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Time Out of Mind (1997)
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Tracks (Click song title for lyrics)
Album Info
Bob Dylan - guitar, acoustic and electric rhythm lead, harmonica, piano, vocals (all songs);
Daniel Lanois - guitar, mando-guitar, firebird, martin 0018, Gretch gold top, rhythm & lead (all songs);
Bucky Baxter - acoustic guitar, pedal steel (3, 5, 7, 8);
Duke Robillard - guitar, electric L5 Gibson (4, 5, 10);
Robert Britt - Martin acoustic & Fender Stratocaster (3, 6, 7, 8);
Winston Watson - Drums (2);
Cindy Cashdollar - slide guitar (3, 5 , 7);
Tony Garnier - Electric bass & acoustic upright bass (all songs);
Auggie Meyers - Vox organ combo, Hammond B3 organ & accordion (all songs);
Jim Dickinson - keyboards, Wurlitzer electric piano & pump organ (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11);
Jim Keltner - drums (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10);
David Kemper - drums (8);
Brian Blade - drums (1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10);
Tony Mangurian - percussion (3, 4, 10, 11)
All songs written by Bob Dylan.
Produced by: Daniel Lanois... in association with Jack Frost Productions
Engineer: Mark Howard
Assistant Engineer: Chris Carrol (Miami)
Recorded at: Criteria Recording Studios - 1755 N.E. 149 Street, Miami, FL
Mixed at: Teatro Studios - 826 S. Oxnard Bl., Oxnard, CA
Art Direction: Geoff Gans, Santa Monica, CA
Photography: Daniel Lanois, Mark Seliger, Susie Q.
Comments
Lisa
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It sounds like your dad's record is an old bootleg (shhhh). It might be worth quite a bit of money. Anyway, Stealin' was a number that Dylan recorded in the early days before his first album. I'm not sure if he wrote the song - I don't think so. It's a folk song - not one of my favorites from that time, but it has some familiarity. If you go to my blog (click on my pic) I have 2 entries that discuss Dylan's early work. Also I have some links there that might take you to the right place.
Does anyone know this album Stealin
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Lisa, Hi, I am a big Bob D. fan, My dad was even a bigger one, I have been going through his collection and I come across one 331/2, the cover is just plain white and he has a sticker on it called Bob Dylan/Stealin, there is nothing on the vinyl except the names of songs and side 1-2 and 331/2. I have looked everywhere, There is no run off numbers on vinyl just one the two on each side, and the label is grey, The vinyl is thick, This is driving me crazy, It has some great songs that I recognize like, There is a song named 'Hard Times in New York Town/Stealin, Could someone please help, Lisa
The Best!
SLUMDOG
This could be my favorite album of all time.
I love all the songs except Feel My Love. It's not one of his strongest songs but 10 out of 11 is good enough for me.
I really like Highlands. You can lose yourself in that one. It's dark, funny and the music is hypnotic.
Love the Swampy Blues Bob Dylan!
My Heart's in this Album but I can't found it in Turkey: Shame.
After this sentence title what i can say? May be a lot of things but my English is not enough: Another shame. It's Alright, I'm only sighing for I couldn't explain.
I filled my head with -not ideas- tales & notes. One of them is Highlands and I could want to find this album for only that song; because it takes a quarter hour.
All songs are good - I Love. Awesome.
i love 'love sick' i forgot
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i love 'love sick' i forgot how good this album actually was
Not Dark Yet
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I can't believe I am just discovering Mr. Dylan's song titled It's Not Dark. This song reaches into my soul and cries with me! My morning actually has comfort from the lyrics and the soul of this song.
My Heart's In The Highlands
I often form my like or dislike of an album based on the song at the end of the album. If the song is strong, the album for me is strong (not always the case). It is, however the case with this album. Of course all of the numbers here without exception are terrific. What makes this a perfect Dylan album is Highlands. The album could not have ended better. 16 minutes of pure blues heaven. In fact, Dylan seems to be singing about some kind of heaven. The Highlands is the place he'll go to when he "gets called home."
Funny, with all of Dylan's religiously oriented material, he has never spoken about heaven. Here he talks about it in metaphore, but it's clear what he means. Perhaps the fact that it is Dylan's longest recorded song ever, gives it some meaning as well.
