Precious memories as Bob goes back to his ‘hidden’ springtime in the 80s

Precious memories as Bob goes back to his ‘hidden’ springtime in the 80s

And So Dylan keeps coming back … all the way

To so many, Bob Dylan’s career in the 80s was drear and unfocussed … but there was a springtime and it happened in New York.

And here it is, documented as part of the never-ending bootleg series.

In some ways Bob Dylan in the 1980s was completely alternative, more than most of us ever noticed. He did a series of alternative versions of his already massive back-catalogue, he used an alternative voice, an alternative sartorial style and alternated between being hated and ridiculed.

And yet is so many ways, the truth is that the 80s was a brilliant part of his sometimes glittering, sometimes tarnished ballroom of a career.

In a way he was more alternative than he was perceived way back in the Sixties when he was branded like ‘pants and shirts’ as the voice of a generation and a folk hero.

Well, he was a folk hero for a bit, yes – and it’s still used as a ‘scratch’ biog by writers and bloggers who never noticed he actually moved like warm mercury in to blues, rock, country, folk, bluegrass, spiritual and Sinatra-style crooning.

And now, as Shadow Kingdom showed, he is plugged in to the cyber world of the covid-ridden PRESENT..

But from Empire Burlesque to Down in the Groove, Dylan seemed to be drifting to far from the shore of his audience – and yet his concerts, on the whole, were brilliant.

And now we are going back there with Springtime in New York, from 1980 – 1985

This next part of the bootleg series offers loads of alternate takes, unreleased numbers and rehearsals.

I for one want to back there…

Available as a 2 x LP or 2 x CD set, or a five-disc deluxe set, and will be released on September 17th.

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