It was a very good year: when Bob Dylan released 39 discs of music

Bob Dylan released the 36 disc ‘Live 1966 Recordings’ an astounding document of his world tour that year and the 3 disc release of ‘Triplicate,’ his third album of American standards.

By Peter Stone Brown

As Al Kooper told me in 1994 when I interviewed him in anticipation of the original Live 66 Bootleg Series, “What’s really interesting is they’re putting out the stuff from England from the ’66 tour with the Hawks, and that’s some of the greatest rock and roll ever made in the history of rock and roll and that will vindicate probably Dylan to this generation that has no idea why people think he’s great. It’s scary how good that stuff is.”

In the past five months (2017), Bob Dylan has released 39 discs of music, which is more than his studio albums combined, not counting the Bootleg Series and other compilations. Last November, Dylan released the 36 disc Live 1966 Recordings a rather astounding document of his world tour that year. It was a very good way to temporarily escape from the election results three days…