Travelin’ Thru, 1967 – 1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15

Description

The contemporary chapter within the highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series revisits Dylan’s pivotal musical journeys to Nashville, from 1967 to 1969, that specialize in in the past unavailable recordings made with Johnny Cash and unreleased tracks from the John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, and Self Portrait sessions. Disc 1 finds Dylan in Columbia’s Studio A in Nashville recording alternate versions of compositions written for John Wesley Harding (October 17 and November 6, 1967) and Nashville Skyline (February 13-14, 1969) at the same time as introducing a new song “Western Road” (a Nashville Skyline outtake). Discs 2 and 3 are centered around Dylan’s collaborations with American music icon Johnny Cash including the much sought-after Columbia Studio A sessions and on-stage performances on the Ryman Auditorium (Would possibly 1, 1969) for the recording of the premiere episode of The Johnny Cash Show (at the start broadcast on ABC-TV on June 7, 1969). Disc 3 closes with tracks recorded on Would possibly 17, 1970 with Grammy Award-winning bluegrass banjo legend Earl Scruggs for the PBS tv special, “Earl Scruggs: His Circle of relatives and Friends” (at the start aired January 1971).