The inaugural physical release from Lomax Archive is one of the treasures of Alan Lomax’s archive of recordings: the first known tape of Bob Dylan playing the now canonical “Masters of War” for Alan, in his New York City apartment, in January 1963. Alan Lomax’s recording notes: “This brief session features a young Bob Dylan performing a private performance of Masters Of War followed by a lively conversation about the origins of the song and current geopolitics. Bob Dylan discusses composing Masters of War in England after reading an article about Kennedy and MacMillan. He tells a brief story about Nikita Khrushchev. Mono recording, 8 minutes.” For this landmark recording, we’ve split the performance to Side A and the conversation to Side B. It provides rare insight into Dylan’s thought process while writing the now classic song.