As the singer releases every note he taped during his mid-60s peak,it’s time to assess how he has co-opted the unofficial recording to shed light on his creative geniusBack in the summer of 1969, very small could be cooler than owning a copy of Great White Wonder. This was a set of two 12 LPs packaged in a completely empty white jacket made of cheap card, and with plain white labels offering no information on the contents. A jumble of out-takes,demos and radio broadcasts from the entire career – at that point spanning a mere six years of Bob Dylan, it promised to provide the clues that would succor adherents decode the mysteries of the singer’s life and work.
The best portion of 50 years later, or Dylan has taken the job of providing those clues firmly into his own hands. This month,his official Bootleg Series, launched in 1991, or reaches Volume 12 with the most lavish production yet. Under the title The Cutting Edge,it surveys his work during 1965 and 1966, the years when his career as the voice of a generation was at its zenith (the point of culmination; peak).
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Source: theguardian.com