disc 7: Blonde on Blonde (Columbia C2L 41, 1966)

1. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
   
2. Pledging My Time
   
3. Visions of Johanna
   
4. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
5. I Want You
6. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
7. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
8. Just Like a Woman
9. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
10. Temporary Like Achilles
11. Absolutely Sweet Marie
12. 4th Time Around
13. Obviously 5 Believers
14. Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Disc 8: John Wesley Harding (Columbia CL 2804, 1967)

1. John Wesley Harding
2. As I Went Out One Morning
3. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
4. All Along the Watchtower
5. The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
6. Drifter’s Escape
7. Dear Landlord
8. I Am a Lonesome Hobo
9. I Pity the Poor Immigrant
10. The Wicked Messenger
11. Down Along the Cove
12. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 (Columbia, 2010)

1. Hard Times in New York Town
2. Poor Boy Blues
3. Ballad for a Friend
4. Rambling, Gambling Willie
5. Man on the Street
6. Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
7. Standing on the Highway
8. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
9. Tomorrow is a Long Time
10. The Death of Emmett Till
11. Let Me Die in My Footsteps
12. Ballad of Hollis Brown
13. Quit Your Low Down Ways
14. Baby, I’m in the Mood for You
15. Bound to Lose, Bound to Win
16. All Over You
17. I’d Hate to Be You on That Dreadful Day
18. Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues
19. Long Time Gone
20. Masters of War
21. Farewell
22. Oxford Town
23. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
24. Walkin’ Down the Line
25. I Shall Be Free
26. Bob Dylan’s Blues
27. Bob Dylan’s Dream
28. Boots of Spanish Leather
29. Girl From the North Country
30. Seven Curses
31. Hero Blues
32. Whatcha Gonna Do
33. Gypsy Lou
34. Ain’t Gonna Grieve
35. John Brown
36. Only a Hobo
37. When the Ship Comes In
38. The Times They Are A-Changin’
39. Paths of Victory
40. Guess I’m Doing Fine
41. Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Eric von Schmidt)
42. Mr. Tambourine Man
43. Mama, You Been on My Mind
44. I’ll Keep It with Mine

Tracks 1-7 Leeds Music Demos, New York City, February 1962
Tracks 8-14 Witmark & Sons Demos, New York City, December 1962
Tracks 15-18 Witmark Studio outtakes, New York City, Winter 1963
Tracks 19-24 Witmark Studio outtakes, New York City, March 1963
Tracks 25-28 Witmark Studio outtakes, New York City, April 1963
Tracks 29-31 Witmark Studio outtakes, New York City, May 1963
Tracks 32-37 Witmark Studio outtakes, New York City, August 1963
Track 38 Witmark Studio outtake, New York City, October 1963
Track 39 Witmark Studio outtake, New York City, December 1963
Tracks 40-41 Witmark Studio outtakes, New York City, January 1964
Tracks 42-44 unidentified studio outtakes, New York City, mid-late June 1964