Time Out of Mind

When Dylan enters the studio in Miami in January 1997 to record Time Out Of Mind , his market value has just been on the rise again. The 1995 live-compilation MTV Unplugged  is the first Dylan album in years to score Top 10 spots all over the world. In his home country, where 1979's Slow Train Coming was the last record to reach the Top 10, MTV Unplugged  reaches a respectable 23rd place, but the by-catch is more important: a new generation gets to know the man behind the dusty name "Dylan". Two years later then, for the first time since 1990's disappointing under the red sky , the dusty name releases an album of new songs - new songs like "Not Dark Yet", "Make You Feel My Love" and "Love Sick" - songs that are some of the best Dylan has written in decades. The reviews are jubilant, sales are excellent, and a new phase in Dylan's erratic career seems to have begun: from now on, Dylan is outer category, beyond criticism. From now on, every studio album reaches the Top 10, no. 1 positions even, from now on the concerts are and stay sold out, Dylan is honoured with the highest possible prizes (Grammy Awards, an Oscar and even a Nobel Prize), and in 2020 he scores his first no. 1 hit with "Murder Most Foul". And the starting shot of this long victory march is the masterpiece Time Out Of Mind , the album that definitively and permanently changes Dylan's status to: Old Master. In Time Out Of Mind. The Rising of an Old Master , Dylan scholar Jochen Markhorst takes the reader through the beauty and background of the eleven songs, the four beautiful outtakes, the build-up to the masterpiece and its reverberation.