Fragments - Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol. 17

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This album of course provided a new addition to the Great American Songbook in the much-covered love song Make You Feel My Love and Disc 3 features a slightly more stripped-down version. Subscriber Only Music Review Bob Dylan: Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): A mindblowing comeback In 1997 Dylan emerged from a creative lowpoint to produce one of his greatest works. But the story of Fragments—the story of the album Time Out Of Mind isn’t, but almost was—rests with “Mississippi. The playbacks were a disaster, musicians crashing audibly into one another as they struggled to adapt. Dylan studied the elusive shadowy sounds of blues, folk, and early rock and roll for inspiration: Link Wray, Little Willie John, Little Walter, and the like.

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Disillusioned by modern recording techniques following 1990’s flat all-stars workout Under The Red Sky, the Minnesota-born legend’s creative energies were gradually regenerated by the extensive trawl through traditional Blues and folk songs (a crucial formative inspiration for Dylan’s songwriting) executed on the starkly solo acoustic Good As I Been to You (1992) and 1993’s World Gone Wrong. The second and third discs focus on “Outtakes and Alternates,” and hearing Dylan and the musicians work through changes in the arrangements is fascinating. He had not released any original material since the rightly slated Under the Red Sky, in 1990, recording just two albums of traditional material, Good as I Been to You (1992) and World Gone Wrong (1993). Grey cover; beige, blue, grey, brown and purple Columbia retro inner sleeves; grey-blue Columbia retro labels. To commemorate Bob Dylan’s 60th Anniversary as a recording artist of immeasurable musical and cultural impact, a new music video, “Subterranean Homesick Blues 2022,”—featuring a kinetic collage of visuals by a diverse array of artists—has launched.The studio lineup was increased, and an illustrious mix of session musicians and members of Dylan’s touring band found themselves in Florida: Bucky Baxter (acoustic guitar, pedal steel), Duke Robillard (electric guitar/Gibson L-5), Robert Britt (Martin acoustic guitar, Fender Stratocaster), Cindy Cashdollar (slide guitar), Tony Garnier (bass, Upright bass), Augie Meyers (Vox organ, Hammond B3, accordion), Jim Dickinson (keyboards, Wurlitzer electric piano, pump organ) and drummers Jim Keltner, Brian Blade and David Kemper.

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In concluding the chapter about recording Oh Mercy, Dylan wrote, “Danny and I would see each other again in ten years [eight, actually] and we’d work together once more in a rootin’ tootin’ way. I've gone too far down life's beaten track, and I'm praying for the Master to bring me back" is DROPPED.These fragments Dylan might have shored against his ruins in 1997 now sound much less like the intimations of mortality that critics took them for back then. You can listen to the first taste of the album, version 2 of ‘Love Sick’, recorded January 14, 1997 at Criteria Studios below.

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I was lucky enough to hear it repeatedly when it was in Dylan’s set list from 2001 until 2012, and wouldn’t trade a single evening.While the songs compositions juxtapose a jaunty vibe, with death knell lyrics, that clobber the listener and far more deeply translate the desolation and despair Dylan was evidently stuck in. Version one of the roadhouse rocker Dirt Road Blues is a much longer and more raucous take of the album version. In true Dylan style, however, the finished product creates as many mysteries as it solves, while unveiling a glorious backdrop for the creativity that fuelled the epochal album.

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Dylan’s voice is much stronger, with the instruments tagging along in little interjections, like scurrying creatures in the alley down which the singer is walking.Across two discs-worth of music, Live 1962 – 1966: Rare Performances from The Copyright Collections chronicles Dylan’s transformation from groundbreaking acoustic “folk” artist to iconic force of pop culture.