Bob Dylan

On first inspection, this looks more like The Zim & the Grim – a mere seven songs, including
the warhorses "All Along the Watchtower" and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," with a garish
cover by the famed poster artist Rick Griffin that would look better on a concert T-shirt.
For this we waited eighteen months? It's a pretty safe bet that this souvenir from the 1987
Dylan-Dead summer stadium tour will handily outsell Knocked Out Loaded and D... More >

Dylan is Bob, the influential singer-songwriter who's resurfaced as the brains of the Traveling Wilburys; the Dead are Grateful, and not just because charismatic guitarist-antileader Jerry Garcia survived an offstage coma--they're rich men, and they sound it. Like Dylan, Garcia plays hardest and works most playfully when somebody pokes him a little--Ornette Coleman, say. But unlike Ornette, Dylan's not forever young, and what he makes of his catalogue here is exactly what he's been making of it for years--money. (Grade - C-)