Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966

Audio Mixers: Damian Rodriguez; Steve Addabbo.Liner Note Authors: Bill Flanagan; Ben Rollins; Sean Wilentz.Photographers: Rowland Scherman; Don Hunstein; Jean-Marie Périer; Daniel Kramer ; Jean-Pierre Leloir; Jerry Schatzberg; Dale Smith; Jan Persson; W. Eugene Smith; Barry Wentzell; John Rudoff."I'll do this one more time and if I can't do it, we'll do another song. I'll do any song as good as I can do it the first time."Bob Dylan says these words once his first solo take of "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" breaks down after a minute. Dylan's definition of "good" is fluid, of course. Sometimes, a first take satisfied him -- "Maggie's Farm" and "Gates of Eden" are two prime examples -- but often he'd find he could do a song better or at least do it differently, swapping out words, speeding up the tempo, and changing the feel, occasionally radically transforming his song. Sometimes, these radical transformations are the versions that found their way to the finished record, so they're now seen