Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Wesley Harding appears touched with grace. The snarling pieties of Highway 61 Revislited, the lucid and patient degeneration in Blonde on Blonde, seem to have been blotted from his memory. Instead, Dylan reaches further into his past for a starting point--and only a starting-point. The new album is a unique and advanced product...
Dylan's gift is a tremendous outburst of pity for the suffering, who are represented always in highly stylized situations. A romantic aura surrounds the actors, heightening the spiritual insight of their actions. Of the love-songs on the album, two are suitably "distanced," and one, "I'll be your Baby Tonight," is sublimely simple...
...canning the comedy. The reproof brought a straight-faced letter of rebuttal from Rudy, who insisted that his singing now makes audiences rebel, and that he is making his living primarily as a gagster. One recent singing LP sold only 10,000 copies, Vallee reported, while his comedy album has sold 400,000. As for nightclub fans: "When I began to sing, they invariably began to talk. I have been convulsing them with stories...
...tries. The effort mostly takes the form of talk -on filial duty, on paternal sacrifice, on the family ties that chafe as they bind. Instead of a shock of recognition, there is merely the camera click of domestic snapshots that might turn up in any middle-class family album...
Whether Dylan's new album signals an actual return to public performance is fogged with conjecture. He still hides from reporters, and no plans have been announced for concerts beyond an appearance at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall next week at a memorial concert for Woody Guthrie. But whether he is in or out of sight, Dylan's power as a trendmaker and prophet for the college-age crowd is sure to grow with the appearance of John Wesley Harding...