Album Reviews
Jason Davis will write a review on all Dylan albums. Starting with Rough and Rowdy Ways, you can read a new review every week here on bobdylanpage.com.
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Bob Dylan / Hard Rain
With a brash clash of caustic, almost acidic guitar sound, Maggie’s Farm truly bursts in like a storm. Hard Rain, the only live album reviewed

Bob Dylan / Desire
1976 saw an enormous departure in sound and lyric from ‘Blood on the Tracks’, Dylan’s 1975 release. No more confessional tracks appear on this album,

Bob Dylan / Blood on the Tracks
With the title of the album ‘Blood on the Tracks’, could Dylan have created a metaphor for love lost and the past pain it provoked?

Bob Dylan / Planet Waves
The undulations of human existence. The crest and the troth. A lifetime of waves, sufferings and joys. A planet of these waves; ‘Planet Waves’. A

Bob Dylan / New Morning
Not quite dawn, October. My steadfast stereo chattering this mornings Dylan album and review, ‘New Morning’. Appropriate timing as I am soon to see another

Bob Dylan / Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Like the crack of a gun, quite out of nowhere, the vocals come in. “There’s guns across the river like to pound ya, law man

Bob Dylan / Self Portrait
When asked for a one liner for this review, Dr. Damian Carpenter with degrees in English and American Folk Music, said “Self Portrait’ is delightful

Bob Dylan / Nashville Skyline
With a Woodstock, N.Y. “How do?” staring at you on the cover, the question is what has Dylan has left behind for the remainder of his

Bob Dylan / John Wesley Harding
Let’s travel back in time, shall we? For my sixteenth birthday my best friend surprised me with a gift. Unwrapped, the way he had stolen

Bob Dylan / Blonde on Blonde
Allow me to indulge, briefly. Amber lit, the brown, wood laden college bar looked like it was cloaked in the light of embers. The redhead

Bob Dylan / Highway 61 Revisited
If ‘Bringing it all Back Home’ was a bridging album, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ is a rocket lift-off; stratospheric. From the opening snare strike, an epic

Bob Dylan / Bringing it all Back Home
What is there to say about this album. As ‘Lost John’ states, its a bridging album to ‘Another Side of Bob Dylan.” Or as I

Bob Dylan / Another Side of Bob Dylan
Two weeks; it’s written. Greece, seaside. Seaside air, seaside sun, seaside speed and typewriter grease. Who could do it this way? Hell, Dylan did. Call

Bob Dylan / The Times The are a Changin?
As he would sing three decades later, “The truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow, let it pass us through.” To reference this

Bob Dylan / The Freewheelin? Bob Dylan
Just like Corina; where ‘he’ been so long?Laying mortar on the Village folk scene he morphed, Dylan took the click and clank of the typewriter,

Bob Dylan/Bob Dylan
Strumming like the rhythm of the freight train, he brings the strings, E through E. All six. Like a freight train he may have come

A tale of Rough and Rowdy Ways
Biased only by my utter fanaticism I will proceed. LJ is attempting to get press credentials for an early listening to the album. Tim Out