★★★★★
Track Listing: CD1: Like a Rolling Stone (John Mellencamp); Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (John Mellencamp); Introduction by Kris Kristofferson; Blowin' in the Wind (Stevie Wonder); Foot of Pride (Lou Reed); Masters of War (Eddie Vedder & Mike McCready); The Times They Are A-Changin' (Tracy Chapman); Introduction by Kris Kristoffersen; It Ain't Me Babe (June Carter & Johnny Cash); What Was It You Wanted (Willie Nelson); I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Kris Kristofferson); Highway 61 Revisited (Johnny...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2014-04-12
★★★★★
Columbia/Legacy It was meant to celebrate the artistic career of Bob Dylan but, instead, the tribute concert held three decades after the release of the Bard's 1962 debut album became better known for the Madison Square Garden crowd booing Sinead O'Connor off the stage. The show featured a host of artists connected to Dylan (The Band, Johnny Cash, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and George Harrison) as well as two generations of musicians influenced by him (Neil Young, John...
- www.jambands.com
2014-04-05
★★★★★
Before Dylan's late 90s resurgence, this 1992 tribute concert, recorded at Madison Square Garden, may well have seemed like something of a Last Waltz for Bob, stuck in neutral during the early part of the decade, struggling to sustain the legend of the Never Ending Tour. Indeed, The Band, who signed off with the Waltz in 1976, are one of a phenomenally highprofile cast of artists queuing up to doff their caps to Dylan: not least Donald Dunn, Steve Cropper and Booker T, the core of anyone's...
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-03-27
★★★★★
Dylan's star-studded rejuvenation... The Bobfest, as Neil Young christened it, was born out of a desire on the part of Bob Dylan's record company to pump a little life into a career that, in the closing months of 1992, appeared to be becalmed, if not moribund. His last album, in 1990, had been the unremarkable Under The Red Sky, a dampener to the hopes raised a year earlier by Oh Mercy...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2014-03-04
★★★★★
Every album, and a little bit more. Something is happening... In his new book, Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story Of Modern Pop, Bob Stanley, with typical elegance and erudition, comes as close as any - actually, closer than most - to bottling the appeal of Dylan in the 1960s, when he owned good parts of the world and in return, the world followed his every move, pounced on every gnomic statement, and devoured every single and album like missives of unearthly wisdom...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2013-12-16
★★★★★
With plenty of speculation that, likeShakespeare's similarly titled play was forThe Bard, Tempest would prove to be Dylan'sfinal studio album, here's the career box setto further fuel those flames. But, then again,we're in the Christmas market, so maybe theSony execs just thought: why the hell not?
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-12-06
★★★★★
Street-Legal (1978): Dylan got savaged by critics for the rocking big band approach he brought to his material and for the record's lousy sound quality. The latter problem has long since been corrected by remastering, while the former complaint seems silly now when you hear how stirring songs like "Is Your Love In Vain?" and "Changing Of The Guards" sound after all these years...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-11-25
★★★★★
When presented with 52 years of living packed into 35 studio and six live albums, it's almost impossible to know where to start when whole books have been written about a single Bob Dylan song. There's been so much water under the bridge, so many cultural movements, wars, presidents, assassinations, disasters--man-made and natural--that have spanned the years of Dylan's creative career that it's dizzying to even consider putting his work into context...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2013-11-06
★★★★★
?????????? The latest edition of Bob Dylan's ongoing archive project, Another Self-Portrait (1969-1971) The Bootleg Series Vol. 10, will probably have great appeal to those music lovers who found pleasure and insight in the man's return to his folk roots in the early 90?s with World Gone Wrong and Good As I Been to You...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-10-18