Time Out Of Mind: The Lives Of Bob Dylan - Plot & Excerpts
For the want of a competent producer a great album was almost lost. With Wexler in the Muscle Shoals control room for Slow Train Coming a poor group of songs unlikely to bring anyone to Christ was turned into a hit record, earning Dylan a Grammy award in the process. The producer didn’t deserve the entire credit – he would have no such success in his second attempt – but his presence in Sheffield, Alabama, was a reminder that the artist’s approach to recording was sometimes redeemed by the intercession of a guardian angel who could sense an incipient rhythm and read a VU meter. It would take Dylan a long time to learn the lesson. The individual whose name and face appeared on the record sleeves didn’t like making records: you could call that an obstacle. He had no patience for the increasingly complex and painstaking work involved. He distrusted overdubs, headphones and all the technological voodoo. For preference, defying the evidence of his own ears when playbacks said he was making a mistake, he performed live with the band.
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