The blues has always been an anchor for Bob's songwriting of the 11 songs on Time Out of Mind, four are classic 12-bar blues and two others resemble vamp blues with refrains. Dylan had been educating Lanois with old blues records. In January 1997, Dylan decided to move recording to the well-known Criteria Studios in Miami, where a whole bunch of other musicians joined in≱3 are creditedall recording in the studio live.Ĭreative sparks flew. Starting in fall 1996, at Lanois's Teatro studio in Oxnard, north of Dylan's Malibu home, the initial sessions employed a small band consisting of Dylan, Lanois, Tony Garnier on bass, and Tony Mangurian on drums. Dylan brought back producer Daniel Lanois, with whom he had last worked seven years earlier, on 1989's Oh Mercy. But the back story for this success wasn't an easy one. The record was highly praised it sold well and yielded three 1998 Grammy awards including Album of the Year. When released in 1997, it had been seven years since Dylan had released an album of new, original material. An obvious, high-profile comparison is the recent remixes of Beatles albums by Giles Martin and his Abbey Road team. Remixinggoing back to the individual tracks and recombining them in a new wayis a more extensive refreshment than remastering. The original album has been remixed by Michael Brauer, working with veteran Sony Legacy producers Jeff Rosen and Steve Berkowitz. This Dylan Bootleg Series Vol.17 collection combines the original tracks from the 1997 release Time Out of Mind along with previously unreleased studio outtakes and live performances. Now we can experience this masterpiece in a new way. To borrow an analogy from art history, what we have here is the result of cleaning and restoring a large canvas, removing layers of varnish and dirt that had obscured the true colors and textures that were there when it was first painted. Rather, they form a single large, varied portrait. The latest edition in this complex warren of burrows brings us to Volume 17, Bob Dylan≿ragmentsTime Out of Mind Sessions (1996≡997).įragmentsthe titlefeels inaccurate these recordings are not shards of some missing whole. Columbia Records continues to extend its Bob Dylan Bootleg Series, which began in 1991.
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