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Through The Open Window
The Bootleg Series Vol. 18
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Dylan’s Bootleg Series Through the Open Window Review
Rolling Stone / David Browne
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Rolling Stone reviews Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18, surveying 1956-1963 recordings from New York and Minnesota to document his early artistic development.
Dylan's Through The Open Window: "The Ancient Footsteps That Never Fade"
Hot Press / Anne Margaret Daniel
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Hot Press reviews Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18, covering 1956-1963 recordings from Saint Paul, New York, and London, produced by Steve Berkowitz and Sean Wilentz.
Open the Window, Hear the Howl
Dylan.FM / Dear Landlord
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Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window, 1956-1963, is reviewed as a comprehensive archive of Dylan's early performances.
Exclusive Review: Bob Dylan’s Fragments
Hot Press / Anne Margaret Daniel
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Dylan's Fragments Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) is reviewed as The Bootleg Series Vol 17, featuring remixes, outtakes, and live tracks from the Time Out of Mind era.
Review: Bob Dylan’s The Cutting Edge Bootleg Series
Time / Jim Farber
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In 2015, Time reviewed Bob Dylan's The Cutting Edge 1965-1966, assessing three editions, spotlighting key outtakes, and recommending the six-disc set for the strongest overall experience.
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The review details Bootleg Series Vol. 18, spanning 1956–1963 recordings across St. Paul, Madison, and New York, including Gerde's Folk City and Carnegie Hall.
Glide Magazine / Doug Collette – 10/31/2025
The Bootleg Series Vol. 18, issued as an 8-CD box set and double-CD, compiles Bob Dylan recordings from 1956 to 1963, curated by Sean Wilentz and Steve Berkowitz.
Paste Magazine reviews Bob Dylan’s Through the Open Window, the 18th Bootleg Series volume spanning 1956–1963, documenting early recordings and New York Carnegie Hall performances to trace Dylan’s emergence.
This review details how Legacy Recordings' Through the Open Window documents Bob Dylan's 1956–1963 development across 139 recordings, co-produced by Sean Wilentz and Steve Berkowitz.
KLOF Magazine reviews Bob Dylan's Through The Open Window Bootleg Series Vol 18 at klofmag.com in 2025 to assess the collection.
Louder Than War reviews Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18 Through The Open Window, assessing 1956-63 recordings across studio, home, club, and festival sources.
Cult Following / Ewan Gleadow – 10/31/2025
On 2025-10-31 a review assessed Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window 1956–1963, a streaming compilation of 1956–1963 recordings and live performances including Carnegie Hall and Gerdes Folk City, for its archival context and alternate takes.
On 26 October 1963, Bob Dylan performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, later featured across two discs of this set.
On 2025-11-01, Maxazine published a review of Bob Dylan's Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18, covering 1956–1963 recordings with 48 unreleased tracks and the 1963 Carnegie Hall concert.
An analytical guide examines the eight disc Through The Open Window set, chronicling Dylan's 1956–1963 tapes, studio sessions, and live performances and noting first appearances and improved transfers.
Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol 18 compiles 168 recordings from 1956–1963, opening with a 15-year-old performance and closing with the November 1963 Carnegie Hall show.
Bootleg Series Vol. 18 Through The Open Window 1956-1963 centers on the October 26, 1963 Carnegie Hall show, compiled by Steve Berkowitz and Sean Wilentz and summarized on Metacritic in late October 2025.
Sean Wilentz co-produced Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 18, compiling 48 unreleased Dylan performances from 1956–1963, including Greenwich Village sessions and the October 1963 Carnegie Hall concert.
Bob Dylan and collaborators release Through the Open Window, a 139-track boxed set of Minnesota recordings from 1956-1963, spanning St. Paul and Minneapolis venues to document Dylan's maturation.
On 2023-09-22, Mike Jurkovic published a subjective retrospective on Dylan's Bootleg Series volumes 11–14 and related releases on lightwoodpress.com.
Vulture published a January 2023 overview of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series, detailing volumes from 1–3 to 17 and tracing their impact on Dylanology.
Bob Dylan's eight CD Bootleg Series Deluxe Edition traces his ascent from Minnesota to Greenwich Village and Carnegie Hall, including 139 tracks with 48 unreleased items.
Bob Dylan's archival box set The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 collects 58 unreleased tracks recorded from 1961 to 1989 for Columbia.
In early 2023, Bob Dylan released The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments, highlighting Time Out of Mind sessions with a new remix, outtakes, and live recordings.
Bob Dylan Fragments covers the 1996–97 Time Out Of Mind sessions in a Bootleg Series release, reviewed by a UK publication.
Bob Dylan's The Cutting Edge 1965-66 box set documents 1965-66 studio takes at Columbia Studio A in New York.
Glide Magazine reviews Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 17 Fragments Time Out of Mind Sessions 1996-1997, detailing remixes, outtakes, and live performances.
Exclaim published a review on January 27, 2023 detailing Bootleg Series Vol. 17 Fragments Time Out of Mind Sessions 1996-1997.
On 2023-01-20 a blog post discusses Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind sessions in Bootleg Series Vol 17 Fragments, covering 1996-1997 recordings and related material.
