The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 | Fragments: "Time Out of Mind" Sessions (1996-1997)
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100
The lesson in Fragments is that ticket-holders should never take Dylan’s notoriously strange onstage makeovers as a personal affront: for him, songs are never static, and their evolution begins behind closed doors, thrillingly, at the point of conception.
2mo
100
Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) serves the showman well, making this era sing, one of The Bootleg Series’ most intriguing investigations so far into Bob Dylan’s working practices and mindset.
1mo
90
A terrific piece of Dylan lore, for casual fans and Dylanologists alike.
2mo
90
No one thought ... that the outtakes from such sessions could fill a compelling, sometimes revelatory box set. But here it is.
2mo
90
Many artists could take lessons from him in terms of his releases. Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996 – 1997). The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 is no exception.
2mo
90
There's freedom in the unfinished, and Dylan found some of it in crafting Time Out of Mind, indisputably one of, if not the, greatest album he's made yet.
2mo
90
The Fragments box set offers enough weight and return to justify its weighty price tag.
1mo
90
Along with a book of essays and ephemera to further instruct and illuminate, Fragments is as essential to the Dylan catalog as Time Out of Mind itself.
86
Spanning the sessions for 1997’s Time Out of Mind, an illuminating new edition of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series both subverts and magnifies the legend of his haunted, trancelike comeback album.
1mo
85
Dylan's story of near irrelevance and rebirth remains, but now we get to see more of the pieces. It turns out that seeing the album come together only enhances it, much unlike seeing how the sausage gets made.
1mo
80
As with the developmental versions of the Time Out of Mind material, those tapes, with their increasingly aggressive and lively incorporation of jump blues and swing, were the blueprint of Dylan’s own resurrection—one that continues a quarter century later.
2mo
80
In 1997 Dylan emerged from a creative lowpoint to produce one of his greatest works. This boxset revisits these 'profound and poetic' songs.
2mo
80
It's impossible to imagine anyone approaching the weary authority of Dylan’s road-worn vocals throughout Fragments.
2mo
80
Revitalised by good reviews, recovery from illness and with another Grammy on the shelf, Dylan was back on form and not quite ready to meet Buddy and Elvis in the great blue yonder. Excellent.
1mo
80
The sheer scope of this collection is quite extraordinary and if you’re a Dylan lover, you can’t really NOT buy it. It’s a must.
1mo
60
This set is ultimately for the hardcore heads, who don't mind hearing minute variations on familiar themes.
2mo
Time Out of Mind was the first Bob Dylan album I was able to buy on its release day—I was a freshman in college, and too young to fully relate to the themes of the record, but I loved the sound of it. Loved Dylan’s “older voice,” it sounded otherworldly, something from another time.
I was not a sophisticated listener who could tell you anything about music production, or what a great job someone like Lanois had done or not. Today I understand the role a producer plays ... read more
The 17th episode of the 30-years-old-and-running bootleg series of the living legend dedicated to the recording of album-of-the-year-Grammy-winner Time Out of Mind, that marked another one reboot of Bob Dylan's music in 1997. Listening this is like to read a big fat novel - here is a tonn of sounds, mood, words, and information to dig. Its 6 hours length is six or twelve times longer than modern albums, but this time is really worth it, if you want to hear, how the real music is born.
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Track List
- Love Sick (2022 remix)
- Dirt Road Blues (2022 remix)
- Standing in the Doorway (2022 remix)
- Million Miles (2022 remix)
- Tryin’ to Get to Heaven (2022 remix)
- ‘Til I Fell in Love with You (2022 remix)
- Not Dark Yet (2022 remix)
- Cold Irons Bound (2022 remix)
- Make You Feel My Love (2022 remix)
- Can’t Wait (2022 remix)
- Highlands (2022 remix)
- The Water is Wide (8/19/96, Teatro)
- Dreamin’ of You (10/1/96, Teatro)
- Red River Shore – version 1 (9/26/96, Teatro)
- Love Sick – version 1 (1/14/97, Criteria Studios)
- ‘Til I Fell in Love with You – version 1 (10/3/96, Teatro)
- Not Dark Yet – version 1 (1/11/97, Criteria Studios)
- Can’t Wait – version 1 (1/21/97, Criteria Studios)
- Dirt Road Blues – version 1 (1/12/97, Criteria Studios)
- Mississippi – version 1 (1/11/97, Criteria Studios)
- ‘Til I Fell in Love with You – version 2 (1/16/97, Criteria Studios)
- Standing in the Doorway – version 1 (1/13/97, Criteria Studios)
- Tryin’ to Get to Heaven – version 1 (1/18/97, Criteria Studios)
- Cold Irons Bound (1/9/97, Criteria Studios)
- Love Sick – version 2 (1/14/97, Criteria Studios)
- Dirt Road Blues – version 2 (1/20/97, Criteria Studios)
- Can’t Wait – version 2 (1/14/97, Criteria Studios)
- Red River Shore – version 2 (1/19/97, Criteria Studios)
- Marchin’ to the City (1/5/97, Criteria Studios)
- Make You Feel My Love – take 1 (1/5/97, Criteria Studios)
- Mississippi – version 2 (1/11/97, Criteria Studios)
- Standing in the Doorway – version 2 (1/13/97, Criteria Studios)
- ‘Til I Fell in Love with You – version 3 (1/16/97, Criteria Studios)
- Not Dark Yet – version 2 (1/18/97, Criteria Studios)
- Tryin’ to Get to Heaven – version 2 (1/12/97, Criteria Studios)
- Highlands (1/16/97, Criteria Studios)
- Love Sick (6/24/98, Birmingham, England)
- Can’t Wait (2/6/99, Nashville, Tennessee)
- Standing In The Doorway (10/6/00, London, England)
- Million Miles (1/31/98, Atlantic City, New Jersey)
- Tryin’ to Get to Heaven (9/20/00, Birmingham, England)
- ‘Til I Fell in Love with You (4/5/98, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Not Dark Yet (9/22/00, Sheffield, England)
- Cold Irons Bound (5/19/00, Oslo, Norway)
- Make You Feel My Love (5/21/98, Los Angeles, California)
- Can’t Wait (5/19/00, Oslo, Norway)
- Mississippi (11/15/01, Washington, D.C.)
- Highlands (3/24/01, Newcastle, Australia)
- Dreamin’ of You – Tell Tale Signs (10/1/96, Teatro)
- Red River Shore – Tell Tale Signs, version 1 (1/19/97, Criteria Studios)
- Red River Shore – Tell Tale Signs, version 2 (1/8/97, Criteria Studios)
- Mississippi – Tell Tale Signs, version 1 (9/96, Teatro)
- Mississippi – Tell Tale Signs, version 3 (1/17/97, Criteria Studios)
- Mississippi – Tell Tale Signs, version 2 (1/17/97, Criteria Studios)
- Marchin’ to the City – Tell Tale Signs, version 1 (1/5/97, Criteria Studios)
- Marchin’ to the City – Tell Tale Signs, version 2 (1/6/97, Criteria Studios)
- Can’t Wait – Tell Tale Signs, version 1 (10/1/96, Teatro)
- Can’t Wait – Tell Tale Signs, version 2 (1/5/97, Criteria Studios)
- Cold Irons Bound – Tell Tale Signs, live (6/11/04, Bonnaroo Music Festival)
- Tryin’ to Get to Heaven – Tell Tale Signs, live (10/5/00, London, England)
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Added on: November 17, 2022