BOB DYLAN ’ S 18th BOOTLEG SERIES INSTALMENT – THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW – IS AN AUDIO ANALOGUE TO A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: AN UNFURLING DOCUMENT OF A SEARING YOUNG TALENT IN THE ACT OF BECOMING. BUT BECOMING WHAT? ROCKER? FOLKIE? LOVER? POET? POLITICIAN? DIGGING INTO PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MUSIC FROM 1956 TO ’63, MOJO MARVELS AT DYLAN’S FIRST GREAT PHASE ALONG WITH ITS STILL-STUNNED EYEWITNESSES. “IT WAS EARTH-SHAKING,” THEY TELL DORIAN LYNSKEY .

Through The Open Window – The Bootleg Series Vol 18, 1956–1963

John & Yoko/ Plastic Ono Band Power ...

Basic Country Mustard

Sean Wilentz , co-producer and Dylan scholar

A teenager’s unusual folk-soul experiment comes around again.