Alone with the acoustic guitar, he regains a steady footing in the folk and blues tradition, sometimes dark songs about both death and corruption, hard times, physical and psychological pain, a full merry-go-round in the vicissitudes of human nature, leaning on both known and unknown predecessors, some of them from times out of mind. This time a creative cleansing takes place with the great albums “Good As I Been To You” (1992) and “World Gone Wrong” (1993) (Both Grammy-nominated, the last also got one, Best Traditional Folk Album). An important part of Dylan’s working method was alway his deep diving into the music and genres that came before him – folk, blues, country, gospel, soul, bluegrass and more. “Bootleg Series” is of course all about process, about sharing knowledge about, and insights in, the creative process that leads to a release. Today we all know this wasn’t the end of his career, more like a centre point, just in the middle of it all, but also a starting point for a new phase, six years later manifested for the world by the release of the wonderful “Time Out of Mind”. I like to think that it’s not a coincidence that the cover of “Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997)” is a photo from 1991. And maybe the world didn’t need any more Bob Dylan songs, after all? He was still busy being born, into his third year of what should be known as the “Never Ending Tour”, about a hundred shows a year, each night the real moment of truth, meeting the audience. ![]() Thank you!” He then gave the audience his most punk version of “Masters of War” ever, before leaving the stage, mending his own ways. He retorted appropriately with a short speech, including these words, speaking about his father: “He said, you know, it’s possible to become so defiled in this world that your own mother and father will abandon you, And if that happens, God will always believe in your own ability to mend your own ways. February 20th, 1991, while the Gulf war was still raging, just one year after his last album of original Dylan songs, he received what he himself characterized as a kind of “death kiss”, a proof that nothing more was to be expected from this artist – he received the “Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award”. When Bob Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind” was released in September 1997, it took most of the world with surprise. ![]() Some of us scare ourselves to death in the dark Brauer, of the eleven original recordings on Time Out of Mind, sounding more like how the songs came across when the musicians originally played them in the room.Īlso included are 12 previously unreleased outtakes and alternate versions of songs written for Time Out of Mind, including such iconic tracks as “Love Sick”, “Not Dark Yet” and “Make You Feel My Love”.“ Some of us turn off the lights and we lay This edition includes a new 2022 remix, by Michael H. ![]() The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy's highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series takes a fresh look at Time Out of Mind, Dylan's mid-career masterpiece, celebrating the album and its enduring impact 25 years after its original release.
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