Oddball Covers: Though they’d rarely make it onto his proper albums, Dylan loves blowing off steam in the studio with covers - sometimes the expected folk / blues / country stuff, sometimes not.

I’m still absorbing, to be honest – so here are some early impressions, random thoughts, and favorite moments. What the 16 th (!) volume of the Bootleg Series gives us is a chance to explore them further, to watch it all come together and occasionally fall apart. Accept them! Love them for all their weird flaws. I’m not sure if rescuing is necessary regardless of how you feel about the production or mix choices, at this stage, the original albums from this period are part of the rich tapestry that is the ongoing Dylan saga.

You may read reviews saying that it “rescues” Dylan’s sometimes maligned efforts during the first half of the 1980s. Springtime is still fantastic, with revelations and pleasures galore. (At the very least, I want all of that classic Letterman performance with The Plugz.)īut enough complaining. What can I say - even at this stage, I want more. It clocks in at well over four hours, but it isn’t quite the immersive deep dive into this Dylan era that fanatics have been dreaming of for many years.

Is it possible that the latest in Dylan’s Bootleg Series feels … a little slim? Here’s what we get with Springtime In New York: two discs of rehearsals and outtakes from the tail-end of the so-called “Gospel Era” two discs of Infidels session outtakes and one disc with a smattering of live performances and studio alternates from 19.

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