Audio CD review:
Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque

Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque

Band: Bryan Ferry Title: Dylanesque Rating: Release Date: 26 June, 2007 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 2: Simple Twist Of Fate 3: Make You Feel My Love 4: The Times They Are A-Changin' 5: All I Really Want To Do 6: Knockin' On Heaven's Door 7: Positively 4th Street 8: If Not For You 9: Baby, Let Me Follow You Down 10: Gates Of Eden 11: All Along The Watchtower

Editoral Review This time around, the celebrated Roxy Music leader turns in Dylanesque, recasting 11 Dylan classics during a single live-in-the-studio week that leaves the album sounding vibrantly faithful to the original numbers. Long a Bob Dylan fan, Bryan Ferry remade "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" for his 1973 self-titled album of covers. Far be it for the imaginative contrarian to retrace Dylan's steps, and sure enough--despite an omnipresent harmonica--Ferry does just the opposite. The raw rocker "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" becomes a seductive British pop song, while despair and loneliness turn into effervescence for the driving "Simple Twist of Fate. " Ferry's ageless tenor injects a modern momentum into early Dylan imprints "Positively 4th Street" (with strings!), "All I Really Want to Do," and "The Times They Are A-Changing," and gloriously respects the more recent "Make You Feel My Love" (from 1997's Time out of Mind). But the best is yet to come, as the oft-covered "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" may never have received better treatment and "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" loses not a beat of its original knock-down luster. The record closes with "All Along the Watchtower," a twin tribute to Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, the visionary for this adaptation. --Scott Holter .. You can see a complete list of all Bryan Ferry discography, or go back to the Bryan Ferry tabs