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  • 1971 (The Fourth of Seven Lean Years) (Untold Dylan) [8]
    • "Most of the songs (about 70%) from those years simply evaporate. They aren’t played live, don’t appear on compilation albums, are covered remarkably little, are underrepresented in the various “100 best Dylan songs” lists."
  • Wallflower Pt.1 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • "“Wallflower” does not even end up on a B-side in the end, is never played live by Dylan either, is indifferently passed over for the compilation box Biograph in 1985, and is not released until twenty years later."
  • Mike Porco's 61st Birthday Party (Folk City) [8]
    • "He took the stage with the Queen of Folk, Joan Baez, for the first time in years. They sang 'One too many mornings' and an old traditional tune."
  • 2006: Modern Times (Together Through Life) [5]
    • "Another towering achievement on the record is Nettie Moore. The title and refrain are both inspired by the James Lord Pierpont and Marshall S. Pike’s 1857 composition Gentle Nettie Moore, but the song is pure Modern Dylan."
  • Is Bob's Best Outtake "Series of Dreams"? (John Nogowski) [3]
    • "But I think Bob wrote this amazingly introspective song, realized what he’d done and felt it too revealing, too intimate to share with the release of this “comeback” album."
  • Dylan Prophet Without A God (Penn Today) [3]
    • NEW BOOK: "When Dylan practices individual self-reliance, it is without the self-satisfaction of believing he is also adequately fulfilling his social responsibility or abiding by an individualism that everyone is equally free to practice if they wish."
  • NET Extended: Gates of Eden (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • "Bob emphasising the horror side of the song. Every aspect of the performance emphasises the decline and destruction of humankind."
  • Music and Lyrics: One Too Many Mornings (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • "Through this change of the chord sequence and melody the entire song changes from sadness and tiredness to one of anger at a life where things went wrong and an anger over wasted time."
  • Covers We Missed: “As I Went Out One Morning” (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • "You can’t say that the cover artists have really explored this space. Most of them have started tentatively into their expedition, decorating and expanding the original a bit without giving us any new insights."
  • Once or Twice: Talkin New York (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • "One of the great problems with putting a talking blues on an album, is that one of the key elements of the talking blues is that each performance can be slightly different, with new jokes, and slight variations in the music played between each line."
  • Bleachers Out In The Sun (Darmstadt Dylan Days) [3]
    • "On the Outlaw Festival Tour, one could almost say that Dylan is playing with the alienation effect that is so sympathetic to him."
  • Lyrics and Music: Simple Twist of Fate (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • "For much of the time the bass is descending suggesting not so much that the life of the person portrayed in the song is in decline but rather that it is just progressing along in its own path."
  • NET Extended: Not Dark Yet 1997 to 2019 (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • "The deep resignation that is at the heart of the original is now once more the dominant force in Dylan’s vocals, and I can just sit here and take this in. I’m not too sure about giving the bass the lead solo in the instrumental section – although the audience give some applause."
  • Dylan as a Modern-Day Prophet (Penn Today) [3]
  • A Far Off Sweet Forever (Series of Dreams) [3]
  • An Ode to the Man in Me (VioNolaVie) [1]
  • Back Through the Kitchen (Folk City) [1]

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