Additional InformationThis weary-but-brilliant 1997 blues-folk comeback record proved Dylan, at 56, to be nowhere near done.
ReviewsIncluded in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", 8 (out of 10) - "...his most intriguing album for quite a few years....The songs slow-crawl with the finest licks money can buy...", Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997.", Ranked #29 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.", 9 (out of 10) - "...the whole shebang is pretty terrific, stuffed with the fun freedom of train-song rhythms; swampy, organ-studded soul; boyish ballads; and worn-out blues. Hearing them all, you get the sense of a loner's road trip....These are the thoughts of a pilgrim, and he's headed to the grave...", Ranked #4 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "Quivering guitar tremolos and crepuscular keyboards frame a cavalcade of blues-inflected poignancy...", Ranked #24 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime", Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", "It is an essential post-modern reappraisal of them, an experimental consideration of what could become of the blues’ sound and spirit and a mutual communion of articulate, exquisite despair.", Ranked #5 on Spin's List of the "Top 20 Albums of the Year.", Ranked #1 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll., "...Dylan's songwriting is at once blissfully assured and gleefully uneven throughout....Dylan sounds lively, even playful--in no way is this album a downer. It sounds as if, at 56, he can't wait to be a full-fledged old codger..." - Rating: A+, 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...TIME's perspective is that of an outsider speaking to an absent confidant....a more fully realized version of OH MERCY....Dylan has made a coherent, sonically striking but equally subdued ensemble album..."