1-3 (Rare & Unreleased), 1961-1991," and it dates to the 1983 "Infidels" recording sessions. The first exception is the first song, One this album, it's called "Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart." The recording comes from "The Bootleg Series, Vols. I simply replaced the official versions with these versions, with three exceptions. There's a bootleg containing mixes of most of the songs before Baker got involved. Luckily, it turns out there's a way to remove Baker's overdubs from the album entirely. So while Baker succeeded in making the album sound like a generic 1985 one, this sound has not dated well. Baker came from a background of disco and hip-hop, and was best known for producing New Order and Hall and Oates. At the last minute, either Dylan or his record company chickened out and brought in Arthur Baker to add overdubs to the album, to make it sound more contemporary and commercial. "Infidels" had Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits as a guiding hand, but "Empire Burlesque" was largely self-produced by Dylan. I thought "Empire Burlesque" was another good album from him, but unfortunately it suffered from bad production much more than "Infidels" did. "Blind Willie McTell" is just the most obvious of the songs he failed to include - I have an entire album of "Infidels" outtakes I plan to post at a later date.
1983's "Infidels" was very good, but it could have been even better, due to all of the good to great songs he left off it. I thought he had a strong career revival from 1983 to 1985, but unfortunately it wasn't reflected well in the albums he put out then. Personally, I'm not a fan of Dylan's gospel period at the start of the 1980s, though he had some good songs here and there (as always). But here's something out of order, because I just put it together and I'm pretty happy about it. With Dylan, I just posted something from 1965, and the next one should be from 1966. Normally, I like posting albums in chronological order.
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