DYLAN'S MIND GAMES

The next Bob Dylan Bootleg Series entry from Sony Legacy goes back 25 years, to the sessions for Dylan's Grammy-winning Time Out of Mind.

Due 1/27, the 11-song Bob Dylan–Fragments–Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 will be released in various configurations, including deluxe boxed sets of five CDs or 10 LPs.

The collection includes 2022 mixes by Michael H. Brauer that “put you in close proximity to the players," according to Steven Hyden’s liner notes. It’s the first Dylan album to be released in immersive audio.

The other CDs/LPs contain rare outtakes and alternate versions, live performances from 1998-2001 and studio recordings of the four Dylan songs omitted from the original Time Out of Mind. Version 2 of "Love Sick," recorded 1/14/97, was released to DSPs today (11/17).

"The album itself has been remixed to sound more like how the songs came across when the musicians originally played them in the room, without the effects and processing that [producer Daniel] Lanois applied later,” Hyden writes. “It's not meant to replace the Time Out of Mind that won all those Grammys a quarter-century ago; it's a reimagining, an alternate view of a great work of art.”