Bootleg series 179/1/2023 ![]() ![]() They compromised and Time Out of Mind won the Grammy for album of the year. ![]() Dylan wanted to echo early earthy blues Lanois heard it differently. Dylan and his producer Daniel Lanois clashed over the sound. The original album has its own fascinating history. In order not to repeat the same songs over and over, we realised that presenting the songs on separate discs would be the optimal way to appreciate them.” They have a point: the more random approach allows each version to stand on its merits. “Fragments is about the process, the journey the songs travelled on their way to becoming the finished album. The bigger boxset, aimed at the completist, also includes live material plus more earlier takes with lyrics later deleted.īoxset producers Jeff Rosen and Steve Berkowitz spread the multiple versions of songs such as Lovesick and Not Dark Yet across the discs. ![]() Both include Michael Brauer’s remix of the original album plus some outtakes and early versions. Vol 17 comes in two flavours: a two-CD boxset and a five-CD boxset. The album was “about personal survival in a world where dreams drown in black holes and quicksand and time is running out”.įragments is part of the remarkable Bootleg series of recordings that have revealed so much of this enigmatic artist’s back pages. This was the backdrop to what is now recognised as one of his greatest albums, what the historian and fan Douglas Brinkley describes in the sleeve notes as “11 of the most profound and poetic laments in the American songbook”. “He was more like a big brother who taught and showed me more than he’ll ever know.”īob Dylan: Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) - Bootleg Series Vol 17 “To me he wasn’t only a musician and a friend,” Dylan said at the time. In addition, his close friend Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead guitarist, had died in 1995 from a heart attack. 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). He was then 56, a legend with a glorious past behind him and a much less auspicious future. It is just over 25 years since the release of Time Out of Mind, in September 1997, rekindled Bob Dylan’s career. ![]()
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