It was around 2006
and the release of Modern Times that
Dylan reached the point that very few living artists are allowed to reach. It’s
no longer relevant if his latest work is a triumph or if it’s a complete
disaster or if it’s merely okay. Funnily enough, you can’t even tell anymore if it’s
any of those three.
Well, I laughed at
some of that Christmas stuff. And got distracted too many times during Together Through Life. And now I had a
chance to dream all through Dylan singing Sinatra. But that is all I can
suggest. Oh, and perhaps I can also say this: last time he made me shiver with
genuine, primordial excitement was during “Workingman’s Blues #2”. And that
was, what, almost ten years ago.
Other than that –
roll on.
