A session between Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash is set to be released as part of Dylan’s Bootleg Series, as Rolling Stone reports.
The session was recorded in 1969, in a Nashville studio over two days. The pair jammed with rockabilly legend Carl Perkins and flowed through unplanned covers of songs like ‘Mystery Train’, and ‘You Are My Sunshine.’
It was that session that birthed the song ‘Wanted Man’, which would make its debut during Cash’s performance at San Quentin prison a week later. It also spawned the duet ‘Girl From the North Country’ which appeared on Dylan’s record, Nashville Skyline.
Whilst cuts from the bootleg have leaked over the years, the majority of this material is never-before-heard.
The three-CD package, Bob Dylan (Featuring Johnny Cash) — Travelin’ Thru, 1967–1969: The Bootleg Series is set to be released on November 1 through Columbia. The package has devoted a disc-and-a-half to the sessions with Johnny Cash but also includes outtakes from 1967 John Wesley Harding sessions and Nashville Skyline sessions.
“Bob asked me to be a guest on the album,” Johnny Cash shared after the release of Nashville Skyline, “and I went to the studio and they just turned on the recorder for about two hours.”
Listen: Bob Dylan – ‘I Pity The Poor Immigrant’ featuring Johnny Cash
