Magazine:
Mojo

No. 142, september 2005

15 tracks, 60:48

Mojo

Poet? Seer? Sage? Or, as Nik Cohn put it in his 1969 history of pop Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom, "a minor talent with a major gift for self-hype"? Everybody, it seems, has an opinion on Bob Dylan. 
While his harshest critics are happy to damn what Cohn calls his "whine and sneer", even they are forced to acknowledge his unique contribution to modern music, and popular culture as a whole.
Over the past 40 years, Dylan has reinvented himself with every passing decade, hiding behind words and cloaking himself in myth. lndeed, it is only now at the age of 64 that he appears to want to reveal himself to those who have lost themselves in his music. Even then, avid Dylanologists scouring his first instalment of Chronicies will have noted a decided lack of the self in his autobiography.
But it is Dylan's ability to tackle the human condition head-on while remaining enigmatic that gives him such enduring power. lndeed, such is the intrique he generaties that he has held at least three generations of musicians spellbound. Hence this 15-track collection features new and exclusive recordings by artists as diverse as Dylan's contemporary Roger McGuinn, ex-Stranglers man Hugh Cornwell and relatively young bucks such as Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, M Ward and My Morning Jacket's Jim James. Join them, then, as they wander through Bob's back pages and provide new readings of the work by the man who can justifiably be dubbed The Modern Day Bard.

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• CD Winkels Startpagina
• Muziektijdschriften Startpagina
• Bob Dylan Startpagina