Last Thoughts on Fragments

It’s a bit over 2 months since Bootleg Series 18: FRAGMENTS hit the streets - and we’ve tracked 80 reviews of it from publications all over the world.

Yet it’s still inspiring reactions. Below we’re sharing a new article from Writer John Nogowski, Author of “Bob Dylan: A Descriptive, Critical Discography and Filmography, 1961-2022, 3rd Ed.”. May it inspire another listen to this great set.

In 2005, writer Greil Marcus wrote an entire book – “Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan At The Crossroads” about Dylan spending a couple of lengthy recording sessions in Columbia’s Studio A in mid-June, 1965, trying to get a master recording of what he must have sensed would be his breakthrough song, his classic “Like A Rolling Stone.” Generally speaking, in those days, Bob was not a big multi-take guy. Two days on a single song was a lot.

In listening to hours and hours of studio tapes from those 40-year-old sessions in writing his book, what amazed Marcus – and those of us readers who followed him alon…