(This review was originally published on a site that has now been buried in the proverbial basement. I’m dusting it off to be placed on this shelf, a few years late.) – They’ve survived primarily through word of mouth. That […]
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Why “triplicate”? There are many ways to say things that come in threes. Some are musical, some are baseball, some sexy or political or bookish or religious or painterly: trio, triad, triple, trinity, triptych, triumvirate, threesome, tripartite, trilogy. Why did Dylan […]
This haunting, poetic album, which turned out to be the final product of Leonard Cohen’s remarkable late-career creative peak, almost didn’t happen. The project stalled because of the 82-year-old artist’s health problems and those of collaborator Patrick Leonard. Cohen’s son […]
Over the course of almost fifty years, Leonard Cohen has plumbed the beauty and perils of love, the fragility of existence, and the highs and lows of human history. With 2012’s Old Ideas and 2014’s Popular Problems, Cohen steered in […]
Bob Dylan’s Good as I Been to You (1992) and World Gone Wrong (1993), which contain covers of old folk and blues tunes, should have come as no surprise to anyone who’d paid attention to his career. Way back on […]
Hey, everybody. Time to stop thinking you can figure out Bob Dylan’s next move. Haven’t the past fifty years taught us anything on that front? His new record, Fallen Angels, continues in the rich and all-American vein of the one […]
You’ve heard the one about the three blind men trying to describe the elephant, only each individual was touching a completely different part of the beast and nobody understood the whole animal? Make the elephant a whole lot bigger, keep […]
When the late, legendary British DJ John Peel witnessed his first Bruce Springsteen concert in 1975, this was his assessment: “A trifle theatrical, like off-cuts from West Side Story. He is not…the future of rock ‘n’ roll, but rather a […]
Covers have been an integral element of rock ‘n’ roll poet Patti Smith’s oeuvre since day one. So fans might honestly approach Twelve, a set wholly comprised of other people’s songs, with high expectations. Will she take the ’80s radio […]
It seems like a lifetime ago that a Chaplinesque scamp established the audacity of his songwriting vision with The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. Flash forward 43 years, and Dylan has never sounded more freewheeling than he does on his new album […]
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