Bob Dylan – Tempest – First Listen
Dylan has been on a slow boil since 1997’s Time Out Mind without a stinker in the bunch. But with Tempest I think he may have minted yet another masterpiece. Dylan has sculpted his phlegmatic growl into a beautiful instrument – think of Satchmo with a sense of irony.
I am really digging the album. It has a wonderful old-timey feel to it. Dylan has absorbed so many forms of folk music that many of theses songs seem like covers. By folk music I mean a very broad term: “old” songs, with no known composers, including jazz, blues, tin pan alley, etc.
I don’t have time to pull together a coherent review – but this has it all: great musical arrangements, great lyrics and then there is the voice. The voice is perfect on this album. The voice is not for amatures – it is like a an Islay Scotch – this better not be your first drink.
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Jim–you are knocking me out with your posts! Very informative and entertaining–I hope you are getting some national exposure.
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“slow boil since ‘Time Out Mind’ “. Agree. will get around to this eventually.