Anyway, Time Out Of Mind is one of Dylan's best. I highly recommend it. I listen to it often.
Dark Words
Well well well. What is a man, who's experienced life the cruel way, to do in the winter of '96 when he's trapped inside his home? Write some songs of course. But these words here are, for the most part, quite dark. Now flame me all you want, but I can see why Dylan wouldn't consider this to be a part of his "trilogy" of great albums. Time Out Of Mind is beautifully written, but very confessional. In '84, Dylan told Martha Quinn in an interview that he doesn't like his albums to be too predictable. As much as I love this album, I can see why he wouldn't consider this a masterpiece.
But then again, saying Time Out Of Mind is a masterpiece would be an understatement. The man's had plenty of songs he's self-admittedly proud of along with other records us Dylan fans consider "masterpieces". This would be no exception. However, in terms of darkness, this one would be right up there in Dylan's discography along with Street-Legal, Infidels, Blood On The Tracks, Down In The Groove, and World Gone Wrong.
Love Sick comes off very powerful. Simply written, but powerful sung. Dirt Road Blues I like because it's short and just as powerful. It isn't another long song after the five-minute Love Sick. Standing In The Doorway has many great lines in it. My favorite one from there is "Yesterday everything was goin' too fast / Today it's goin' too slow". Very nice. Million Miles reminds me drivin' down a road I take to my summer house in the middle of the night and taking time to reflect on my past. That's indeed a good song to turn on if you're driving on an open deserted road. Trying To Get To Heaven has a nice, loose sound to it. Great harmonica solo. 'Till I Fell In Love With You is the successor to Marchin' In The City. Not my favorite track on here, but some powerful lines in there too. I've known Not Dark Yet since 2006 when I first listened to it on The Essential Bob Dylan. Loved it ever since. Cold Irons Bound paints many images in my mind. Fully deserved that Grammy for Best Rock Vocal or whatever it was called. Make You Feel My Love is played nicely, but confessional. At least when he sang something like this at this point in time, it really meant something. Nothing from an unexperienced singer/songwriter's lost love complaint songs from the 80s. Can't Wait has the line "Night or day it doesn't matter where I go anymore / I just go". But after spending my money on the 3-disc set of Tell Tale Signs, I prefer the version of Can't Wait found on the 3rd disc. Highlands is my favorite song on here. Some complain about it's length, but this song perfectly captures the normal 16 and a half minutes of anybody's day at the age of 56. I could go on ramblin' about many great lines here, but that would take too long. The very ending of Highlands is the best part for me on Time Out Of Mind. (Note: this and Modern times are probably the only two CDs ever that have over an hour recording that never bore you. Same thing for Blonde On Blonde, too).
I wouldn't suggest starting with Time Out Of Mind if you're a new Dylan fan. My suggestion: just start from his 1962 debut album and progress from there (note: not all of his albums are easy to find).
One-Of-A-Kind
A Dylan's Masterpiece
"Time Out of Mind" strikes with the power of a punch in the face. The album starts slow, with a couple of unremarkable songs, then it takes off and flies to the highest altitude of Dylan's career.
"Standing in the Doorway", "Million Miles", "Not Dark Yet", "Cold Iron Bound", "Can't Wait", through closure with the superb "Highlands", every song pierces through the heart leaving the listener exhausted for their emotional intensity.
My favorite songs from the album have changed over time; I love "Not Dark Yet" as well as "Can't Wait", but if I had to pick one I would go with "Highlands" (definitely one of my Dylan's favorite songs ever) that closes the journey of the album making foreseeing a kind of piece of mind even though all conflicts stay unresolved.
If I had to explain to someone come on earth from a different planet what "masterpiece" in popular music means, I would not use words and would just hand to this someone copy of Dylan's "Time Out of Mind".
Una obra de arte
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Es una obra maestras, una obra de arte, como queráis llamarlo. A masterpiece, one of dylan's best. Deep and moving.
OBRA MAESTRA
Canciones geniales con un sonido muy peculiar: uno de mis preferidos.- Cuando lo escuche por primera vez, al terminar la quinta canción pense: hasta cuando nos va a regalar este hombre obras maestras... Me gustaria oirlo sin la patina del productor...
