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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0696998597525
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2001-09-11
Studio: Sony
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When we last left the ever-confounding saga that is Bob Dylan's now-superhuman recording career, he'd reunited with producer Daniel Lanois, with whom he cut 1997's Time Out of Mind, his most coherent and appealing collection in nearly a decade. Now the still-reigning prince of musical contrariety and potent wordplay is back with his most focused, well-played collection since 1989's Oh Mercy, another Lanois production. One listen to the fade-in of the opener "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum" and it's clear that all Dylan's roadwork has shaped him and his band (including guitarist Charlie Sexton) into a mighty musical weapon. And while his craggy howl continues to resonate, it's the songs here that astonish. A sturdy midtempo melody makes "Mississippi" the equal of the best numbers on Time, which it was actually written for. He convincingly puts over the R&B swing (yes, swing) number "Summer Days." "Honest with Me" ("I'm not sorry for nuthin' I've done / I'm glad I fight, I only wished we'd won") is a driving rocker that packs a genuine punch. And the light, lounge-like "Bye and Bye" and the southland ramble "Floater (Too Much to Ask)" show extraordinary confidence. He's labeled these songs "blues-based," but in typical Dylan fashion what would promise to be the most overtly blues number here--"High Water (for Charlie Patton)"--sounds like a banjo-based gunfighter ballad. But then that's this artist's gift: confounding expectations. --Robert Baird
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Summary: Amongst my favorite Dylan albums....
Comment: This album gets kind of lost between the masterful comeback Time Out of Mind and the recent, magnificent Modern Times, but it's just as good as those two albums, and it's a masterpiece on its own terms.
It's probably Dylan's most eclectic album musicially. It's all over the place, with hard guitar driven rock (Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, Honest with Me), hardcore blues (Lonesome Day Blues, Cry a While), swing (Summer Days), Hoagy Carmicael balladry (Bye and Bye, Moonlight, and Po' Boy), spooky blues (High Water and the closer Sugar Baby), and beautiful, moving ballads (Mississippi, Floater). Dylan's voice is pretty croaky here, but somehow it suits the material quite well, even on the lovely ballads like Floater and Mississippi. Mississippi is quite a beautiful song, a leftover from the Time Out of Mind album, but it fits here quite well. I love Summer Days. Hearing Dylan do a magnificent swing song (at 61, with his backing band going full tilt) is wonderful. Dylan's band here is arguably the best he's ever worked with. They're incredibly tight and intense throughout, showing their dexterity by playing in almost any style. The rockers (especially Honest With Me) really showcase the band at their peak.
Lyrically, the album is quite silly at times, yet Dylan's sincerity really carries over such sentimental songs like Moonlight and Bye and Bye. Floater (Too Much to Ask) (great title) is one of Dylan's most unique and interesting ballads ever. It's awesome that Dylan keeps surprising himself, as well as us.
This is amongst my favorite Dylan albums, as I break it out a lot. Musicially, it's his best and most varied, and lyrically, it's wonderful.
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Summary: A Masterpiece ? Pretty Much.
Comment: Hard to compare one Dylan release from the next. I have the majority of his studio work. I think I like the newer stuff even better than the old. If 'Love and Theft' is not a masterpiece, its very close. I'm in pure wonderment at times of the lyrical prowess of this recording, but then it is Dylan, so one should not be so surprised. But I still say 'Wow!', aint bobby so cool.
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Summary: A Great Record that was Overshadowed on its Release Day
Comment: This record came out on September 11, 2001 and as good as it is, it's release was probably overshadowed by something else that happened on that horrible day. Vesta and I were in the Caribbean, living on a sailboat at the time. We were at the Yachting Association in Trinidad, at the bar, drinking coffee when we saw it all unfold on the bar's outdoor TV. In no time the place was packet with foreign sailors and locals.
I couldn't have gotten the record that day anyway, but did get if a few days later as my Dylan loving friend in New Orleans FedExed it to me. And I have to saw I listened to it a lot back then. We'd tune into the BBC, here about the awful events unfolding in New York and when we couldn't take it anymore we'd listen to three or four songs on this album, then it was back to the BBC.
This is a worthy successor to Time Out of Mind and seems to pick up where Time leaves off. The music is outstanding, has both a jazzy and big band, good time, bluzy feel to it that only Dylan could put together. "Higher Water" for Charley Patton" is simply an outstanding song and "Po' Boy" really gets my feet a tappin'. This, like Time Out of Mind is one of Bob Dylan's best records and that's really saying something. Around so long and still getting better.
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Summary: I think someone has to say this
Comment: I'm a fan of Dylan lyrically, but I have to get this off my chest. The man CANNOT sing. Whew, please don't crucify me now, he writes the most wonderful pieces of poetry. He should just recite it! My whole family saw him live last year, he had NO audience interaction and a terrible voice. But he's a legend of lyrics.
Also, Dixie Chicks and Sheryl Crow both do fantastic versions of Mississippi
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Summary: Song and dance man
Comment: Outsanding variety of songs. Just goes to show you Dylan is a master at any musical idiom he touches.
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