Bob Dylan

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

The Bob Dylan camp is re-examining the artist's time in Japan with a brand-new box set showcasing two of the sets from Budokan in full. The Complete Budokan 1978 offers four CDs of Dylan and his band's sets on February 28 and March 1, 1978, with 36 of the 58 tracks released for the first time and everything newly remixed from the original 24-track analog tapes. (In a simple, delightful twist of fate, the remix was done by the sets' original recording engineer, Tomoo Suzuki, supervised by the album's original Japanese product manager, Heckel Sugano.) The luxe 12" x 12" packaging features a 60-page book offering new liner notes by Edna Gundersen, unpublished images of Dylan in Japan and replicas of original posters, flyers, tickets and other vintage paper goods. A double LP, Another Budokan, will be available the same day, offering 16 of the unreleased tracks on vinyl, packaged in a gatefold jacket with an OBI and a four-panel liner notes insert. (An 8LP version of the full box will only be available in Japan.)