Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Bob Dylan's The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 on Friday, November 6, 2015.

The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy's highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series focuses on the legendary studio sessions that produced Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde, the trilogy of album masterpieces which secured Dylan's reputation as a songwriter and performer of unprecedented depth, power and originality while significantly impacting the course of popular music and culture. All recordings included in The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 are pristine transfers and mixed from the original studio tracking tapes.

Importantly, The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 provides a rare exploration into Dylan's creative process in the studio, allowing fans to experience another side of Bob Dylan through the evolution of his songs and recordings from this truly groundbreaking period.

The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 - Deluxe Edition brings together for the first time many of the most sought-after recordings of the entire Dylan canon. Here, across 6 CDs, are previously unheard Dylan songs, studio outtakes, rehearsal tracks, alternate working versions of familiar hits--including the complete "Like A Rolling Stone" session--and more.

The Best of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol.12 is available in a 2CD or 3 12" vinyl LP set and brings together some of the musical high points of the deluxe and super-deluxe collections.

An 18CD Collector's Edition of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 will be available exclusively on BobDylan.com. Limited to a worldwide pressing of only 5,000 copies, this 18CD edition will include every note recorded during the 1965-1966 sessions, every alternate take and alternate lyric. All previously unreleased recordings have been mixed, utilizing the original studio tracking tapes as the source, eliminating unwanted 1960s-era studio processing and artifice. The 18CD edition includes Dylan's original nine mono 45 RPM singles released during the time period, packaged in newly created picture sleeves featuring global images from the era. The limited edition includes 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."

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

Generally regarded as three of the most important and influential albums of the golden era of 60's rock, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde (a double album) were written and recorded across a span of merely 14 months (from January 1965 through March 1966) with producers Tom Wilson (Bringing It All Back Home, "Like A Rolling Stone") in New York and Bob Johnston in New York (Highway 61 Revisited) and Nashville (Blonde On Blonde).

Bob Dylan

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

DISC 1

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 2

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.

Bob Dylan

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

(6 CD Deluxe Edition)

DISC 1:

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

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

3. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Take 3 remake (1/13/1965) acoustic

4. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Take 1 remake (1/14/1965) electric

5. I’ll Keep It with Mine - Take 1 (1/13/1965) piano demo, previously released on Biograph, 1985

6. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic, previously released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7, 2005

7. Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream - Take 1 (1/13/1965) acoustic, incomplete

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

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

10. She Belongs to Me - Take 2 Remake (1/13/1965) acoustic

11. She Belongs to Me - Take 1 Remake (1/14/1965) electric

12. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic, previously released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3, 1991

13. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Take 1 remake (1/14/1965) electric

14. Outlaw Blues - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic

15. Outlaw Blues - Take 2 Remake (1/13/1965) electric

16. On the Road Again - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic

17. On the Road Again - Take 4 (1/14/1965) electric

18. On the Road Again - Take 1 remake (1/15/1965) electric

19. On the Road Again - Take 7 remake (1/15/1965) electric

20. Farewell, Angelina - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic, previously released The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3, 1991

21. If You Gotta Go, Go Now - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic

22. If You Gotta Go, Go Now - Take 2 (1/15/1965) electric

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

DISC 2:

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

2. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Take 1 (1/15/1965) acoustic, demo

3. Mr. Tambourine Man - Takes 1 - 2 (1/15/1965) incomplete, with band

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

5. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Take 1 (6/15/1965)

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

7. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Take 3 (7/29/1965)

8. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Take 3 remake (7/29/65)

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

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

11. Tombstone Blues - Take 9 (7/29/1965) previously released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7, 2005

12. Positively 4th Street - Takes 1-3 (7/29/1965)

13. Positively 4th Street - Take 4 (7/29/1965)

14. Positively 4th Street - Take 5 (7/29/1965)

15. Desolation Row - Take 1 (8/4/1965)

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

17. Desolation Row - Take 5 remake (8/2/1965)

18. From a Buick 6 - Take 1 (7/30/1965)

19. From a Buick 6 - Take 4 (7/30/1965) released in error on first pressing of Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

