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Matthews recent adoption of an electric guitar on Everday has been misguidedly compared to Bob Dylan??s famous decision to “plug in.”While Dylan??s move was a rejection of the folkie culture that had been his mainstay, while Matthews is merely a broadening of a skillfully used musical palette. Or possibly a bowing down to commercial forces of musical hegemony, depending on how much you like the new material...
...Girl from the North Country,” a duet with Bob Dylan, also doesn’t quite work. Cash’s wonderful voice, which U2’s Bono calls “the most male voice in Christendom,” clashes with Dylan??s weak bleats. But the second disc does have a couple of must-haves: live renditions of “Folsom Prison Blues” (unfortunately, the studio version is absent) and “A Boy Named Sue.” The Essential Johnny Cash is indeed an essential...
...blistering licks from the good old days of the Hawks. Dylan has produced the album himself under the pseudonym Jack Frost, which gives the album a much more straight-up feel, in contrast to the wizardry of Daniel Lanois (U2, Peter Gabriel). On Time, Lanois placed Dylan??s voice, sounding the oldest and possibly frailest it ever has, right at the front of the mix, creating a funereal atmospheric as the dying, or possibly dead, Dylan whispers hoarse confessions in your ear. And now he’s wickedly, impossibly back, just when you thought it was safe...