Album artwork for Travelin’ Thru, Featuring Johnny Cash: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 by Bob Dylan

Latest installment in the long-running Bootleg series covers Dylan’s journey to Nashville between 1967 and 1970. Includes recordings from the John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline and Self Portrait sessions and over 20 tracks from the legendary sessions with Johnny Cash. 50 tracks on 3 CDs or 3 LPs – over 40 previously unreleased.

The Bootleg Series Vol. 15: Travelin’ Thru showcases never-before-heard recordings from Bob
Dylan’s journey to Nashville including his cherished collaboration with Johnny Cash.
While Dylan had recorded in Nashville once before in sessions that would form part of 1966’s
Blonde On Blonde, things had changed considerably when he came back to record a year and a
half later his first session since suffering a motorcycle accident that took him out of the public
eye. On John Wesley Harding, Dylan worked more methodically than before; the sevenalternate takes from the album featured here find Dylan fitting his songs’ rhythms to match their lyrics.
Returning in to Nashville in 1969, Dylan shifted even more toward the sound of country music
on Nashville Skyline, even adopting a distinctive croon in his singing voice. “Lay Lady Lay,”
“Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You” and “I Threw It All Away” still rank among the most
treasured entries in Dylan’s songwriting canon. A key participant in the Nashville Skyline sessions was Johnny Cash, who’d previously coveredDylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” leading to a deep mutual respect between the twomusical legends. Though Cash appeared on only one song on Nashville Skyline, “Girl From TheNorth Country” (and also penned the LP’s Grammy Award-winning liner notes), Travelin’ Thrufeatures 25 previously unreleased tracks featuring Dylan and Cash in the studio. Highlightsinclude takes on several of Cash’s most recognizable hits (“I Walk The Line,” “Ring Of Fire”),covers of Jimmie Rodgers and Carl Perkins (“Matchbox,” featuring Perkins himself on guitar)and a unique medley of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and Cash’s “Understand Your Man.” Amonth after Nashville Skyline was released, Dylan made his first live TV appearance in five yearson The Johnny Cash Show; that performance is also included here, as are two Cash covers(“Ring Of Fire,” “Folsom Prison Blues”) recorded during the sessions to Self Portrait.Travelin’ Thru closes with a 1970 collaboration between Dylan and famed banjo player EarlScruggs. Recorded in upstate New York for a PBS special on Scruggs, this informal session
features renditions of Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline Rag” and others.

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Bob Dylan

Travelin’ Thru, Featuring Johnny Cash: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15

Legacy
Album artwork for Travelin’ Thru, Featuring Johnny Cash: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 by Bob Dylan
LPx3

$59.99

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Released 11/01/2019Catalog Number

19075981921

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Album artwork for Travelin’ Thru, Featuring Johnny Cash: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 by Bob Dylan
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$29.99

Released 11/01/2019Catalog Number

19075981932

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Latest installment in the long-running Bootleg series covers Dylan’s journey to Nashville between 1967 and 1970. Includes recordings from the John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline and Self Portrait sessions and over 20 tracks from the legendary sessions with Johnny Cash. 50 tracks on 3 CDs or 3 LPs – over 40 previously unreleased.

The Bootleg Series Vol. 15: Travelin’ Thru showcases never-before-heard recordings from Bob
Dylan’s journey to Nashville including his cherished collaboration with Johnny Cash.
While Dylan had recorded in Nashville once before in sessions that would form part of 1966’s
Blonde On Blonde, things had changed considerably when he came back to record a year and a
half later his first session since suffering a motorcycle accident that took him out of the public
eye. On John Wesley Harding, Dylan worked more methodically than before; the sevenalternate takes from the album featured here find Dylan fitting his songs’ rhythms to match their lyrics.
Returning in to Nashville in 1969, Dylan shifted even more toward the sound of country music
on Nashville Skyline, even adopting a distinctive croon in his singing voice. “Lay Lady Lay,”
“Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You” and “I Threw It All Away” still rank among the most
treasured entries in Dylan’s songwriting canon. A key participant in the Nashville Skyline sessions was Johnny Cash, who’d previously coveredDylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” leading to a deep mutual respect between the twomusical legends. Though Cash appeared on only one song on Nashville Skyline, “Girl From TheNorth Country” (and also penned the LP’s Grammy Award-winning liner notes), Travelin’ Thrufeatures 25 previously unreleased tracks featuring Dylan and Cash in the studio. Highlightsinclude takes on several of Cash’s most recognizable hits (“I Walk The Line,” “Ring Of Fire”),covers of Jimmie Rodgers and Carl Perkins (“Matchbox,” featuring Perkins himself on guitar)and a unique medley of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and Cash’s “Understand Your Man.” Amonth after Nashville Skyline was released, Dylan made his first live TV appearance in five yearson The Johnny Cash Show; that performance is also included here, as are two Cash covers(“Ring Of Fire,” “Folsom Prison Blues”) recorded during the sessions to Self Portrait.Travelin’ Thru closes with a 1970 collaboration between Dylan and famed banjo player EarlScruggs. Recorded in upstate New York for a PBS special on Scruggs, this informal session
features renditions of Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline Rag” and others.