DISC 3:

1. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 1-3 (6/15/1965)

2. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 4 (6/15/1965)

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

4. Like a Rolling Stone - Rehearsal (6/16/1965)

5. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 1 (6/16/1965)

6. Like a Rolling Stone - Takes 2-3 (6/16/1965)

7. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 4 (6/16/1965) released on Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

8. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 5 (6/16/1965)

9. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 6 (6/16/1965)

10. Like a Rolling Stone -Take 8 (6/16/1965)

11. Like a Rolling Stone - Takes 9-10 (6/16/1965)

12. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 11 (6/16/1965)

13. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 12 (6/16/1965)

14. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 13 (6/16/1965)

15. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 14 (6/16/1965)

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

17. Like a Rolling Stone - Master take - lead guitar isolated track

18. Like a Rolling Stone - Master take - vocal and guitar isolated track

19. Like a Rolling Stone - Mast take - drums and organ isolated track

20. Like a Rolling Stone - Master take - piano and bass isolated track

DISC 4:

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

2. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - Take 17 (7/30/1965 released in error on the first pressing of Positively 4th Street single

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

4. Highway 61 Revisited - Take 5 (8/2/1965)

5. Highway 61 Revisited - Take 7 (8/2/1965)

6. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues - Take 1 (8/2/1965)

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

8. Just Like Tom Thumb’s blues - Take 13 (8/2/1965)

9. Queen Jane Approximately - Take 2 (8/2/1965)

10. Queen Jane Approximately - Take 5 (8/2/1965)

11. Ballad of a Thin Man - Take 2 (8/2/1965) incomplete

12. Medicine Sunday - Take 1 (10/5/1965)

13. Jet Pilot - Take 1 (10/5/1965) Previously released on Biograph, 1985

14. I Wanna Be Your Lover - Take 1 (10/5/1965)

15. I Wanna Be Your Lover - Take 6 (10/5/1965)

16. Unknown Instrumental - Take 2 (10/5/1965)

17. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - Takes 5-6 (11/30/1965)

18. Visions of Johanna - Take 1 (11/30/1965)

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

DISC 5:

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

2. Visions of Johanna - Take 8 (11/30/1965) previously released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7, 2005

3. Visions of Johanna - Take 14 (11/30/1965)

4. She’s Your Lover Now - Take 1 (1/21/1966)

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

6. She’s Your Lover Now - Take 15 (1/21/1966) previously released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3, 1991

7. She’s Your Lover Now - Take 16 (1/21/1966) solo piano

8. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) - Take 2 (1/25/1966)

9. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) - Take 4 (1/25/1966)

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

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

12. Fourth Time Around - Take 11 (2/14/1966)

13. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat - Take 3 (2/14/1966)

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

DISC 6:

1. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Take 1 (2/17/1966)

2. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Rehearsal (2/17/1966)

3. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Take 5 (2/17/1966) previously released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7, 2005

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

5. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Take 14 (2/17/1966)

6. Absolutely Sweet Marie - Take 1 (3/7/1966)

7. Just Like a Woman - Take 1 (3/8/1966)

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

9. Just Like a Woman - Take 8 (3/8/1966)

10. Pledging My Time - Take 1 (3/8/1966)

11. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) - Take 1 (3/9/1966)

12. Temporary Like Achilles - Take 3 (3/9/1966)

13. Obviously 5 Believers - Take 3 (3/10/1966)

14. I Want You - Take 4 (3/10/1966)

15. Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands - Take 1 - (2/16/1966)

Known as one of the most iconic forces in music history, Jeff Lynne’s ELO is set to deliver a new album which will be the first new ELO music in 15 years. Entitled Alone In The Universe, the album is set for global release November 13 on Columbia Records. The album is available globally for pre-order Friday, September 25th (buy links listed below) and the first single “When I Was a Boy” (http://smarturl.it/WhenIWasABoyAudio) is also available Friday. Fans who preorder the album will receive “When I Was A Boy” instantly.

