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

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The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966
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Compilation album by Bob Dylan
Released November 6, 2015
Recorded January 13, 1965 – February 16, 1966
Genre Folk, Rock
Length 145:04
Label Columbia
Bob Dylan chronology
Shadows in the Night
(2015)Shadows in the Night2015
The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966
(2015)
Fallen Angels
(2016)Fallen Angels2016
Bob Dylan Bootleg Series chronology
The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete
(2014)
The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966
(2015)

The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 is a set of recordings from 1965 and 1966 by Bob Dylan, released on Legacy Records in November 2015. It is mostly unreleased session demos and outtakes from recording sessions for the albums Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. Three different versions of the set were released simultaneously: a two-disc Best of edition in the packaging and format standard to the rest of the series after the first installment; a six-disc box set Deluxe edition similar in packaging to its counterpart from the previous Bootleg set; and a temporarily available 18-disc limited Collector's Edition available exclusively by order from Dylan's official website, which also came with nine mono vinyl singles reproducing singles released around the world by Dylan during this era. This soon sold out - as a result, many people will likely never be able to hear the complete sessions. Stated on the website as being limited to 5000 copies total in manufacture ever, the Collector's Edition was unique as it included "...every note recorded during the 1965-1966 sessions, every alternate take and alternate lyric."[1]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 99/100 [2]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 5/5 stars [3]
American Songwriter 5/5 stars [4]
Billboard 4/5 stars [5]
Drowned in Sound 10/10 [6]
Paste 10/10 [7]
Pitchfork Media 8.7/10 [8]
PopMatters 10/10 stars [9]
Telegraph (UK) 4/5 stars [10]

Best of track listing

Disc one
No. Title Version Length
1. "Love Minus Zero/No Limit"   Take 2, Acoustic 3:11
2. "I'll Keep It with Mine"   Take 1, Piano Demo 4:11
3. "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"   Takes 1 and 2, Solo Acoustic 6:17
4. "She Belongs to Me"   Take 1, Solo Acoustic 2:57
5. "Subterranean Homesick Blues"   Take 1, Alternate Take 2:38
6. "Outlaw Blues"   Take 2, Alternate Take 3:29
7. "On the Road Again"   Take 4, Alternate Take 2:31
8. "Farewell, Angelina"   Take 1, Solo Acoustic 5:28
9. "If You Gotta Go, Go Now"   Take 2, Alternate Take 2:50
10. "You Don't Have to Do That"   Take 1, Solo Acoustic 0:50
11. "California"   Take 1, Solo Acoustic 3:05
12. "Mr. Tambourine Man"   Take 3 with Band, Incomplete 3:23
13. "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"   Take 8, Alternate Take 3:28
14. "Like a Rolling Stone" (Short Version) Take 5, Rehearsal 1:44
15. "Like a Rolling Stone"   Take 11, Alternate Take 5:56
16. "Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence"   Take 2 3:58
17. "Medicine Sunday"   Take 1 1:01
18. "Desolation Row"   Take 2, Piano Demo 2:00
19. "Desolation Row"   Take 1, Alternate Version 11:15
Total length:
70:12
Disc two
No. Title Version Length
1. "Tombstone Blues"   Take 1, Alternate Take 7:30
2. "Positively 4th Street"   Take 5, Alternate Take 4:24
3. "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" (Short Version) Take 1, Alternate Take 4:05
4. "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"   Take 3, Rehearsal 5:39
5. "Highway 61 Revisited"   Take 3, Alternate Take 3:30
6. "Queen Jane Approximately"   Take 5, Alternate Take 6:02
7. "Visions of Johanna"   Take 5, Rehearsal 7:40
8. "She's Your Lover Now"   Take 6, Rehearsal 4:58
9. "Lunatic Princess"   Take 1 1:20
10. "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat"   Take 8, Alternate Take 3:26
11. "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)"   Take 19, Alternate Take 5:10
12. "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"   Take 13, Alternate Take 4:03
13. "Absolutely Sweet Marie"   Take 1, Alternate Take 5:01
14. "Just Like a Woman"   Take 4, Alternate Take 5:19
15. "Pledging My Time"   Take 1, Alternate Take 3:22
16. "I Want You"   Take 4, Alternate Take 2:51
17. "Highway 61 Revisited"   Take 7, False Start 0:32
Total length:
74:52

Deluxe edition track listing

  • Previously released.

Collector's edition track listing

Personnel

Charts

Weekly

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[11] 26
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[12] 12
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[13] 8
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[14] 50
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[15] 31
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[16] 5
French Albums (SNEP)[17] 59
Irish Albums (IRMA)[18] 8
Italian Albums (FIMI)[19] 11
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[20] 23
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[21] 3
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[22] 24
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[23] 2
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[24] 10
UK Albums (OCC)[25] 12
US Billboard 200[26] 33

Year-end

Chart (2015) Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[27] 199

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See also

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