Recent Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan is releasing a box set of live recordings from next Friday, and now you can listen to several tracks from the collection. The album, called “Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings”, were recorded a mere one year after Dylan “went electric”, and showcase the singer/songwriter and his compatriots in The Hawks (later known as The Band) taking folk music and turning it on its head while on a tour that criss-crossed the world. The box set is a whopping 36-discs long, so get ready to listen to hours and hours of classic live Bob Dylan material.
Below, take a listen to a selection of fifteen tracks from the huge box set, courtesy of NPR’s “First Listen” series.