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Bob Dylan - Infidels Audio CD

A fair review of the Bob Dylan "Infidels" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bob Dylan reviews here, or go back to the Bob Dylan tabs.

Bob Dylan Band: Bob Dylan
Title: Infidels
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Release Date: 2004-06-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Jokerman 2: Sweetheart Like You 3: Neighborhood Bully 4: License To Kill 5: Man Of Peace 6: Union Sundown 7: I And I 8: Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight

A Powerful Message For Our Time


Produced by Mark Knopfler, the October 27, 1983, release reached #20 on the Billboard album chart and delves heavily into the world chess match of superpowers and the emerging wannabes - Union Sundown, License to Kill, Neighborhood Bully - with an intriguing song on Dylan being Dylan, I and I. Bob Dylan pursues love, politics and religion in what many critics termed a "comeback" album after his fabulous trilogy of gospel releases.

But the gospel numbers - Man of Peace, Jokerman - are essential Dylan, as the lyrics for both are enchantingly brilliant. Sweetheart Like You and Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight capture the essence of an eternal search for love.

Sly Dunbar (d), Robbie Shakespeare (b), Mick Taylor (g), Knopfler (g) and Alan Clark (k) propel the lyrics to wonderful heights. Hardly a "comeback" album, it is a worthy successor of the gospel trilogy, while mostly taking aim at timeless world issues. .


Infidels
It was produced as a collobartion between Mark Knopfler and Dylan. Infidels is a good album but not his best. Then one would have expected it to be a tremendus recording. It is not bad by any means but not amazing by any means which is a shame. If one compares this would a classic like Highway 61 Revisited, it feels a bit flat. Still Dylan is an accomplished lyricist and writes several great tracks. For instance, one track that I particularly like is License to Kill. The book-let is a drab and to be frank it is atrocious. The drawing on the back looks shoddy and must have been drawn by a friend since otherwise Dylan should ask for his money back. .


What about bob?
Maybe its just the glasses??
It sound just like most bob. Ok he sort of looks like a bearded tom cruise in the picture. He can really string together decent tunes. It came out in the 80's and musically sounds that way. The cd does feature some slid guitar going on in the background. .


Folk Singers Mellow With Age
I don't remember them playing this music on local FM. The first time I heard music from INFIDELS was on Pandora Radio on the inernet. The song EYE AND EYE appealed to me and is why I bought this CD. I used to think it was EYE FOR EYE, BUT I was wrong. Bob Dylan has a good mellow sound to him on this album and I could listen to it over and over. .


Just Simply Amazing -- Even Better if Played Loud
Add Sly Dunbar as a drummer and put Robbie Shakespeare on Bass, then finish it off with Alan Clark on keyboards and now you really have a band. For this record Bob Dylan went back to Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits fame, who he'd worked with on Slow Train for guitar work and he asked ex-Rolling Stone axe man Mick Taylor to join the crew. Gone on this record, except for Clydie King's vocals on "Union Sundown" are the female backup singers, although this track sounds not a bit like the others with the female singers, it actually sounds more like how Ronnie Blakely's backup did on "Hurricane. "

Dylan, though he didn't make an overtly Christian record here, didn't shed his Biblical references. They abound in the long and powerful song, "Jokerman. " However, there is a lot for Dylan's old fans to like with "Infidels. " He's put protest songs, or at least topical songs, on this rocker of a record. "Union Sundown" is about as political as you can get. Then there is "Neighborhood Bully" about Israel and her confrontation with her Arab neighbors. However, sadly, Dylan left off the excellent "Blind Wille McTell. " Fortunately that song made it's way onto a later compilation. I said, this was a rocker of a record and a lot of that can be credited, I believe to Mick Taylor. He just plays his heart out. The other musicians do too. This is a must own Dylan record. That's what I think anyway, this record is just simply Amazing and even better if you play it loud.


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