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On 2025-10-28, a review discusses Bootleg Series 18 Through The Open Window, an eight disc collection of Dylan's early recordings.
Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through the Open Window documents Dylan's formative years from a 1956 Minneapolis recording to a 1963 Carnegie Hall performance.
Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through the Open Window documents Dylan's 1956-1963 formative years in an eight disc set.
Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18, an eight-CD chronological collection of recordings from 1956–1963 across home, radio, clubs, Newport and studio sessions, documents Dylan's early artistic development.
Clash Music reviews Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, a box set compiling Bob Dylan recordings from 1956–1963, including early demos and full Carnegie Hall shows.
The Bootleg Series Volume 18 is out October 31 on Columbia Legacy.
Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through the Open Window chronicles Dylan's early career from a 1956 private recording to the 1963 Carnegie Hall concert.
Sony Music announces the pre order for Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Vol. 18 Through The Open Window, 1956–1963, with a release date of October 31, 2025 in the United States.
On Halloween, Dylan's camp released The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window 1956–1963 (Highlights), a 42-track collection of early recordings.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, on 31 October 2025, chronicling Dylan's emergence from Minnesota to Greenwich Village.
Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window 1956-1963 will be released on October 31, 2025, with recordings from 1956 to 1963.
On 2025-10-31, The Bootleg Series Through The Open Window Vol 18 documents Dylan's 1956–1963 recordings, concluding with the Carnegie Hall 1963 concert in New York.
Rolling Stone reports that Sean Wilentz is curating Bootleg Series Vol 18 Through the Open Window, 1956-1963, detailing Dylan's early recordings and the Village community.
On Oct. 31, Sony Legacy will release Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, previewed at Electric Lady Studios in New York.
DylanRevisited announces Bootleg Series Vol 1 collecting unreleased material from 1961 to 1964, including Minnesota tapes.
Stereophile published a critical essay analyzing Dylan's late career, unreleased vault material, and the reception of albums such as Under the Red Sky.
Cult Following published on 2023-01-27 in the UK a review of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol 17 Time Out of Mind Sessions.
Cult Following published a review on 2024-02-27 of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 12 The Cutting Edge 1965-1966, detailing six hours of takes from 1965-66 sessions.
On October 31, 1964, Bob Dylan performed a nineteen-song set at New York's Philharmonic Hall, documented on Bootleg Series Vol. 6 with Joan Baez joining for four songs.
Bob Dylan’s Fragments — Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997) compiles five discs of session outtakes, early takes and live versions illuminating the Time Out of Mind era.
the fm substack post analyzes dylan witmark demos 1962-64 to assess early songwriting and its relation to earlier bootleg volumes.
On 2025-10-06, Cult Following published a review criticizing Live Sessions 1961-62 for lacking provenance and offering degraded Bob Dylan recordings.
Rolling Stone details the best Bob Dylan bootlegs, specifying when and where each recording occurred and what makes it essential.
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Bob Dylan's Through The Open Window bootleg series edition documents recordings from 1956–1963, released as an 8CD deluxe package featuring 139 tracks from New York clubs, studios, and Carnegie Hall.
On 2025-11-01, CNN reports the release of Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through the Open Window 1956-1963.
Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series volume Through the Open Window documents performances from 1956 to 1963 across Minnesota, New York, Montreal, and London.
Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, is scheduled for release on October 31, 2025 by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings in the USA.
CNN reported on 2025-11-01 that Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through the Open Window documents material from 1956 through 1963.
Best Classic Bands announced on 2025-10-11 that Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18 Through the Open Window 1956–1963 is forthcoming.
On 2025-10-31, Sony announced Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol 18 Through the Open Window 1956-1963 Highlights LP Box Set.
Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18 documents his emergence from Minnesota to Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, released as an 8CD Deluxe set.
Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18 Through The Open Window 1956-1963 releases October 31, 2025 worldwide.
Dylan will release Bootleg Series Vol. 18 Through The Open Window on October 31 in vinyl and CD formats.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window, 1956-1963 on October 31.
Bob Dylan releases Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window 1956-1963 on Oct 31 with extensive archival material.
On 2025-09-17, Bob Dylan announced Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window 1956-1963, a release featuring unreleased material and a Carnegie Hall recording.
Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window 1956-1963 was announced and will arrive October 31, featuring eight discs and 139 tracks.
Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through the Open Window 1956–1963 Highlights collects 42 tracks from 1956 to 1963 across Minnesota to New York venues, including 18 unreleased recordings.
Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18 Through the Open Window, 1956-1963, will be released on October 31, tracing Dylan's early years from Hibbing, Minnesota to Greenwich Village, New York.
Backstage Axxess / Bob Dylan – 10/31/2025
Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, is released by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, tracing Dylan's emergence from Minnesota to Greenwich Village and including a Carnegie Hall 1963 concert.
Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through the Open Window, 1956-1963, is due Oct 31, featuring 139 tracks and a historic Carnegie Hall 1963 concert.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 on October 31, 2025.
Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956–1963, is due October 31, with recordings spanning Minnesota, New York, London and stages.
Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series 18 Through The Open Window will be released on October 31, 2025 as an eight CD deluxe set.
Bob Dylan announced Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window, an 8xCD box set of 1956-1963 arriving October 31.
Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, will be released on October 31.
The Music Mania Records page outlines the track by track contents of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18 Through the Open Window, detailing performances from 1956 to 1963 in multiple venues.
On 2025-10-31, The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 Through The Open Window, a two CD collection spanning 1956–1963, will be released with pre-orders shipping 30-10-2025.
Dylan announced Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window 1956-1963, a box set due Friday October 31 via Columbia Legacy Recordings to illuminate Dylan's early years.
Sony Music Entertainment releases Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window on October 31, 2025.
In November 2025, xsnoize reported online at xsnoize.com the release of Bob Dylan's archival collection Through The Open Window, covering 1956-1963.
Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through the Open Window, 1956-1963 drops October 31 with eight CDs, a hardcover book, and a preview single Rocks and Gravel.
Grateful Web / Sacks and Company – 10/31/2025
Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 is out now on Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings.
Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, is released by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, highlighting Dylan's early New York years.
Tinnitist / Darryl Sterdan – 10/31/2025
On 2025-10-30, Tinnitist features Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window 1956-1963, highlighting rare and unreleased recordings.
On 2025-10-31, SuperDeluxeEdition reports the release Through The Open Window as the latest in Bootleg Series Vol 18, covering 1956–1963 and available on CD and vinyl.
Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18 Through the Open Window, a 1956-1963 archival box set, will be released on October 31.
On October 31, Dylan releases Through the Open Window The Bootleg Series Vol. 18, a 1956–1963 archive including a 1963 Carnegie Hall concert.
Dylan announced Volume 18 Through The Open Window, a 1956-1963 box set, due October 31 on Columbia/Legacy.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 18 Through The Open Window 1956-1963 on October 31 in the United States, presenting rare outtakes, club recordings, and the complete Carnegie Hall 1963 concert.
On 2025-10-31, The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 Through the Open Window, 1956-1963 documents Dylan's early New York recordings.
The review notes Bob Dylan's Through The Open Window as a comprehensive archival collection of early recordings from 1956 to 1963.
Official Charts reports that Through The Open Window - The Bootleg peaked at 13 on the UK charts on 09/11/2025.
On 2025-09-17, Bob Dylan announced Bootleg Series Vol. 18 covering 1956-1963 and noted his move from Minnesota to New York City.
The Bob Dylan Bootleg Series, launched in 1991, continues to release rare recordings and live performances worldwide, illustrating Dylan's songwriting process.
Cult Following published a review on 2025-09-18 evaluating Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series 0 Rare and Unreleased 1959-2010 Vol 1 on its site.
An article on DylanBooks Substack details the Bootleg Series mini books volumes 1 through 17, with liner notes by multiple authors dated 1991-2023.
Cult Following (UK) published on 2024-06-26 a review of Bob Dylan's The Best of The Bootleg Series.
Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series is ranked and analyzed in an Ultimate Classic Rock article noting the 1991 launch and its impact on Dylan's historical narrative.
Bob Dylan Bootleg Series 6 was released as a 2CD set in 2004, listing nineteen tracks.
March 26, 1991, Bob Dylan released The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) in the USA to reveal previously unreleased studio recordings.
Cult Following published a review of Bob Dylan's Rare and Unreleased Vol. 3 on 2024-01-25.
On 2024-04-16, Tinnitist published a review of Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Vol. 6 Live 1964 Concert at Philharmonic Hall.
On 2024-01-14, Cult Following published a review of Bob Dylan's Rare and Unreleased Vol. 2, examining 1961-1991 session material.
Bob Dylan performed his first professional gig at Gerde's Folk City in New York on April 11, 1961, as a forthcoming Bootleg Series release Through The Open Window 1956-1963 is announced.
On 2024-01-28, Cult Following published a review of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol 7 No Direction Home.
Bob Dylan performed Night Two of the Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour in Prague, described as fragmentary and moment driven.
Netflix released Bob Dylan: Through the Open Window recently to examine Dylan's formative years through rare footage and interviews.
Author discusses last year's Bob Dylan bootleg covers newsletter on Flagging Down, its sequel, and a planned third part about fan art.
In spring 1963, Dylan is described reading Broadside on a train, with notes on an early song and a bootleg album feature.
On 2023-01-28, Laura and Robert discuss Bob Dylan's new Bootleg Series Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions on Definitely Dylan, and what it reveals about Time Out of Mind.
Rocknyc.live shows maintenance status for a Bob Dylan related page at bob-dylans-fragments-reviewed.html, with no return date provided.
Bob Dylan and The Band are reviewed in The Bootleg Series Vol 11 The Basement Tapes Raw, published by Cult Following UK on 2024-02-09 to evaluate unreleased material and six-disc packaging.
Dylan releases Fragments - Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) as Bootleg Series Vol. 17, featuring alternate takes, demos, and live recordings.
Bob Dylan's Heaven's Door Bootleg Series VI launches in Kentucky as a 12-year wheated bourbon, paired with a micro-distillery expansion and the biopic A Complete Unknown.
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