1/18/2024 0 Comments Fragments dylanYes, he completes the song, but you don’t hear what he said from the stage right afterwards. My only regret is they cut this recording off too early. Check out the staccato “my heart-can’t-go-on-beat-ing without you” at 1:25, or how he drops his voice during the final held note of “place we could roam togetheeerrrrr ” at 4:17. Sometimes the faster songs in this era let Bob coast vocally, cheerfully hollering along while the crowd boogies (see: “Silvio,” “Rainy Day Women”), but this speed inspires some wonderful rhythmic turns. Soon after, as we’ll see, he dropped the tempo way down, but at this Nashville show it gallops along. That compilation I recently wrote about that collected one “Can’t Wait” from every year he played it selected this same performance. This Nashville “Can’t Wait” is no unknown deep cut. Can’t Wait (2/6/99, Nashville, Tennessee) Hopefully they’re saving it for the Masked & Anonymous Bootleg Series. Part of it appeared in the movie, but it wasn’t on the soundtrack and it’s a shame they didn’t include the full recording here. He did do “Dirt Road Blues” semi -live once though, for his 2003 movie Masked & Anonymous. Off Together Through Life, he hasn’t performed “Life Is Hard” or “Shake Shake Mama.” Off Tempest, he hasn’t performed, among others, “Narrow Way.” Like “Dirt Road Blues,” all those songs seem to be fairly straightforward blues numbers of the sort he sometimes performs into the ground (“Rollin’ and Tumblin’,” “Early Roman Kings,” etc). The one unperformed Modern Times song is “Someday Baby,” which was given a big pre-release promo push in an Apple commercial. You often can’t predict what songs from an album Dylan will or won’t play in concert. Yes, he’s done “Highlands” – 9 times, no less – but never “Dirt Road Blues.” But that’s the one Time Out of Mind song Dylan has never played live. Quick sidebar: At this point, you might be expecting “Dirt Road Blues,” track number two on the album. And if you make it to the end, you’ll also get a teaser for a bonus compilation coming tomorrow to paid subscribers. The idea is to read these as you’re listening. So, for when you make it to disc 4 (or disc 7/8 of the vinyl package), I put together my own set of track-by-track notes. “Who would possibly want such a thing?” the producers might have thought. They did not, however, include a track-by-track guide to the live disc. One of the highlights of the Bootleg Series installments is often the liner notes, and this set, containing essays by both journalist/friend-of-the-newsletter Steven Hyden and historian/friend-of-Dylan Douglas Brinkley, didn’t disappoint. I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of this set a few weeks ago, and that was the first place I went. But, if you read this newsletter, you know my eye was particularly drawn to disc four, the one with 12 different live versions of the Time tunes. There’s a lot to dig into, from a new remix of the entire album to a trove of session outtakes. Today, Bob Dylan releases the 17th volume in his Bootleg Series: Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997).
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