The Best of the Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12

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"The Bootleg Series" releases have caused every bit as much of a stir as a new album release within Dylan-land. The latest one is set to cause the biggest ruckus yet, as it’s the most comprehensive one of the lot—and it takes us to the eye of his creative storm...the two-year span that produced "Bringing It All Back Home," "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde on Blonde." Bill Flanagan and Sean Wilentz’s notes "bring it all back home" as you hear (on 2 CDs or triple vinyl) "Live Minus Zero/No Limit" (take 2, acoustic), "I’ll Keep It with Mine" (take 1, piano demo), "Tambourine Man" (take 3 with band, incomplete); "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (take 1, alternate take), "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (take 8, alternate take), "Like a Rolling Stone" (take 5, rehearsal, and 11, alternate), "Desolation Row" (take 2, piano demo, and take 1, alternate take), "Positively 4th Street" (take 5, alternate take), "Visions of Johanna" (take 5, rehearsal), "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" (take 8, alternate take), "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" (take 13, alternate take), "Absolutely Sweet Marie" (take 1, alternate take), "Just Like a Woman" (take 4, alternate take), "Highway 61 Revisited" (take 3, alternate take, and take 7, false start), "I Want You" (take 4, alternate take) and more, nearly all previously unreleased. You get all that plus a heap of other unreleased and rare treasures in the 6-CD deluxe edition: a whole mess of "Like a Rolling Stone" takes, rehearsals and alternate-instrument versions; two "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" alternate takes; alternate takes of "Jet Pilot," "I Wanna Be Your Lover," "She’s Your Lover Now," "Lunatic Princess," "Fourth Time Around," "Pledging My Time," "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," "Obviously Five Believers," "Temporary Like Achilles"...go ahead and get giddy, Dylan fans! Sony Legacy.