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8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

The beginnings of Bob Dylan’s long and extraordinary career have been revisited by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings on the eighteenth installment of the artist’s long-running Bootleg Series.  Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 (1956-1963), available on 8 CDs as well as 2CD and 4LP “highlights” editions, comprehensively chronicles Dylan’s earliest days from Minnesota to Greenwich Village.  The full 139-track box set opens with a December 24, 1956 recording at a music store in St. Paul, MN and culminates with the official premiere of Dylan’s complete October 26, 1963 Carnegie Hall concert which took place just a few months before the February 1964 release of his third studio album, the landmark The Times They Are A-Changin’ (his first to feature all original compositions).  The highlights releases offer 42 tracks from the larger set. The lion’s share of the music on this Bootleg volume is previously unreleased and/or new to wide-release CD, with some tracks having previously appeared on the rare “copyright collections” and others on past Bootleg volumes. It’s all accompanied by a detailed hardcover book with liner notes by compilation co-producer Sean Wilentz as well as rare photos and memorabilia.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

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