Masterpieces (Bob Dylan album)

1978 greatest hits album by Bob Dylan

Masterpieces

Greatest hits album by

Bob Dylan

Released| March 12, 1978 (1978-03-12)
Recorded| 1962–1976
Genre|

* Folk rock
* country

Length| 164:15
Label| CBS
Producer|

* Gordon Carroll
* Rick Danko
* Don DeVito
* Bob Dylan
* Rob Fraboni
* John H. Hammond
* Levon Helm
* Garth Hudson
* Bob Johnston
* Richard Manuel
* Robbie Robertson
* Leon Russell
* Tom Wilson

Bob Dylan chronology
| Hard Rain
(1976)  | Masterpieces
(1978)  | Street-Legal
(1978)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic|  [1]

Masterpieces is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on March 12, 1978 by CBS. The triple LP set was released in Japan, Australia and New Zealand in anticipation of his 1978 tour. Primarily a greatest hits collection spanning Dylan's career up to that point, the album features one previously unreleased track, a unique (1962) outtake version of "Mixed-Up Confusion". It also includes a live performance of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" from Dylan's 1966 World Tour, which was first released as the B-side of his "I Want You" single in 1966. Masterpieces was reissued on CD in 1991 by Columbia (Cat. No. 4624489), but is no longer in print.

## Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted.

Side oneNo.| Title| Writer(s)| From| Length

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1.| "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"|  | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid| 2:30
2.| "Mr. Tambourine Man"|  | Bringing It All Back Home| 5:29
3.| "Just Like a Woman"|  | Blonde on Blonde| 4:56
4.| "I Shall Be Released"|  | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II| 3:05
5.| "Tears of Rage"| Dylan, Richard Manuel| The Basement Tapes| 4:14
6.| "All Along the Watchtower"|  | John Wesley Harding| 2:32
7.| "One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)"|  | Desire| 3:47
Total length:| 26:33

Side twoNo.| Title| From| Length

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1.| "Like a Rolling Stone" (Live at Isle of Wight Festival, 1969)| Self Portrait| 5:17
2.| "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" (Live at Isle of Wight Festival, 1969)| Self Portrait| 2:49
3.| "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" (Live at Town Hall 1963)| Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II| 3:02
4.| "Lay, Lady, Lay" (Live 1976)| Hard Rain| 5:00
5.| "Idiot Wind" (Live 1976)| Hard Rain| 10:06
Total length:| 26:14

Side threeNo.| Title| Writer(s)| From| Length

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1.| "Mixed-Up Confusion"|  | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan session outtake| 2:30
2.| "Positively 4th Street"|  | single 1965| 3:56
3.| "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"|  | single 1965| 3:35
4.| "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" (live version recorded at Odeon Theatre, Liverpool, England, May 14, 1966)|  | B-side of 1966 "I Want You" single| 5:40
5.| "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue"| Traditional| B-side of 1971 "Watching the River Flow" single| 3:38
6.| "George Jackson"|  | "Big Band" version, single, 1971| 5:38
7.| "Rita May"| Dylan, Jacques Levy| single, 1976| 3:13
Total length:| 28:10

Side fourNo.| Title| Writer(s)| From| Length

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1.| "Blowin' in the Wind"|  | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan| 2:47
2.| "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall"|  | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan| 6:54
3.| "The Times They Are a-Changin'"|  | The Times They Are a-Changin'| 3:16
4.| "Masters of War"|  | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan| 4:33
5.| "Hurricane"| Dylan, Levy| Desire| 8:36
Total length:| 26:06

Side fiveNo.| Title| Writer(s)| From| Length

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1.| "Maggie's Farm" (Live 1976)|  | Hard Rain| 5:30
2.| "Subterranean Homesick Blues"|  | Bringing It All Back Home| 2:20
3.| "Ballad of a Thin Man"|  | Highway 61 Revisited| 5:57
4.| "Mozambique"| Dylan, Levy| Desire| 3:01
5.| "This Wheel's on Fire"| Rick Danko, Dylan| The Basement Tapes| 3:52
6.| "I Want You"|  | Blonde on Blonde| 3:09
7.| "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"|  | Blonde on Blonde| 4:38
Total length:| 22:57

Side sixNo.| Title| From| Length

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1.| "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"| The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan| 3:40
2.| "Song to Woody"| Bob Dylan| 2:41
3.| "It Ain't Me Babe"| Another Side of Bob Dylan| 3:35
4.| "Love Minus Zero/No Limit"| Bringing It All Back Home| 2:50
5.| "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"| John Wesley Harding| 2:39
6.| "If Not for You"| New Morning| 2:44
7.| "If You See Her, Say Hello"| Blood on the Tracks| 4:48
8.| "Sara"| Desire| 5:31
Total length:| 28:28

## Certifications and sales[edit]

Region  | Certification | Certified units/sales

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Australia (ARIA)[2] | 3× Platinum  | 210,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[3] | 2× Platinum  | 30,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Ruhlmann, William. Masterpieces at AllMusic
2. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1996 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
3. ^ "Dylan Down Under" (PDF). Cash Box. March 22, 1986. p. 7. Retrieved December 9, 2021 - via World Radio History.

