![]() My love for her is taking such a long time to die. I went to church on Sunday, and she passed by. I'm all used up, and the fields have turned brown. I'm Terry Gross.ĭYLAN: (Singing) I'm beginning to hear voices. Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham. And for a look behind the scenes at FRESH AIR, subscribe to our free newsletter. You'll find lots of FRESH AIR interviews. Carter, who's nominated for an Oscar for "Wakanda Forever" or Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera, who put together a playlist for us of pop, hip-hop and classical music that inspires him - check out our podcast. If you'd like to catch up on FRESH AIR interviews you missed - like this week's tribute to Burt Bacharach featuring two interviews with him or with costume designer Ruth E. GROSS: Ken Tucker reviewed "Fragments - Time Out Of Mind Sessions" from the Bob Dylan bootleg series. Dylan, with his crypt keeper rasp, has the last laugh. TUCKER: The atmosphere Dylan and Lanois achieved remains eerie and vital, a rhythm that skeletons might dance to in a graveyard using a few discarded bones for percussion. Now I'm marching to the city bus, and the road ain't long. I've been hit too hard, and I've seen too much. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MARCHING TO THE CITY")ĭYLAN: (Singing) Snowflakes are falling on my head. And so he keeps on in a song that didn't make the album, "Marching To The City." He has a long talk with a waitress in a roadside diner that only convinces him he has to continue to try. He's sick of being in love, but he's helplessly in thrall to it. He's transfixed by earthly love, even as he's trying to get to heaven. In song after song, Dylan is walking down a dirt road trying to get to a lover, but she's a million miles away, or he's 20 miles out of town in cold irons bound, but he's not giving up. "Time Out Of Mind" is an album about effort, about work, about trying hard, laboring to be understood and to be loved. It probably was, but who cares about any of that now? The songs outlast and exceed their initial framework. This isn't about Dylan and Lanois trying for a comeback or a hit or a Grammy award - I mean, it is. TUCKER: The more you listen to Dylan working changes on what were then fresh new songs for him, the old way of hearing "Time Out Of Mind" falls away. I was all right 'til I fell in love with you. I'm thinking about that girl that won't be back no more. Sweat falling down, I'm staring at the floor. My eyes feel like they're falling off my face. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "'TIL I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU")ĭYLAN: (Singing) Well, junk is piling up, taking up space. The version of "'Til I Fell In Love With You" recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1998, is raw and funny, very rock-'n-roll-y, with a great instrumental section in its center. You can also hear Dylan really enjoying being on his so-called Never Ending Tour, hurling himself into these performances. On one or two, you can overhear people in the audience talking to each other. There's one disc devoted to live performances. This collection, "Fragments," contains five discs, including a remix of the original album and many outtakes and alternate versions. Here, however, with the organ of Augie Meyers and the slide guitar of Cindy Cashdollar greasing the melody, it's a slinky roadhouse blues. TUCKER: That's "Mississippi," a song that was left off "Time Out Of Mind." It eventually appeared on 2001's "Love And Theft" in a tame B-movie Western version. I was raised in the country, been working in the town, been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down. Trapped in the heart of it, trying to get away. City's just a jungle, more games to play. Here was Dylan's comeback, his don't-count-him-out resurgence.ĭYLAN: (Singing) Every step of the way, we walk the line. By the time the collection won Album of the Year at the 1998 Grammys, the narrative around "Time Out Of Mind" had gelled. In interviews, Dylan and producer Daniel Lanois admitted to a long, often contentious recording process that took place in California and Florida. He'd just turned 56 and had survived a serious heart problem health scare. KEN TUCKER, BYLINE: When "Time Out Of Mind" was released in 1997, it was Bob Dylan's first album of original material in seven years. ![]() Some of us scare ourselves to death in the dark. This one is titled "Fragments: Time Out Of Mind Sessions 1996-1997," and it provides an extensive new look at one of Dylan's most acclaimed albums, the Grammy-winning "Time Out Of Mind." Rock critic Ken Tucker says this package of five CDs offers a wealth of new ways to experience some of Dylan's most moving music.īOB DYLAN: (Singing) Some of us turn off the lights and we live. Columbia Records has released Volume 17 of its official Bob Dylan bootleg series.
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