if the man who wrote “Subterranean Homesick Blues” has ever been at a loss for words. But you’d have to look at one of the hip-hop deluxe editions that have been flooding the marketplace recently to find anything approaching
Both the album and his 60-year career are effectively summarized in the title of the opening track, “I Contain Multitudes.” The line is taken from Walt Whitman, but even by that poet’s multiple personae-encouraging standards, Dylan’s attitude toward life as a near octogenarian is an almost hilariously slippery, constantly self-contradictory thing.
Yet it’s hardly all about the rowdiness of the album title, or fit for the jukebox pictured in the vintage cover photo. A gentler and sometimes enticingly melodic feel is more predominant through the remainder of the tracks, which doesn’t mean Dylan doesn’t usually still have trouble in mind.about grave-robbing — but it tones down the blues-rocking musical rhetoric to create a sense of soft suspense.
Well-written review by Chris Willman. “Aged as it is, Dylan’s voice hasn’t sounded this pleasing to the ear since the 1980s.” “By the end, you can almost imagine Dylan coming into focus after all, against all odds: as our greatest dot-connector.”
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