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

by Bob Dylan

Overview

This double-disc culling of the much larger six-disc The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 does indeed leave some gems behind -- it's inevitable, given how terrific its parent box is -- but it does distill it to its essence, suggesting just how wild and insatiable Bob Dylan's 14-month run between Bringing It All Back Home and Blonde on Blonde really was. Two previously released, but necessary, songs are here -- "I'll Keep It with Mine," "Farewell Angelina" -- but so are most of the jaw-droppers from the big box: a solo acoustic "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream," a heavy but drumless stomp on "Outlaw Blues," a rhumba "On the Road Again," a lithe and funny "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" with backing vocals by Angeline Butler, a careening "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry," a sorrowful "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?," a locomotive "Visions of Johanna," a swift and speedy "Just Like a Woman," and another incomplete version of "She's Your Lover Now" that also hints at untapped greatness. On its own, this set is tremendous -- so good it may satiate some listeners, but if it merely whets your appetite, the larger box will not disappoint. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	11/06/2015
Label:	Legacy / Sony Music
UPC:	0888751244221
Rank:	7014

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Love Minus Zero/No Limit [Take 2] [Acoustic Version]
2. I'll Keep It With Mine [Take 1] [Piano Demo]
3. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream [Take 1 & 2] [Solo Acoustic Version]
4. She Belongs to Me [Take 1] [Solo Acoustic Version]
5. Subterranean Homesick Blues [Take 1] [Alternate Take]
6. Outlaw Blues [Take 2] [Alternate Take]
7. On the Road Again [Take 4] [Alternate Take]
8. Farewell, Angelina [Take 1] [Solo Acoustic Version]
9. If You Gotta Go, Go Now [Take 2] [Alternate Take]
10. You Don't Have to Do That [Take 1] [Solo Acoustic]
11. California [Take 1] [Solo Acoustic]
12. Mr. Tambourine Man [Take 3 With Band] [Incomplete]
13. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry [Take 8] [Alternate Take]
14. Like a Rolling Stone [Take 5] [Rehearsal] [Edited Version]
15. Like a Rolling Stone [Take 11] [Alternate Take]
16. Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence [Take 2]
17. Medicine Sunday [Take 1]
18. Desolation Row [Take 2] [Piano Demo]
19. Desolation Row [Take 1] [Alternate Take]

Disc 2

20. Tombstone Blues [Take 1] [Alternate Take]
21. Positively 4th Street [Take 5] [Alternate Take]
22. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? [Take 1] [Alternate Take]
23. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues [Take 3] [Rehearsal]
24. Highway 61 Revisited [Take 3] [Alternate Take]
25. Queen Jane Approximately [Take 5] [Alternate Take]
26. Visions of Johanna [Take 5] [Rehearsal]
27. She's Your Lover Now [Take 6] [Rehearsal]
28. Lunatic Princess [Take 1]
29. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat [Take 8] [Alternate Take]
30. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) [Take 19] [Alternate Take]
31. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again [Take 13] [Alternate Take]
32. Absolutely Sweet Marie [Take 1] [Alternate Take]
33. Just Like a Woman [Take 4] [Alternate Take]
34. Pledging My Time [Take 1] [Alternate Take]
35. I Want You [Take 4] [Alternate Take]
36. Highway 61 Revisited [Take 7] [False Start]

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Bob Dylan   Primary Artist,Piano,Guitar,Vocals,Harmonica,Slide Whistle,Guitar (Acoustic)
Bobby Gregg   Drums
John Hammond, Jr.   Guitar
Mike Bloomfield   Guitar
Joe South   Bass,Guitar
Garth Hudson   Organ
Wayne Moss   Guitar,Trombone
Charlie McCoy   Bass,Guitar,Trumpet,Harmonica,Bass Harmonica,Guitar
Jeff Rosen   Compiled
Robbie Robertson   Guitar
Rick Danko   Bass
Frank Owens   Piano,Piano (Electric)
Jerry Kennedy   Guitar
Richard Manuel   Piano,Piano (Electric)
Al Kooper   Organ,Piano,Celeste,Tambourine,Piano (Electric)
Al Gorgoni   Guitar
Bruce Langhorne   Guitar,Tambourine
Kenny Rankin   Guitar
Paul Griffin   Organ,Piano,Piano (Electric)
Russ Savakus   Bass
John Sebastian   Bass,Harmonica
Hargus "Pig" Robbins   Bass,Piano
William E. Lee   Bass
Levon Helm   Drums
Sam Lay   Drums
Harvey Brooks   Bass
Henry Strzelecki   Bass,Organ
John Boone   Bass
Joseph Macho, Jr.   Bass
Sandy Konikoff   Drums
Kenneth Buttrey   Drums,Guitar
Angeline Butler   Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Bob Johnston   Producer
Sean Wilentz   Liner Notes
Rowland Scherman   Photography
Bill Flanagan   Liner Notes
Jan Persson   Photography
Tony Frank   Photography
Dale Smith   Photography
Val Wilmer   Photography
Geoff Gans   Art Direction,Package Design
Glenn Korman   Research
Jerry Schatzberg   Photography
Steve Berkowitz   Producer
Jeremy Holiday   Editorial Coordinator
Eugene Smith   Photography
Jeff Rosen   Producer
Mark Wilder   Mastering
Bryan Lasley   Design
Damian Rodriguez   Mixing
Steve Addabbo   Mixing
Tom Wilson   Producer
Daniel Kramer   Photography
Parker Fishel   Research
Maria Villar   Design
Jean-Marie Perier   Photography
Fred McDarrah   Photography
Don Hunstein   Photography
Ben Rollins   Liner Notes
Jeroen Van Der Meer   Project Manager
Bjorn Larrson   Photography