NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Bob Dylan:
The 1966 Live Recordings--a highly-collectible 36CD box set
containing every known recording from the artist's groundbreaking
1966 concert tours of the US, UK, Europe and Australia--will be released on Friday, November 11 by Columbia Records and
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music
Entertainment. The 1966 Live Recordings commemorates,
in stunning sonic vérité, the 50th anniversary of the electrifying
live performances that would forever change the sound and direction
of rock and pop music around the world.
"While doing the archival research for The Cutting Edge
1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12, last year's box set of
Dylan's mid-60s studio sessions, we were continually struck by how
great his 1966 live recordings really are," said Adam Block, President, Legacy Recordings. "The
intensity of Bob's live performances and his fantastic delivery of
these songs in concert add another insightful component in
understanding and appreciating the musical revolution Bob Dylan
ignited some 50 years ago."
Meticulously researched, curated and restored for this
extraordinary collection, Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live
Recordings is drawn from three main audio sources:
soundboards, CBS Records mobile recordings and audience tapes. With
the exception of the Manchester
concert (May 17, 1966) released as
Bob Dylan Live 1966 – The Bootleg Series Vol. 4
(Columbia/Legacy) in 1998, a pair
of songs appearing on the 1985 Biograph compilation and a
smattering of others, the overwhelming majority of tracks and
performances on Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings
are previously unreleased in any format--official or
bootlegged--and are being made available now for the very first
time.
All the songs on The 1966 Live Recordings were
written by Bob Dylan (vocal, guitar, piano, harmonica) with the
sole exception of "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down," a traditional
song arranged by Bob Dylan for concert performance. Dylan is
accompanied on these recordings by Robbie
Robertson (guitar), Rick
Danko (bass, backing vocals), Richard Manuel (piano), Garth Hudson (organ) and Mickey Jones (drums). (Sandy Konikoff plays drums on the White Plains and Pittsburgh shows only.)
Liner notes for Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live
Recordings have been provided by Clinton Heylin, a consultant on the project and
author of JUDAS!: From Forest Hills to the Free Trade Hall: A
Historical View of Dylan's Big Boo, the definitive written account
of Dylan's historic and pivotal 1965-66 world tours.
Each of the individual CDs in Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live
Recordings is housed in a custom sleeve featuring stills
from color film shot by D.A.
Pennebaker, whose footage from Dylan's 1965 and 1966 tours
became the cinéma vérité classics Dont Look
Back (1965) and Eat The Document (1966).
Columbia/Legacy will also
release Bob Dylan's performance at the Royal Albert Hall from
May 26, 1966 (two days after the
artist's 25 birthday) as an album entitled The Real Royal
Albert Hall 1966 Concert. For decades, Dylan's performance
in Manchester was incorrectly
labeled "The Royal Albert Hall Concert." Now, for the first time,
the REAL Royal Albert Hall concert--originally recorded for a live
album by CBS Records--is finally being released, mixed by
Grammy-winning engineer Chris Shaw.
The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert will be
released as a 2CD and 12" 2LP collection on November 26.
The performances on Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live
Recordings put a fiery exclamation point on Dylan's great
mid-sixties creative epoch that produced--in an 18-month
span--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. These concert
recordings from the same period document Dylan's evolution as an
on-stage phenomenon whose transformative vision saw no limits.
Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings is the ideal
concert companion to The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg
Series Vol. 12, released on Columbia/Legacy last November.
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Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings
Disc 1 -
Sydney, April 13, 1966 (Soundboard recorded by TCN 9 TV
Australia)
Disc 2 - Sydney, April 13, 1966 (Soundboard recorded by TCN 9 TV
Australia)
Disc 3 - Melbourne, April 20, 1966 (Soundboard / unknown
broadcast)
Disc 4 - Copenhagen, May 1, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 5 - Dublin, May 5, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 6 - Dublin, May 5, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 7 - Belfast, May 6, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 8 - Belfast, May 6, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 9 - Bristol, May 10, 1966 (Soundboard / audience)
Disc 10 - Bristol, May 10, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 11 - Cardiff, May 11, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 12 - Birmingham, May 12, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 13 - Birmingham, May 12, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 14 - Liverpool, May 14, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 15 - Leicester, May 15, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 16 - Leicester, May 15, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 17 - Sheffield, May 16, 1966 (CBS Records recording)
Disc 18 - Sheffield, May 16, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 19 - Manchester, May 17, 1966 (CBS Records recording)
Disc 20 - Manchester, May 17, 1966 (CBS Records recording except
Soundcheck / Soundboard)Disc 21 - Glasgow, May 19,
1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 22 - Edinburgh, May 20, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 23 - Edinburgh, May 20, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 24 - Newcastle, May 21, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 25 - Newcastle, May 21, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 26 - Paris, May 24, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 27 - Paris, May 24, 1966 (Soundboard)
Disc 28 - London, May 26, 1966 (CBS Records recording)
Disc 29 - London, May 26, 1966 (CBS Records recording)
Disc 30 - London, May 27, 1966 (CBS Records recording)
Disc 31 - London, May 27, 1966 (CBS Records recordings)
Disc 32 - White Plains, NY,
February 5, 1966 (Audience tape)
Disc 33 - Pittsburgh, PA,
February 6, 1966 (Audience tape)
Disc 34 - Hempstead, NY,
February 26, 1966 (Audience tape)
Disc 35 - Melbourne, April 19, 1966 (Audience tape)
Disc 36 - Stockholm, April 29, 1966 (Audience tape)
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