Bob Dylan to release box set of early recordings, including many made in Minnesota

The archival material surrounding Bob Dylan’s career rivals the output of almost any musician for sheer volume, and we’re getting a little more.

Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 will showcase the earliest days of his career, collecting music from 1956 to 1963. That period spans his teenage years in Minnesota through those much mythologized early days in Greenwich Village.

An announcement says many of the songs are "exceedingly rare," while others have never been released in any form.

To tease that trove, the mercurial artist, who recently performed at Farm Aid 40 in Minneapolis, has shared “Rocks and Gravel (Solid Road),” a song recorded in April 1962 as part of the sessions for The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.

Among its rarities, the collection features songs recorded in