New Bob Dylan bootleg series. Fragments: Time Out Of Mind (1996-97). Includes a new remix, outtakes and live material. Out January 2023.
Dylan – next Bootleg series : Time Out Of Mind
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What a brilliant and strange record that is. An unexpected return to form and the point at which he seemed to figure out how to do Old Man Dylan.
I think he was only in his mid to late 50s at the time, but he felt so much older; all that morbid introspection. And then he just wallops Make You Feel My Love on top for good measure.
It’s quite conceivably a top 5 Dylan album, for me. Can’t say I’m interested in remixes, but out takes and live stuff could be great.
Trouble is they already (partially) covered this era in Tell Tale Signs, wonder a little bit if the barrel is being scraped. Is a good album, a return to form, but I actually preferred the next one (Love and Theft)
It’s a Daniel Lanois production, so there are probably hundreds of hours with quite different versions and arrangements, scrapped songs and studio jams.
Or Adele’s Make Me Feel Your Love as a million talentless screechers on no talent shows like X factor and The Voice invariably refer to it
Having gotten more and more into Dylan’s ouevre as I’ve gotten older, I’ll definitely be in for this.
Duke Robillard on TOOM .
He told Brian Wise (Rhythms mag, RRR radio station Melbourne ): “I sat about four feet from him for about nine days, twelve hours a day, and watched him work and it was an amazing thing really. He went through two or three versions, sometimes four versions, completely changing them. I was really in awe of him… I found myself wanting to hear them over and over after I left the sessions and remembering certain words and melodies. I’m dying to hear it.”
When he did hear it, he was gutted. Said he did not even recognise it.
This goes some way toward explaining why: “He [Lanois] basically asked me not to play like me – not play anything familiar, not play anything related to blues, which was kind of interesting because Bob Dylan obviously wanted me there to be who I am and add that to his music. It was an interesting job because I really wasn’t sure what to do to please either one of them because of what the requests were
Not Dark Yet – one of his finest.
Yes they have mined these sessions a bit but I have to say, they have consistently come out with some good releases and I expect this to be no different.
I agree Fatima, I think the endless takes was one reason he didn’t persist with Lanois. That and the concern at being subsumed into Lanois’ swamp schtick.
Rare candid snap of Bob during Lanois studio session:
I’ve so far bought all of these but my interest in Dylan tends to flag noticeably post ‘Desire’ so these 80s and 90s releases make me reach more grudgingly for the old wallet.
I think the later ones have been very rewarding. The least rewarding was the Blood onThe Tracks set.
Agreed on BOTT. The one album was pretty rubbish tbs
One of the most interesting and enjoyable was the 80s one that came out earlier this year
The one I return to most often is the complete edition of the Basement Tapes. Although last night I enjoyed listening to the Travelling Thru box which was making me feel guilty by staring at me from the shelf and saying “you bought me a while ago and only played me once or twice.” Less impressed with the Johnny Cash contributions but then- controversially- I never really got on with his off-key singing.
That’s like the pebbles, old coins and sweet wrappers you find in the footwell of a second hand car – ‘patina’ they call it.
If you can only have one Dylan Bootleg Series it has to be Self Portrait. Magnificent in every possible way.
Tell Tale Signs gets my vote.
Cutting Edge for me probably, really like Trouble No More too
Time Out of Mind is right up there. Standing in the Doorway, Can’t Wait, Not Dark Yet and Tryin to Get to Heaven are masterpieces, and Highlands is gloriously idiosyncratic. Lanois gets a lot of stick from `Dylan fans, and, indeed, from Dylan himself, but the fact remains that two of Dylan’s best albums of his post-70s canon have Lanois’s signature production.
True
Seconded.
However It was, I think, after this that Jack Frost got the credits and I have to say every record henceforth has sounded excellent.
I remember quite enjoying this album at the time, but was so traumatised by the gig I saw when he toured it that I’ve barely listened to Dylan since. I may give it a play tomorrow while I’m working.
