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

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Make You Feel My Love (5/21/98, Los Angeles, California) ( Previously released on the “Things Have Changed” maxi-single) Disc One of Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17 premieres 2022 mixes, by Michael H. Brauer at Brauer Sound Studios, of the eleven original recordings on Time Out of Mind. In his liner notes for the set, Steven Hyden writes, “The album itself has been remixed to sound more like how the songs came across when the musicians originally played them in the room, without the effects and processing that Lanois applied later. It’s not meant to replace the Time Out of Mind that won all of those Grammys a quarter-century ago; it’s a reimagining, an alternate view of a great work of art. If the original album remains mythic and enigmatic, this Time Out of Mind puts you in close proximity to the players.” The Time Out of Mind (2022 Remix) disc will be available in immersive audio, a first for a Bob Dylan recording. Less likely to see the light of day: a sequel to Dylan's acclaimed 2004 book Chronicles Vol. 1. "I hope there's another one," the source says. "That's all I can say. If it was planned I'd tell you." (August 2010) a b Greene, Jayson (January 30, 2023). "Bob Dylan: Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 Album Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved January 31, 2023.

Though his voice was far removed from its white-hot mid-1960s yelp or deep Nashville Skyline croon, the singer made the most of his whiskey-and-cigarettes timbre. His rasp beautifully conveys the yearning and desperation of the late-night saloon lament "Million Miles." The haunting, stately "Not Dark Yet," a reflection on mortality set to a rumbling rhythm, may be the album's finest moment. Though the lyrics are often bleak, Dylan holds onto the slightest glimmer of hope even if the darkness is lingering around the corner. It's not dark yet, but it's getting there... As he's done before and after these mid-'90s sessions, Dylan tinkers with rhythm, vocal inflection, lyrics and pace, adjusting tone and even entire perspectives of somesongs.Early takes of "Mississippi" (which eventually ended upon "Love and Theft") and "Tryin' to Get to Heaven" are featured here in morestraightforwardversionswithout the occasional sonic clutter heard on the finished LPs. While they're not necessarily better (though in some cases they arguably are), these takesunfold without theatmospherethat's such a huge part of Time Out of Mind. And great leftovers like "Red River Shore" prove Dylan, who struggled for more than a decade to come up with enough good material to fill albums, had overcomea hurdle.

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But as the sessions moved to a new location, Dylan, along with Lanois and the various musicians brought in, seemed to realize that the songs merited something deeper, darker and more appropriate for the fiftysometing Dylan. That’s especially apparent in “’Til I Fell in Love with You”: An early take, which features a yelpy, somewhat more limber-voiced Dylan, gives way to a later version closer to the skulking one we’re familiar with. Dylan was also wise to discard a musically jauntier take on “Not Dark Yet” for the slower, crawly version on Time Out of Mind.

Browne, David (January 25, 2023). "New Bootleg Series Installment Maps The Long Road To Dylan's Resurrection". Rolling Stone . Retrieved May 26, 2023. Matrix / Runout (Side G runout): 19439981981-G 242881E1 1220726 MRP3791/19439981981/04-A STERLING RKS Now, Time Out of Mind is the subject of Fragments, the seventeenth and latest volume of Dylan's long-running Bootleg Series. It's a bit unlike previous Bootleg volumes as it opens with the album itself, or at least a new mix of it. In that sense, it plays more like an expanded edition than a traditional Bootleg entry. But what's most uncanny about this volume is how it redefines the parent album. Rather than merely reinforcing the legend of Time Out of Mind, Fragments adds to it - and complicates it, too. Considering the full portrait of its sessions presented here, a much more varied narrative emerges than the one popularized in 1997. I think we did repeat versions of songs to death on The Cutting Edge," says the source. "We're trying to find one really good takes of each song. The giant dumps of everything like we've done in recent years really aren't my preference. I like stuff that is more curated." (June 2019)

Compiled By [File Compiling, At Battery Studios], Transferred By [Transfers, At Battery Studios] – Vic Anesini Ultratop.be – Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 - Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997)" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved February 5, 2023. A question about a possible follow-up to Bob Dylan's 2004 book, Chronicles: Volume One, elicits a laugh and two words: "No comment." (August 2014) Michael Brauer's new remix of the album tones down Daniel Lanois' hazy, gauzy production to present the songs in a manner closer to the way Dylan and the band performed them in the studio. His voice is front and center, with the effects applied by Lanois largely removed; the accompaniment is always in sync but never intrusive or flashy. For those familiar with the album, the stripped-down sound is jarring. Happily, this remix doesn't replace the original (which is still available physically and digitally) but exists side-by-side as a different view onto Dylan's mysterious masterwork.