Just to say: this is a tremendous piece of work!
And: I don’t mind Dylan leaving gems off the official albums, as long as he puts them out like this instead.
And: in a way, it’s even better like this. Hearing facets of the work of a creative mind over a limited period of time can be even more rewarding than a single shot (like an album) or a carreer-spanning tour de force (like the original Bootleg Series 1-3).
More on this later. Stay tuned.
I completely agree. Outtakes, halfsongs, unreleased, it doesn’t matter. An amazing “bootleg”, as all his are. Speaking of unreleased and the like, I have some stuff that you may or may not have and/ or be in interested in. Shoot me an email.
I thought Dylan’s most accessible modern album was the Bootleg series, vol 3 – the one with the pretty acoustic Blood on the Tracks tunes. Everything neat and tidy, excellent songs, excellent music, not too much nasal twang.
# Tangled Up in Blue
# Call Letter Blues
# Idiot Wind
# If You See Her, Say Hello
# Golden Loom
# Catfish
# Seven Days
# Ye Shall Be Changed
# Every Grain Of Sand
# You Changed My Life
# Need a Woman
# Angelina
# Someone’s Got a Hold of My Heart
# Tell Me
# Lord, Protect My Child
# Foot of Pride
# Blind Willie McTell
# When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
# Series of Dreams
Part of the second line from ” ‘cross The green mountain” is borrowed/stolen/taken/reworked/referenced from a W.B Yeats poem. Can’t locate it now, but someone who can work thin nefarious web can (or has a book of poems… IMAGINE!). “Heaven blazing in my head”. Hope this’ll help all your great work. With love and theft, Ois-spudz