Bob Dylan - World Gone Wrong
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Artist: Bob DylanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Music Label: SonyBMG Special Markets
Soundtracks:
- World Gone Wrong
- Love Henry
- Ragged & Dirty
- Blood In My Eyes
- Broke Down Engine
- Delia
- Stack A Lee
- Two Soldiers
- Jack-A-Roe
- Lone Pilgrim
Music reviews of World Gone Wrong
Music Review: Back To The Roots
Rating: 5 Stars
The first paragraph of this review has been used to review other later Bob Dylan CDs.
Okay, okay I have gone on and one over the past year or so about the influence of Bob Dylan's music (and lyrics) on me, and on my generation, the Generation of '68. But, please, don't blame me. Blame Bob. After all he could very easily have gone into retirement and enjoyed the fallout from his youthful fame and impressed one and all at his local AARP chapter. But, no, he had to go out on the road continuously, seemingly forever, keeping his name and music front and center. Moreover, the son of a gun has done more reinventions of himself than one could shake a stick at (folk troubadour, symbolic poet in the manner of Rimbaud and Verlaine, heavy metal rocker, blues man, etc.) So, WE are left with forty or so years of work to go through to try to sort it out. In short, can I (or anyone else) help it if he is restless and acts, well, ...like a rolling stone?
All of this is by way of introduction to the latest group of CDs from the vaults of one Bob Dylan's vast repertoire of musical interests. I note that there is a touch of going back, way back, and a life time's summing up driving the music in this later work. I also note the increased emphasis on the music that influenced him early on in his rise to fame and many tips of the hat to the various genres that make up the so-called "American Songbook" that he seemingly knows by heart. While we are all familiar with the various periodizations of the Dylan musical trajectory- folk troubadour a la Woody Guthrie, hard rockster, semi-Christian evangelical, old vaudeville showman and sentimental retro (for him) songster it is good to see him return once more to his beginnings. "Bringing It All Back Home", "Blonde On Blonde" and "Blood On The Tracks" will probably be his monuments in the folk/rock/pop pantheons but some of the late work, especially some of the covers of the early blues men like Skip James and Blind Willie McTell will endure as well. Kudos, Bob.
"World Gone Wrong" represents the highest expression in this later work of Dylan's return to his roots as he "merely" rearranges (as he has always done with covers) many old traditional ballads and songs that "spoke" to him in the early 1990's when he was making yet another "endless tour" comeback. Stick outs here include a couple of Mississippi Sheiks tunes ( a group, by the way, that will be reviewed on its own merits separately in this space at a later date). Blind Willie McTell (a seminal influence in the Dylan old days) also rates a cover with "Delia".
Finally, a song (also covered by Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard and, I believe, from which Dylan is taking his cover)from back in the depths of time, "Two Soldiers", explores the pathos and futility of war from a personal perspective. I should also note here that Dylan provides a very interesting, if sometimes cryptic, set of liner notes filled with symbolic meanings that a generation of devotees will spend plenty of time trying to decipher. Nice.
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