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The latest "Bootleg Series" Dylan release covers but fourteen months during which time Dylan released three of his greatest albums: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.

This set due early November consists of live in the studio demos, alternative takes and rehearsals that allow the listener to hear the evolution of iconic songs we all know and love as the musicians altered tempi, keys, and arrangements and Dylan played with the lyrics.

Obviously this is a set for collectors and hard core fans but even among those are various levels of involvement and commitment so the release will be offered in a variety of versions.

The "culled" two CD or three 180 gram LP version is the "minimalist" edition. A six CD set includes a great deal more including an entire disc devoted to just one song: "Like a Rolling Stone". It includes the famous scene most of us have only read about where Al Kooper sneaks in and starts playing the iconic organ part, even though Kooper at the time was not an keyboard player.

For the complete Dylan fetishist and/or collector/investor, there's a limited to 5000 copies 18 CD set selling for $599 that includes the complete 1965-1966 sessions as well as the complete set of mono 45rpm singles. Also rumored to be included is the very rare Bob Dylan's Bar Mitzvah bootleg packaged in a Torah-like box.

Just kidding about that last item.