Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan's return to musical form on 1983's Infidels album stirred hopes that his next LP
might bring him all the way into the Eighties. Instead, with one eye on the holiday gift-giving
market, Columbia released this live-in-concert stopgap: ten tracks recorded during Dylan's
European tour last summer, two of them songs off Infidels but the rest run-throughs of
rather ancient oldies, some dating back more than twenty years. These are grea... More >

Hitch Mick Taylor to a locomotive, make sure the songs are twenty years old, and you could get sh*t. But you could also get a decent live album if the auteur happened to be interested that night. "Maggie's Farm" and "Tombstone Blues" are the keepers, "License to Kill" and the ludicrous white reggae "I and I" are the ringers, and "Tangled Up in Blue" gets some new lyrics--or maybe they're really old ones. (Grade: B)