As with ELO’s previous chart-topping albums, Jeff Lynne continues to serve as ELO’s producer, songwriter, arranger, lead singer and guitarist. In September 2014, for the first time in 30 years, Jeff Lynne's ELO headlined BBC Radio 2's "Festival In A Day" in London's famous Hyde Park to a sold-out crowd of 50,000 fans in attendance and nearly a million people tuned in to watch.

Lynne was the creative genius behind ELO which sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, had more than 20 Top 40 Hits across the U.S. and the U.K. and received countless awards and accolades. At the time of ELO’s formation, Lynne had said the goal was to create modern rock and pop songs. A goal that remains true some 30 years later with the creation of new material. 

“Music is such a powerful force in our lives. A good song can make people feel much less alone in this universe. And trying to create one of those songs somehow makes me feel less alone too. My whole life—from being that kid with a dream in Birmingham right until today—proves how much music can do,” said Lynne.

“Jeff Lynne is a total master of his craft and ‘Alone In The Universe’ is pure pop perfection. We are thrilled to be involved in the return of ELO and enormously proud to be releasing this contemporary classic on Columbia Records,” said Ashley Newton, President of Columbia Records.

BACKGROUND on Jeff Lynne

Lynne is among the most storied names in music history having created the hit group ELO, and serving as a founding member of the Grammy Award winning supergroup The Traveling Wilburys. He has produced and collaborated with The Beatles, Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty and Joe Walsh. In 2015, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is an active philanthropist for organizations such as St. Jude Research Hospital, MUSICARES and H.E.A.R.T. (Helping Ease Abuse Related Trauma).

Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg has traveled the world, with and without his band, for two decades—but he’s rarely been a tourist. When he’s not working as a musician, he’s often been involved in scientific research on rare birds, a passion that’s taken him to the outer edges of the world, including the far-flung islands of the Falklands [LINK TO QUIETUS ARTICLE] , the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, the Galápagos, a tiny Inuit village in the Canadian Arctic, an Aboriginal settlement in the croc-filled swamps of northern Australia, and the Masoala peninsula of Madagascar.

But his most recent trips have been some of his greatest adventures. Meiburg, who published entertaining and wide-ranging interviews last year with author Peter Matthiessen [LINK] and Iraqi activist Zainab Salbi [LINK] in The Believer, is currently at work on a book for Knopf about the evolution of the wildlife and landscapes of South America, as seen through the eyes of the strange, intelligent birds of prey called caracaras and the prescient, melancholy 19^th-century naturalist and novelist William Henry Hudson. 

As part of his research for the book, Meiburg spent six weeks this spring in the wild interior of southern Guyana, traveling many miles up the Rewa river into remote, ancient forests with three Guyanese Amerindian men: Brian Duncan, Jose George, and Rambo Roberts, and a Canadian biologist named Sean McCann, who earned his PhD for proving that contrary to previous researchers’ speculations, the weird forest-dwelling birds called red-throated caracaras do NOT secrete a natural wasp repellent. Guyana is home to some of the least disturbed rain forests in all of South America, and in the upper reaches of the Rewa Meiburg and McCann searched for and found a nest of red-throated caracaras and marveled at the birds’ loud, unique “dancing” displays, group-living habits that make them seem more like social primates than birds of prey, and their diet of wasps’ nests; the birds’ flamboyance, ferocity, and oddness have earned them the pejorative but fond nickname, in Guyana, of “Bush Auntie-Man”.

But Meiburg’s journey was about much more than birds. The Rewa flows through a primeval region where people are very infrequent visitors, where rarely-seen wildlife like giant otters, tapirs, capybaras and pumas stared at Meiburg and his companions in surprise, and the river itself was full to bursting with unnerving creatures including 150-pound catfish, the giant, air-breathing scalefish called arapaima, the ghastly, long-toothed vampire fish or paiara, coelacanth-like aymara, electric eels, stingrays, piranhas, and glowing-eyed black caimans as long as a canoe. It was a trip into a world that remains as it was thousands of years ago, a primeval and Edenic place that still exists today, even as international mining and logging interests bear down on it.

