Another home-recorded solo-acoustic album of folk songs and country blues, all of them thoroughly Dylanized. It's a despairing set of material — the refrain of "Delia" goes "all the friends I ever had are gone" — but Bob's alligator-skin voice crackles with heat, and his guitar playing is his sharpest in decades, especially on Blind Willie McTell's acid-spitting "Broke Down Engine."
Of the two late folk albums, World Gone Wrong is more focused tonally--there's a bleak intensity to it which makes it a true statement of vision from D. Highly recommended
for anyone in love with dylan's first few records, this tasteful collection of songs is a startling return to form. "good as i been to you" is an excellent record but comes across as a bit of a test run for this, a fully realized acoustic record such as dylan had not made since his earliest years. dylan fans, get it quick.
Solid songs all around. Dylan acoustic is my favorite way to hear him.
"Singer/songwriter" has gradually come to be applied to nearly everyone who both writes and performs songs, especially if they happen to play guitar and are billed under their own names rather than as members of a band. But it used to have a particular meaning, in some cases, that was a little more specific: a singer who performed self-written songs that were meant for other people to sing, too. That's a tradition that's not nearly… more »
Half a century into his career, Bob Dylan's amassed a gigantic catalogue of original material. He's released a string of greatest-hits albums, and his touring repertoire is well over 100 songs. But he's also got some remarkable songs that have been overshadowed by their companions - songs that, in anyone else's career, would be high points. In honor of Dylan's 70th birthday, we invite you to listen to these overlooked gems in isolation, away from the… more »
Bob Dylan didn't get to be the greatest living songwriter by repeating himself. He's reinvented his style and technique with nearly every record he's made in the course of his half-century career; he's been the political spitfire of The Times They Are A-Changin', the mysterious joker of The Basement Tapes, the domestic ruminator of New Morning, the indignant holy roller of Slow Train Coming, the aging Romeo of Time Out of Mind. The only constants… more »
