Bob Dylan Announces New Bootleg Series Box Set Through The Open Window, 1956-1963

"Set to arrive on October 31st, the package is comprised of 139 songs; it features recordings conducted at soundchecks, Columbia Records outtakes, informal performances, renditions of songs from his club shows, impromptu jam sessions with fellow folk greats, and many more rarities, demos, and never-before-heard Dylan cuts. The box set also includes the entirety of Dylan's landmark show at Carnegie Hall on October 26th, 1963, another previously-unreleased recording capturing Dylan at a major turning point in his career."

""Of that time and those places, this collection is just a fragment," Wilentz writes. "Even so, as an aural record of an artist becoming himself - or in Dylan's case, his first of many artistic selves - the collection aims to collapse time and space, not as a nostalgic reverie but as a living connection between the past and the present, the old and the new, which are never as distinct as we might think.""

"The package arrives in 8xCD deluxe box set comprised of all 139 tracks, 48 of which have never been released (pre-order here). Also included in the deluxe package is a hardcover book with extensive liner notes courtesy of author and historian Sean Wilentz, as well as over 100 rare photographs from the era. Dylan is also releasing a 42-track 2xCD and 4xLP "Highlight Edition" as an alternative to the 8xCD deluxe edition. Pre-orders are ongoing."

Release date October 31st. The set spans eight CDs and 139 tracks, drawing from soundchecks, Columbia Records outtakes, informal performances, club renditions, impromptu jam sessions, rarities, demos, and never-before-heard cuts. The complete October 26, 1963 Carnegie Hall concert is included, capturing a major turning point in his career. Forty-eight tracks in the collection are previously unreleased. The deluxe box includes a hardcover book with liner notes by Sean Wilentz and over 100 rare photographs. A 42-track two-CD and four-LP "Highlight Edition" is available as an alternative. A Freewheelin'-era outtake, "Rocks and Gravel (Solid Road)," was released as a preview.

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