The Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, to be released by Sony Music Entertainment on October 31, 2025, will explore Bob Dylan's early years.
The new bootleg series will narrate the story of Dylan's evolvement as a songwriter and performer, from Minnesota to the Greenwich Village bohemia in the early 1960s.
The collection includes rare Columbia Records outtakes, recordings made at club dates, in small informal gatherings, in friends' apartments, and at jam sessions in musicians' hangouts.
The collection also features a previously unreleased recording of Dylan's landmark concert at Carnegie Hall on October 26, 1963. The concert marked the end of the beginning of Dylan's long career.
Through The Open Window will be out digitally and in 8xCD, 2xCD, and 4xLP editions. The physical editions will also come with a 125-page liner notes essay from Sean Wilentz.
"Of that time and those places, this collection is just a fragment," writes Wilentz. "Even so, as an aural record of an artist becoming himself—or in Dylan's case, his first of many artistic selves—the collection aims to collapse time and space, not as a nostalgic reverie but as a living connection between the past and the present, the old and the new, which are never as distinct as we might think."
The 8CD Deluxe set includes 139 tracks - 48 never-before released performances, as well as 38 super-rare cuts, over 100 rare photographs.
As a preview of the latest volume of his Bootleg Series, Dylan has shared the song "Rocks and Gravel."
Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 is available to pre-order here.
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