obv
over-rated
times
another side
flood
bob1
not good
nashville
new morning
Interesting - I actually REALLY hate After the Flood, would definitely fling it into the Not Good pile. Sorta the epitome of Live Album Shitness for me, every track played too fast, all the 'energy' destroying the original geist / tone / heft of the studio versions...
New Morning pretty undistinguished, but has a few stand-outs - Man in Me, If Not For You...
But Nashville Skyline is amazing - would put it among the best... Country Pie! Girl from the North Country! Lay Lady Lay! His voice is so different on it... There's a group glow to the playing which made me hear country music so differently, there's a real jouissance in all these hardened session players just slinging out off-the-cuff um, licks.... the Nashville section in Derek Bailey's improv doc is far more eloquent on this idiom than I ever could be... but it's after hours pastoral avant-yob if you like
plus the intriguing narratives of Dylan's career, rock post-67, the way JWH and then Nashville Skyline embrace this despised genre, undercut a lot of flabby psych bullshit... and then he moves on again before that whole roots-rock drive becomes worthy stodge... funny how Dylan and Bowie get opposed earlier in this thread and Dylan painted as rockist, but in so many ways he was just as un-rockist, just as gleefully inauthentic as anyone in glam or synth-pop... it fascinates me that he can be read as a Nietzschean chameleon, willing new selves into existence and disregarding consistency or 'authenticity' out of pure transcendental Ego, but it seems to be equally powered by *annihilating* the self so that these ghostly folk voices can speak through him