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  dr ian

  5.0 out of 5 stars like having a new Dylan album from one of my favourite periods

  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2015

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  I've been reading Ian Bell's two volume bio of Dylan. Bell makes the point that sometimes Dylan's choices of what's included and what left out of albums is sometimes inexplicable, and that omitted songs are sometimes better than those included. This cd backs Bell up: it has some great songs, mainly from the Oh Mercy, Modern Times and Time Out of Mind period: songs not included in those albums, alternate takes, and a couple of live reinterpretations. Highlights include songs like two earlier versions of 'Mississippi' , omitted from Time out of Mind', and 'Dignity' from 'Oh Mercy' sessions. The tracks on this 'official' bootleg series are mainly studio quality recordings of full songs, not the mix of fragments that have surfaced on unauthorised bootlegs. It's like having a new Dylan album from one of my favourite periods of his work: highly recommended.

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