Chud, have you heard the "Mississippi" outtakes from the "Time Out of Mind" sessions? They appear on the "Tell Tale Signs" set. The first of the three outtakes is the superlative take in my opinion, even better than the "Love and Theft" version.
I love both records, but I'll take "Love and Theft"'s wit and joie de vivre over "Time Out of Mind"'s ambient melancholia roughly eight times out of ten. It's always a big "whose side are you on?" debate in the Dylan world, which of those two records you prefer. Same with "Highway 61" and "Blonde on Blonde."
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Kevin Davis wrote:
Chud, have you heard the "Mississippi" outtakes from the "Time Out of Mind" sessions? They appear on the "Tell Tale Signs" set. The first of the three outtakes is the superlative take in my opinion, even better than the "Love and Theft" version.
Completely agree. Really interesting to note that it was kicking around during Time Out Of Mind, too. Would love to have heard TOOM with Mississippi and Dreaming of You in place of one or two tracks.
Chud, have you heard the "Mississippi" outtakes from the "Time Out of Mind" sessions? They appear on the "Tell Tale Signs" set. The first of the three outtakes is the superlative take in my opinion, even better than the "Love and Theft" version.
Completely agree. Really interesting to note that it was kicking around during Time Out Of Mind, too. Would love to have heard TOOM with Mississippi and Dreaming of You in place of one or two tracks.
I think the only alteration I might make to "TOOM" would be to substitute "Marchin' to the City" for "Til I Fell in Love With You." "Dreamin' of You" is superb, unlike anything else in Bob's canon really, but too many of its lyrics ended up getting transferred to the vastly superior "Standing in the Doorway" for it to stake out a proper place on the record. And of course, having "Mississippi" on "TOOM" would probably have it getting yanked from "L&T," which I wouldn't want.
I admit i searched for Kevin Davis' posts on the Bob Dylan board as a companion piece for his book.
That's touching, Skitch. I'm pretty sure all traces of that original board have been purged from the internet--which is good for me, as I was 19-22 during my years there, and probably not quite the forever delightful presence you've come to know and love here at our beloved RM.
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So I was really excited about a Tempest listening party scheduled at my local record store this Sunday, and I convinced the editors at the online magazine I contribute to to let me cover it. Turns out it was last Sunday.
The silver lining around that particular rain cloud is that the album is now in stores, and I will be picking it up this afternoon.
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I remember enjoying the short amount of time that I spent with it, but now I'm on a new laptop and no longer have most of those tunes. Check your inbox.
Any fellow Dylanites out there, this is a collection of odds-and-ends material I put together about 5 years ago that I find myself playing as much as any proper studio album, a personal compilation of B-sides, soundtrack material, non-album singles that didn't make Biograph, and some cream-of-the-crop bootleg stuff that no fan should be without--basically a bunch of great tracks that would be obnoxious to track down one at a time:
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CD1 1. Rocks and Gravel (1962, Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan outtake) 2. Bob Dylan’s New Orleans Rag (1963, The Times They Are A-Changin’ outtake) 3. Hero Blues (1963, The Times They Are A-Changin’ outtake) 4. The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1963, The Times They Are A-Changin’ outtake) 5. Outlaw Blues (1964 demo) 6. To Ramona (live 1965, Don’t Look Back outtake) 7. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (1965; alternate version appears on Biograph) 8. Spanish is the Loving Tongue (1970, New Morning outtake; B-side to “Watching the River Flow”) 9. Went to See the Gypsy (1970, New Morning outtake) 10. If Not for You (1970, New Morning outtake) 11. Tangled Up in Blue (1974, Blood on the Tracks New York sessions) 12. If You See Her, Say Hello (1974, Blood on the Tracks New York sessions) 13. Shelter From the Storm (1974, Blood on the Tracks New York sessions; Jerry Maguire soundtrack) 14. Idiot Wind (1974, Blood on the Tracks New York sessions) 15. Rita Mae (1975, Desire outtake; B-side to “Stuck Inside of Mobile” from Hard Rain) 16. Trouble in Mind (1979, Slow Train Coming outtake; B-side to “Gotta Serve Somebody”) 17. Carribbean Wind (1981, Shot of Love outtake; alternate version appears on Biograph)
CD2 1. Blind Willie McTell (1983, full-band version; Infidels outtake) 2. Band of the Hand (1986, non-album single) 3. Pretty Boy Floyd (1987, Folkways tribute album) 4. People Get Ready (1988, Flashback soundtrack) 5. You Belong to Me (1992, Good As I Been to You outtake; Natural Born Killers soundtrack) 6. My Blue-Eyed Jane (1994, Jimmie Rodgers tribute album) 7. Ring of Fire (1996, Johnny Cash tribute album) 8. Dignity (1994, from Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume 3) 9. Things Have Changed (2000, Wonder Boys soundtrack) 10. I Can’t Get You Off of My Mind (2000, Hank Williams tribute album) 11. Return to Me (2001, Sopranos soundtrack) 12. Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache (2002, Sun Records tribute album) 13. Dixie (2002, Masked and Anonymous soundtrack) 14. Diamond Joe (2002, Masked and Anonymous soundtrack) 15. Waitin’ For You (2003, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood soundtrack) 16. Tell Ol’ Bill (2005, North Country soundtrack)
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