Though his voice was far removed from its white-hot mid-1960s yelp or deep Nashville Skyline croon, the singer made the most of his whiskey-and-cigarettes timbre. His rasp beautifully conveys the yearning and desperation of the late-night saloon lament "Million Miles." The haunting, stately "Not Dark Yet," a reflection on mortality set to a rumbling rhythm, may be the album's finest moment. Though the lyrics are often bleak, Dylan holds onto the slightest glimmer of hope even if the darkness is lingering around the corner. It's not dark yet, but it's getting there... BOB'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE BOOTLEG SERIES:"Bob really doesn't take his time going through the vaults," says the source. "He leaves this up to his record company. His focus is on touring, making new music and writing his memoirs." (July 2005)

COFFEEHOUSE BOB:"We've always wanted to do one of pre-album stuff where Bob is just singing songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses," says the Dylan source. (September 2015) The final mixes are a bit bath in shallow water. The original versions are a deep dive to the bottom of an icy lagoon. Each song was being refined on the spot, musically and lyrically. The first "Can't Wait" offers even more tortured lyrics ("Ever feel just like your brain's been bolted to the wall? The screws are tightening and you're cut off from it all..." or "I can't say if I want the pain to even end or not...") which are practically spat out by the singer with titanic bluster. By Version 2, Dylan and the band were trying out a cooler, smokier vibe. He never ceased tinkering with the tune; witness the two live versions on Disc Four that transform the song further. The initial "Standing in the Doorway" has a brisker tempo; "Cold Irons Bound" has alternative lyrics which are as evocative as the final ones. "Make You Feel My Love" boasts prominent organ and a longer introduction, but is lyrically intact except for just one couplet which was rewritten for the final version. The rendition of "Marchin' to the City" which premieres on Disc 3 joins two previously released versions reprised on CD 5. The 12-bar blues has some lyrics shared by "Till I Fell in Love with You" and "Not Dark Yet." 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. Charts [ edit ] Weekly chart performance for The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997) Chart (2023)On November 1, 2022, Simon & Schuster published 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. But as the sessions moved to a new location, Dylan, along with Lanois and the various musicians brought in, seemed to realize that the songs merited something deeper, darker and more appropriate for the fiftysometing Dylan. That’s especially apparent in “’Til I Fell in Love with You”: An early take, which features a yelpy, somewhat more limber-voiced Dylan, gives way to a later version closer to the skulking one we’re familiar with. Dylan was also wise to discard a musically jauntier take on “Not Dark Yet” for the slower, crawly version on Time Out of Mind. Matrix / Runout (Side M runout): 19439981981-M 243281E1 1233538 MRP3791/19439981981/07-A STERLING RKS

CHRONICLES VOL. 2: Simon & Schuster also plans to publish Chronicles: Volume Two, but don't expect Dylan to deliver a manuscript anytime soon. "It'd be wonderful to have it in the next few years," says Rosenthal. "But we'll get it when we get it." (March 2005) The Oxford dictionary describes the phrase time out of mind as "a time in the past that was so long ago that people have no knowledge or memory of it." What was Bob Dylan getting at when he lifted the phrase for his 1997 Grammy Award-winning album? Critics and fans alike immediately seized on the notion of the record as some kind of dark farewell from an artist in the September of his years. Indeed, the album was filled with musings on lost love, mortality, hopelessness, and despair. But there was more to Time Out of Mind lurking under the surface. If it was intended as a farewell, it failed miserably; it ended up inaugurating a golden era that saw it followed by such powerful albums as Love and Theft and Modern Times. BOB DYLAN – FRAGMENTS – TIME OUT OF MIND SESSIONS (1996-1997): THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 17 TO BE RELEASED IN DELUXE 5 DISC SET ON COLUMBIA RECORDS/LEGACY RECORDINGS FRIDAY, JANUARY 27

Album – Classifica settimanale WK 5 (dal 27.01.2023 al 02.02.2023)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved February 4, 2023. Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): 19439981981-B 242185E2 1203923 MRP3791/19439981981/01-B STERLING RKS