Bob Dylan: "The sound of Hank Williams's voice went through me like an electric rod and I managed to get a hold of a few of his 78s... I played them endlessly... When I hear Hank sing, all movement ceases. The slightest whisper seems sacrilege." Read more musical excerpts from Chronicles, Vol. 1 on our Music You Should Hear page.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
How much more can we hope for?,
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This review is from: "Love and Theft" (Limited Edition) (Audio CD)
Look at what this man has done in the past 12 years: the wonderful "Oh, Mercy," two stunning, traditional folk albums (including a Grammy for "World Gone Wrong"), the mesmerizing "Bootleg Series," "Live '66" capturing one of the most important moments in 20th century music, an Academy Award for "Things Have Changed," a nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature, a Kennedy Center Award, a Grammy for the haunting "Time Out of Mind," and now the classic "Love and Theft"!! Suddenly, Bob Dylan is the most accomplished artist of the past decade. He did it from the age of 20-30, and he's done it again from the age of 50-60. I hope everyone understands our great fortune in witnessing Bob Dylan's incomprehensible genius. After all he's done, how does he find something different?! "Mississippi" is as good as anything anyone has ever written, and this album would receive four stars if it contained "Mississippi" and a host of marginal songs. However, there is not a single "good" song here -- they are all astonishing. We had no right to expect anything of this magnitude from Dylan. But thank God he once again exceeded everyone's expectations.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Yes, this is Dylan painting his "newest" Masterpiece,
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This review is from: "Love and Theft" (Limited Edition) (Audio CD)
As a person who came to Bob Dylan's music later than some. It has now been 20 years + for me. I own everything he's released. Some I dislike and/or are bemused by what I heard...at first listening.Thus, was not the case with "Love and Theft". Bob's most riveting and finest "produced" work in the past 20+ years has been arguably through the creative sonic visual genius of Daniel Lanois. These albums, "Oh Mercy" and "Time out of Mind" resulted in a remarkable body of subsequent performances with again, arguably the best band Bob Dylan has ever shared a stage with. This band and Bob's stellar songwriting and production work (yes folks, Jack Frost is Bob Dylan)has made this Bob Dylan's own individual vision fulfilled or at the very least tapped into. A development and sound that is a continuing Pheonix in Bob's career, This is Bob Dylan's Masterpiece that he spoke of that first time in the basement in Saugerties, NY. I believe after several listening's into "Love and Theft". Fans, New and Old will be moved for as long as anyone has been since they first heard Subterranean Homesick Blues. As a Bonus, in this Special edition you get two song, One I had only heard Bob sing on tape in a Hotel Room in 1961 as an import. It is a beautiful piece of Bob interpretation. Times they are a-changin'(alternate version) is like an old friend with a slightly different vibe but, with no loss to it's greatness of idea, arrangement and performance. Enjoy this music from a man who knows the truth's and lived a life. Many lives really. He is so deep rooted in being human and to living in the present. This is Bob Dylan. In his most accomplished and contemporary reinvention.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Masterwork for a Dark Age,
By Jim Williamson (Omaha) - See all my reviews
This review is from: "Love and Theft" (Limited Edition) (Audio CD)
No, this isn't Dylan's most personal (that would be Blood on the Tracks) his most energetic (Live 1966) or mysterious (The Basement Tapes or perhaps Time Out of Mind), but Love and Theft's twelve songs show Dylan at his most varied, in an astonishing mix of electric and country blues, twenties pop, fifties rhythm and blues, and sixties Highway 61-style rock, all performed with a maturity and humor that carries the music to the highest level.Love and Theft is Dylan's first album recorded with his current touring band, certainly the finest he's worked with since The Band. This is the first great rock record of the decade. It's worth mentioning that the limited edition contains two tracks recorded in '61 and '63, "I Was Young When I Left Home," and "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (an alternate take), well worth the few extra dollars. If you care about Dylan at all, this one's essential. Thanks, Bob. I needed it.
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