Bob Dylan – Shadow Kingdom (2023)
Over the long arc of Bob Dylan’s career, it becomes easier to discern underlying trends. The relatively recent experience of recording 50-odd standards between 2015 and 2017 – on Shadows in the Night,...
View ArticleBob Dylan – Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg...
The last volume of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series, 2021’s Springtime in New York, chronicled the singer-songwriter at the outset of the 1980s. On January 27, 2023, the seventeenth volume of the...
View ArticleBob Dylan – 14 Hidden Gems from The Bootleg Series 1963-1997 (2023)
This Month’s Covermount CD is a special event, an all-Bob Dylan spectacular featuring 14 revelatory tracks selected from the 17 Bootleg Series albums so far. Stunning versions of I Pity The Poor...
View ArticleBob Dylan – Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series vol. 16, 1980-1985...
From a creative era that even Bob Dylan himself has suggested was fraught with self-doubt and a sense that all mastery of his craft was lost, we receive this remarkable treasure trove that demonstrates...
View ArticleVA – Dylan… Revisited: 14 of His Greatest Songs Reinterpreted for Uncut (2021)
“…To celebrate Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday, 14 esteemed artists – including The Flaming Lips, Low, Richard Thompson, Courtney Marie Andrews, Cowboy Junkies and The Weather Station – have recorded brand...
View ArticleBob Dylan – 50th Anniversary Collection 1970 (2020)
A tiny number of Bob Dylan fans scored a valuable collectible on Sunday when a three-disc collection of songs cut in 1970, including the legendary George Harrison sessions, was quietly put on sale via...
View ArticleBob Dylan – The Best of The Bootleg Series (2020)
Since 1991, Bob Dylan and his team have combed the archives for new and interesting rarities from the vault to create The Bootleg Series. Once a tightly curated affair, the series has since expanded to...
View ArticleBob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020)
For 60 years, Bob Dylan has been speaking to us. Sometimes breathless, often inscrutable, occasionally prophetic, his words have formed a mythology unto themselves. But his silence holds just as much...
View ArticleBob Dylan featuring Johnny Cash – Travelin’ Thru, 1967-1969: The Bootleg...
The 15th volume of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series focuses on the recordings he made in Nashville in the waning years of the 1960s. There are outtakes from John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline, along...
View ArticleBob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (2019)
The Rolling Thunder Revue era in Bob Dylan’s career maintains a central place apparently. The 14-disc Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings is the third release in his catalogue to document...
View ArticleBob Dylan – Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973, MFSL 2019)
On the surface, Bob Dylan’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid serves as a potent soundtrack to Sam Peckinpah’s western of the same name. Dating from 1973, the Grammy-nominated set continued a rustic...
View ArticleBob Dylan – Uncut: Best of The Bootleg Series (2018)
1. Guess I’m Doing Fine (Witmark Demo-1964) 2. Dink’s Song 3. To Ramona (Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York) 4. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Take 8) [Alternate Take] 5. One Too...
View ArticleBob Dylan – Oh Mercy (1989, MFSL 2019)
Oh Mercy was hailed as a comeback, not just because it had songs noticeably more meaningful than anything Bob Dylan had recently released, but because Daniel Lanois’ production gave it cohesion. There...
View ArticleBob Dylan – Blood On the Tracks: Original Test Pressing (RSD 2019)
Any week will bear Bob Dylan news if you dig just a little bit. But this week brought a little more than usual. For starters, Dylan apparently is launching a new distillery in Nashville called Heaven’s...
View ArticleBob Dylan – More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 14 [Deluxe...
When can a song be considered “finished”? When, if ever, can a song written by Bob Dylan be considered finished? And what to make of tracks that were greenlit for release and then discarded – after the...
View ArticleBob Dylan – Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections...
Sony began releasing collections of Bob Dylan rarities with the sole purpose of extending their claims to the copyright to the recordings in 2012, when they released The 50th Anniversary Collection:...
View ArticleVA – Take What You Need: UK Covers of Bob Dylan Songs 1964-1969 (2017)
In February 1965, Melody Maker asked John Lennon about his personal enthusiasm for Bob Dylan material and Dylan interpretations. “I just felt like going that way,” he said about the new acoustic...
View ArticleBob Dylan – The Music Which Inspired Girl from the North Country (2018)
Conor McPherson’s play Girl from the North Country debuted last year, with the playwright hand-picking songs from Bob Dylan’s catalogue as a means of supplementing both the dialogue and emotional...
View ArticleBob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963, MFSL 2017)
We are humbled to have the privilege of mastering the iconic album from the original master tapes and presenting it in its original take-notice mono sound It’s hard to overestimate the importance of...
View ArticleBob Dylan – Love and Theft (2001, MFSL 2017)
Time Out of Mind was a legitimate comeback, Bob Dylan’s first collection of original songs in nearly ten years and a risky rumination on mortality, but its sequel, Love and Theft, is his true return to...
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