FREE TIME OUT OF MIND: THE LIVES OF BOB DYLAN PDF Ian Bell | 576 pages | 05 Jun 2014 | Mainstream Publishing | 9781780576664 | English | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The album Blood on the Tracks seemed to prove, finally, that an uncertain age had found its poet. Then Dylan faltered. His instincts, formerly unerring, deserted him. Yet in the autumn ofsomething remarkable happened. Having failed to release a single new song in seven long years, Dylan put out the equivalent of two albums in a single package. In the concluding volume of his ground- breaking Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan, Ian Bell explores the unparalleled second act in a quintessentially american career. It is a tale of redemption, of an act of creative will against the odds, and of a writer who refused to fade away. Time Out of Mind is the story of the latest, perhaps the last, of the many Bob Dylans. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published October 15th by Pegasus Books first published August 1st More Details Original Title. Other Editions 9. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Time Out of Mindplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Shelves: bob-dylan. A whole new style to go with thema massive pessimism, a steady gazing upon death, betrayal, futility, you know. Dylan was back, and this time he stayed back. That famous song includes the greatest ornithological error in the history of modern pop music. It was written by a couple of Americans, and they had no idea that there are no bluebirds in Dover or anywhere in England. A whole new style to go with them. Great title — these artists, who last so long, like Dylan, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, they really are with you through your life if you been listening as long as me. I stick my neck out and say I believe this will probably turn out to be the last original Dylan album. A fabulous example of why Dylan never fails to be interesting. Have we seen the last of these remarkable exhumations from the Dylan mines? This book is an excellent meditation on all the curious singing for the Pope, already? Recommended to diehard Dylan fans — I know there are way too many Dylan biographies, but this one is much more an affectionate journey through the music itself with a serious guy who knows his stuff and covers pretty much everything in detail, right up to about June this year. View all 3 comments. Also as in the first volume, Bell sometimes editorializes too long about American politics or the electorate, but the writing is good enough that the reader can bear it for a few pages at a time. He is as wrong about Reagan as he is about the Grateful Dead. But if Bell is sometimes off-base with politics, he is dead-on with poetics. Bell takes Slow Train Coming as seriously as Dylan might wish, and his seriousness is illuminating for the reader, who wonders what Dylan was thinking in the literal, as opposed to the ironic, sense. The book is also a terrific study of the relationship between art and money. The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a moneyed man enter heaven. Who needs pictures? He as in the first volume offers long examinations of songs that strike him as worthy of comment—but not always positive. For the Dylan fan, this is required reading. View 1 comment. Dec Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan, Sarah Paolantonio rated it really liked it Shelves: favorites. I now know more about Bob Dylan than I ever thought I would. Where do I even begin when talking about this, part two of a biography, pages of Dylan, starting in ? And here I am to say, it's the most realistic realization about Dylan. It helps me grasp what he's doing in his music, even when it's the records of his I don't want to list I now know more about Bob Dylan than I ever thought I would. It helps me grasp what he's doing in his music, even when it's the records of his I don't want to listen to. It helps rationalize his stupid, weird, behavior. It helps me understand the game he's playing. I wrote more in this book and dog-eared more pages. I had no idea "Visions of Joanna" was about Dylan's heroin addiction. I didn't realize how awful he was to women, specifically to his first wife, Sara. The breaking point in their marriage was when Dylan's mistresses would show up at the breakfast table without him, while his kids and Sara were there. I find that disturbing on so many levels. He slept around, cheated, and was never there for his kids, simply because the road called calls to him. At first, The Never Ending Tour was explained because he owed Sara alimony but really I think it's because he doesn't know how to exist in any other way. He doesn't need the money there's Victoria Secret commercials for that, his no-longer Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour, his art, and the etched-signed harmonicas for sale online he's a performer and nothing else. Also, another astounding fact about his divorce from Sara: in addition to custody of their five children, houses, and money, she won half the royalties to the song written during their marriage For the most part, these are the only Dylan records you need. He gets it. But I believe that because of that trilogy from the '60s, he was able to do anything he wanted. There is a cult following that allowed him to paint his face, wear masks, and spend millions on The Rolling Thunder Revue, ''76, my GOD the face painting--someone yesterday told me they think it's Dylan's answer to glam, a Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan theory ; that Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan Dylan four more records with Columbia after his born-again trilogy; that Dylan got a book deal for more volumes of 'Chronicles' on his 65th birthday. Those three records from and are proof that if you have one really good idea, if you're given enough money and freedom, you might just have another. The middle of this book dragged for me. The aftermath of the Presidential election got to me and I found it harder to read anything but the news for a week or two. That's on me. But there's the middle phase of Dylan's work where the music loses interest, even it itself. Once I found my footing in the pages again, the s and s had flown by. A majority of the prose was spent discussing Dylan's relationship to politics, Reagan, Clinton, and Dylan's inability to address the fact that even though for decades he says he's not a protest song writer, that he actually is one. I think he just doesn't like labels. Again, as in part one, a lot of time is spent on the continuing Bootleg series and the Basement Tapes. Dylan knows what he's doing, Bell writers, allowing a constant flow of music to be released for purchase. Bell spends a hundred or so pages discussing Dylan's plagiarism of Ovid, Shakespeare, and multiple photographer and sketch artists--even Dylan's physical art was based on someone else's ideas. Bell writes back to back stanzas of poetry that Dylan took lines and overarching themes from. He follows them up with interview clips of Dylan saying 'that that's just what folk music is. We're all taking from one another. But that's what Dylan does. Ian Bell passed away before he got to see Dylan win the Nobel. This is a major bummer considering Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan much time Bell devotes, in both books, to the complicated history of Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan and the Nobel. Dylan was nominated every year since and Bell dives right into all the hullabaloo about how Dylan doesn't deserve it: he's only a songwriter, not a poet or novelist, and his lines look like shit on the page. I wish Bell was around to write an updated afterword, but maybe Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan great life work needed to be incomplete, the same way nothing is ever finished. If anyone were to understand Wabi-Sabi, it would be Dylan. Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan by Ian Bell It was released as a single CD as well as a double studio album on vinylhis first since Self Portrait in For many fans and critics, the album marked Dylan's artistic comeback after he appeared to struggle with his musical identity throughout the s; he had not released any original material for seven years, since Under the Red Sky in Time Out of Mind is hailed as one of Dylan's best albums, and it went on to win three Grammy Awardsincluding Album of the Year in The album has an atmospheric sound, the work of producer and past Dylan collaborator Daniel Lanoiswhose innovative work with carefully placed microphones and strategic mixing was detailed by Dylan in his memoir, Chronicles: Volume One.