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The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966

The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on Legacy Records in November 2015. The tenth installment in the ongoing Bob Dylan Bootleg Series, it comprises recordings from 1965 and 1966, mostly unreleased demos and outtakes from recording sessions for his albums Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. The standard set peaked at #41 on the Billboard 200.

Content

Three different versions of the set were released simultaneously: a two-disc 36-track Best of edition in the packaging and format standard to the rest of the series after the first installment; a six-disc 111-track box set Deluxe edition similar in packaging to its counterpart from the previous Bootleg set; and an 18-disc 379-track limited Collector's Edition available exclusively by order from Dylan's official website, which also came with nine mono vinyl singles reproducing ones released around the world by Columbia Records during this era. Only 5000 copies of this edition were produced.[10]

The Collector's Edition was unique as it included "...every note recorded during the 1965–1966 sessions, every alternate take and alternate lyric" on 17 discs, with an 18th disc of hotel room recordings of Dylan with Joan Baez or Robbie Robertson.[11] All tracks on the standard two-disc Best of edition are also included in the Deluxe edition.

Purchasers of the Collector's Edition were also offered 208 live recordings from 1965 as a free digital download.[12]

Title

The title of the set, “The Cutting Edge,” a hackneyed expression about being at the forefront of a movement, is used ironically by Dylan in his 2004 memoir Chronicles: Volume One when writing about the music scene of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He proleptically describes the era by alluding to the Rock Era that had not yet arrived:

[John Hammond] saw me as someone in the long line of a tradition, the tradition of blues, jazz and folk and not as some newfangled wunderkind on the cutting edge. Not that there was any cutting edge. Things were pretty sleepy on the Americana music scene in the late '50s and early '60s. Popular radio was sort of at a standstill and filled with empty pleasantries. It was years before The Beatles, The Who or The Rolling Stones would breathe new life and excitement into it. [13]

He also uses it later in chapter 5, "River of Ice" when describing "Pirate Jenny":

I took the song apart and unzipped it -- it was the form, the free verse association, the structure and disregard for the known certainty of melodic patterns to make it seriously matter, give it its cutting edge.[14]

Singles reproductions

Duplicates of the following nine singles are included with the Collector's Edition:

Best of track listing

Deluxe edition track listing

Collector's edition track listing

Personnel

Charts

Weekly

Year-end

See also

References

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  4. ^ Mitch Myers (2015-11-06). "Bob Dylan's Most Prolific Period Revisited (Again) in 'Bootleg Series Volume 12': Album Review". Billboard. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
  5. ^ Miller, Kellan (2015-11-19). "Album Review: Bob Dylan – The Cutting Edge 1965–1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol.12 / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound". Drownedinsound.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
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  9. ^ Neil McCormick, Music Critic (2015-11-11). "Bob Dylan, 1965–66: The Cutting Edge, review: 'a fascinating act of deconstruction'". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
  10. ^ Super Deluxe Edition website retrieved 27 July 2020.
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  13. ^ Dylan, p. 5.
  14. ^ Dylan, p. 275.
  15. ^ Heylin 2021, p. 297n: "John 'Stephen' Boone, destined to become bassist in [John] Sebastian's Lovin' Spoonful, writes in his memoir that he played on these sessions [on the evening of January 14, 1965]."
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