Bob Dylan has announced the latest release in his ongoing Bootleg Series.
“Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996 – 1997): The Bootleg Series Vol. 17” features a 2022 remix of the album alongside previously unreleased recordings including studio outtakes, alternate versions and live performances from 1997 – 2001.
It’s released by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings on Friday, January 27 and will be available as a deluxe box set in 5CD and 10LP 12″ vinyl editions. Also available, a two-disc/4LP standard edition of “Fragments” which includes the “Time Out of Mind” 2022 remix disc and a disc of twelve select Outtakes and Alternates highlights.
Digital versions of the complete (five disc) and highlights (two disc) editions of Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17 will be available on all streaming platforms on Friday, January 27th.
The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy’s highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series takes a fresh look at “Time Out of Mind”, Dylan’s mid-career masterpiece, celebrating the album and its enduring impact 25 years after its original release.
This edition includes a new 2022 remix, by Michael H. Brauer, of the eleven original recordings on “Time Out of Mind”, sounding more like how the songs came across when the musicians originally played them in the room.
Also included are 12 previously unreleased outtakes and alternate versions of songs written for “Time Out of Mind”, including such iconic tracks as “Love Sick”, “Not Dark Yet” and “Make You Feel My Love”.
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Among the rarities are early versions of “Time Out of Mind” songs from the 1996 Teatro sessions with Daniel Lanois, Tony Garnier, and Tony Mangurian. When sessions began in earnest at Miami’s Criteria Studio the following year, Bucky Baxter, Duke Robillard, Cindy Cashdollar, and many more joined proceedings, and many of their unreleased takes feature here. The completed work won the 1998 Grammy for Album of the Year.
There are 60 tracks on “Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997)”, the latest installment in Bob Dylan’s ongoing Bootleg Series. Dylan himself wrote 59 of them himself. One, however, is an unexpected cover.
“The Water Is Wide” is a traditional American folk song that dates back to the early 1800s. The waters gets a bit murky at that point, but the song, alternately known as “Waly, Waly,” was likely adapted from a Scottish or Irish ballad dating back a couple centuries further.
Dylan himself has been singing “The Water Is Wide” for decades. He first performed it as a duet with Joan Baez, who might well have introduced him to it, on the Rolling Thunder Revue. It was a highlight of their duo sets together. The next year, he sang it at a session for Eric Clapton’s album “No Reason To Cry”. It returned again in the late ’80s and early ’90s, where he performed an acoustic version in his own shows. Somewhat surprisingly, it doesn’t appear he ever attempted it for the two folk-covers albums he recorded in the mid’-90s, “Good As I Been to You” or “World Gone Wrong“.
Now we learn that a few years later, he actually tried it in the studio for a different album. He delivers “The Water Is Wide” beautifully in 1996, at one of the earliest sessions for “Time Out of Mind”. It’s unclear whether it was actually being considered for the album, or was just a warm-up with the band, but either way it’s clearly a polished arrangement and a wonderfully committed vocal from Bob.
New 2022 remix of the eleven original recordings on “Time Out of Mind”, sounding more like how the songs came across when the musicians originally played them in the room
25 outtakes and alternative versions
Live performances of tracks from “Time Out Of Mind” from 1998-2001
Bonus LP’s with previously released “Time Out Of Mind” material from The Bootleg Series Vol. 9
Extensive liner notes and previously unseen photography, Strictly limited and numbered edition of 5,000 units
Now available for preorder: Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17. This latest chapter in the highly acclaimed Bootleg Series takes a fresh look at “Time Out of Mind”, celebrating the album and its enduring impact 25 years after its original release. It includes a remix of the original album, outtakes and alternate versions of iconic tracks like “Not Dark Yet”, “Love Sick” and “Make You Feel My Love” — plus incandescent live renditions from 1998-2001.
Available January 27th as a 5CD or 10LP Deluxe Edition and a 2CD or 4LP
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