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Bob Dylan will be releasing the latest volume in his acclaimed bootleg series of previously unreleased studio recordings –including never-before-heard songs, outtakes, rehearsal tracks and alternate versions from the Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde Sessions – on 6 November. Bob Dylan: The Best of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966, will be available in special double-CD and tripple-vinyl packages and focuses on the trilogy of albums that secured Dylan's reputation as a songwriter and performer of unprecedented depth. All recordings included are pristine transfers and mixed from the original studio tracking tapes.

The package comes with an annotated book featuring hundreds of rare and never-before-seen photographs and memorabilia and new essays penned especially for the collection by Bill Flanagan and Sean Wilentz.

Meanwhile, an 18-disc Collector's Edition version will also be available and limited to a worldwide pressing of only 5,000 copies. It includes every note recorded during the 1965-1966 sessions, every alternate take and alternate lyric. Also included are Dylan's original nine mono singles released during the time period, rare hotel room recordings from the Savoy Hotel in London (May 4, 1965), the North British Station Hotel in Glasgow (May 13, 1966) and a Denver, Colorado hotel (March 12, 1966) as well as a strip of original film cels from Don't Look Back.

You can pre-order your copy now here.

Picture copyright:Daniel Kramer 

Full track listing is as follows:

Bob Dylan: The Best of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 (Two-disc edition)

 Disc One

1. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Take 2 (1/13/1965) acoustic

2. I’ll Keep It with Mine - Take 1 (1/13/1965) piano demo

3. Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream - Take 2 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic

4. She Belongs to Me - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic

5. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Take 1 (1/14/1965) alternate take

6. Outlaw Blues - Take 2 (1/13/1965) alternate take

7. On the Road Again - Take 4 (1/14/1965) alternate take

8. Farewell, Angelina - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic

9. If You Gotta Go, Go Now - Take 2 (1/15/1965) alternate take

10. You Don’t Have to Do That - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic

11. California - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic

12. Mr. Tambourine Man - Take 3 (1/15/1965) with band, incomplete

13. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Take 8 (6/15/1965) alternate take

14. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 5 (6/15/1965) rehearsal

15. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 11 (6/16/1965) alternate take

16. Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence - Take 2 (6/15/1965) unreleased take

17. Medicine Sunday - Take 1 (10/5/1965) early version of Temporary Like Achilles

18. Desolation Row - Take 2 (8/4/1965) piano demo

19. Desolation Row - Take 1 (8/4/1965) alternate take

Disc Two

1. Tombstone Blues - Take 1 (7/29/1965) alternate take

2. Positively 4th Street - Take 5 (7/29/1965) alternate take

3. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - Take 1 (7/30/1965) alternate take

4. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues - Take 3 (8/2/1965) rehearsal

5. Highway 61 Revisited - Take 3 (8/2/1965) alternate take

6. Queen Jane Approximately - Take 5 (8/2/1965) alternate take

7. Visions of Johanna - Take 5 (11/30/1965) rehearsal

8. She’s Your Lover Now - Take 6 (1/21/1966) rehearsal

9. Lunatic Princess - Take 1 (1/27/1966)

10. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat - Take 8 (2/14/1966) alternate take

11. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) - Take 19 (1/25/1966) alternate take

12. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Take 13 (2/17/1966) alternate take

13. Absolutely Sweet Marie - Take 1 (3/7/1966) alternate take

14. Just Like a Woman - Take 4 (3/8/1966) alternate take

15. Pledging My Time - Take 1 (3/8/1966) alternate take

16. I Want You - Take 4 (3/10/1966) alternate take

17. Highway 61 Revisited – Take 7 (8/2/1965) false start 

All tracks previously unreleased except Disc 1, track 2, Biograph; Disc 1, track 8, The Bootleg Series, Volume 1-3.