Editor Allan Jones’ first report from the 'Never Ending Tour'

Rare Dylan tracks from the late '50s up for auction

"a running battle for a prize no one bothered to name: the greatest record ever made, or the greatest record that ever would be made.''

Dylan famously re-recorded much of 'Blood On The Tracks' shortly before the album was due for release.

All thirty tracks from Uncut Take 92. Tracks that inspired and tracks inspired by Bob Dylan.

Recorded for MTV's acoustic strand in 1994, this catches the Mighty Zimm midway between the raw-boned graverobbing of World Gone Wrong and Time Out Of Mind's resurrection shuffle. A respectable, if slightly sterile flick through his back pages—"The Times They Are A-Changin'", "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and "Like A Rolling Stone"—though he seems most fired up by newer material like "Shooting Star" and "Dignity". Not the stuff of legend, but not to be sniffed at.

Those infamous phone calls to the world's looniest fan