September 24, 2015
The latest chapter in the highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series focuses on the legendary studio sessions that produced ‘Bringing It All Back Home’, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ and ‘Blonde on Blonde’. ‘The Best of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966’ premieres previously unreleased studio recordings including never before heard songs, outtakes, rehearsal tracks, and alternative versions. All recordings are pristine transfers and mixed from the original studio tracking tapes.
‘The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12’ provides a rare exploration into Dylan’s creative process in the studio, allowing fans to experience another side of Bob Dylan through the evolution of his songs and recordings from this truly groundbreaking period. The Bootleg Series is available in a 2CD or 3 12″ vinyl LP set and brings together some of the musical high points of the deluxe and super-deluxe collections.
An 18CD Collector’s Edition of ‘The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12’ will be available exclusively on BobDylan.com. Limited to a worldwide pressing of only 5,000 copies, this 18CD edition will include every note recorded during the 1965-1966 sessions, every alternate take and alternate lyric.
‘The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12’ comes with an annotated book featuring hundreds of rare and never-before-seen photographs and memorabilia and new essays penned especially for the collection by Bill Flanagan and Sean Wilentz.
Discover ‘The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol.12’ here.

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