Forty-plus years into his never-ending career, Bob Dylan keeps throwing us curveballs. Live at the Gaslight 1962 consists of recordings taped in a famously tiny, noisy Greenwich Village club and is being sold only at Starbucks. But at 21, Dylan was remarkably intense, whether inhabiting folk-blues rambles like ''West Texas'' and ''Rocks and Gravel'' or writing ''A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall,'' heard in one of its first performances. Although he was too young to pull off the burnout elegy ''Moonshiner,'' Gaslight is a spellbinding reminder that Dylan was never a typical folkie (or typical anything, for that matter).
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