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MUSIC<br />
Bob Dylan<br />
The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 (Deluxe Edition)<br />
Columbia/Legacy, 6CD box set<br />
Dylan’s Latest Bootleg<br />
Series Volume<br />
Documents 15 Months<br />
That Permanently<br />
Changed <strong>the</strong> Course of<br />
Culture and Music<br />
Bob Dylan<br />
The Cutting Edge 1965-<br />
1966, <strong>the</strong> twelfth volume<br />
of Bob Dylan’s wonderfully<br />
unpredictable Bootleg Series,<br />
brings to light exhilarating<br />
musical revelations while<br />
simultaneously challenging<br />
longstanding thoughts. Incredibly<br />
rich, critically insightful, and primarily<br />
sequenced in chronological<br />
order, it’s <strong>the</strong> most absorbing<br />
and significant release in Dylan’s<br />
ongoing archival program in<br />
nearly two decades—rivaling <strong>the</strong><br />
now-mythical The Bootleg Series<br />
Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The<br />
“Royal Albert Hall” Concert, not<br />
coincidentally from <strong>the</strong> same era.<br />
On <strong>the</strong> surface, <strong>the</strong> latest offering<br />
ga<strong>the</strong>rs previously unheard<br />
songs, outtakes, rehearsals, and<br />
alternate versions cut during sessions<br />
for <strong>the</strong> Bard’s sacrosanct<br />
trilogy of mid-1960s albums—<br />
Bringing It All Back Home, Highway<br />
61 Revisited, and Blonde on<br />
Blonde—a succession of records<br />
that reshaped culture and music.<br />
Dozens of books and countless<br />
articles have already shed light<br />
on <strong>the</strong>ir importance and explained<br />
how <strong>the</strong>y can be used to<br />
trace <strong>the</strong> singer-songwriter’s evolution<br />
from a folk performer into<br />
a kind of rock n’ roll artist that<br />
had never been seen. Given <strong>the</strong><br />
avalanche of scholarly and D.I.Y.<br />
ink, along with previous Bootleg<br />
Series sets and unauthorized<br />
bootlegs, skeptics could be forgiven<br />
for thinking that no more<br />
meaningful substance could possibly<br />
be gleaned at this stage.<br />
But <strong>the</strong>n, <strong>the</strong>y’d be very wrong.<br />
©Photo by Daniel Kramer<br />
MUSIC<br />
54 TONE AUDIO NO.75<br />
November 2015 55
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