Bob Dylan - The Original Freewheelin' Bob Dylan [RSD Black Friday 2025]

The first ever release of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan as it was originally conceived, including four tracks that were withdrawn before the album came out: "Rocks And Gravel", "Let Me Die in My Footsteps", "Rambling, Gambling Willie" and "Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues". Includes the original never-before seen liner notes.

The version of Freewheelin’ that most people know and love is technically not the original version of the album. Rare pressings of the album exist that feature four different songs that were removed from the album almost immediately after its initial release. The most notable of these is “Talkin’ John Birch Blues,” another talking blues song where Dylan mercilessly mocks the rabidly anti-communist John Birch Society [a far-right politcal advocacy group]. These four songs were removed at the behest of the parent record label CBS, much to Dylan’s chagrin, and replaced with four songs taken from later recording sessions, such as “Girl From the North Country” and “Talkin' World War III Blues.”
-- Jesse Ducker, Albumism.com

 

Tracklist

Side A
1. Blowin’ In The Wind
2. Rocks And Gravel*
3. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
4. Down The Highway
5. Bob Dylan’s Blues
6. Let Me Die In My Footsteps*
Side B
1. Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right
2. Rambling, Gambling Willie*
3. Oxford Town
4. Corrina, Corrina
5. Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues*
6. Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance
7. I Shall Be Free

UPC: 198029671216
Label: SONY LEGACY
Release Date: 11.28.25
Format: Vinyl