Bob Dylan

The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 looks at one of the most halcyon periods in Bob Dylan's long career: the creatively fertile time in the studio that yielded the trilogy of masterworks Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.

This new collection, transferred from the original tapes, will be available from Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings in four formats designed to suit the appetite and budget of every Dylanophile:

• The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 - Deluxe Edition - This 6-CD setincludes previously unheard Dylan songs, studio outtakes, rehearsal tracks, alternate working versions of familiar hits (including the complete "Like a Rolling Stone" session) and more.
• The Best of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol.12 is available in a 2-CD or 3-12″ vinyl LP set and brings together some of the musical high points of the deluxe and super-deluxe collections.
• An 18-CD Collector's Edition of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 will be available exclusively on bobdylan.com. This worldwide limited edition of 5,000 units includesevery note recorded by Bob Dylan during the 1965-1966 sessions, every alternate take and alternate lyric.  Per Legacy Recordings, "All previously unreleased recordings have been mixed, utilizing the original studio tracking tapes as the source, eliminating unwanted 1960s-era studio processing and artifice."  This staggering package also includes Dylan's original nine mono 45 RPM singles released during the time period, packaged in newly created picture sleeves featuring global images from the era. The limited edition includes rare hotel room recordings from the Savoy Hotel in London (May 4, 1965), the North British Station Hotel in Glasgow (May 13, 1966) and a Denver, Colorado hotel (March 12, 1966) as well as a strip of original film cels from "Don't Look Back."  All told, this has 379 tracks on 18 CDs!