![]() ![]() “He’ll pause on a single word in one take or bring his voice up on another word on the next. “He makes every take of every song sound totally different,” says Gans. ![]() ![]() It includes outtakes like “Tell Me” and “Julius and Ethel” along with alternate versions of album tracks like “Don’t Fall Apart On Me Tonight” and “I and I” that differ from the released versions in fascinating ways. The Infidels debate will only intensify once fans hear even more unreleased material from the sessions on Springtime In New York. That said, I don’t think ‘Blind Willie McTell’ would have interfered with that unity, especially with the final verse of ‘power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.’ That line sums up a lot of the songs on the album.” “And the album, as it is, has a certain unity to it. “There’s always going to be debates,” he says. Terry Gans, author of the 2020 book Surviving in a Ruthless World: Bob Dylan’s Voyage to Infidels, sees it slightly differently. It might not go with the overall aesthetic of the album.” But there may not be a place for ‘Blind Willie McTell’ on Infidels. “You might think that ‘Blind Willie McTell’ is a great song and belongs on Infidels. “To get good sound on an album in those days, you really only had 17 minutes a side,” says the source. The album received mostly positive reviews when it came out, but when bootlegs from the sessions leaked out just months later, many fans became convinced that several of the best songs, including “Foot of Pride,” “Someone’s Got a Hold On My Heart” and “Blind Willie McTell” didn’t make the cut. The heart of Springtime In New York comes from the April and May 1983 Infidels sessions at The Power Station in New York, which take up the entirety of discs three and four. The second disc moves to the Shot of Love sessions in May 1981 where Dylan tackles covers like the Temptations’ “I Wish It Would Rain” and the Everly Brothers’ “Let It Be Me” and original songs that didn’t make the final cut for the album, including “Yes Sir, No Sir,” “Borrowed Time,” and longtime fan favorite “Angelina.” Several of these songs have never even been heard in bootleg circles. “She was my ultimate singing partner,” Dylan told Rolling Stone when she died in 2019. He did a lot of things with Clydie and they’re all wonderful.” ![]() “I don’t think he had a singing partner that he did so much work with other than Joan Baez. “When they sang together, it was really magical,” says the source. Several of the cover songs are duets with backup singer Clydie King. They also show what he was listening to back then.” You forget how much attitude Bob can bring to a song. But when Bob does it, it sounds like a Dylan song. “That was a sappy Top 40 hit from that time. “Take a song like ‘This Night Won’t Last Forever,'” says the source. The plan was to work out some of Dylan’s older songs that were being added into the set after a year of strictly playing religious tunes, but Dylan kept throwing them unexpected covers like Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” Bill LaBounty’s “This Night Won’t Last Forever,” and Dion’s “Abraham, Martin and John.” All three of those songs appear on this set along with Dave Mason’s “We Just Disagree” and Dr. It begins in September and October 1980 when Dylan and his Christian-era band were holed up at Rundown Studios in Santa Monica, California rehearsing for their upcoming Musical Retrospective Tour. ![]()
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