"Love and Theft"
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 more
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-01-2008
- Amongst my favorite Dylan albums....
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...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-16-2008
- A Masterpiece ? Pretty Much.
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...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Apr-10-2008
- A Great Record that was Overshadowed on its Release Day
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...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Mar-16-2008
- I think someone has to say this
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,...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-01-2008
- Amongst my favorite Dylan albums....
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...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Mar-16-2008
- I think someone has to say this
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,...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-10-2006
- one question that i must ask
...............HOW IN THE HECK DID THIS HIPPY MAKE IT OUT OF THE 60's ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? THERE IS NOT A WORSE MALE SINGER IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND !!!!!!!!!!!!! but then hippies and those wanting to be will always gush over his...
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