Moonshiner

“Moonshiner” in a traditional Southern American folk song with roots in Ireland. The first known recording was by Buell Kazee for Brunswick Records in 1927.

Bob Dylan recorded “Moonshiner” in the summer of 1963 between Freewheelin’ and The Times They Are A-Changin’.  It wasn’t officially released until The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 in 1991, though if you lived in the New York metropolitan area in the ’60s and listened to Bob Fass’ all-night radio show on WBAI, “Radio Unnameable,” he played it fairly often.  Sometime either in the very late ’60s or early ’70s, the song surfaced on various bootleg albums.