Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Following the auction in 2022 of a new version of “Blowin’ in the Wind” that sold to a bidder for $1.8 million, three more re-recordings Bob Dylan has made of his classic songs with producer T Bone Burnett are also now being put up for sale via Christie’s: “A Simple Twist of Fate,” “Masters of War” and “Gotta Serve Somebody.” But this time, the purchase of the unique discs containing the songs will happen via a private sale, rather than a public auction.
As with “Blowin’ in the Wind,” the three songs being offered to prospective buyers of means as one-of-a-kind Iconic discs come from a recording session Dylan did in 2021 with Burnett.
That leaves two other songs Dylan cut at the time that are still being withheld for a future sale: “Not Dark Yet” and “The Time They Are A-Changin’.” The proprietary format Burnett has developed to manufacture the discs is in an analog format but, unlike vinyl records, said to be almost unsusceptible to normal wear-and-tear.
Christie’s says these three discs will be custom-manufactured and signed for the buyers — or buyer, if one party were to buy all three — and placed in a display case that is different from the custom box that the “Blowin’ in the Wind” recording was sold with last year. “We’ve stayed in constant touch with T Bone over the past year after our exciting result last July,” Elizabeth Seigel, the head of private and iconic collections for Christies, tells Variety. “There was much interest and speculation last year in what’s going to happen with the other recordings.
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