Steve is right, some of it is catch-all. And sometimes (as with Leonard Cohen) you have to hear someone else's version of a song before you get it -- oh, yeah, there's a tune there, my god). Empire Burlesque is an album that a lot of people like, but I found nothing on it to my taste. And then I heard Judy Collins' album of Dylan material (some of which is really dreadful -- her Just Like A Woman is maybe the worst cover she has ever done), and she did a sweet version of "Dark Eyes" -- a song I had totally overlooked before, because Dylan's version is in his "whiny voice" which I can't stand. But there it is, last cut on Empire Burlesque. This has happened to me with Dylan albums for years.

One of the best things about the Bootleg album is the liner notes: huge, comprehensive, something you get zero of on all the rest of his albums.

yours, Peter T.