Bob Dylan - Europa 98 (Acoustic Over Europe)
Various European Locations
Spring/Summer 1998

A fan-produced and circulated collection, not a commercial product. Includes one version of every song performed in Dylan's acoustic sets during his late spring/early Summer 1998 European tour. Almost all tracks in at least very good quality; most are excellent or nearly excellent. The performances are also first rate, and a few are exceptional. [Notes cribbed from monicasdude]

I first received this in a cdr trade via a vine/tree propogated via rec.music.dylan (at least I'm pretty sure that's how it happened). I have no idea who the original compiler was, but I definitely want to give thanks to whoever it may have been…

I remember that the disks I originally received had microgaps between songs, and that I extracted the disks (w Toast DAE), crossfaded the tracks ever so slightly for smoother gapless transitions with JAM, and then re-burned the new, improved disks for my own listen pleasure.

These audio files have been extracted from my 'improved' disks with (full cdparanoia) and converted to flac with Max 0.9.1.

Enjoy. And Happy 70th, Bob…


Disk One

1 Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (6/2, Leipzig)
2 One Too Many Mornings (6/2, Leipzig)
3 Masters Of War (6/3, Berlin)
4 John Brown (6/14, Bremen)
5 Knockin' On Heaven's Door (6/14, Bremen)
6 To Ramona (6/25, Manchester)
7 It's All Over Now Baby Blue (6/25, Manchester)
8 Girl From The North Country (6/24, Birmingham)
9 Love Minus Zero (6/20, Newcastle)
10 Tomorrow Is A Long Time (6/27, London)

Disk Two

1 Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie (6/12, Hamburg)
2 My Back Pages (6/12, Hamburg)
3 Ballad Of Hollis Brown (6/16, Essen)
4 Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (6/16, Essen)
5 Boots Of Spanish Leather (6/21, Glasgow)
6 Mama You Been On My Mind (6/21, Glasgow)
7 Rank Strangers To Me (7/5, Rome)
8 Desolation Row (7/5, Rome)
9 Times They Are A-Changin' (6/23, Sheffield)
10 Blowin' In The Wind (7/12, Frauenfeld)
11 A Roving Blade {Newry Highwayman} (6/19, Belfast)

Disk Three

1 Tangled Up In Blue (7/9, Turin)
2 Mr. Tambourine Man (6/17, Brussels)
3 Forever Young (6/17, Brussels)
4 Roving Gambler (6/6, Malmo)
5 White Dove (6/7 Oslo)
6 Friend of The Devil (5/31, Nuerbrugring)
7 Don't Think Twice (5/31, Nuerbrugring)
8 Cocaine Blues (5/30, Nuerbrugring)
9 It Ain't Me Babe (6/4, Rostock)
10 Make You Feel My Love (6/17, Brussels)