The set’s fourth disc recreates Time Out of Mind in a live setting by including a rendition of all of the album’s songs culled from concerts Dylan played from 1998 to 2001. Finally, the fifth disc isolates the era-specific recordings that previously appeared on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006. All of these live versions are previously unreleased, apart from the 1998 recording of ‘Make You Feel My Love’ from L.A, which was on the ‘Things Have Changed’ maxi-single. CD 5 is made up of songs that have previously been available on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs, but it’s nice to have it as part of the box set for continuity and completist reasons. November 17, 2022-New York, NY-Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17 on Friday, January 27. Matrix / Runout (Side D runout): 19439981981-B 242185E2 1203923 MRP3791/19439981981/02-B STERLING RKS BOOTLEG SERIES DVDs: After [a Rolling Thunder documentary] does finally come out, the Dylan camp plans on releasing a series of Bootleg Series DVDs. "We'll put out the [1976] Hard Rain TV special," the source says. "We have other TV special we'll put out after that." [NOTE: I assume they meant "specials" (plural) rather than "special."] (August 2010)

Latest chapter in acclaimed Bootleg Series unveils Time Out of Mind2022 Remix + previously unreleased recordings including studio outtakes, alternate versions and live performances (1997-2001) of songs penned by Dylan for 1998’s Grammy-Winning Album of the Year The 2022 remix of Time Out of Mind is sharper, crisper and live-sounding; the performances are more intimate and immersive. Sean Hannam Latest chapter in acclaimed Bootleg Series unveils Time Out of Mind 2022 Remix + previously unreleased recordings including studio outtakes, alternate versions and live performances (1997-2001) of songs penned by Dylan for 1998’s Grammy-Winning Album of the Year A question about a possible follow-up to Bob Dylan's 2004 book, Chronicles: Volume One, elicits a laugh and two words: "No comment." (August 2014) The second and third discs of Fragments present 25 previously unreleased outtakes and alternates from both the Teatro and Criteria sessions. The exploratory nature of the Teatro recordings is particularly fascinating. Perhaps to get him in the right mood and spirit for the album that became Time Out of Mind, Dylan cut a beautiful, understated rendition of the Scottish folk song "The Water Is Wide" at Teatro; he had previously played the song live in 1975 on the Rolling Thunder tour.

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Another outtake, "Red River Shore," was later resurrected for Love and Theft. A Jimmie Rodgers-esque yodel is detectable in Dylan's voice on the embryonic version here, which features some lyrical variations from the final version. The composer's mastery of the folk song form was undiminished; "Red River Shore" exists outside of the place and time in which it was written and spiritually belongs to another era. These drafts reveal just how much Dylan in the studio altered lyrics, arrangements, phrasing, and a song's mood and feel.

Dutchcharts.nl – Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 - Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997)" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved February 4, 2023. In a 2020 song, Dylan proclaimed, "I Contain Multitudes." The truth of the matter is, he always did. There have been unconfirmed rumors that The Bootleg Series may be winding down after 30+ years and seventeen volumes. Put simply, "Say it ain't so." Fragments proves, once again, that there are still ample treasures to be mined in the Bob Dylan vaults. GENERAL PHILOSOPHY & FUTURE OF THE BOOTLEG SERIES:"We're trying to put this stuff out in an intelligent way," says the source. (July 2013)

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Kreps, Daniel (January 11, 2023). "Bob Dylan Unearths Original Version of 'Not Dark Yet' for Upcoming 'Fragments' Set". Rolling Stone . Retrieved January 28, 2023. Photography By – Antonin Kratochvil, Daniel Lanois, Danny Clinch, Geoff Gans, Gilles Peress, Merilyn Rosenberg*, Mark Seliger, Randee St. Nicholas Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17on Friday, January 27. Matrix / Runout (Side O runout): 19439981981-O 243282E1 1345035 MRP3791/19439981981/08-A STERLING RKS

With that in mind, the first disc in this 5CD offering is a new 2022 remix of the original release, by engineer, Michael Brauer, who says he was trying to capture something that had more of a feel of what was going on in the room, with less additional processing. To be fair, with the new version, Brauer has nailed it – the remix is sharper, crisper and live-sounding; the performances are more intimate and immersive. It’s like you’re sat in the studio with Dylan and his band. Matrix / Runout (Side K runout): 19439981981-K 243083E1 1222750 MRP3791/19439981981/06-A STERLING RKS Now, Time Out of Mind is the subject of Fragments, the seventeenth and latest volume of Dylan's long-running Bootleg Series. It's a bit unlike previous Bootleg volumes as it opens with the album itself, or at least a new mix of it. In that sense, it plays more like an expanded edition than a traditional Bootleg entry. But what's most uncanny about this volume is how it redefines the parent album. Rather than merely reinforcing the legend of Time Out of Mind, Fragments adds to it - and complicates it, too. Considering the full portrait of its sessions presented here, a much more varied narrative emerges than the one popularized in 1997. Disc One of Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17premieres 2022 mixes, by Michael H. Brauer at Brauer Sound Studios, of the eleven original recordings on Time Out of Mind. In his liner notes for the set, Steven Hyden writes, “The album itself has been remixed to sound more like how the songs came across when the musicians originally played them in the room, without the effects and processing that Lanois applied later. It’s not meant to replace the Time Out of Mindthat won all of those Grammys a quarter-century ago; it’s a reimagining, an alternate view of a great work of art. If the original album remains mythic and enigmatic, this Time Out of Mindputs you in close proximity to the players.” The Time Out of Mind(2022 Remix) disc will be available in immersive audio, a first for a Bob Dylan recording.Future plans for the Bootleg Series are unclear, but [...] one that chronicles Dylan’s pre-fame folk period in Minnesota and New York [is] in contention. "We’ve collected all these early tapes of him like the Minnesota Hotel Tapes and all the tapes that Tony Glover recorded," says the source. "We have all these things in beautiful quality along with the Town Hall concert [in 1963] and the Carnegie Hall concert [in 1963]. Some day we’ll put these all together and put them out, but it’s not like people are clamoring for it. There are probably a few other areas to explore before that." (September 2019) Austriancharts.at – Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 - Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997)" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved February 8, 2023. Charts [ edit ] Weekly chart performance for The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997) Chart (2023)

CD 2 and 3 – both made up of outtakes and alternate versions – are where things start to get really interesting. Considering the often sombre and spectral mood of Time Out of Mind, it’s fascinating to hear how in some cases the different takes are much more upbeat and lighter than the final recordings. Columbia Records continues to extend its Bob Dylan Bootleg Series, which began in 1991. The latest edition in this complex warren of burrows brings us to Volume 17, Bob Dylan—Fragments—Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997). F]uture chapters of the Bootleg Series might chronicle Dylan's 1993 acoustic shows at New York's Supper Club (which were professionally filmed) and some sort of examination of the Never Ending Tour. (September 2017) Compiled By [File Compiling, At Battery Studios], Transferred By [Transfers, At Battery Studios] – Vic Anesini

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On November 1, 2022, Simon & Schusterpublished The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One— and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Future plans for the Bootleg Series are unclear, but a Time Out of Mind set [is] in contention. (September 2019)