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Bob Dylan - Good as I Been to You Audio CD

A fair review of the Bob Dylan "Good as I Been to You" 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: Good as I Been to You
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Release Date: 2008-02-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Frankie and Albert 2: Jim Jones 3: Black Jack Davey 4: Canadee-I-O 5: Sitting on Top of the World 6: Little Maggie 7: Hard Times 8: Step It Up and Go 9: Tomorrow Night 10: Arthur McBride 11: You're Gonna Quit Me 12: Diamond Joe 13: Froggie Went A-Courtin'

A Late Dylan Encore
But, please, don't blame me. Okay, okay I have gone on and one over the past year or so about the influence of Bob Dylan's music (and lyrics) on me, and on my generation, the Generation of '68. Blame Bob. After all he could very easily have gone into retirement and enjoyed the fallout from his youthful fame and impressed one and all at his local AARP chapter. But, no, he had to go out on the road continuously, seemingly forever, keeping his name and music front and center. Moreover, the son of a gun has done more reinventions of himself than one could shake a stick at (folk troubadour, symbolic poet in the manner of Rimbaud and Verlaine, heavy metal rocker, blues man, etc. ) So, WE are left with forty or so years of work to go through to try to sort it out. In short, can I (or anyone else) help it if he is restless and acts, well, . . . . like a rolling stone?

All of this is by way of introduction to the latest group of CDs from the vaults of one Bob Dylan's vast repertoire of musical interests. I note that there is a touch of going back, way back, and a life times' summing up driving the music. I also note the increased emphasis on the music that influenced him early on in his rise to fame and many tips of the hat to the so-called American Songbook that he seemingly knows by heart. While we are all familiar with the various periodizations of the Dylan musical trajectory- folk troubadour a la Woody Guthrie, hard rockster, semi-Christian evangelical, old vaudeville showman and sentimental (for him) songster it is good to see him return once more to his beginnings. "Bringing It All Back Home", "Blonde On Blonde" and "Blood On The Tracks" will probably be his monuments in the folk/rock/pop pantheons but some of the late work, especially some of the covers of the early blues men like Skip James and Blind Willie McTell will endure as well.

Stick outs here include; a now timely cover of Stephen Foster's "Hard Times"; the classic, much covered (in various versions) "Frankie And Albert"; a tribute to the Mississippi Sheiks with "Sitting On Top Of The World"; the Irish freedom struggle -related "Arthur McBride (founder of Sinn Fein); and, a very crooner-like "Tomorrow Night". On this last one are we sure Dylan didn't want, among all his other personas, to be Frank Sinatra, or at least a wanna-be?.


Distinct Dylan Disk
A distinct Dylan effort, very different from most of his other stuff. Four stars. If you like simple Dylan, guitar and maybe some harmonica, then you'll like this CD. It would be nicer if it had lyrics or more information in the CD sleeve. It has almost nothing. All the songs are not his, but are older folk and blues. Canadee-i-o, Arthur McBride, and Jim Jones are worth the price of the CD. But also Hard Times. You will like this CD if you like Dylan and folk.


Bob Dylan has been good to us all.
I do not have enough space to talk about it properly so i will just say this. This is an amazingly intimate album. BUY THIS ALBUM! You will love it.


Inspiration for my New[...]
You have to look at them through the prism of his life as a whole. Trying to debate whether the 1992-1993 Bob Dylan albums are worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as his classic 60's and 70's records just seems like a pointless exercise. These songs were arranged both musically and vocally in such a way where you hear the world-weariness in the voice, guitar and harmonica. This is at a time when Dylan was emerging from a creative slump for a short period (as are all his creative slumps). These albums seem to me to be a road map to reclaiming the title of "great artist" that we all know he is. I know Dylan dislikes labels but even he can't argue with that one, he sure acts like he has an ego during his shows, which he richly deserves. (I guess I've ruined my chances of ever opening for him! Hah!!)

If you would like to understand why I love these two albums so much, let my new piece, Rheta's Song, help you understand.

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When You Love Somebody
This view strains rationality but it's how I feel, and he has certainly been industrious in supporting it all these years. I only wanted to write a review because I read few that were kind of tepid, and in my version of the world Bob Dylan records are either noble failures or the best records ever made, they all get 5 stars in my view.

He works hard and a large group of us appreciate it, but the truth is I never listen to any of the records made before this one, but I listen to this one a lot and always like it. Actually, I listen to everything after this one frequently, as if they just came out. I think this was the start of Dylan's new life, an oddly parallel second life beginning with great versions of songs from very different folk sources.


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