And you know what? If you ain’t got it now, you ain’t getting it.” Regarding the outtake “Mississippi” (rerecorded for 2001’s Love And Theft), Dylan recounted, “ thought it was pedestrian… He tried to convince me that the song had to be ‘sexy, sexy, and more sexy’… He had his own way of looking at things, and in the end I had to reject this because I thought too highly of the expressive meaning behind the lyrics to bury them in some cauldron of drum-theory.”įor the 11 songs that made the final LP, Lanois buried the recordings in all sorts of hazy echo, rendering the final result thin, sterile, and unexciting. Lanois got frustrated when Dylan slowed down and lowered the key of “Not Dark Yet.” Dylan said, “We did it in E flat. Yet during the sessions, Lanois’ dense perfectionism clashed with Dylan’s direct spontaneity. Lanois’s crucial role in supporting these songs and encouraging Dylan throughout the LP’s development can’t be erased. When Dylan and Lanois excitedly accepted Time Out Of Mind’s 1998 Album Of The Year Grammy, the former expressed appreciation for the latter’s efforts. Time Out Of Mind launched Dylan’s renaissance as an artist still relevant in the present, and quickly went platinum. Dylan’s writing here warranted the praise, some of which was also gratitude for his continued existence-between the album’s completion and release, he suffered from a fungal infection around the heart that some media reports say nearly killed him. Upon its 1997 release, critics and the general public hailed Time Out Of Mind, produced by Dylan and Daniel Lanois, as a deeply poetic late-career (really mid-career) masterpiece on mortality and the human condition. 17, is the definitive collection of session material and tour recordings surrounding Time Out Of Mind. The latest set, Fragments: The Bootleg Series Vol. As more recent installments have generally grown in size and curation quality, the series has become essential for anyone with more than a passing interest in Dylan. It’s not an easy task, but Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series, produced by Dylan’s manager Jeff Rosen and Steve Berkowitz, has done it for 30 years. The best reissues provide fuller context to the material, guiding listeners to (even) more favorably reassess the work without seeming forceful. ‘Fragments’: Bob Dylan’s ‘Time Out Of Mind’ Restored Volume 17 of 'The Bootleg Series' is a thoroughly fascinating listen
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