![]() ![]() ![]() Whereas the mood of Dylan’s classic 1975 break-up opus Blood on the Tracks verges on the bitter(sweet), Time Out of Mind is infused with a dejected fatalism: in multiple songs, the protagonist is on the move but getting nowhere, the album’s sense of things grinding to a permanent halt accentuated by the near-fatal illness Dylan suffered in the run-up to the album’s original 1997’s release. These songs are essentially about a love that’s irretrievably lost. Influenced by the raw, haunted spirit of vintage Delta blues by the likes of Charley Patton, and occasionally slipping into half-remembered phrases from dusty recordings from the first decades of the 20 th century, the language of Time Out of Mind is plain, pared back, shorn of any artifice or excess bulk – wise and worn-out lines like ‘’when you think that you’ve lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more’’ communicate more with using fewer words. ![]() The sprawling sessions for Time Out of Mind are the focus of the 17 th installment of the outtakes and rarities-excavating Bootleg Series releases (available as a 5CD/10LP deluxe box, or 2CD/4LP highlights.ĭisillusioned by modern recording techniques following 1990’s flat all-stars workout Under The Red Sky, the Minnesota-born legend’s creative energies were gradually regenerated by the extensive trawl through traditional Blues and folk songs (a crucial formative inspiration for Dylan’s songwriting) executed on the starkly solo acoustic Good As I Been to You (1992) and 1993’s World Gone Wrong.Īs evidenced by the new 25 th anniversary remix of the original album included on all editions of Fragments, the new songs that emerged were far removed from the symbolic poetry that built Dylan’s innovative reputation on timeless classics such as Highway 61 Revisited (1965) and Blonde on Blonde (1966). That all started with Bob Dylan’s gloomily overcast yet also discreetly mischievous 1997 masterpiece Time Out of Mind, which launched the legendary songwriter’s creative revival that has endured all the way to 2020’s sublime Rough and Rowdy Ways. ![]()
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