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• FRAGMENTS: The Time Out Of Mind Sessions (Bootleg Series 17)
  • Billboard Chart #5 with 11,000 Units Sold (Billboard)
  • NEW BLU-RAY: Time Out Of Mind (2022) Remix in High-Res + Atmos Gets Release (SDE)
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  • Now 70+ Reviews and Articles (Ranked & Sorted) – Find Them Here
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    • The Remaking of Time Out Of Mind – Michael Brauer Interview (Rock Cellar)
      • “I’m maintaining the integrity of the record but doing my interpretation of that, right from the get-go. But again, there was a lot of playback, back and forth, with [box set producer] Steve Berkowitz, where he’d say, “Simpler. Simpler. Simpler. Less. Less. Less.”
    • Bootleg Series 17 Review (Spectrum Culture)
      • The production process was either a remarkable collaboration or a bitter fight. Dylan worked again with Daniel Lanois (from Oh Mercy but here used twice the number of necessary musicians and tried to model the production on a Platonic idea of pre-technology blues. Lanois looked at all that and realized the best plan was simply to submerge the whole thing in a swamp. And Lanois was right.”
    • Bootleg Series 17 Review (Jazz Blues News)
      • “Dylan would try songs out in different keys, abruptly switching in the middle and expecting the band to remap their own chord progressions without a moment’s hesitation.”

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• The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll – 60 Year Event Anniversary (The Nation)
  • “Carroll was serving drinks at the Spinster’s Ball, an annual event attended by Maryland’s white old-family elites, when one of the party’s drunken revelers, Billy Zantzinger, decided she was being disrespectful.”
• Dylan’s Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll Became A Protest Song (Baltimore)
  • “Hattie Carroll’s death and Zantzinger’s trial also made national headlines. Bob Dylan, who had written “The Death of Emmett Till” in 1962, penned “Only a Pawn in Their Game”—a few months after Carroll’s death.”
• Cafe Expresso Re-Opens in Woodstock (Daily Freeman)
  • Photos of the room in now re-opened coffee shop where Bob Dylan wrote the bulk of Another Side of Bob Dylan in the White Room, an upstairs room that overlooked Tinker Street in the building.

• ‘Girl from the North Country’ Movie with Olivia Colman, Woody Harrelson (The Hollywood Reporter)

  • “Based on the Tony-winning show inspired by the music of Bob Dylan and with its playwright Conor McPherson set write and direct.”

• Dylan, A Stage Crasher, and a 14-Year Old (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
  • “I honestly remember only a few specific things. My seat was fairly close stage left. “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat” stands out in my memory. I think that I’d never heard it until that performance and the imagery of the lyric has never left my memory.”
• I’m Made My Mind Up To Give Myself To You (Pt.3) (Pt.2) (Untold Dylan)
  • “That clarity is lacking in “I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You”; the “You” could be anything. A woman, but also God, the fans, Art, Jesus, a drug of choice – the “You” is ambiguous enough, so analysts can choose from a whole palette of interpretation possibilities. “The audience” is a popular one.”
• Never Ending Tour Highlights – Visions of Johanna (Untold Dylan)
  • “In this version of Visions, there is an extraordinary energy now within the song, rather than the laid-back approach which is symbolised by that famous opening, “Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet?”
• Other People’s Songs: Days of 49 (Untold Dylan)
  • ““Days Of 49″ is an old-time ballad from the California Gold Rush days. Some scholars have suggested that it was written by minstrel singer Charles Bensell or vaudevillian Charley Rhoades. The first recording and indeed the first release was by Jules Allen “The Singing Cowboy” in 1928.”
• Forever Young: A Ladder To The Stars (Chris Gregory)
  • “Composed in 1973 as a lullaby for his son Jesse, Forever Young is also the only song that Dylan has recorded two versions of on the same album.”

• Another Side of Bob Dylan (Cult Following)
  • “That harmonica-wielding hero of the 1960s does show another side to himself on Another Side of Bob Dylan, but it is so close to the persona of the time that the other side is more or less the same.”
• Fallen Angels (Cult Following)
  • “Much of the intrigue to Fallen Angels is finding that Dylan can, like many, adapt songs to his own groove. More than enough is featured here to provide interesting, often gorgeous, representations of classic tracks.”
• Love Songs: Mississippi (The Paris Review)
  • “Yet it contains, I think, every important kernel of wisdom about love and the loss of it; it hits every note that matters. Is that too much to believe about a single song?”
• The 10 Best Dylan Outtakes (Paste)
  • “In a situation like that, a masterpiece is bound to be left off of a major studio release. In fact, Dylan has left, by our account, six masterpieces off of his records, only for them to be discovered through bootleggers and compilation releases.”