Think you know Bob Dylan? A new box set offers revelations from his early career that will shock even the most diehard fans.

On a balmy, late-summer evening, the suits at Sony Legacy convened a group of journalists and Bob Dylan scholars at Electric Lady Studios, the subterranean recording studio Jimi Hendrix built in the heart of Greenwich Village shortly before his death, to unveil the eighteenth installment in Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series.

With Sony now the sole stewards of Dylan’s recorded catalog, there were rumblings in Dylan fandom that The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 might not meet the high standards of previous volumes. But with interest in Dylan’s early years at an all-time high—the result of the massive success of last year’s Timothée Chalamet-star

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