Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 10:32:09 minutes | 10,86 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

In 2002, Dylan dedicated volume 5 of his Bootleg Series to his famous Rolling Thunder Revue, his legendary tour from Autumn 1975/Spring 1976, which until then had only been featured on the album Hard Rain. A 57-concert adventure that followed the release of one of his best albums, Blood On the Tracks, on which he collaborated with his ex Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Kinky Friedman, Bob Neuwirth, T-Bone Burnett, David Bowie’s guitarist Mick Ronson and violinist Scarlet Rivera. It was an exceptional tour, partly because of how unconventional it was in the writer’s career. The songs of Dylan (who was 34 and in an emotionally chaotic time in his life) found an original style, blending folk tradition (the spirit of Woody Guthrie prevails throughout), an informal “friendly” atmosphere, and a modern spirit thanks in part to Ronson’s glam guitar. Moreover, the Zim transformed his several-month tour into a rock circus where the prevailing real fake artistic chaos took on the form of supreme art.
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Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 (Deluxe Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 06:13:12 minutes | 7,43 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy’s highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series takes a fresh look at ‘Time Out of Mind’, Dylan’s mid-career masterpiece, celebrating the album and its enduring impact 25 years after its original release on September 30, 1997. ‘Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol. 17’ follows the evolution of songs written for the album, from intimate early incarnations in the previously unreleased 1996 Teatro sessions featuring Dylan (vocals, guitar, and piano), Daniel Lanois (guitar and organ), Tony Garnier (bass) and Tony Mangurian (drums and percussion) through incandescent live renditions (also previously unreleased) showcasing Dylan and his touring ensemble channeling the songs on-stage from 1998-2001.
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Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:29:44 minutes | 2,92 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Comebacks are Bob Dylan’s thing. Call him irrelevant and he’ll summon his demons and write another masterpiece. In the 1990s, one of America’s greatest creative engines was drifting. The Don Was-produced Under The Red Sky, Dylan’s only collection of new songs in the decade, was met with a collective shrug. In 1995, there was the death of Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia—a “big brother” Dylan would call him in a eulogy he wrote for Rolling Stone. But starting in late 1996, Dylan began writing a record’s worth of tunes in his home state of Minnesota that, after an extended recording process in California and Florida, would become Time Out of Mind. Critics and fans who’d consigned him to the scrap heap once again were effusive in their astonishment: Maybe Bobby wasn’t done after all! Although the lyrics are often bitter and tinged with mortality, the love song melodies on Time Out of Mind are tender and his delivery often more pleading than angry or accusatory. The album also marked a return to writing and performing original materia, producing some of the best songs of his later career including “Make You Feel My Love,” “Love Sick” and “Tryin’ to Get To Heaven.”
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Bob Dylan – The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 06:34:51 minutes | 3,94 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings has released Bob Dylan’s The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 on November 4. Compiled from meticulously restored original tapes – many found only recently – this historic six-disc set is the definitive chronicle of the artist’s legendary 1967 recording sessions with members of his touring ensemble who would later achieve their own fame as The Band.
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Bob Dylan – Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 13 / 1979-1981 (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 08:10:14 minutes | 7,92 GB | Genre: Folk, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

8 discs Deluxe Edition Box Set – the next installment in the award-winning Bootleg Series. “Trouble No More – The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981”, focuses on the albums ‘Slow Train Coming’ (1979), ‘Saved’ (1980) and ‘Shot of Love’ (1981) and the legendary live shows from that period.

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Bob Dylan – Triplicate (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:35:56 minutes | 3,51 GB | Genre: Folk, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

Triplicate, is the new three disc studio album from Bob Dylan. The collection features 30 brand-new recordings of classic American tunes and marking the first triple-length set of the artist’s illustrious career. With each disc individually titled and presented in a thematically-arranged 10-song sequence, Triplicate showcases Dylan’s unique and much-lauded talents as a vocalist, arranger and bandleader on 30 compositions by some of music’s most lauded and influential songwriters.
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Bob Dylan – Travelin’ Thru, 1967 – 1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15 (Remastered) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:14:09 minutes | 2,48 GB | Genre: Folk, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

On this 15th volume, Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series contains a treasure which, until now, only listeners of pirated CDs were privy to. With 50 tracks, Travelin’ Thru 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series vol. 15 gives an inside look on the different stops Dylan made in Nashville, the Mecca of country music, between 1967 and 1969, and especially on the legendary recording sessions done with Johnny Cash as well as those for his albums John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline and Self Portrait. The meeting of these two figureheads of twentieth century music happens at a key moment. Rock’n’roll reigned supreme all over the world during the late 60s, as everyone tried to outdo each other’s decibel levels over a backdrop of the Vietnam War which had been raging since 1965. After his flamboyant trilogy Bringing It All Back Home/Highway 61 Revisited/Blonde On Blonde, Bob Dylan takes things down a notch with simpler sounds accompanied by a smaller ensemble. Here, he is celebrating classic rock’n’roll and country music by emphasising its singularity and reminding us of its links to the roots of North American pop music. Ever the elusive icon of counterculture, a label he always hated, Dylan tackles an almost historical repertoire, distancing himself from any hippie connotations which were so in style at the time. His voice is fundamentally opposite to Johnny Cash’s, yet here they both engage in a pulsing, no-frills paso doble which is as symbolic as it is forthright.
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Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1964/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:46 minutes | 2,26 GB | Genre: Folk, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

A 22-year-old stands on stage with his guitar, surrounded by more than 100,000 people demanding equal rights for whites and blacks in Washington on August 28, 1963. The crowd is thrilled with his songs, which he performs alone and with folk superstar Joan Baez. Peter, Paul And Mary sing his “Blowin’ In The Wind”. Martin Luther King will later give a speech that will go down in history and bring the preacher the Nobel Peace Prize (“I Have A Dream”).
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Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 10:32:09 minutes | 10,86 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

In 2002, Dylan dedicated volume 5 of his Bootleg Series to his famous Rolling Thunder Revue, his legendary tour from Autumn 1975/Spring 1976, which until then had only been featured on the album Hard Rain. A 57-concert adventure that followed the release of one of his best albums, Blood On the Tracks, on which he collaborated with his ex Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Kinky Friedman, Bob Neuwirth, T-Bone Burnett, David Bowie’s guitarist Mick Ronson and violinist Scarlet Rivera. It was an exceptional tour, partly because of how unconventional it was in the writer’s career. The songs of Dylan (who was 34 and in an emotionally chaotic time in his life) found an original style, blending folk tradition (the spirit of Woody Guthrie prevails throughout), an informal “friendly” atmosphere, and a modern spirit thanks in part to Ronson’s glam guitar. Moreover, the Zim transformed his several-month tour into a rock circus where the prevailing real fake artistic chaos took on the form of supreme art.
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Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Remastered Sampler) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:44 minutes | 841 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

“A comprehensive anthology of music from the mythic first leg of Bob Dylan’s groundbreaking Rolling Thunder Revue. The collection also provides the listener with an intimate insider’s seat for recently unearthed rehearsals at New York’s S.I.R. studios and the Seacrest Mote in Falmouth, MA plus a bonus disc showcasing one-of-a-kind performances from the tour. Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings serves as a companion piece to the new film, “”Rolling Thunder Revue – A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese,”” premiering on Netflix on June 12.
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Bob Dylan – The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:34:17 minutes | 1,97 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert. For decades, Bob Dylan’s performance in Manchester was labelled incorrectly, The Royal Albert Hall Concert. For the first time, the REAL Royal Albert Hall concert is finally being released.
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