Bob Dylan
Great White Wonder

bootleg  2LP 1969 (USA)

Great White Wonder, or GWW, is the first notable rock bootleg album, released in July 1969, and containing unofficially released recordings by Bob Dylan. It is also the first release of the famous bootleg record label Trademark of Quality (or TMQ). Several of the tracks presented here were recorded with The Band in the summer of 1967 in West Saugerties, New York, during the informal sessions that were later released in a more complete form in Dylan's 1975 album The Basement Tapes. Much of the other material consists of a recording made in December 1961 in a Minnesota hotel room (referred to as the "Minnesota hotel tape"), studio outtakes from several of Dylan's albums, and a live performance on The Johnny Cash Show. It was the first time that these previously unreleased recordings came to the market; many more would be released in similar formats over the coming years, though most were single albums, not double albums like this record.

The album was nicknamed the "great white wonder" due to the original pressing's plain white gatefold cover; newer pressings contain the name stamped on. This name—or variations, such as "white wonder", "little white wonder"—would surface in later bootleg releases or in the initials "G.W.W." that were printed on record labels or covers.

Tracklist
A1 Baby Please Don't Go 4:15
A2 Fare Thee Well / See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Interviewee – Joan Baez, Pete Seeger
6:20
A3 One Kind Favor 3:35
A4 Chess Story 1:28
A5 Man Of Constant Sorrow 3:34
B1 I Shall Be Released
Featuring – The Band
3:46
B2 Open The Door, Richard
Featuring – The Band
2:48
B3 Too Much Of Nothing
Featuring – The Band
2:42
B4 Nothing You Can Say / Was Delivered
Featuring – The Band
4:25
B5 Tears Of Rage
Featuring – The Band
4:04
B6 Living The Blues 2:46
C1 Candy Man 3:06
C2 Rambling Round 3:15
C3 The Story Of Hezekiah 4:48
C4 I Ain't Got No Home Anymore / Emmet Tell 7:37
C5 Poor Lazarus 3:25
D1 103 / Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag 1:00
D2 If You Got To Go, Go Now
Featuring – The Band
2:27
D3 He Was Only A Hobo 3:23
D4 Bob Dylan's Blues / Barbed Wire Fence
Featuring – The Band
3:57
D5 The Mighty Quinn
Featuring – The Band
2:04
D6 This Wheel's On Fire
Featuring – The Band
3:45

2 X Vinyl are GOOD, in paper inner sleeves in a gatefold picture sleeve in FAIR condition (seams split, ring wear, general wear)

Note About Shipping To The U.S.
We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure.  The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing.  This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a single LP by air to most places in the continental US for $11, a few bucks less for ground.
Thanks for shopping Sir Helmitt,
Jeff Green, e-sales

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