Negative Positive
Title: This century's Highway 61
Review: I have been listening to BD for 25 years (both live and on disk) and this album raises the hair on the back of my neck. If "Time out of Mind" was the vision of life as mortal, "Love and Theft" is that dirge turned inside out -- when all there is left to do is dance, reminisce, get silly and make puns. It's "How does it feel?" merged with "something is happening here but you don't know what it is", put to the music of "The Basement Tapes" and "Planet Waves" and even "Saved".The guy just has more tricks up his sleeve than any other working singer/songwriter out there. Let's face it, when they unearth the heart of folk music of America 100 years from now, they are going to look at "Good as I been to you" and this album as key examples of the treasure trove of Dylan's work.Let's hear it for it him, in between all the touring and who know what else, he stills gets himself in to work in the studio and walks out having gotten his job done. Right on, Bob.
Is the review positive or negative? 