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Highway
Of Diamonds vol 4
source: various soundboard songs Tracks: Disc one All I Really Want to Do (1) Heart Of Mine (1) Bob Dylan's 115th Dream (2) With God On Our Side (2) Visions Of Johanna (3) Idiot Wind (4) Tight Connection to My Heart (5) Series Of Dreams (6) Man in The Long Black Coat (7) Tough Mama (8) Till I Fell in Love With You (9) The Man in Me (10) Review: This is a compilation of mostly live, various quality soundboard recordings of Dylan songs that span the decade of 1987-1998. It is a companion disc to Vol.3, which contains cover material of the same periods. The recordings are from bobdylan.com. The disc starts off a little slow with the lower quality 1987 rehearsal material. The mix is fairly good, but far from right. Things pick up from there, however. The audiences are virtually non existent, and Bob is heard in near perfect soundboard quality. Some highlights are the harp solo in Idiot Wind, getting to hear Series Of Dreams live, and Bob's cool delivery of Man In The Long Black Coat Unfortunately, the sound quality of (6), (7), &(8) is not quite as good as the others. Also, while Vol.3 has a theme running thorough it, there is no common thread here. While these are some good recordings, there have been nearly as good audience recordings that capture entire shows. It all causes this disc to seem a bit more contrived, and little less desirable. © 2003 Craig Pinkerton Bobsboots.com |
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