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Jan 28, 2023Liked by The FM Club

Thanks for doing this! Saves me the effort.

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This is awesome. Thanks so much for this curation—

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Jan 29, 2023Liked by The FM Club

Thanks so much for these lists! I have the love but not the time...I managed to get through all ten discs this weekend. Now to Spotify with your lists to listen again. Thanks for doing the "work" for me!

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Jan 29, 2023Liked by The FM Club

Fabulous piece of work, thank you! And thank you Bob!

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Feb 8, 2023·edited Feb 8, 2023

In searching for dates and clues to when certain songs were started and finished, I took another look at the track sheet pictures in the Tell Tale Signs booklet. There is a lot of info that can be gleaned from taking a careful look at that. For instance, Dirt Road Blues is a Criteria Studios track sheet, But it says "cassette" at the top and "DAT" on tracks 23 and 24. So it was already recorded in some fashion earlier then re-recorded at Criteria.

Brain Blade's name is on a track for "Kick" but not listed on the album as one of the musicians.

And last but not least, we have some tracks labeled "BD Vocal Oxnard March 14/97 Sony C37 LA2A". This is for Dylan singing new vocals back at the Teatro and listing the mic and compressor/limiter he used. There's one for recording new acoustic guitar as well. So we can see this song was worked on and developed in at least three different instances before it was done (Not sure if the DAT tape was one of the early New York demos Lanois worked on or not).

It's also the first time I've seen a date for the overdub sessions, indicating when they finally went back to the Teatro to finish the album.

If someone knows for sure when and where the first version of Dirt Road Blues was recored with Winston Watson on Drums, please let me know.

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I've been waiting more than 20 years for all this info, music and discussion! So thanks first of all, for making this site and doing all of this; it's really amazing and greatly appreciated.

I've been going though Fragments and reading about the different days when things were recorded but can't seem to find anything on when the Final Arrangements or Final Takes were made. For instance, we have a date for the alternate take of Highlands, but was that one before or after the one on TOOM? where's the date for the final album version? That's what I want to find out and I think it would be interesting for a lot of us to know. People tend to assume that the last take is always the one that got used but it's not always the case. And, when was that take? The next day, a week later, two months later back at the Teatro during final mixing and overdubs?

We need the dates of the album versions too, not just the alternate takes. Hope you can find that info and post it somewhere. Thanks again!

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Fantastic and heroic effort. One slight carp, the same "6.03" "Mississippi" appears on both the "Oxnard" and the "Strummers" list. Shouldn't it be in only one location?

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