Tell Tale Signs - I'll admit I am not as familiar with Bob's career from the early 80's onward. Still, this does serve as a decent alternate listen if you are a bit burned on the regular album and the different recordings with different bands in different locations provide enough variety to be enjoyable, perhaps my expectations for this were just too high, but at the end of the day more often than not I'll go for Blood on the Tracks instead.ĩ. For the most part this just reaffirms how much I really do love the decision making on the final album takes.
For one it's the only single CD edition which narrows down the kitchen sink style large box, but even in narrowing it so greatly it still provides little that really effects me the way the original album does. But ultimately there just isn't enough here to really blow me away the way some of these sets have. More Blood More Tracks - Blood on the Tracks is probably my favourite Dylan album, so I couldn't have been more excited for this release. It screams of a copyright dump and should have been best left to the Copyright Collection Series.ġ0.
#BIG L PUT IT ON BOOTLEG SERIES#
At it's best the Bootleg Series frames moments of sheer greatness that have been overlooked for decades, this is the opposite. Sure there are a couple moments that you feel a slight spark develop, but it's gone as quickly as it came and it's just two legends fumbling around in the dark trying to find a match for the rest of it's runtime. Usually what makes these artists great is their ability to take control of the situation and because of the above scenario this seldom happens in these collabs and things feel meandering and directionless. Big name collaborations often fall flat for me and are usually uninspired and tepid as two artists attempt to broach two vastly different creative styles while still being respectful and reverential. It's the Cash Sessions I have much more of a problem with.
I enjoy the first disc well enough, though nothing is truly revelatory. Vol 15: Travelin' Thru - Not one of my favourite Dylan periods to begin with meant I actually owned this for a year before finally getting a round to listening to it. For what it is I actually enjoy this set a fair amount, but when I'm in the mood for this era better options now exist.ġ1. In addition, a prospective Villager set is likely to make Disc 1 as obsolete as Disc 2 which will make this an incredibly unlikely candidate for future listens. It still stands up as a decent set, unfortunately it's sampler approach doesn't work as effectively as the other sampler style volumes because much of what was released here has been made redundant by larger sets that offer better contextualization of this material. Vol 7: No Direction Home This was one of the first bootleg series sets I got because being an overview of a period where I love most of what Dylan was doing, it was a no brainer. As such this one doesn't get many repeated listens.ġ2.
It's a curiousity, but if I want my Dylan fix for this time period there are more preferable options. These demos come across as serviceable, but little more. The problem is the set isn't a very engaging listen because most of what is here exists elsewhere in superior versions with better sound quality and more definitive renditions.
Vol 9: The Whitmark Demos - I'm glad this was released in this series, because it is an interesting period of Dylan's developmental stage as a songwriter, and so it's fantastic to have for a reference into that period. I listened to all the 2 CD versions for comparison, but I am familiar with all the bigger boxes and took into account whether they offered something particularly revealing that the 2 CD sets missed when ranking these.ġ3. I just recently re listened to these sets on a very long road trip and was thinking about how I would rank them based both on my current enjoyment of them and how much impact they had on my growing appreciation of Dylan when I originally acquired them.
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