Bob Dylan to launch unheard model of ‘Blind Willie McTell’ on vinyl

Bob Dylan is gearing as much as launch a brand new seven-inch single that includes an unreleased model of ‘Blind Willie McTell’.

The brand new vinyl will arrive on August 20 by way of Jack White‘s Third Man Data.

Dylan’s authentic monitor initially emerged from the classes for his 1983 album ‘Infidels’, however didn’t make the ultimate album minimize and a primary model didn’t arrive till 1991, when it featured on ‘The Bootleg Sequence Volumes 1 – 3 (Uncommon & Unreleased) 1961–1991’.

Whereas the unique monitor featured a stripped-back acoustic piano-guitar rendition led by Dylan and Mark Knopfler, the brand new seven-inch options two full-band takes that includes Dylan, Knopfler, Mick Taylor, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare.

Solely the A-side of the only (‘take 1’) will solely be out there on the seven-inch, however the B-side (‘take 5’) may also seem on the forthcoming upcoming ‘Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Sequence Vol. 16 (1980-1985)‘, which arrives on September 17. 

That album will function studio outtakes from basic Dylan albums equivalent to ‘1981’s Shot of Love’, 1983’s ‘Infidels’, and 1985’s ‘Empire Burlesque’.

Elsewhere, Dylan just lately prevailed in a royalty lawsuit in opposition to the property of late songwriter Jacques Levy.

The property of the co-writer of Dylan’s 1976 album ‘Want’ was handed a defeat on Friday (July 30) in a lawsuit in opposition to Dylan and Common Music Group which hoped to determine co-ownership of the songs that Levy had a hand in.