Bob Dylan
Dylan’s latest really is his best since ‘Blood on the Tracks’
The sense that the album is really one long song is an essential part of its appeal to me. In this time of quarantine, days blend one into the next.
Dylan’s best since ‘Blood on the Tracks?’ You’re asking the wrong question
I could care less what anybody, myself included, thinks are the best 10 Rolling Stones songs, Emily Dickinson poems, or Philip Roth novels.
In my life, there were two Bob Dylans — my father’s and mine
When “Time Out Of Mind” came out, for the very first time I heard Bob Dylan with my own soul.
In a hellish landscape of Huey Lewis and Liza Minnelli, a new Dylan album thankfully arrived
After three straight studio records where he’d sounded distracted or disinterested, he emerged from the fog with a renewed sense of focus and purpose.
Why no Dylan album will ever surpass ‘Stormy Season’
“These songs — harsh yet brooding; serious yet funny — were miles away from the haunted nostalgia of Dylan’s most-recent collections of folk songs.”
Dylan painted his masterpiece — the next year he painted another one
I went back and listened to all 17 studio albums Dylan has released since “Blood on the Tracks.” It was not an unpleasant way to spend a few days.
The best Dylan comeback album featured no Dylan songs at all
Dylan’s “Good As I Been to You” was dumb and callow. But “World Gone Wrong,” another album of covers, cut to the bone.
‘Will men keep explaining Dylan to me into eternity?’
“My interest in Dylan has been big and bright and transformative. But that genuine interest also brought complicity with men.”
Dylan’s latest album comes at a time when we need it most
The Dylan oeuvre is not a collection of albums; it’s an ongoing expression of our collective unconscious.
Life, death, heartbreak, disillusionment — Dylan’s first album as an old man
The narrator is no longer Robert Zimmerman of Malibu, California, but some kind of timeless, archetypal blues man, headed for another joint.