"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"
-My Back Pages by Bob Dylan

Live at The Gaslight 1962 was recorded early on in Dylan's career, when he was still virtually unknown outside of New York's Greenwich Village. Thanks to the cooperation of various club owners, and the management skills of Dave Van Ronk's wife, Terri Thal, Dylan was able to record a number of performances during that time on a reel-to-reel tape recorder patched into the house PA system. It's believed that Live at The Gaslight 1962 was culled from tapes recorded with this arrangement.