Smoke. Shadow. Darkness.
The album marks a stark sonic shift for Dylan that he hasn't fully deviated from yet in my eyes, and that is this Americana pastiche soaked in a classic blues sheen that has permeated the rest of his work from here on out. Dylan as this old, weathered blues man that we see today takes his first step forward here, and it's one of my absolute favorite albums from him.
Dylan was in a weird spot around the time this album released. He hadn't put out a collection of original material since 1990's "Under the Red Sky," which was received pretty poorly. The 80s were a very strange decade for Dylan musically as it was for a lot of legacy acts that went through that decade.
The general sentiment going into the release of "Time Out Of Mind" was that of an aging star trudging through his later years of musicianship. Despite the great handful of songs and moments Dylan produced through the 80s, there was a sense that he just didn't have it in him anymore to the general public.
The next year, the album would walk away with three Grammys, including Album of the Year. It remains one of Dylan's most acclaimed records and one of his most timeless musical accomplishments.
The Album Features Underrated Greatness
The album opens with "Love Sick," this really tired and fed up song that I have always felt is about the pains of loving a world that is both disappointing you as well as slipping away from you. The 90s were such a transitory period in history, and I think this album is really emblematic of this great event horizon we were coming up on with the advent of the internet and modern tech.
The album closes with one of Dylan's most underrated songs in my opinion, and that is "Highlands." It's a sweeping behemoth of a song, clocking in sixteen minutes and thirty-one seconds, and it follows Dylan as this wayward traveler through the world is occupying, and all the woes and pains that come with that. He reckons with his age, his career, his life, and how the greater universe around him doesn't seem to make sense anymore. Throughout these laments of a world gone by, there are small glimmers of beauty as Dylan sings about how "his heart is in the highlands," a beautiful sort of figurative afterlife where all is okay. It's a phenomenal piece of writing, and harkens back to a song like "Desolation Row" in the way that it wields a strange yet understood chaos.
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