Best Of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966, The: Bootleg Series, Volume 12
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings release Bob Dylan’s ‘The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12.’
The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy’s 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 trilogy of album masterpieces which secured Dylan’s reputation as a songwriter and performer of unprecedented depth, power and originality while significantly impacting the course of popular music and culture.
All recordings included in ‘The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12’ are pristine transfers and mixed from the original studio tracking tapes.
Importantly, ‘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.
Generally regarded as three of the most important and influential albums of the golden era of 60’s rock, ‘Bringing It All Back Home,’ ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ and ‘Blonde On Blonde’ (a double album) were written and recorded across a span of merely 14 months (from January 1965 through March 1966) with producers Tom Wilson (‘Bringing It All Back Home,’ “Like A Rolling Stone”) in New York and Bob Johnston in New York (‘Highway 61 Revisited’) and Nashville (‘Blonde On Blonde’).
NB. All tracks previously unreleased except Disc 1, track 2 (from ‘Biograph) and Disc 1, track 8 (from ‘The Bootleg Series, Volume 1-3’)
