Wonderful Dylan box set covering 30 years of beautiful creation,lots of rare tracks in great sonic quality hitherto only available on hard to find bootlegs,a very well packaged and thought out release,highly recommended.Peter
This is essential listening for the true Zimophile.You really could not be a dedicated follower of the great enigma, the mystery tramp, if you did not own this.Think rare & unreleased, forget the Bootleg tag. Contains many gems and discards (amazingly) including Blind Willie Mctell, an utter classic,(which he mangles live)and the wonderful Foot of Pride.Every Grain of Sand contains my life message in the lyric - I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame,and every time I pass that way I always hear my name. Don't even think about not adding this to your personal Zimvault.
The man is a GENIUS! I have nearly all of his albums, but as I never got round to buying any of The Bootleg series I wasn't sure what to expect.Well I can now tell you after listening to Vol 1-3, that if you are a fan then this is a must have for your collection....so many songs...really good stuff...it's like falling in love with Dylan's music all over again!!
please could you email me back as when this was opened at christmas the cd's were damaged is there any thing that could be done as i didn't open this when you sent it, it was sent to my dad for christmas.please reply.
This comprehensive collection organised in three distinct periods of his music on three CD's is truly a magnificient experience. From Hard Times in New York Town, a song about busking in Greenwich Village, that sounds like it is being busked, even contains the word 'BEAT'; to Suze (the cough song) sounding tired, melancholy, cattarrhed; to a great shouting version of Idiot Wind,to the spiritual tunes from Blood on the Tracks, and on and on, to 1991. It spans his career in a more thorough way than anything else I've experienced. My favourite find was 'Last Thoughts on Woody Gutherie' a song my closest friend and I wrote down and pinned to our walls years ago (when I first bought the cd), it is such a romantic journey, topsy turvey poem. His nervous voice introducing it: "You need a train engine fire to shoot you someplace and shoot you back." This is my favourite Bob cd.