Bob Dylan – The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol.12 (Deluxe Edition) (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bob Dylan – The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol.12 (Deluxe Edition) (2015)
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The sessions that changed the world – The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 (Deluxe) collects outakes, rehearsals and alternate versions of songs that would later be heard on Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. 3 albums that would go on to change the face of rock and roll forever. The Bootleg Series combs the Dylan vaults for unreleased and live recordings, and this may be the very best yet showing Dylan at his “electric” period.

Importantly, The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 (Deluxe) 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 Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 (Deluxe) brings together for the first time many of the most sought-after recordings of the entire Dylan canon. Here, across 6 CDs, are 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 Deluxe edition is 111 tracks in 6 ‘sets.’

“I’ll do this one more time and if I can’t do it, we’ll do another song. I’ll do any song as good as I can do it the first time”. – Bob Dylan says these words once his first solo take of “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” breaks down after a minute. Dylan’s definition of “good” is fluid, of course. Sometimes, a first take satisfied him — “Maggie’s Farm” and “Gates of Eden” are two prime examples — but often he’d find he could do a song better or at least do it differently, swapping out words, speeding up the tempo, and changing the feel, occasionally radically transforming his song. Sometimes, these radical transformations are the versions that found their way to the finished record, so they’re now seen as etched in stone but The Cutting Edge 1965-1966, the 12th volume of The Bootleg Series, shows Dylan didn’t enter the studio with posterity in mind when he went to cut Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde: he was making music of and for the moment.

Familiarity hasn’t necessarily dulled the impact of these three records, all written and recorded within a span of 14 months — a period of time when Dylan also filmed Don’t Look Back, electrified the Newport Folk Festival, and was declared a Judas at the Royal Albert Hall — but they have made them seem inevitable, works carved out of granite whose fates were preordained. The gift of The Cutting Edge is that it makes this, the greatest run of creativity in Dylan’s career and perhaps in rock & roll in general, once again seems wild, nervy, and quicksilver, upending expectations and undercutting conventions. Within one of the three sets of liner notes, Bill Flanagan calls these six discs of outtakes, alternates, and rehearsals “work tapes,” which is technically true, but undersells how this music crackles as it shape-shifts, sometimes soaring, sometimes stumbling, but always feeling fiercely alive. If it’s difficult to claim that a solo “Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream” and a locomotive “Visions of Johanna” recorded with the Band are superior to the versions on Home and Blonde, they’re nevertheless magnificent in their own right while also shedding light on how Dylan worked; with producer Tom Wilson, the singer/songwriter wasted no time, while Bob Johnston allowed Bob to twist and test his songs, letting him discover the soul that lay within. Along the way, Dylan was truly fearless — he’d goose a tempo to see if it gave a ballad life, he’d let Mike Bloomfield and Robbie Robertson run wild; the fact that he abandoned a song as wonderful as “She’s Your Lover Now,” possibly because it never quite withstood such stress tests, speaks volumes — and among the many gifts The Cutting Edge has to offer is that it illuminates these three great records while also illustrating that they were just mere snapshots in time. By breaking down the barriers that separated these three albums, The Cutting Edge shows how for Dylan during this blinding, brilliant peak his music was a living thing, evolving from song to song, take to take, where the quest itself was as transcendent as the final destination.

