By Stephen Pate – It might be Dylan and it might be the last minute discount but Bob Dylan is again at the top of the charts
The Complete Album Collection V.1 [Box set] ships today from Amazon.com, Sony Music and just about every record outlet, including iTunes.
On Amazon.com the $180 set popped out at #2 in Classic Rock. That’s awesome chart position for Dylan’s second box set in 3 months.
Amazon. com pulled off a big price discount last week, dropping the price to $180 from $247. I have to admit, despite owning all the music already, I ordered it.
14 of the CD’s are remastered and it’s a collectible box set.
Even better for Bob Dylan fans is the new Apple iPad app The Bob Dylan Bootlegs for Another Self-Portrait. If you own the mp3’s, the free app is like interactive and multi-media liner notes. Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10
From Amazon.com The Complete Album Collection V.1
is a colossal box set encompassing the entire official discography of the American songwriter-performer who’s revolutionized folk, pop and rock music over the past half century with a profoundly influential catalog of songs and sounds.
Beginning with tracks recorded for his eponymous 1962 Columbia Records debut album, the Bob Dylan Complete Album Collection Vol. One follows Dylan’s restless transformations across six decades as a singer, a songwriter, a concert performer and a studio artist who’s continually finding fresh ways of expressing and exploring the varieties of human experience, worldly and other, with music.
The Bob Dylan Complete Album Collection Vol. One also brings together for the first time, on two “Side Tracks” discs, a wealth of previously released non-album singles, tracks from Biograph and other compilations, songs from films and more.
The collection contains 35 studio titles (including the first-ever North American release of 1973’s Dylan album on CD), 6 live albums, the 2-CD “Side Tracks,” and a hardcover book featuring extensive new album-by-album liner notes penned by Clinton Heylin and a new introduction written by Bill Flanagan.
- All 41 official albums, including 14 newly remastered titles
- Also includes a 2CD compilation of songs not included on the original albums
- All the original artwork reproduced
- Hardcover booklet with extensive liner notes and rare photos
Check out Expecting Rain, the Bob Dylan fan site, for witty commentary on the box set.
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