Inside The Making of Bob Dylan’s Luminous Late-’90s Masterpiece

‘IT STOPPED PEOPLE IN THEIR TRACKS’

Twenty-five years later, and with a new box set helping to tell the tale, producer Daniel Lanois and engineer Mark Howard remember the birth of Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind.”

Published Jan. 28 2023 11:52PM EST

230128-slate-bob-dylan-90s-hero_eadizn — Mark Seliger

“Creative ability is about pulling old elements together and making something new,” Bob Dylan told me last month. “You have to have a vivid imagination.”

By the end of the 1990s, however, he was largely seen by the general public as a spent creative force; one whose vivid imagination had been...

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Inside The Making of Bob Dylan’s Luminous Late-’90s Masterpiece

Twenty-five years later, and with a new box set helping to tell the tale, producer Daniel Lanois and engineer Mark Howard remember the birth of Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind.”

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Jeff Slate