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

Bob Dylan (Artist) Format: Audio CD

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1 30	Love Minus Zero / No Limit (Take 2, Acoustic) Love Minus Zero / No Limit (Take 2, Acoustic)	3:09	Play in Library $1.29
2 30	I'll Keep It with Mine (Take 1, Piano Demo) I'll Keep It with Mine (Take 1, Piano Demo)	4:10	Play in Library $1.29
3 30	Bob Dylan's 115th Dream (Take 1 & 2, Solo Acoustic) Bob Dylan's 115th Dream (Take 1 & 2, Solo Acoustic)	6:15	Play in Library $1.29
4 30	She Belongs to Me (Take 1, Solo Acoustic) She Belongs to Me (Take 1, Solo Acoustic)	2:56	Play in Library $1.29
5 30	Subterranean Homesick Blues (Take 1, Alternate Take) Subterranean Homesick Blues (Take 1, Alternate Take)	2:37	Play in Library $1.29
6 30	Outlaw Blues (Take 2, Alternate Take) Outlaw Blues (Take 2, Alternate Take)	3:28	Play in Library $1.29
7 30	On the Road Again (Take 4, Alternate Take) On the Road Again (Take 4, Alternate Take)	2:31	Play in Library $1.29
8 30	Farewell, Angelina (Take 1, Solo Acoustic) Farewell, Angelina (Take 1, Solo Acoustic)	5:27	Play in Library $1.29
9 30	If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Take 2, Alternate Take) If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Take 2, Alternate Take)	2:49	Play in Library $1.29
10 30	You Don't Have to Do That (Take 1, Solo Acoustic) You Don't Have to Do That (Take 1, Solo Acoustic)	0:49	Play in Library $1.29
11 30	California (Take 1, Solo Acoustic) California (Take 1, Solo Acoustic)	3:04	Play in Library $1.29
12 30	Mr. Tambourine Man (Take 3 with Band, Incomplete) Mr. Tambourine Man (Take 3 with Band, Incomplete)	3:23	Play in Library $1.29
13 30	It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Take 8, Alternate Take) It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Take 8, Alternate Take)	3:27	Play in Library $1.29
14 30	Like a Rolling Stone (Take 5, Rehearsal (Short Version)) Like a Rolling Stone (Take 5, Rehearsal (Short Version))	1:43	Play in Library $1.29
15 30	Like a Rolling Stone (Take 11, Alternate Take) Like a Rolling Stone (Take 11, Alternate Take)	5:55	Play in Library $1.29
16 30	Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence (Take 2) Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence (Take 2)	3:58	Play in Library $1.29
17 30	Medicine Sunday (Take 1) Medicine Sunday (Take 1)	1:00	Play in Library $1.29
18 30	Desolation Row (Take 2, Piano Demo) Desolation Row (Take 2, Piano Demo)	1:59	Play in Library $1.29
19 30	Desolation Row (Take 1, Alternate Take) Desolation Row (Take 1, Alternate Take)	11:16	Album Only
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1 30	Tombstone Blues (Take 1, Alternate Take) Tombstone Blues (Take 1, Alternate Take)	7:28	Play in Library $1.29
2 30	Positively 4th Street (Take 5, Alternate Take) Positively 4th Street (Take 5, Alternate Take)	4:22	Play in Library $1.29
3 30	Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (Take 1, Alternate Take (Short Version)) Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (Take 1, Alternate Take (Short Version))	4:03	Play in Library $1.29
4 30	Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Take 3, Rehearsal) Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Take 3, Rehearsal)	5:38	Play in Library $1.29
5 30	Highway 61 Revisited (Take 3, Alternate Take) Highway 61 Revisited (Take 3, Alternate Take)	3:28	Play in Library $1.29
6 30	Queen Jane Approximately (Take 5, Alternate Take) Queen Jane Approximately (Take 5, Alternate Take)	6:01	Play in Library $1.29
7 30	Visions of Johanna (Take 5, Rehearsal) Visions of Johanna (Take 5, Rehearsal)	7:39	Play in Library $1.29
8 30	She's Your Lover Now (Take 6, Rehearsal) She's Your Lover Now (Take 6, Rehearsal)	4:57	Play in Library $1.29
9 30	Lunatic Princess (Take 1) Lunatic Princess (Take 1)	1:19	Play in Library $1.29
10 30	Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Take 8, Alternate Take) Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Take 8, Alternate Take)	3:26	Play in Library $1.29
11 30	One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) (Take 19, Alternate Take) One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) (Take 19, Alternate Take)	5:09	Play in Library $1.29
12 30	Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Take 13, Alternate Take) Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Take 13, Alternate Take)	4:02	Play in Library $1.29
13 30	Absolutely Sweet Marie (Take 1, Alternate Take) Absolutely Sweet Marie (Take 1, Alternate Take)	5:00	Play in Library $1.29
14 30	Just Like a Woman (Take 4, Alternate Take) Just Like a Woman (Take 4, Alternate Take)	5:18	Play in Library $1.29
15 30	Pledging My Time (Take 1, Alternate Take) Pledging My Time (Take 1, Alternate Take)	3:21	Play in Library $1.29
16 30	I Want You (Take 4, Alternate Take) I Want You (Take 4, Alternate Take)	2:51	Play in Library $1.29
17 30	Highway 61 Revisited (Take 7, False Start) Highway 61 Revisited (Take 7, False Start)	0:32	Play in Library $1.29

