"Can't Wait" from "Time Out of Mind" (1997)
The horns accent the vocals in the right places and there's good session work from the Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell on guitar and Benmont Tench on keyboards. If you can get past the thoroughly glistening '80s production - there are no hard edges here - "Seeing the Real You at Last" is a decent track. The production is more akin to Lanois' work with U2 than Dylan. Typical of some Daniel Lanois productions in the '80s, "Series of Dreams" features an understated vocal, an insistent, thumping rhythm track, heavily processed guitars buried in the mix and lots and lots of keyboards.
Dylan played the song live but it was relegated to bootlegs until it made it on an official bootleg in 1991. This song was recorded for one of Dylan's many "comeback" albums, "Oh Mercy" (1989). "Series of Dreams" from "Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3" (1991)
This song would be great live but according to Dylan's website, it's never been featured on a tour. The horns are big, the message simple (a couple having a falling out), the vocals weary. The track opens with a fade-in and then Dylan's vocal, as if the band were jamming on the slow groove and waiting for the singer to launch into the first verse. "Street-Legal" doesn't get the respect it deserves, but how could it? The album followed "Blood on the Tracks," "The Basement Tapes," "Desire" and the Rolling Thunder Revue tour. "True Love Tends to Forget" from "Street-Legal" (1978) The reason it doesn't get more attention is probably because it's short, simple and to the point and appears on the same album as "Blowin' in the Wind," "Girl from the North Country" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall." This quiet number about racism in the South from Dylan's second album features just the singer and his guitar. "Oxford Town" from "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" (1963) Dylan did a fiery, rocking live version of this song on "Late Night with David Letterman" in 1984. The track features a sharp Dylan vocal, blistering slide guitar and an awkward lyric - "East of the Jordan, hard as the Rock of Gibraltar/I see the burning of the page, Curtain risin' on a new age/See the groom still waitin' at the altar" - that he manages to pull off through the sheer force of his delivery.Ĭritics call this Dylan's first secular album after the born again trilogy, but this track contains plenty of religious imagery and a great reference to a small dog licking your face.ĭylan co-produced "Infidels" with Mark Knopfler and the Dire Straits frontman's steady hand in the studio is evident throughout this reggae-influenced track - and the entire album.
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