October 2024

• Frederick French-Pounce has recently released a 2½-hour episode of his Mixology podcast, dealing with the different mixes of Blonde On Blonde. An earlier episode does the same for Highway 61 Revisited, and I understand Bringing It All Back Home will also be covered before too long. The podcast series can be found here.

April 2023

• A second bass player on Blonde On Blonde's "One Of Us Must Know".

June 2021

• More precise release dates for some UK singles.

December 2020

• Further information concerning the release date of Dylan's final single of this period.

May 2020

• Odds & ends relating to the release history of Blonde On Blonde.

March 2020

• Minor enhancements to Appendixes A and F of the Blonde On Blonde section.

August 2019

• More about when exactly Blonde On Blonde was released

• An update to the Singles section regarding the mix used for "Pledging My Time"

June 2019

• Minor updates to the Blonde On Blonde section, including further evidence regarding the album's release date.

• Minor updates to the Singles section regarding the mis-pressed "Positively 4th Street"

May 2019

• New section on Dylan's 1965-66 singles

• New General Considerations section including a new discussion of release dates, and a couple of items moved from the main menu
  

November 2018

• Improvements made in the light of Daryl Sanders' book That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville and the Making of Blonde on Blonde

• These affect Highway 61 Revisited as well as Blonde On Blonde

• There are also new annotations to the some of the articles about The Cutting Edge

December 2017

Welcome to the re-launched site at its new address. It looks pretty much the same as before –  sorry, no facelift –  but the content has been updated in a number of ways:

• There's a new page about the monumental release of the complete 1965-66 studio sessions, in the form of The Bootleg Series Vol.12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966, Collector's Edition.  This provides links to a series of articles written for the UK Dylan Magazine ISIS, giving a detailed commentary on each studio track.

• The new mixes made for The Cutting Edge are also brought into the discussions of the three original studio albums of this period.

• The article previously dedicated to the now long-departed Sony SACD editions has been replaced by a more wide-ranging essay about the impact of advancing audio technology, bringing it up to the present.

• The article on the generic differences between mono and stereo releases has been expanded with some information about how the industry made the transition to stereo.

• I've slightly reduced the space devoted to changes in the albums' packaging, particularly in relation to the numerous 21st century editions.  This is always well covered and illustrated on Alan Fraser's Searching For A Gem website.

• The text of all the essays has been reviewed, and brought up to date or amended where it seemed appropriate.

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