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Disc One of Travelin' Thru, 1967 - 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 finds Dylan in Columbia's Studio A in Nashville recording alternate versions of compositions written for John Wesley Harding (October 17 and November 6, 1967) and Nashville Skyline (February 13-14, 1969) while introducing a new song "Western Road" (a Nashville Skyline outtake). <br/><br/>Discs Two and Three of Travelin' Thru are centered around Dylan's collaborations with American music icon Johnny Cash including the much sought-after Columbia Studio A sessions and on-stage performances at the Ryman Auditorium (May 1, 1969) for the recording of the premiere episode of The Johnny Cash Show (originally broadcast on ABC-TV on June 7, 1969).<br/><br/>Disc Three closes with tracks recorded on May 17, 1970 with Grammy Award-winning bluegrass banjo legend Earl Scruggs for the PBS television special, "Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends" (originally aired January 1971).<br/><br/>1967 saw a profound and surprising transformation in Bob Dylan's musical evolution. With contemporary pop culture becoming increasingly baroque, surreal and psychedelic in the wake of Dylan's 1965-66 cutting edge trilogy, Bringing It All Back Home/Highway 61 Revisited/Blonde On Blonde, the artist withdrew from public view following a motorcycle accident in July 1966. He'd recorded Blonde On Blonde with a full-band in Nashville in February 1966 but, when it came time to record its follow-up in the fall of 1967, he opted for a simple trio--Dylan (guitar, vocals, harmonica), Charlie McCoy (bass) and Kenneth Buttrey (drums)--to create a sublime minimal sound. <br/><br/>In his liner notes for Travelin' Thru, Colin Escott writes, "Talking to journalist Matt Damsker about the sound of John Wesley Harding, Dylan said, 'I didn't know how to record the way other people were recording, and I didn't want to... I just didn't think all that production was necessary.' He also went for lyrical economy. 'What I'm trying to do now is not use too many words,' he said. 'There's no line you can stick your finger through. There's no blank filler.'"<br/><br/>Dylan returned to Columbia Studio A in February 1969 to work on Nashville Skyline. <br/>"Bob asked me to be a guest on the album," Johnny Cash said later, "and I went to the studio and they just turned on the recorder for about two hours." Columbia Studio A hosted two Dylan-Cash sessions: February 17 and 18, 1969 with a band that included rock 'n' roll pioneer Carl Perkins playing guitar on six tracks (including his own composition, "Matchbox"). One of the more intriguing sonic discoveries on Travelin' Thru is "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright/Understand Your Man," as two singular singer/songwriters pay mutual compositional and vocal tribute to each other.<br/><br/>The full-day Dylan-Cash duet session included the first known version of "Wanted Man" and the only version of the song ever sung by Dylan. The following week, Cash made it the opening song at his San Quentin concert. The session provides insight into the shared sensibilities of Dylan and Cash through a variety of covers including two Jimmie Rodgers medleys.<br/><br/>When The Johnny Cash Show was scheduled to debut in June 1969, the host offered Bob Dylan a guest slot on the first show. In the days before and after The Johnny Cash Show taping, Dylan was working on the album that emerged more than a year later as Self Portrait. For the May 3 Self Portrait session, guitarist Fred Carter was brought in to augment Dylan's usual Nashville band. The "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Ring of Fire" recorded that day are available for the first time on Travelin' Thru.<br/><br/>Although only one duet with Johnny Cash ("Girl from the North Country") appears on Dylan's original Nashville Skyline album, Cash penned the album's Grammy Award-winning liner notes. A month after Nashville Skyline was released, Dylan made his first live TV appearance in five years on The Johnny Cash Show; that performance is also included here.

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Två 180 gram LP:s innehållande standardversionen av albumet och SPIRIT etsat på en sida. <br/><br/>Den 17 mars släpper Depeche Mode sitt 14:e studioalbum "Spirit" där bandet för första gången samarbetat med producenten James Ford (Simian Mobile Disco, Florence & The Machine och Arctic Monkeys). "Spirit" blir uppföljaren till Depeche Modes hyllade album "Delta Machine" från 2013 som nådde topp-5-placeringar i hela 26 länder och förstaplatsen i 12 länder.<br/><br/>Bandet följer upp albumreleasen med turnén "Global Spirit Tour" som har sin världsturnépremiär i Stockholm och Friends Arena den 5 maj 2017. På första delen av Global Spirit Tour kommer Dave Gahan, Martin Gore och Andy Fletcher spela för över 1,5 miljoner fans i 32 städer i 21 länder i Europa. Efter de Europeiska konserterna under sommaren 2017 kommer turnén ta sig vidare till Nord- och Sydamerika. Global Spirit Tour kommer bli bandets 18:e turné och innebär deras första livekonserter på över tre år. I november släppte Depeche Mode en fyra timmar lång DVD innehållande bandets alla banbrytande musikvideor. En uppskattad nostalgitripp som påminner om Depeche Modes storhet.<br/><br/>Med över 100 miljoner sålda album och efter att spelat inför 30 miljoner fans världen över är Depeche Mode ett av den moderna musikens mest inflytelserika och bäst säljande band genom tiderna. Martin Gore, Dave Gahan och Andy Fletcher bildade Depeche Mode år 1981 och otaliga artister har bandet som största inspirationskälla samtidigt som kritiker hyllar dem med ord som att de "blir mer och mer betydelsefulla ju mer tiden går". Med nya albumet och världsturnén väntas Depeche Mode fortsätta denna historia av musikalisk innovation och kommersiell framgång.<br/><br/>På presskonferensen i Milano i höstas sa Dave Gahan: "We're exceptionally proud of Spirit's sound and energy, and we're excited to get back on tour to share it with our fans around the world."