Saturday 4 February 2017

Deep Covers


First the good news... a new and triple album from Bob Dylan. Then what seemed like not such good news... it's all covers. Again. 'Shadows In The Night' and 'Fallen Angels' were both brilliant records. But with Mount Sinatra climbed, the expectation was that, as after those other writer's block classics 'Good As I Been To You' and 'World Gone Wrong', Dylan would get back to Dylan.

However, after a listen to 'I Could Have Told You' from the new album, with its exquisite musical backing from Dylan's road band and a vocal that no one else could come close to for feeling and meaning, you realise that he had to do this...

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