The Gaslight Tapes

For more thorough information on the Gaslight Tapes, such as info on the originators and the original lyrics of the songs, as well as on the shows themselves, I refer to this excellent page.

Gaslight I (Sept 6, 1961)

• Man on the Street
• He Was a Friend of Mine
• Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
• Song To Woody
• Pretty Polly
• Car Car

Gaslight II (late Oct 1962)

• Motherless Children
• Handsome Molly
• John Brown
• Ballad of Hollis Brown
• Kindhearted Woman Blues
• See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (hardly any difference from the official version)
• Ain’t No More Cane
• Cocaine Blues
• Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird
• West Texas

Gaslight III (late Oct 1962)

• A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (only slight differences from the officially released version)
• Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (differs from the official version by being strummed instead of fingerpicked. There are also some textual differences)
• Black Cross (Hezekiah Jones)
• No More Auction Block
• Rocks and Gravel
• Barbara Allen
• Moonshiner (only slight differences from the officially released version)