This week’s Dylan tune is “Tryin’ To Get to Heaven,” from Time Out of Mind. It’s hard to pick one song from that album, which I think his Dylan’s best from this incredible last stage of his career. Released in 1998, seven years after his last album of original material, producer Daniel Lanois created a pensive, atmospheric soundscape to accompany Dylan’s reflections on mortality and lyrics that look back at a career winding down. Oddly, Dylan nearly died of a heart infection shortly after recording the album, but before its release, which makes the album’s ruminations on life and death seem almost prescient. If I had to pick just one cut from Time Out of Mind, this would be it.

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