“Travelin’ Thru,” the new 15th volume in Columbia/Legacy’s “Bootleg Series” devoted to Bob Dylan’s back catalog, is the slimmest of three retrospective Dylan packages issued by the label in the las…
“Travelin’ Thru,” the new 15th volume in Columbia/Legacy’s “Bootleg Series” devoted to’s back catalog, is the slimmest of three retrospective Dylan packages issued by the label in the last 12 months.
The present three-disc title is devoted to Dylan’s ongoing work in Nashville, where he first ventured, on the advice of his producer Bob Johnston, to work on 1966’s “Blonde On Blonde.
However, the eight alternates we do get still find Dylan and his session band — which included McCoy, Buttrey, pedal steel guitarist Pete Drake , keyboardist Bob Wilson, and four guitarists — weighing several variant approaches to the countrified bedroom ballads and bucolic, up-tempo two-steps that made up the collection.
It is apparent from the get-go that Johnston — who, thanks to his outspoken, maverick style, had recently been demoted by Columbia from head of the label’s Nashville operations to producer-at-large, working with both Cash and Dylan — took a hands-off approach to what might have been a real summit meeting with some actual in-studio direction and something resembling a prepared repertoire.can do whatever the f— he wants to,” and that was the way things rolled here.
But for the most part, the recordings veer uncertainly and incompletely through busted-up renditions of Dylan and Cash hits; hillbilly standards like Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s “Mountain Dew” and medleys of old Jimmie Rodgers hits; Sun-era material like Perkins’ “Matchbox” and Elvis’ “Mystery Train” and “That’s All Right, Mama”; and Cash-mooted gospel material . In the end, this musical meeting must be chalked up as a missed opportunity of historic proportions.
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