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Favorite Dylan?

I'm loving Slow Train Coming on vinyl.  It's always been one of my favorites.  Mark Knopfler's guitar work is a treat, and the songs are great.  I know for some it was a turn off because of the born again phase, but if you can put that aside you cannot deny the brilliance of this record.

Runner up is Time Out Of Mind.  Magical....

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Not yet jafant. Speculation is either the Rolling Thunder Revue Tour recordings (with Jim McGuinn, T Bone Burnett, Sam Shepard, Joan Baez), or the complete Blood On The Tracks recordings (he recorded that album's songs more than once, with different musicians in different studios). Dylan's becoming expensive to be a completest on!
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Much Thanks! bdp24

I wanted to make certain that the information for Vol. 14 did not fly under my radar.
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@bdp24 - I would love to hear the complete New York version of Blood on the Tracks done by Phil Ramone. 
Of the early Dylan, it's probably Blonde on Blonde.
Rolling Thunder-I briefly had the Classic Records issue brought over and left for me to listen to by Rob Stoner. 
Mick Ronson was in the band for a leg of the tour. One of my favorite guitarists, not sure how that worked with Dylan, but....
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Yep, me too @whart! The released Blood On The Tracks has never rung my bells, for whatever reason, and from what I've read about the Phil Ramone recordings I might find them more to my liking.

Mick Ronson being part of The Rolling Thunder Revue has always mystified me, Bill. Ronson was not an Americana kind of musician, he was a Glam Rock/British kinda guy---he had a shag hairdo and dressed effeminately, and his tone was that of the thick, very-distorted, lots of sustain Les Paul into a Marshall stack---with playing style to match, not the Fender sound that Dylan has always preferred. A "Rock Star" type, not a musicians musician, which Dylan usually surrounds himself with. But then, Dylan was wearing make-up on the Tour, wasn't he ;-).

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bdp24

Dylan always had an eye for talent. One of my faves from the 80's is Charlie Sexton- he has been a fixture in Dylan's touring band since 1999.
This is relevant now due to BD last (3) albums of Sinatra material.

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