The Bumpy Road to Blonde on Blonde

Here’s an article I did late last year for Record Collector to coincide with the release of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series Vol. 12 – The Cutting Edge. The focus of the article was the little remembered original sessions for the famous Blonde on Blonde album which were recorded in New York in late ’65/early ’66 with The Hawks as opposed the well known finished sessions which took place in Nashville with country session musicians. Click on the images below, view full size, and then click on them again to magnify the text.