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First Listen: Bob Dylan, 'More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14'

When, if ever, can a song written by Bob Dylan be considered finished? A massive trove of outtakes documents every utterance from the New York sessions that led to Blood On the Tracks.
Bob Dylan with a mandolin during the <em>Blood On the Tracks</em> sessions.

When can a song be considered "finished"? When, if ever, can a song written by Bob Dylan be considered finished? And what to make of tracks that were greenlit for release and then discarded – after the auteur decided they somehow didn't quite capture the totality of what he was trying to express?

These are among the questions that hover over the multiple versions of "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" and really everything on – a massive trove of

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