Still, it’s not Blonde On Blonde.įragments starts with a version of Time Out Of Mind that was remixed in 2022 by Michael Brauer, an acclaimed mix engineer who has worked with the Rolling Stones, Coldplay, Paul McCartney, the Pet Shop Boys, Willie Nelson and many others.Īccording to Douglas Brinkley, a journalist/author who writes about politics but who is also a big Dylan fan, who also wrote liner notes for Fragments, “Brauer’s remixes strip the Time Out of Mind tracks down to their bare, spectral essence, letting us experience Dylan’s crowbar voice and nuanced phrasings in all their raw, razor-edged authenticity.” Perhaps that’s true – although “crowbar voice” has nothing to do with Dylan’s voice as heard throughout Fragments – but in my listening, I prefer the tracks as released on the album in 1997. All these years later, having listened to the original album a number of times in anticipation of Fragments, I realize Time Out Of Mind is much better than I thought it was in ’97. I listened to it a number of times, but didn’t become obsessed with it, as I had with Dylan albums in the ’60s and ’70s. When it was released, I thought Time Out Of Mind was pretty good, but I didn’t flip over it. ( Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume 3 and a live album, MTV Unplugged, were released in 19.)
He recorded two albums of old folk and blues songs in the years preceding Time Out Of Mind: 1992’s Good As I Been To You and 1993’s World Gone Wrong. Did he really need to write more of them?” As Steven Hyden wrote in his liner notes for Fragments, “In the early ’90s, he talked openly about already having more than enough songs to sing. It won three Grammy awards in 1998 including Album of the Year.ĭylan had prepared for making Time Out Of Mind by pretty much deciding he was done with songwriting, which is to say, until songs started coming to him, it appears that he hadn’t anticipated making an album of new songs. The public went for it too it reached #10 on the Billboard 200, stayed on the charts for 29 weeks and quickly went platinum. Time Out Of Mind was an amazing and unexpected return for Dylan – who at the time hadn’t made a good album of original material since 1976’s Desire, 20 years earlier – and rock critics far and wide raved about the album. Particularly one that is mostly comprised of multiple versions of 11 songs, which is the case with Fragments – the set based on Dylan’s 1997 album, Time Out of Mind. Most people don’t spend $100-plus (or even $74.92) on a box set lightly. 17, cost $113 on Februfrom a much-used online site (on Februit was discounted to $74.92).
FRAGMENTS DYLAN SERIES
Here in the U.S., the five-CD version of Dylan’s latest, Fragments: The Bootleg Series Vol. The questions I am frequently asked when a new Bootleg Series set is released: “Is it worth all that money? Do I really need it?” I’m asked those questions because these multi-CD sets usually cost a lot of money. CONSIDERING FRAGMENTS, A COLLECTION OF TIME OUT OF MIND SESSION RECORDINGS
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