BOB DYLAN
IN MARCH 1991, A NEW PHASE BEGAN IN THE MOST STORIED of musical careers. Bob Dylan released a box set entitled The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3; 58 songs extracted from his archives, that provided an intimate glimpse into the working practices and secret moments of genius guarded for so long. Thirty-two years on, Dylan has released 12 more new albums, plus 14 further entries in The Bootleg Series. Sometimes, it feels like he has become a man with two careers: on a relentless quest to keep driving his muse forward, while simultaneously examining myriad alternative routes through his past. Really, though, it’s all a single mission, of a piece with his alchemical live work. Dylan’s songs are in continuous flux, never fixed in space or time, always evolving and revealing…