Meiburg will describe this journey (which also includes encounters with the world’s largest spider) as part of his book, (due out in 2018), but he’s available to write a piece about it now. He also documented the trip in photographs and audio recordings.

In addition, Meiburg is an enthusiastic backpacker. His South American adventures were bound to a river, but in the US he’s spent a great deal of time lately in the Grand Staircase/Dixie National Forest region of southeastern Utah, where he especially loves the doug firs, volcanic boulders, and patches of snow on the 10,000-foot crest of Boulder Mountain and a thirty-mile stretch of narrow, waterlogged canyon called Death Hollow, which he hiked last year wearing a wetsuit and a dry bag (and to which he’s keen to return). He recently pointed fellow musician Andrew Bird toward a more famous canyon in the area called Coyote Gulch; Bird was so absorbed by the canyon’s remarkable acoustics that he recorded an album there. Meiburg is an adventurer and polymath of a kind we don’t often see these days; your readers would love spending some time with him.

Shearwater’s new album, Jet Plane and Oxbow, comes out January 22^nd on Sub Pop.

NYC native Greta Kline began writing songs under the pseudonym Frankie Cosmos in late 2011. Kline’s songs are short and melodic, each poetically telling her story. Her songwriting is inspired in part by Arthur Russell, Connie Converse and poet Frank O’Hara.

Unstoppably prolific, Kline began self-releasing a steady stream of home recorded albums on Bandcamp. In 2013, Kline began to focus more on performing and recording with the help of her newly formed 4 piece band. Kline’s years of songwriting and production culminated in the recording of her first studio album Zentropy, released in 2014. Her debut was met with critical acclaim, gaining her a Rising feature from Pitchfork and ranking as the #1 pop album of the year by New York Magazine.

Frankie Cosmos’ upcoming EP, Fit Me In, is a one-off experiment in “fitting” Kline’s songwriting into an electronic sound, characteristic of current pop culture. The EP is a collaboration with Aaron Maine of Porches, who produced the songs using mostly electronic equipment in place of the live band instrumentation. Frankie Cosmos’ forthcoming album will be the first made with four band members and is slated for release from Bayonet Records in 2015.

soundcloud.com/bayonetrecords/frankie-cosmos-4-sand

Dutch Symphonic Metal sensation DELAIN are known for extremely catchy refrains, bewitching hooks and melodies, symphonic bombast and of course a good dose of Metal! That’s DELAIN and that’s how Symphonic Metal will sound on this upcoming special tour with Anneke van Giersbergen of THE GENTLE STORM and their label mates in AMBERIAN DAWN. 

You can get a special VIP upgrade now, that includes the following: 

-1 Hour entry before show

-VIP Laminate with lanyard

-Meet & Greet with the band

-Signed exclusive postcard

-A two song acoustic set performed by Delain

This special European tour will start at the end of October and wind up in early November with stops in the European hot-spots of France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. DELAIN are definitely ready to take over here: 

DELAIN With THE GENTLE STORM und AMBERIAN DAWN:

/w AMBERIAN DAWN + The Gentle Storm

22.10.15 UK - Bristol / The Marble Factory

23.10.15 UK - Birmingham / Institute Library

24.10.15 UK - Manchester / Academy 2

25.10.15 UK - London / O2 Academy Islington

27.10.15 CH - Solothurn / Kopfmehl

28.10.15 FR – Strasbourg / La Laiterie

29.10.15 FR – Paris / Divan Du Monde

30.10.15 BE – Vosselaar / Biebob

31.10.15 DE – Andernach / Juz Live Club

02.11.15 DE – Munich / Backstage Halle

03.11.15 IT – Milan / Live Club

04.11.15 AT – Graz / Explosiv

05.11.15 HU – Budapest / Club 202

06.11.15 SK – Bratislava / Randal Club

07.11.15 PL – Warsaw / Club Progresia

08.11.15 DE - Berlin / K17

www.delain.nl