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Audio CD (November 6, 2015)
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Legacy
ASIN: B015JXIA2W
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (111 customer reviews)
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144 of 149 people found the following review helpful

DEAR MUSIC APPRECIATORS (a 2 disc vs. 6 disc comparison)

By Constant Listener on November 7, 2015

Format: Audio CD

Dear Music Appreciators,

This "Best of" version is the one I heard first, streaming on NPR, and the 6 disc deluxe edition is the one I bought on Amazon because I couldn't resist the extras (more songs, more versions of songs, the hardbound book, etc.). But the 2 disc The Best of The Cutting Edge Provides the most accessible, traditional, and easily enjoyable listening experience from beginning to end.

A particular highlight for this reviewer was "Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence," which I missed the first time it came out (Bootleg Series 1-3). This song rocks. The guitar work stings and runs you over. Dylan yells. He sings some different lyrics. Words from "Tom Thumb's Blues" make an appearance. And Dylan picks his guitar player over a woman - "She's good alright but she ain't as good as this guitar player I got right now." A fitting tribute to the singular guitar work of Mike Bloomfield.

For what it’s worth, I’ve created a little track-by-track/side-by-side guide to help you know some of the difference between what’s on the 2 disc version (The Best of The Cutting Edge) vs. what’s on the 6 disc version of this release (The Cutting Edge Deluxe Edition).

- The 2 disc version contains 36 of the 111 tracks on the 6 disc version.

- It appears the 2 disc version contains 2 tracks (disc 1 track 14 and disc 2 track 3) that are slightly shorter than their counterparts on the 6 disc version. There may be others with very minor differences of a few seconds as well.Read more ›

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66 of 69 people found the following review helpful

Essential for even the most casual Dylan fan

By Thomas E. Davis TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on November 6, 2015

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Beginning in 1965, Bob Dylan had a stunningly prolific, 14-month-long explosion of revolutionary creativity that produced three masterpieces: the folk-rock album "Bringing It All Back Home," the blues-rock album "Highway 61 Revisited," and the sublime fusion of the double album "Blonde on Blonde." This is the point in his career during which he "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, scandalizing folk purists and transforming popular music.

For the fiftieth anniversary of this "annus mirabilis" and the twelfth issue in the seemingly endless Bootleg Series, Sony has pulled out all the stops. Heretofore unheard studio recordings from the period – demos, rehearsals, false starts, breakdowns, outtakes, and alternate takes from the New York and Nashville sessions – are being released as a six-disc, seven-hour set (over $100 on Amazon, with more than 100 tracks, including 20 different takes of "Like a Rolling Stone" and a 120-page hardcover book).

Available exclusively at the BobDylan website is an exhaustive limited-edition set (18 CDs and nine vinyl singles, with 379 tracks and over 20 hours of music, a 170-page large-format book, and copious memorabilia) that will set you back a cool $600. It contains every moment of tape, every fragment and misstep and mumble, no matter how trivial or indispensable, and even a few impromptu folk and country duets with Joan Baez in a London hotel room.

For a lot of folks, though, too much repetition becomes tedious, so a low-priced, two-disc set of highlights may be enough for them: 145 minutes of classic Dylan for only $15! He sings and plays 33 of his iconic songs, from the earliest in this chronological set, "Love Minus Zero / No Limit," to the last, "I Want You.Read more ›

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74 of 79 people found the following review helpful

DEAR MUSIC APPRECIATORS

By Constant Listener on November 6, 2015

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Dear Music Appreciators,

Bob’s back. Can you dig it, man? There’s a lot to dig into on this release, whichever version you decide to go with. The sound is great and has a sort of up close and personal and in the studio feel to it (as it should!). It’s interesting to hear these classic songs as they evolve and change. Most versions included on this 6 disc set seem to be different enough or good enough that they are worth listening to.

What a great opportunity to step back in time and hear these seminal songs of the 60’s as they were and as they could have been vs. how they were released. The Cutting Edges gives some insight to Dylan’s process during the peak of his powers and only serves to increase the perception that his was a one-time only comet streak of musical inspiration that arguably burned brightest during the nearly two year period represented in these recordings.

The hard bound book accompanying this deluxe issue is called Bob Dylan Mixing Up The Medicine 1965-1966 and it is almost entirely photographs with not much in the way of text. It’s fun to see all these pictures, especially the pictures of lyrics sheets with handwritten changes and newspaper articles from the time period that are clear enough to read the text of the articles. I also like the section titled “Articles from Around the Globe” that includes magazine and album covers and assorted Dylan related oddities of the time from other countries.

The actual lines notes are packaged with the discs and seem reasonably extensive (54 pages including pictures). The discs are packaged to look like mini LP’s in a gate fold sort of style - there are three sections that fold out with 2 discs in each section.Read more ›

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