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

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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 on September 30, 1997. Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17 follows the evolution of songs written for the album, from intimate early incarnations in the previously unreleased 1996 Teatro sessions featuring Dylan (vocals, guitar, and piano), Daniel Lanois (guitar and organ), Tony Garnier (bass) and Tony Mangurian (drums and percussion) through incandescent live renditions (also previously unreleased) showcasing Dylan and his touring ensemble channeling the songs on-stage from 1998-2001. Browne, David (January 25, 2023). "New Bootleg Series Installment Maps The Long Road To Dylan's Resurrection". Rolling Stone . Retrieved May 26, 2023. ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. February 6, 2023 . Retrieved February 3, 2023. Prior to its release, Dylan had been plagued by ill health – a life-threatening respiratory infection caused by inhaling fungus spores, which he put down to riding his Harley in the Louisiana swamps. As Steven Hyden writes in his essay in the excellent hardcover book that accompanies this 5CD box set – Volume 17 in the Bootleg Series and issued to commemorate the album’s 25 th anniversary – when Time Out of Mind emerged, reviewers tagged it as a ‘mortality album’ – pointing to songs like ‘Tryin’ to Get to Heaven’ (“Trying to get to heaven before they close the door”) or ‘Not Dark Yet’, which is written from the point of view of a man confronting his twilight years.

November 17, 2022-New York, NY-Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17 on Friday, January 27. SUPPER CLUB: A CD/DVD set of Dylan's famous 1993 stand at New York's Supper Club was nearly released (in 2010) instead of the Witmark Demos. "I decided I liked the story of the Witmark Demos better than the Supper Club," says the source. "That will definitely come out on CD and DVD sometime soon, though." (August 2010) Guitar, Mandoguitar [Mando-Guitar], Electric Guitar [Firebird], Acoustic Guitar [Martin 0018], Electric Guitar [Gretsch Gold Top], Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar – Daniel Lanois 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.

Another outtake, "Red River Shore," was later resurrected for Love and Theft. A Jimmie Rodgers-esque yodel is detectable in Dylan's voice on the embryonic version here, which features some lyrical variations from the final version. The composer's mastery of the folk song form was undiminished; "Red River Shore" exists outside of the place and time in which it was written and spiritually belongs to another era. These drafts reveal just how much Dylan in the studio altered lyrics, arrangements, phrasing, and a song's mood and feel. Billboard Japan Hot Albums – Week of February 1, 2023". Billboard Japan (in Japanese) . Retrieved February 1, 2023. The complete Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17 will be available as a deluxe box set in 5CD and 10LP 12″ vinyl editions. Also available, a two-disc/4LP standard edition of Fragments which includes the Time Out of Mind 2022 remix disc and a disc of twelve select Outtakes and Alternates highlights. Digital versions of the complete (five disc) and highlights (two disc) editions of Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17 will be available on all Streaming Services on Friday, January 27.

Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17 Also Available in 2CD and 4LP Highlight Editions Future plans for the Bootleg Series are unclear, but a Time Out of Mind set [is] in contention. (September 2019) Volume 17 of the acclaimed Dylan series takes a fresh look at the masterpiece Time Out Of Mind 25 years after its initial release and traces its creation. Beginning with previously unreleased song versions from the 1996 Teatro sessions featuring Dylan (vocals, guitar, piano), Daniel Lanois (guitar, organ), Tony Garnier (bass) and Tony Mangurian (drums, percussion) and ending with (also unreleased) live recordings from 1998-2001 COFFEEHOUSE BOB:"We've always wanted to do one of pre-album stuff where Bob is just singing songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses," says the Dylan source. (September 2015) Matrix / Runout (Side S runout): 19439981981-S 243430E1 1229118 MRP3791/19439981981/10-A STERLING RKSBOB'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE BOOTLEG SERIES:"Bob really doesn't take his time going through the vaults," says the source. "He leaves this up to his record company. His focus is on touring, making new music and writing his memoirs." (July 2005) In early 1996, Dylan, who had not released an album of original compositions since the 1990 LP Under The Red Sky, began working on new songs. From August to October, he went to Teatro Studio in Oxnard/CA with Daniel Lanois, who had produced his 1989 album Oh Mercy, to record demos for a possible new LP

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. The 2022 remix of Time Out of Mind is sharper, crisper and live-sounding; the performances are more intimate and immersive. Sean HannamCreative sparks flew. Dylan had been educating Lanois with old blues records. 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. Lanois, a successful, widely admired record producer with distinctive ideas about sound and music, played a key role in forming the soundscape for Time Out of Mind: dark, mournful, spacey, with lots of reverb and echo. In hindsight, some people who write about the music are piling on. But I've got to admire the chutzpah of a guy who could stand up to Bob Dylan creatively; not easily done, I wouldn't think. Truly unmissable. The original versions of what is now, for me, since listening to them, Dylan's best album. Matrix / Runout (Side Q runout): 19439981981-Q 243429E1 1344977 MRP3791/19439981981/09-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.