Freewheelin’ in it’s released form is essentially a “best of” from one of the most creative years in Dylan’s life. The lag between sessions resulted in an album whose sound metamorphosed at least twice.
~Clinton Heylin (BD – The Recording Sessions)

4 master versions for “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” was recorded @ this important recording session.

A little background info:

The recording sessions at Studio A resumed on July 9, when Dylan recorded “Blowin’ in the Wind”, a song which he had first performed live at Gerde’s Folk City on April 16. Dylan also recorded “Bob Dylan’s Blues”, “Down the Highway”, and “Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance”, all of which ended up on Freewheelin’, plus one other original composition, “Baby, I’m in the Mood for You”, which did not. Wikipedia

 

Studio A
Columbia Recording Studios
New York City, New York
9 July 1962

Produced by John Hammond
Engineers: Tonkel and Dauria

1. Baby, I’m In The Mood For You
2. Baby, I’m In The Mood For You
   Released on: The 50th Anniversary Collection, 28 December 2012

3. Baby, I’m In The Mood For You
4. Bob Dylan’s Blues
5. Blowin’ In The Wind
   Released on: The 50th Anniversary Collection, 28 December 2012

6. Blowin’ In The Wind
   Released on: The 50th Anniversary Collection, 28 December 2012

7. Blowin’ In The Wind
   What I’m saying is that the sheer unaffectedness of Dylan’s July 9, 1962 performance of”Blowin’ in the Wind” makes it special; it is the sound, if you will, of the earnest young person inside all of us, strumming the guitar and blowing into the harmonica and asking idealistic questions and refusing to be trapped into linear, limited, verbal answers.
   ~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan Performing Artist I: The Early Years 1960-1973)
   Released on: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, May 27 1963

8. Quit Your Low Down Ways
9. Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance (Henry Thomas/Bob Dylan)
   Released on: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, May 27 1963

10. Down The Highway
    Released on: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, May 27 1963

11. Worried Blues (Hally Wood)
    Released on: The 50th Anniversary Collection, 28 December 2012

12. Worried Blues (Hally Wood)
13. Baby, I’m In The Mood For You
    Released on: The 50th Anniversary Collection, 28 December 2012

14. Bob Dylan’s Blues
    Released on: The 50th Anniversary Collection, 28 December 2012

15. Bob Dylan’s Blues
    Released on: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, May 27 1963

Bob Dylan (guitar, harmonica & vocal)

 

 

Related articles here @ JV:

• Bob Dylan recording sessions

References:

• Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions – Part One – by Michael Krogsgaard
• Still On The Road – Olof Björner

-Egil