A couple of things are immediately apparent: First, Dylan could care less about selling record. Rumors had been circulating for months that CBS did not want to put this album out.
I was very disappointed in this one, too, sorry to say...the songs seemed dorky and the playing/production pretty mundane.....Death is not the End? yeah, if not suicidal then some sort of hospice song , sounds like a kid wrote it...all unimaginative blues 1 /4/ 5s...Silvio by far the peppiest, wittiest, snappiest song, on Down's Groove, I thought and a cursory, wobbly version of the great Shennandoah....but "redemption" was not far off...Oh Mercy then those 2 good blues albums then the great Man Out of Time and the awesome re-arching by Bob right ahead
If you think of this album as a collection of outtakes, it makes a lot more sense. Like Knocked Out Loaded, it's got some fine moments.
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I was very disappointed in this one, too, sorry to say...the songs seemed dorky and the playing/production pretty mundane.....Death is not the End? yeah, if not suicidal then some sort of hospice song , sounds like a kid wrote it...all unimaginative blues 1 /4/ 5s...Silvio by far the peppiest, wittiest, snappiest song, on Down's Groove, I thought and a cursory, wobbly version of the great Shennandoah....but "redemption" was not far off...Oh Mercy then those 2 good blues albums then the great Man Out of Time and the awesome re-arching by Bob right ahead