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Thread #94169   Message #1832090
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
11-Sep-06 - 04:12 PM
Thread Name: Review: Bob Dylan's latest!: 'Modern Times'
Subject: RE: Review: Bob Dylan's latest!: 'Modern Times'
Its an interesting album - coming, as it does, in the wake of the Chronicles book that told us how he works - how he searches for inspiration, and musicians that inspire him.

The rolling and tumbling thing is really interesting. Was it skip James who came up with that hook riff originally - i forget? What Dylan's done there, reminds me a bit of what Lonnie Donnegan used to do to folk an folk blues material. Very nice and creative though, you could do a whole album like that - Smokestack Lightnin' anybody?

I feel sure that shooting from the hip with criticism, is probably less than this work from a master songwriter deserves.