Thanks!To hear (or add to your library) just the album proper in Atmos:
Lanois produced one of my favorite albums, Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball, and I love his work on Oh Mercy (among others). That said, much as I love half of this album (oddly the odd numbered tracks), the other half has pushed me away despite periodic revisits.
I’ve wanted a Bootleg Series entry for this forever, and Vol. 8 just whet the appetite. That’s a lotta years in between. So the fact that this exists and includes a remix AND a surround mix is a gift within a gift within a gift, no matter whether the new mixes are a mixed bag?
How couldn’t they be? According to Mark Howard, who did this new mix, there were in the neighborhood of twelve instruments played on the tracks, each isolated enough that it seems countless instrumental combinations could be made around Dylan’s vocals. To my knowledge, this is unique in his catalogue, and it’s a surround dream to think of how many ways this album could be revisited.
I’m rambling.
Thanks again. You’ve made my day, and no doubt a few other days, too.
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