Audio: Listen to Bob Dylan’s Rare ‘Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence’ Right Now!

BD1_Bootleg 12ed_ (c) Don Hunstein copy

Come November 6 the latest in Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series sets, The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Volume 12 , will be released.

Today we get a taste with this previously unreleased version of “Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence,” a track cut in 1965. The song never made an official Dylan album until 1991, when a different version was included on the first Bootleg Series set.

This is quite awesome. Dig the great Michael Bloomfield on lead guitar.

New version:

Here’s the version released in 1991:

– A Days of the Crazy-Wild blog post –

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