a realm beyond ours". A 2021 Consequence article ranking Dylan's top 15 albums placed Time Out of Mind seventh and cited "Cold Irons Bound" as the highlight. Critic Matt Melis wrote that it was "an agitated, pining, and paranoid album, and nowhere do those emotions register more tangible than on 'Cold Irons Bound'. Amid driving percussion and echoing dirt-road blues, Dylan fails to square a love and obsession that just can’t be reasoned with. This isn’t a tearful goodbye and gallop off into the sunset; this is a collision course that a desperate and broken man seems powerless to avoid. Like so much of Dylan’s turn-of-the-century work, there’s zero compromise to be found here. The wounds are deep, the pain is unbearable, and any possible consolation is blowin’ in the wind". Other versions Dylan performed the song in July 2002 for a concert sequence in the film Masked and Anonymous. This version was released on the film's soundtrack album in July 2003. It also appears in video form on the bonus DVD included in the Limited Edition version of Dylan's 2006 album Modern Times. Charlie Sexton, who played on this version of the song, called Dylan's re-arrangement of it "simply amazing". The Big Issue placed the Masked and Anonymous version at #46 on a 2021 list of the "80 best Bob Dylan songs - that aren't the greatest hits". An article accompanying the list noted that the "bemusing film Dylan wrote and starred in...delivered some storming live performances, including this version of the Time Out of Mind track". A concert version, recorded in Los Angeles on Dec. 16, 1997, appeared on various "Love Sick" single releases in 1998, as well as on the compilation Live 1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances, released in Japan in 2001. A June 11, 2004 performance, from the Bonnaroo Music Festival, in Manchester, Tennessee, is included on the Deluxe Edition of Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006 (2008). In popular culture Dylan's original studio version of the song, as well as a cover by Television's Tom Verlaine, are prominently featured in I'm Not There, Todd Haynes's unconventional 2007 biopic of Dylan. Live performances Bob Dylan performed "Cold Irons Bound" 423 times on the Never Ending Tour between 1997 and 2011. The live debut occurred at Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville, Mississippi on October 24, 1997 and the last performance (to date) took place at