A musical break

NPR is streaming Dylan's Bootleg Series #8 today.

UPDATE: And it, a collection of alternate takes, never released, and live stuff from No Mercy to Modern Times, is really, really good.

It's always amazing to hear this stuff and be again reminded that, for the most part, Dylan walks into the studio with nothing more than a few ideas. You can hear snatches of other songs in the songs that ended up not getting released, musical experiments, key changes...oh hell, I can't write about music any more than I can credit swaps.