Tracklist:
1-01. Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero / No Limit (Take 1, Breakdown) (01:34)
1-02. Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero / No Limit (Take 2, Acoustic) (03:11)
1-03. Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero / No Limit (Take 3 Remake, Complete) (03:42)
1-04. Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero / No Limit (Take 1 Remake, Complete) (02:43)
1-05. Bob Dylan – I’ll Keep It with Mine (Take 1, Piano Demo) (04:12)
1-06. Bob Dylan – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Take 1) (03:34)
1-07. Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (Take 1, Fragment) (00:26)
1-08. Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (Take 2, Complete) (05:50)
1-09. Bob Dylan – She Belongs to Me (Take 1, Solo Acoustic) (02:59)
1-10. Bob Dylan – She Belongs to Me (Take 2 Remake, Complete) (03:21)
6-100. Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Take 13, Alternate Take) (04:09)
6-101. Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Take 14, Complete) (07:04)
6-102. Bob Dylan – Absolutely Sweet Marie (Take 1, Alternate Take) (05:02)
6-103. Bob Dylan – Just Like a Woman (Take 1, Complete) (04:32)
6-104. Bob Dylan – Just Like a Woman (Take 4, Alternate Take) (05:20)
6-105. Bob Dylan – Just Like a Woman (Take 8, Complete) (05:22)
6-106. Bob Dylan – Pledging My Time (Take 1, Alternate Take) (03:26)
6-107. Bob Dylan – Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) (Take 1, Complete) (03:38)
6-108. Bob Dylan – Temporary Like Achilles (Take 3, Complete) (05:43)
6-109. Bob Dylan – Obviously Five Believers (Take 3, Complete) (03:47)
1-11. Bob Dylan – She Belongs to Me (Take 1 Remake, Complete) (02:49)
6-110. Bob Dylan – I Want You (Take 4, Alternate Take) (02:52)
6-111. Bob Dylan – Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands (Take 1, Complete) (10:06)
1-12. Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues (Take 1) (03:07)
1-13. Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues (Take 1, Alternate Take) (02:39)
1-14. Bob Dylan – Outlaw Blues (Take 1, Complete) (02:17)
1-15. Bob Dylan – Outlaw Blues (Take 2, Alternate Take) (03:30)
1-16. Bob Dylan – On the Road Again (Take 1, Complete) (03:21)
1-17. Bob Dylan – On the Road Again (Take 4, Alternate Take) (02:31)
1-18. Bob Dylan – On the Road Again (Take 1 Remake, Complete) (02:31)
1-19. Bob Dylan – On the Road Again (Take 7 Remake, Complete) (02:48)
1-20. Bob Dylan – Farewell, Angelina (Take 1, Solo Acoustic) (05:28)
1-21. Bob Dylan – If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Take 1, Complete) (02:54)
1-22. Bob Dylan – If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Take 2, Alternate Take) (02:50)
1-23. Bob Dylan – You Don’t Have to Do That (Take 1, Solo Acoustic) (00:48)
2-24. Bob Dylan – California (Take 1, Solo Acoustic) (03:06)
2-25. Bob Dylan – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) (Take 1, False Start) (01:10)
2-26. Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man (Takes 1-2, False Starts) (01:52)
2-27. Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man (Take 3 with Band, Incomplete) (03:23)
2-28. Bob Dylan – It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Take 1, Complete (6/15/65)) (02:40)
2-29. Bob Dylan – It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Take 8, Alternate Take) (03:29)
2-30. Bob Dylan – It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Take 3, Incomplete) (03:13)
2-31. Bob Dylan – It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Take 3 Remake, Complete) (03:42)
2-32. Bob Dylan – Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence (Take 2) (04:00)
2-33. Bob Dylan – Tombstone Blues (Take 1, Alternate Take) (07:29)
2-34. Bob Dylan – Tombstone Blues (Take 9) (03:37)
2-35. Bob Dylan – Positively 4th Street (Takes 1-3, False Starts) (00:56)
2-36. Bob Dylan – Positively 4th Street (Take 4, Complete) (04:24)
2-37. Bob Dylan – Positively 4th Street (Take 5, Alternate Take) (04:24)
2-38. Bob Dylan – Desolation Row (Take 1, Alternate Take) (11:17)
2-39. Bob Dylan – Desolation Row (Take 2, Piano Demo) (02:01)
2-40. Bob Dylan – Desolation Row (Take 5 Remake, Complete) (10:51)
2-41. Bob Dylan – From a Buick 6 (Take 1, False Start) (00:23)
2-42. Bob Dylan – From a Buick 6 (Take 4) (03:10)
3-43. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Takes 1-3, Rehearsal) (05:48)
3-44. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 4, Rehearsal) (01:39)
