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 | Title : "Love and Theft"
Author : Bob Dylan
Release Date : 20010911
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $13.98
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Editorial Reviews :
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.
Buyer Reviews :
Unbelievably, nearly 40 years into his career, with 42 albums already to his credit, and at 60 years of age, Bob Dylan has given us yet another masterpiece. This is a total left turn from his last album, the deeply personal, grieving Time Out of Mind, with its burlesque nature and playful lyrics; much the way as Bob delivered the all-over-the-map Desire after the release of the personal, moving Blood On The Tracks. But Love and Theft is an entirely different animal. The music is indeed an expansion on the standard 12-bar blues theme, but a good portion of it sounds different, almost like early-century lounge music. Songs such as Summer Days and Bye and Bye prove that Dylan's recent cover of Dean Martin's Return To Me was no fluke. He evokes the mood and spirit of this type of music surprisingly well. Few would've thought him capable of it. But we should've learned by now not to underestimate Bob Dylan. Whereas Time Out of Mind was very bleak and world-weary-focusing mostly on mortality and broken love affairs-Love and Theft is more playfully witty, the lyrics evoking a sense of the sly and the sardonic, in a way that has not happened as magically on a Bob Dylan album, since, I dare say, Blonde On Blonde. You can tell that Dylan had fun making this album. And it is as fun to listen to. Tracks such as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, Lonesome Day Blues, and Floater (Too Much To Ask) showcase this playful side of Dylan. The aforementioned Summer Days and Bye and Bye, as well as Po' Boy showcase the easy-going, pseudo-lounge act side of Dylan. And then there are songs, such as Mississippi (in fact, an outtake from Time Out of Mind; which only shows how great that album was), and the biting closer Sugar Baby showcase the darker, mortality-obsessed side of Dylan that he wore so openly on his sleeve on his last album. This is another album that's destined to be a classic. One of the best albums of the year. A must-own.
(by VoodooLord7)
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