Artist	Song
Bob Dylan [Modern Times, 2006]	Ain't Talkin' (8:46)
Bob Dylan [Empire Burlesque, 1985]	Dark Eyes (5:06)
Bob Dylan ["Love & Theft", 2001]	Bye And Bye (3:17)
Bob Dylan [Under The Red Sky, 1990]	God Knows (3:03)
Bob Dylan & The Band [The Basement Tapes, 1967]	This Wheel's On Fire (3:50)
Bob Dylan [Shot Of Love, 1981]	In The Summertime (3:35)
Bob Dylan [Hard To Find bootleg = single, 1986]	Band Of The Hand (4:33)
Bob Dylan [Time Out Of Mind, 1997]	'Til I Fell In Love With You (5:16)
Bob Dylan [Oh Mercy, 1989]	Political World (3:50)
Bob Dylan [Biograph, disc 3, 1981]	Heart Of Mine [live] (3:42)
Bob Dylan [Gods and Generals soundtrack, 2002]	'Cross The Green Mountain (8:14)
Bob Dylan [Hard To Find bootleg = Hearts of Fire soundtrack, 1986]	Night After Night (2:50)
Bob Dylan [Oh Mercy, 1989]	Where Teardrops Fall (2:31)
Bob Dylan [Empire Burlesque, 1984]	Something's Burning, Baby (4:55)
Bob Dylan [Modern Times, 2006]	Beyond The Horizon (5:33)
Bob Dylan [Street-Legal, 1978]	Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat) (6:17)
Bob Dylan [Under The Red Sky, 1990]	Under The Red Sky (4:12)

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"Do you ever dream?" asks an unsuspecting soldier to Bob Dylan's avatar, Jack Fate, in Masked And Anonymous. "Yeah, I dream," he replies, stone-facedly. "In my dreams I'm walkin' through fire, with intense heat. I don't pay any attention to my dreams."When I bought Dylan's latest album, Modern Times, something clicked for me. Fire with intense heat. The man's songs, especially the Modern ones, are loaded with the stuff. And, looking through his recent catalog, I realized it's specific as a razor: sometimes he only mentions heat one time -- but what a signpost it ends up being. These songs become the burning highway into Fate's dreams.5. This Wheel's On Fire: "This wheel's on fire, rollin' down the road." One song from the `60s grounds this. Here, Bob cowrites a fiery prelude with Rick Danko.16. Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat): "Where she bathed in a stream of pure heat." Such an important song: I'd argue that this song started off Dylan's obsession with fire, purifying and hellacious at once.6. In The Summertime: "In the summertime, when you were with me." One of the lost gems of Dylan's entire catalog. God/lover ambiguity creates two totally different songs.10. Heart Of Mine: "You can play with fire, but you'll get the bill." The lightest song on the mix, but even on this funky, Caribbean live rendition, the sufferin', as is said, might very well still be unendin'.14. Something's Burning, Baby: "Something is burning, baby, something's in flames." And a bonus line: "Where charity is supposed to cover up a multitude of sins." Booyah.2. Dark Eyes: "All I feel is heat and flame." My vote for Dylan's most resonant song ever.7. Band Of The Hand: "It's hell time, man!" Dylan's singing equates hellfire with bump-n-grind. Cowritten with Tom Petty.12. Night After Night: "Everything around you seems to burn, burn, burn." This is why the people who'd seen Bob as a prophet hated him in the `80s, I suppose.13. Where Teardrops Fall: "To sharpen the senses that linger in the fireball heat." After Dylan completed the first and final take of this song, he "Felt like I was turning a corner and seeing the sight of a god's face."9. Political World: "Climb into the flame and shout God's name." Oh Mercy was recorded in New Orleans, and this song especially lives in the mazy thick of it.4. God Knows: "There's gonna be no more water, but fire next time." On this nursery-rhyme album, can we really take him seriously? Look on for the answer!17. Under The Red Sky: "One day the little boy and little girl were baked in a pie." The closer, because its last lines brim with a glimmer of coolness, perhaps.8. 'Til I Fell In Love With You: "Well my house is on fire, burnin' to the sky." This song goes nowhere, and that's the point. Trapped in a fiery sweatstorm, no way to escape.3. Bye And Bye: "I'm gonna baptize you in fire, `til you can sin no more." Here the flames of hell have reached a nice summery heat.11. 'Cross The Green Mountain: "Heaven blazin' in my head." Gods and Generals is a Civil War movie; this song is Sherman's March to the Sea.15. Beyond The Horizon: "Through flame and through fire I'll build my world around you." I could have picked out half the songs on the Modern Times album for this mix. This one gives a feeling of lightness, perched on the mix's finale: something's about to transcend `round these parts!1. Ain't Talkin': "Heart burnin', still yearnin'." This is the song that made me sit bolt upright and start to thread the whole thing together. And it pulls together the theme of a lifetime; maybe Jack Fate can now finally begin to dream of rivers of ice.

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