3-45. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 5, Rehearsal) (02:17)
3-46. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Rehearsal Remake) (02:33)
3-47. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 1 Remake, Rehearsal) (01:57)
3-48. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Takes 2-3 Remake, False Starts) (00:35)
3-49. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 4 Remake) (06:28)
3-50. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 5 Remake, Rehearsal) (01:54)
3-51. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 6 Remake, False Start) (00:21)
3-52. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 8 Remake, Breakdown) (04:18)
3-53. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Takes 9-10 Remake, False Starts) (00:35)
3-54. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 11, Alternate Take) (05:57)
3-55. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 12 Remake, False Start) (00:10)
3-56. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 13 Remake, Breakdown) (01:36)
3-57. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 14 Remake, False Start) (00:23)
3-58. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 15 Remake, Breakdown) (03:08)
3-59. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Master Take, Guitar) (06:25)
3-60. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Master Take, Vocals, Guitar) (06:25)
3-61. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Master Take, Piano, Bass) (06:25)
3-62. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Master Take, Drums, Organ) (06:27)
4-63. Bob Dylan – Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (Take 1, Alternate Take) (04:39)
4-64. Bob Dylan – Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (Take 17) (04:01)
4-65. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (Take 3, Alternate Take) (03:30)
4-66. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (Take 5, Complete) (03:40)
4-67. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (Take 7, False Start) (00:33)
4-68. Bob Dylan – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Take 1, Breakdown) (01:09)
4-69. Bob Dylan – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Take 3, Rehearsal) (05:39)
4-70. Bob Dylan – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Take 13, Complete) (05:29)
4-71. Bob Dylan – Queen Jane Approximately (Take 2, Complete) (05:19)
4-72. Bob Dylan – Queen Jane Approximately (Take 5, Alternate Take) (06:02)
4-73. Bob Dylan – Ballad of a Thin Man (Take 2, Breakdown) (03:53)
4-74. Bob Dylan – Medicine Sunday (Take 1) (01:02)
4-75. Bob Dylan – Jet Pilot (Take 1) (01:27)
4-76. Bob Dylan – I Wanna Be Your Lover (Take 1, Fragment) (01:07)
4-77. Bob Dylan – I Wanna Be Your Lover (Take 6, Complete) (03:30)
4-78. Bob Dylan – Instrumental (Take 2, Complete) (04:03)
4-79. Bob Dylan – Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (Take 6, Complete) (03:48)
4-80. Bob Dylan – Visions of Johanna (Take 1, Rehearsal) (01:43)
4-81. Bob Dylan – Visions of Johanna (Take 5, Rehearsal) (07:38)
5-82. Bob Dylan – Visions of Johanna (Take 7, Complete) (09:08)
5-83. Bob Dylan – Visions of Johanna (Take 8) (07:05)
5-84. Bob Dylan – Visions of Johanna (Take 14, Complete) (07:32)
5-85. Bob Dylan – She’s Your Lover Now (Take 1, Breakdown) (03:02)
5-86. Bob Dylan – She’s Your Lover Now (Take 6, Rehearsal) (04:59)
5-87. Bob Dylan – She’s Your Lover Now (Take 15) (06:24)
5-88. Bob Dylan – She’s Your Lover Now (Take 16, Complete) (08:27)
5-89. Bob Dylan – One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) (Take 2, Rehearsal) (02:16)
5-90. Bob Dylan – One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) (Take 4, Rehearsal) (01:54)
5-91. Bob Dylan – One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) (Take 19, Alternate Take) (05:11)
5-92. Bob Dylan – Lunatic Princess (Take 1) (01:20)
5-93. Bob Dylan – Fourth Time Around (Take 11, Complete) (04:26)
5-94. Bob Dylan – Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Take 3, Complete) (04:27)
5-95. Bob Dylan – Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Take 8, Alternate Take) (03:26)
5-96. Bob Dylan – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (Take 1, Rehearsal and Finished Track) (06:17)
6-97. Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Take 1, Rehearsal) (03:23)
6-98. Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Rehearsal) (04:54)
6-99. Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Take 5) (05:52)

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