My First, Of Sorts
This was the first new release I purchased since seeing Bob live and becoming a Dylan junkie. I could understand the anticipation everyone must have felt when they would hear a new Dylan album is coming out.
Although this album got a lot of acclaim, I actually think Love and Theft is better.
I love Tryin' to Get to Heaven. Make You Feel My Love is good. When you hear Cold Irons Bound live, it makes you want to go back and listen to the record. It kind of grows on you until it really grabs you. I don't really care for Love Sick.
Dave
FAVORITE ALBUM
I ENJOY EVERY ALBUM BOB HAS PUT OUT, BUT IF I WERE TO PUT THE WORD FAVORITE IN FRONT OF ONE OF THEM THIS WOULD HAVE TO BE THE ONE. I STILL GET BLOWN AWAY WHEN I LISTEN TO IT. I CAN RELATE TO THE SONGS VERY WELL. AND I STILL GET A KICK OUT OF "HIGHLANDS". I'M A SOMETIMES PERFORMER MYSELF AND HAVE MEMORIZED THE WHOLE SONG "DESOLATION ROW" OFF OF "HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED", AND I'M STILL WORKING ON "HIGHLANDS" A SONG I KNOW NOT JUST MYSELF BUT MANY PEOPLE CAN RELATE TO. MY HEART IS ALWAYS IN THE "HIGHLANDS" AND WE SHALL ALL GET THERE SOMEDAY IF WE ALL WORK AT IT.
Obra maestra
Grandes canciones, sonido muy conseguido
TIME OUT OF MIND: DYLAN'S MASTERFUL BALLADRY
"Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind;
but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman." Pompey in "Measure for Measure".
The love began somewhere else and deeds unlawful to love where committed sometime before. The lover tried to rescue his beloved but he failed. He tried everything within his power and beyond it, he failed again. He went down the unlawful road but this time it failed him. Everything after that was silence which pulled him apart and he gently tried to move her. Tired and sick, the lover resolved to hang the ghost. He could not because the lover was a poet, the greater lover.
There is a conflict. Lawful and unlawful, bawd and hangman, the lover and the poet, the gunpowder and the heart. At the start they all meet on the appointed ground, the ghost in sight they split, taken away by the poet who wants both the ghost and the beloved at any cost, he pays in songs which are his ghosts and wants go on paying. He uses weapons of darkness and death on himself and on the beloved. The ghost stays and the lover is slain. The poet reigns. The suffering one sits at the top of the world. The world is mean and dirty. Since all things below is a map of all things above, he hopes to get above and find the foremost image of his beloved. So he returns, once again to her. The lover becomes the mortal who dreams. The poet takes place of the lover.
There is an ongoing conflict throughout the album, until we get to the end, the superb Highlands, where they all meet. The album must have arisen from a great need and composing it might have been greatly painstaking. This album is the most curious Dylan ever got about himself.
listened to it last night...
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I found the same thing when I first bought it...it didn't really do much for me so I put it away and didnt listen again for about two years!
then it started to grow on me. I think the original problem was that I didnt like(and still dont particularly like) the first two songs. Even Standing in the Doorway drags a bit. For me its not until the fourth song that it gets interesting.
I agree that Highlands in too long. Its not my favorite. When I played it last night the songs which stood out were:
Cold Irons
Make You Feel
Trying To Get Heaven
At first I didn't like it
In fact, the first time I heard it I put it away and didn't listen to it again for several months.
Then I got dumped, and my opinion changed dramatically (ain't that somethin'?) So I started listening to it more, and now I like it. it's great to listen to late at night when I can't sleep or can't stop thinking about somebody. My favorites are "Standing in the Doorway," "Not Dark Yet," "Dirt Road Blues," and "Cold Irons Bound."
But does anyone else think that "Highlands" is uneccesarilly long? I like the feel of it, but it seems like a lot of the lyrics were filler....
definitely a strong album
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this is a strong album, certainly his best of his latter-day career. the production is very strong, better than Lanois' other production Oh Mercy. The instrumentation throughout is excellent. the only downside to my ears is that Dirt Road Blues is a bit of a dud. It reminds me of several mediocre tracks on Modern Times. In fact I dont really like Love Sick either, but then I have a habit of disliking the "lead-off" tracks on many of his albums- Love Sick, Tweedle Dee, Political World, not sure why but it seems to be a pattern.Generally I like the final song on most of his albums but cant say I really like Highlands.
