Title: Essential Recordings, But this version sucks!
Product review: These recordings are essential to any serious music fan (all genres). But please take my advice and DO NOT purchase this "official" version. I bought a bootlegged cd with most of this music on it, and fell in love with the songs though the quality was dreadful. So I bought this double cd set and sat down to listen to it--YUCK! All the mastering and cleaning has nearly sucked the life out of old Bobby. What's more, the version of "Too Much of Nothing" they've given you here is just plain insipid (as opposed to the more "Dylan-esque" version on the bootleg). You need to own these recordings, but you'd be better off going somewhere else to get them. A crackling speaker or a distorted vocal might not sound appealing, but in this case it lends Bob and The Band untold energy and "excitement".
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