Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind

Solid album. Quite dark.

that live version of cold irons bound upthread is crazy good.

my favs are that one, not dark yet, and standing in the doorway. agree with the chatter about make you feel my love, was requested to play that during a wedding ceremony and nearly fell asleep at the piano.

Oh and pardon self-xposting but another good "Not Dark Yet" in a different way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5ixkCXSI7M

I miss Dylan playing guitar.

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oh, i was the only voter for the song i voted for, interesting.

Picking up from the Spector thread, coincidentally Marc Maron just did a podcast with Daniel Lanois, and they spend a little time talking about the Dylan records:

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1193-daniel-lanois

The most amusing and impressive bit involves the loops Lanois made for Time Out of Mind. I know he's talked about making loops for the album elsewhere, and it's been reported many times that Dylan gave Lanois a whole bunch of old blues records (e.g. Charley Patton) prior to recording just to show him what he had in mind. But apparently, the loops were an insurance policy. It was understood that Dylan wanted an old blues sound, but Lanois was afraid that they would end up sounding like a bar band. So he gathered the key players that were hired for the album and had them play along with the exact same records Dylan given him. Then he wiped those vintage records from the multi-track so that all that was left was their own playing, and those were turned into loops. That way if things didn't go so well at the recording sessions, he could dig those up and use them as is or as a backing track to play along with. Kind of a brilliant cheat.

Mark Howard recorded another interview about working on this album:

https://dylanfmc.castos.com/podcasts/44253/episodes/s0103-mark-howard-engineer-time-out-of-mind

Actually not as redundant as I would think, he does give more details on why it was such a difficult project to work on. For example, it's already known that changing locations made things difficult, but he goes into further detail on why. For example, Criteria may have been a famous studio, but the physical room where they recorded their most famous stuff in the '70s had been converted into their tape vault, and the place they were stuck with sounded like shit with plaster all over the walls, etc. (Apparently it was the room used for their music video productions.)

Also good stuff that's worth repeating, like how they ended up mixing Dylan's voice through the harmonica amp, and how Dylan was a big fan of Beck and wanted to "sound like him" (i.e. incorporate some hip-hop inspired tricks that Beck used on his records).

Like Erica Jong?

I’m walking through
The summer nights
Jukebox playing low