Bob Dylan, “More Blood, More Tracks - The Bootleg Series, Volume 14” (Columbia/Legacy) It’s hard to know where to start with the in-studio bonuses: Paul busting out a raw and soulful proto-version of “Let It Be”? Ringo backed by a minimalist, all-Beatle chorale instead of a choir and orchestra on an un-gooped up “Good Night”? A 15-minute “Helter Skelter” that still seems too short? Or maybe we should focus on The Thing Itself - an album that remains the first and last word in glorious rock sprawl, now with a fresh Giles Martin turbo charge?Ģ. Bootleggers had given us a glimpse of what lay in the vaults, but the long-leaked “Esher Demos” are in far higher quality, giving us an acoustic hootenanny version of the White Album. So getting all the demos, alternate takes, abandoned original songs and silly covers that come as bonuses in this 7-disc set is gorging and gluttony of the highest order. There’s a way in which a boxed set of the White Album could almost seem superfluous: The original double-LP was so jam-packed with disparate sounds and ideas, it felt like the seminal “super deluxe” set all by itself. The Beatles, “The Beatles (White Album)- Super Deluxe” (Apple/Universal)
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