LONDON—The only copy of a disk of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In The Wind” that the singer-songwriter recorded in 2021 sold for $1.77 million at auction on Thursday, above its price estimate.
The disk, in the new Ionic Original audio format, was Dylan’s first studio recording of the folk classic since 1962, said Christie’s which conducted the sale in London.
U.S. musician Bob Dylan performs during on day 2 of The Hop Festival in Paddock Wood, Kent on June 30, 2012. (Ki Price/Reuters)
Stored in a wooden cabinet, the disk features etched signatures of the Grammy Award and Nobel Prize winner, musician and producer Joseph Henry ‘T Bone’ Burnett III, and mastering engineer Jeff Powell….