To me the best sonds on this album are:
Not Dark
Make You Feel
Cold Irons
Standing Doorway
Trying Heaven
Highlands - Time out of mind
J'adore ce texte et la poésie toute simple qu'on y trouve qui côtoye les réalités de toute vie. Cette voix remplie de vécu et le rythme si particulier de cette longue pièce sont comme un journal parlé; on voudrait avoir accès aux autres pages. Les longs textes sont toujours riches et captivants.
Et puis il y a la performance sur scène; à cet égard, les vidéos de Highlands nous manquent beaucoup; rien ne peut remplacer la rythmique qu'on y trouve et qui nous transporte, à cause du regard.
I love this text and poetry found there which is linked closely to the simple realities of life. The mature voice and the rhythmic repetitive are like thoughs delivered aloud; we would like to have access to other pages of this diary. The long texts are always rich, exciting with a curious hypnotic effect.
And then there's the performance on stage; in this regard, we lack a lot the videos; nothing can replace the rhythmic found in the body of the artist and which transports us, because gaze.
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un grande album
Uno dei dischi che preferisco di Bob. Le canzoni sono grandiose. Tutto è davvero emozionante e impeccabile.
A new beginning
Bob's officially back with this true return to form. I won't go on about great this record is. Just get it.
The latest masterpiece
When it seemed there wouldn't be another album of Dylan's new songs it appeared. Again Lanois helped him and again the ambience he created is great for me although Dylan was bored by it. It's his latest masterpiece, an album where all the songs work, and the proof is that they always work live. Love sick, Million miles, Not dark yet, Cold Irons bound and Can't wait are between my favourites, and I also like the others, specially Highlands, a song you have to sumerge in, and not wait it to end.
Time Out Of Mind
Bob’s had a lot of comebacks. He’s comeback from periods of waiting (the motorcycle crash that preceded John Wesley Harding, the break from touring or even releasing anything other than soundtracks and compilations before Planet Waves) periods of supposed weakness (the early ‘70s albums that came before Blood On The Tracks, the mid-‘80s albums that pre-dated Oh Mercy!) and even periods of weirdness (New Morning breaking from the shadow of Self-Portrait, Infidels breaking from the dogma of the born-again albums). But certainly no Dylan album has had to make a return to the public consciousness of all three: the wait (the four years since Bob’s last album, seven since the he last penned an original song), the weirdness (the two acoustic folk albums) and the weak (the critically reviled Under The Red Sky). All of that coupled with the fact that Bob nearly died during the release of Time Out Of Mind made this album a slam-dunk with the critics and fans when it came out. And as much as I hate to be seen as a follower – they’re right: Time Out Of Mind is a great album. Plus its title taken from “Accidentally Like A Martyr” by Warren Zevon. “Dirt Road Blues”, “Can’t Wait” and “Million Miles” once again find Bob subverting the 12 bar blues paradigm. “Love Sick” and “Cold Irons Bound” are both scary cool tunes of which Daniel Lanois can really sink his teeth into. “Make You Feel My Love” is the kind of song you’d expect Billy Joel or Garth Brooks to think would make a big hit if only someone with a decent voice were singing it, completely ignoring the fact that it’s the grit in Bob’s voice that gives this otherwise syrupy song its power. Even the slower songs (“Standing In The Doorway”, “Trying To Get To Heaven”, and “’Till I Fell In Love With You”) are as good as their counterparts on Oh Mercy!. Really the first hour of the album is one of my favorites, but then Bob has go into the 16 minute “Highlands”, making Time Out Of Mind as long as the double-record Blonde On Blonde. And of all the Dylan epics, it’s my least favorite. There are some good lines in here talking to the waitress, but we’ve got ten verses or so before we even get to the diner. The music in background is as uninteresting and repetitious as anything Bob’s done. Just skip that song, and you’ve got Oh Mercy! part II.