GREAT WHITE WONDER
Great White Wonder is the first notable rock bootleg album, released in July 1969, and containing unofficially released recordings by Bob Dylan. Several of the tracks presented here were recorded with The Band in the summer of 1967 in West Saugerties, New York, during the informal sessions that were later released in a more complete form in Dylan’s 1975 album The Basement Tapes. Much of the other material consists of a recording made in December 1961 in a Minnesota hotel room (referred to as the “Minnesota hotel tape”), studio outtakes from several of Dylan’s albums, and a live performance on The Johnny Cash Show. The album was nicknamed the “great white wonder” due to the original pressing’s plain white gatefold cover; newer pressings contain the name stamped on. This name — or variations, such as “white wonder” and “little white wonder” — would surface in later bootleg releases or in the initials “G.W.W.” that were printed on record labels or covers. (More from Wikipedia)
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