Another Self Portrait 1969-1971: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10

Confronted by performances like this, you just have to lay down your critical apparatus and surrender to the spell. [Oct 2013, p.100]

Another Self Portrait is absolutely essential listening for Bob Dylan fans. It may contain the best music you’ll hear all year.

This album opens up the treasure chest and allows you to marvel. His disposable notions turn out to be consistently worthy of such regard.

It sounds quite good, another weird and sloppy record from a guy who released a lot of them. And hearing it again with all the fantastic music that surrounded it, music that further cements Dylan’s Bootleg Series as one of the most important archival projects in modern pop history, it remains a beguiling artifact.

This is another excellent addition to the Bootleg Series connection, one that reflects the period it represents while also complicating it.

For fans, this is more than a curiosity, it's an indispensable addition to the catalog.

Another Self Portrait is highlighted by songs we’ve heard before but present here in different versions.

Almost every song is worthy of inclusion.

Arriving toward the end of summer, Another Self Portrait feels perfectly suited for the type of reflection that accompanies autumn.

These recordings may not have the cultural significance of his 60s classics, but he is on terrific form.

Bob Dylan may have gone to drastic lengths with his music to achieve the simple pleasures he sought. Those willing to accept simple pleasures in return will find plenty to like on Another Self Portrait. It’s a collection that shows that Dylan may not have been painting masterpieces in 1970, but he was still delivering colorful miniatures.