“An aural record of an artist becoming himself”: Bob Dylan's early years explored in forthcoming Bootleg Series release

Bob Dylan in 1963.

Bob Dylan’s formative years are the subject of the latest release in his extensive Bootleg Series of albums. Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 chronicles Dylan’s early years as the young singer-songwriter was making a name for himself in the burgeoning folk scene springing out of New York’s Greenwich Village.

Available as an eight-CD box set, two CDs or 4LPs from 31^st October, the compilation includes rare and unheard home recordings, studio outtakes and live renditions, with a complete recording of his show at Carnegie Hall in October, 1963, also included. The eight-disc version contains 139 tracks, 48 of which are performances that have never seen the light of day until now.