The Collection: Oh Mercy / Time Out of Mind / Love And Theft (3-CD)

by Bob Dylan

Product Description:

3 LPs on 3 CDs: OH MERCY (1989)/TIME OUT OF MIND (1997)/LOVE AND THEFT (2001).

Personnel: Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, piano); Mason Ruffner, Brian Stoltz (guitar); Bucky Baxter (acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar); Cindy Cashdollar (slide guitar); Daniel Lanois (dobro); Auggie Meyers (accordion, organ, Hammond b-3 organ); Jim Dickinson (electric piano, Wurlitzer piano, organ, keyboards); Tony Garnier (acoustic bass guitar, bass guitar); Tony Hall (bass guitar); David Kemper, Duke Robillard, Jim Keltner, Willie Green (drums); Cyril Neville (percussion).

Recording information: Teatro Studios Oxnard, California; Criteria Studio, Miami, Florida (1989 - 2001).

This late-period entry into the Dylan-on-a-budget series features two releases produced by Daniel Lanois--Dylan's 1989 return to form, the swampy, organic OH MERCY (as referenced in the artist's autobiography, CHRONICLES), and the regretful, desolate TIME OUT OF MIND. Dylan's first album of the new millennium, the spunky, energetic LOVE AND THEFT, was an unexpected burst of energy from the perennial shape-shifter that won over critics and public alike.