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Bob Dylan

* Discography
* Awards
* Bibliography
* Songs written by Dylan
* Bob Dylan songs based on earlier tunes
* Bob Dylan cover songs
* 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature

Studio albums|

* Bob Dylan
* The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
* The Times They Are a-Changin'
* Another Side of Bob Dylan
* Bringing It All Back Home
* Highway 61 Revisited
* Blonde on Blonde
* John Wesley Harding
* Nashville Skyline
* Self Portrait
* New Morning
* Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
* Dylan
* Planet Waves
* Blood on the Tracks
* The Basement Tapes
* Desire
* Street-Legal
* Slow Train Coming
* Saved
* Shot of Love
* Infidels
* Empire Burlesque
* Knocked Out Loaded
* Down in the Groove
* Oh Mercy
* Under the Red Sky
* Good as I Been to You
* World Gone Wrong
* Time Out of Mind
* "Love and Theft"
* Modern Times
* Together Through Life
* Christmas in the Heart
* Tempest
* Shadows in the Night
* Fallen Angels
* Triplicate
* Rough and Rowdy Ways
* Shadow Kingdom

Live albums|

| Contemporary|

* Before the Flood
* Hard Rain
* Bob Dylan at Budokan
* Real Live
* Dylan & the Dead
* The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
* MTV Unplugged

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Archival|

* Live 1961–2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances
* Live at The Gaslight 1962
* Live at Carnegie Hall 1963
* In Concert – Brandeis University 1963
* The 1966 Live Recordings
* Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings
* The Complete Budokan 1978

Compilations|

| Hits|

* Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
* Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II
* Masterpieces
* Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3
* The Best of Bob Dylan (1997)
* The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 2
* The Essential Bob Dylan
* The Best of Bob Dylan (2005)
* Dylan

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Themed|

* Dylan
* The Basement Tapes
* Blues

Box sets|

* Biograph
* Bob Dylan: The Collection
* The Original Mono Recordings
* The 50th Anniversary Collection
* Bob Dylan: The Complete Album Collection Vol. One
* The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963
* The 50th Anniversary Collection 1964
* 1970

The Bootleg Series|

* Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991
* Vol. 4: The Royal Albert Hall Concert
* Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue
* Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall
* Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack
* Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006
* Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964
* Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969–1971)
* Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete
* Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966
* Vol. 13: Trouble No More 1979–1981
* Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks
* Vol. 15: Travelin' Thru, 1967–1969
* Vol. 16: Springtime in New York 1980–1985
* Vol. 17: Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997)

Bootlegs|

* From Newport to the Ancient Empty Street in L.A.
* Great White Wonder
* List of Basement Tapes songs
* 1967
* 1975

Concert tours|

* England Tour (1965)
* World Tour (1966)
* Isle of Wight Festival (1969)
* Tour with the Band (1974)
* Rolling Thunder Revue (1975–1976)
* World Tour (1978)
* Gospel Tour (1979–80)
* European Tour (1984)
* True Confessions Tour (1986)
* Tour with the Grateful Dead (1987)
* Temples in Flames Tour (1987)
* Never Ending Tour
* 1988
* 1989
* 1990
* 1991
* 1992
* 1993
* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
* 2000
* 2001
* 2002
* 2003
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour (2021–2024)

Films|

* Dont Look Back
* Eat the Document
* Renaldo and Clara
* Hard to Handle
* The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
* MTV Unplugged
* Masked and Anonymous
* No Direction Home
* I'm Not There
* Soundtrack
* 65 Revisited
* The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963–1965
* Trouble No More – A Musical Film
* Rolling Thunder Revue
* Shadow Kingdom

Writings|

* Tarantula
* Writings and Drawings
* Chronicles: Volume One
* The Philosophy of Modern Song

Books about Dylan|

* The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
* Bob Dylan, Performing Artist
* Invisible Republic
* The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan
* Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine

Family|

* Sara Dylan (first wife)
* Carolyn Dennis (second wife)
* Jesse Dylan (son)
* Jakob Dylan (son)

Related|

* Recording Sessions
* The Band
* Traveling Wilburys
* Electric Dylan controversy
* Artists who have covered Dylan songs
* Joan Baez
* Suze Rotolo
* Helena Springs
* The Telegraph magazine
* Festival
* The Concert for Bangladesh
* Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
* Hearts of Fire
* Highway 61 Interactive
* Theme Time Radio Hour
* Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan
* Chimes of Freedom (album)
* The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
* Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes
* Bob Dylan Center

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