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Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956–1963

Bob Dylan, Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18, 2025.

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If you’ve been waiting for something special in the world of music, here it is: the Columbia Music and Legacy Records release of Bob Dylan’s Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18. The volume contains extremely rare and never-before-heard recordings—jams in friends’ apartments, small house party performances, outtakes from Columbia records, and club renditions. The album’s curation traces Dylan’s development as a songwriter and folk artist from the beginning of his career through his rapid rise to stardom. And the songs capture the moment of their making. —Henry McGrath