This is interesting and encouraging :
Duke Robillard will be happy.
He told Brian Wise (Rhythms mag, 3RRR Melbourne ): “I sat about four feet from him for about nine days, twelve hours a day, and watched him work and it was an amazing thing really. He went through two or three versions, sometimes four versions, completely changing them. I was really in awe of him… I found myself wanting to hear them over and over after I left the sessions and remembering certain words and melodies. I’m dying to hear it.”
When he did hear it, he was gutted. Said he did not even recognise it.
This goes some way toward explaining why: “He [Lanois] basically asked me not to play like me – not play anything familiar, not play anything related to blues, which was kind of interesting because Bob Dylan obviously wanted me there to be who I am and add that to his music. It was an interesting job because I really wasn’t sure what to do to please either one of them because of what the requests were.”
Tracklisting (rumoured)
disc 1: time out of mind
1. love sick (2022 remix)
2. dirt road blues (2022 remix)
3. standing in the doorway (2022 remix)
4.million miles (2022 remix)
5. tryin’ to get to heaven (2022 remix)
6. ’til i fell in love with you (2022 remix)
7. not dark yet (2022 remix)
8. cold irons bound (2022 remix)
9. make you feel my love (2022 remix)
10. can’t wait (2022 remix)
11. highlands (2022 remix)
disc 2: outtakes and alternates
1. the water is wide (8/19/96)
2. dreamin’ of you (10/1/96)
3. red river shore – version 1 (9/26/96)
4. love sick – version 1 (1/14/97)
5. ’til i fell in love with you – version 1 (10/3/96)
6. not dark yet – version 1 (1/11/97)
7. can’t wait – version 1 (1/21/97)
8. dirt road blues – version 1 (1/12/97)
9. mississippi – version 1 (1/11/97)
10. ’til i fell in love with you – version 2 (1/16/97)
11. standing in the doorway – version 1 (1/13/97)
12. tryin’ to get to heaven – version 1 (1/18/97)
13. cold irons bound (1/9/97)
disc 3: outtakes and alternates
1. love sick – version 2 (1/14/97)
2. dirt road blues – version 2 (1/20/97)
3. can’t wait – version 2 (1/14/97)
4. red river shore – version 2 (1/19/97)
5. marchin’ to the city (1/5/97)
6. make you feel my love – take 1 (1/5/97)
7. mississippi – version 2 (1/11/97)
8. standing in the doorway – version 2 (1/13/97)
9. ’til i fell in love with you – version 3 (1/16/97)
10. not dark yet – version 2 (1/18/97)
11. tryin’ to get to heaven – version 2 ( 1/12/97)
12. highlands (1/16/97)
disc 4: live (1998 – 2001)
1. love sick (6/24/98)
2. can’t wait (2/6/99)
3. standing in the doorway (10/6/00)
4. million miles (1/31/98)
5. tryin’ to get to heaven (9/20/00)
6. ’til i fell in love with you (4/5/98)
7. not dark yet (9/22/00)
8. cold irons bound (5/19/00)
9. make you feel my love (5/21/98)
10. can’t wait (5/19/00)
11. mississippi (11/15/01)
12. highlands (3/24/01)
disc 5: bonus disc (previously released)
1. dreamin’ of you (10/1/96)
2. red river shore – version 1 (1/19/97)
3. red river shore – version 2 (1/8/97)
4. mississippi – version 1 (9/96)
5. mississippi – verison 3 (1/17/97)
6. mississippi – version 2 (1/17/97)
7. marchin’ to the city – version 1 (1/5/97)
8. marchin’ to the city – version 2 (1/6/97)
9. can’t wait – version 1 (10/1/96)
10. can’t wait – version 2 (1/5/97)
11. cold irons bound – live (6/11/04)
12. tryin’ to get to heaven – live (10/5/00)