Content: Fragments follows the evolution of songs written for the album, from
intimate early incarnations in the previously unreleased 1996 Teatro sessions through incandescent live renditions from 1998-2001. Also included is a brand new mix of the original album.
Formats: 5CD or 10LP Deluxe Edition and a 2CD
or 4LP Highlights version.bootleg series. All details
right here.
Living legend BOB DYLAN revisits Time Out Of Mind, his
1997 album that, in the light of his upcoming Bootleg 17
archive release.
Also in the issue: saluting Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie; remembering John Lee Hooker; encountering Weyes Blood; mourning Sparklehorse and
much more.
The covermount CD is a special event, an all-Bob Dylan spectacular featuring
15 revelatory tracks selected from all 17 Bootleg Series albums so far. Stunning
versions of I Pity The Poor Immigrant, Moonshiner, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down,
You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go, and more!
You can purchase a copy and let it send to your home. Info HERE
Content: Fragments follows the evolution of songs written for the album, from
intimate early incarnations in the previously unreleased 1996 Teatro sessions through incandescent live renditions from 1998-2001. Also included is a brand-new mix of the original album.
Formats: 5CD or 10LP Deluxe Edition and a 2CD
or 4LP Highlights version.bootleg series.
Laidback country pop singer-songwriterKURT VILE was invited by Spotify to cover
a Xmas song exclusively for the giant stream platform’s new Christmas compilation playlist.
Vile: I thought it was nice of them to invite me, but I didn’t know if I could pull off a Christmas song! Then my mind jumped to when John Agnello showed me the Bob Dylan version of “Must Be Santa” while we were making the Smoke Ring For My Halo record. Bob Dylan has a wig on, and someone goes flying through a window. All this time, I thought it was Bob Dylan’s song. It’s really catchy, and he makes it his own, as he usually does. I figured if I can do Dylan’s “Must Be Santa,” if that’s not taken, it’s a sign. I gotta be the next chapter in this version of a Bob Dylan song. Then I realized it was actually a classic Christmas song, and was written however long ago, but I still wanted to do it justice the way Bob did. I wanted to be the guy who attempted to pull it off.”
“It feels like a perfect circle, really. I thought I’d do an acoustic version and have my daughters sing backup, but then it turned into more of a weird synth version with their vocals, which is really the hook. I figured Bob wouldn’t hear it, but I still wanted to do it justice, and once I got my daughters singing with me I hoped he would at least like it. Now I know… he loves it. Merry Christmas, Bob Dylan!
Yes, it is Santa, folks.
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That crazy Bob Dylan version (2009)
The original version.
Written by Hal Moore and Bill Fredericks.
First recorded/released by New York
artist Mitch Miller in 1960.
Seems like living song/wordsmith legend is everywhere in the press and over the Internet
these days as he’s in the middle of his ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS tour. British music monthly magazine UNCUT also has the 81-year-old troubadour on the cover of its new issue.
Uncut’s writers – and some close associates – relive their own legendary encounters with Bob from his past seven decades of challenging, constantly evolving live music. Take your seat alongside us at Sheffield City Hall in 1965, Madison Square Garden in 1974, the Spokane Opera House in 1980 and beyond, down 50 transformative years, in our definitive, eye-witness report on Dylan in concert.
Turn Up The Volume was in Brussels last Saturday where Dylan got a deserved, standing ovation. Impressions here.
Also articles about The Flaming Lips, Weyes Blood, Davy Graham, Misty
In Roots, Robyn Hitchcock, L7, Alan Parsons, The Beatles and more.
BOB DYLAN – 15 Otcober 2022 – Vorst Nationaal, Brussels
A truly unique experience. Why?
1. From his very first vocal on, I knew this would be a GREAT Dylan night (I had
a BAD vocal Dylan experience the last time I saw him in 2015). Self-assured, clear,
and magnetic. We, fans, know that the tone and timbre of his voice have changed,
hoarser and rawer than before, but still so overwhelming.
2. He played the piano all the way throughout the concert. Stylish at times, boogie-woogie at times, melancholic and romantic at times, but always compelling. He sat down behind the piano for the instrumental parts and stood up when he sang, through the microphone on top of the piano, so we could see his head popping up.
3. What a band. Jazzy, bluesy, rock-y, lazy, sentimentally. Whatever
the vibe of the songs was, these guys created a solid gold sound.
Marvelous.
4. Dylan played his last albumRough And Rowdy Ways, released in 2020, in full,
except for the epic 20-minute Murder Most Foul story about the President Kennedy assassination in 1963. One of his best longplayers of the past 25 years, moody and
moony with sepia-colored sonority. Not safety first option with a setlist full of hits,
which he played unrecognizably anyway. Wonderful.
. 5. No arty farty light show. Just some big unchanging shadowy spots, making me feel
like I was in a small smoky bar. Imagine this feel in… a 6000-cap venue. Magnific.
6. It was, as expected and announced, a cell phone-free and seated concert. It created a truly relaxing atmosphere without being surrounded or distressed by all those tiny lights. Can’t remember anymore when I had such a tranquil live experience.
7. The euphoric reaction of the crowd after each and every song and the 10-minute-long standing ovation at the end was heartwarming. So much love and respect for the greatest singer-songwriter ever in my book. Soul-stirring sentiments were all over the place.
8. Dylan’s convincingly sincere ‘thank you everybody‘ reaction
and introduction of the band before the finale surprised
many of us, therefore it felt blissful.
9. His one and only harmonica fragment came at the end of the
very last song Every Grain Of Sand and got an explosive reception.
10. At 81 Bob Dylan still is a supreme performer and entertainer.
Hail hail! Thank you, Mister Zimmerman.
SETLIST
1. Watching the River Flow 2. Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine 3. I Contain Multitudes 4. False Prophet 5. When I Paint My Masterpiece 6. Black Rider 7. My Own Version of You 8. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight 9. Crossing the Rubicon 10. To Be Alone With You 11. Key West (Philosopher Pirate) 12. Gotta Serve Somebody 13. I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You 14. That Old Black Magic
(Johnny Mercer cover) 15. Mother of Muses 16. Goodbye Jimmy Reed 17. Every Grain of Sand
To end my series of impressive impressions
I want to see/hear this for the umpteenth time.
1. Watching the River Flow 2. Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine 3. I Contain Multitudes 4. False Prophet 5. When I Paint My Masterpiece 6. Black Rider 7. My Own Version of You 8. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight 9. Crossing the Rubicon 10. To Be Alone With You 11. Key West (Philosopher Pirate) 12. Gotta Serve Somebody 13. I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You 14. That Old Black Magic
(Johnny Mercer cover) 15. Mother of Muses 16. Goodbye Jimmy Reed 17. Every Grain of Sand
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