Bob Dylan Great White Wonder Original Double LP, 1st Rock Bootleg album, Rare
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Very good condition. Plays great. Some minor scuffs on the records, but sounds very good. Hardly any pops, clicks or noise.  Remember, these are bootlegs, so it's not all studio quality. One seam at top of the cover is split. (Or is it the bottom? Who can tell? It's all blank!)
UPDATE: there are very faint markings in the runoff groove: GF-001, GF-002, GF-003, GF-004

A piece of history. Original or early edition. All white, no stamps, no inserts, just a white cover inside and out, and records with plain white labels.  Later editions had stamps/inserts/labels, etc.  This set has none!
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From Wikipedia:

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 TMOQ). 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",[1] "little white wonder"—would surface in later bootleg releases or in the initials "G.W.W." that were printed on record labels or covers.

Released by the infant Trademark of Quality label, created by two Los Angeles-based men, Ken and Dub, Great White Wonder was compiled from multiple sources. Sides one and three of Great White Wonder were entirely given over to songs from an informal ninety-minute tape that Dylan recorded in the apartment of Bonnie Beecher in Minneapolis in December 1961. Side two was a miscellany of studio outtakes. However, it was the seven "basement-tape" cuts that filled up the end of side two and all of side four that aroused the greatest interest.


Track listing: (Confirmed by your friendly eBay seller)

Side one
  1. "Candy Man"
  2. "(As I Go) Ramblin' 'Round" (Woody Guthrie)
  3. "Black Cross" (Joseph S. Newman / Lord Buckley)
  4. "I Ain't Got No Home" (Woody Guthrie)
  5. "The Death of Emmett Till"
  6. "Poor Lazarus" (Traditional)
Side two
  1. "Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag"
  2. "If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night)"
  3. "Only a Hobo"
  4. "Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence"
  5. "Mighty Quinn"[1] (take 1)
  6. "This Wheel's on Fire" (Bob Dylan and Rick Danko)
Side three
  1. "Baby Please Don't Go" (Big Joe Williams)
  2. Interview by Pete Seeger
  3. "Dink's Song" (Traditional)
  4. "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" (Blind Lemon Jefferson)
  5. "East Orange New Jersey"
  6. "Man of Constant Sorrow" (Traditional)
Side four
  1. "I Shall Be Released"
  2. "Open the Door, Homer" (take 1)
  3. "Too Much of Nothing" (take 2)
  4. "Nothing Was Delivered"[1] (take 1)
  5. "Tears of Rage" (take 2)
  6. "Living the Blues" (Live, The Johnny Cash Show)




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