Bob Dylan Love and Theft LP

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You are bidding on a lightly-used vinyl copy of Bob Dylan's 2001 record, "Love and Theft." Excellent condition. Vinyl is VG+: a few very slight sleeve scuffs, but plays perfectly. Cover and sleeves are Near Mint. This is an extremely limited vinyl release.

Columbia – C2 85975
2LP

A1         Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum       
A2         Mississippi        
A3         Summer Days        
B1         Bye And Bye        
B2         Lonesome Day Blues        
B3         Floater (Too Much To Ask)        
C1         High Water (For Charlie Patton)        
C2         Moonlight        
C3         Honest With Me       
D1         Po' Boy        
D2         Cry A While        
D3         Sugar Baby

Amazon.com's Best of 2001
When we last left the ever-confounding saga that is Bob Dylan's now-superhuman recording career, he'd reunited with producer Daniel Lanois, with whom he cut 1997's Time Out of Mind, his most coherent and appealing collection in nearly a decade. Now the still-reigning prince of musical contrariety and potent wordplay is back with his most focused, well-played collection since 1989's Oh Mercy, another Lanois production. One listen to the fade-in of the opener "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum" and it's clear that all Dylan's roadwork has shaped him and his band (including guitarist Charlie Sexton) into a mighty musical weapon. And while his craggy howl continues to resonate, it's the songs here that astonish. A sturdy midtempo melody makes "Mississippi" the equal of the best numbers on Time, which it was actually written for. He convincingly puts over the R&B swing (yes, swing) number "Summer Days." "Honest with Me" ("I'm not sorry for nuthin' I've done / I'm glad I fight, I only wished we'd won") is a driving rocker that packs a genuine punch. And the light, lounge-like "Bye and Bye" and the southland ramble "Floater (Too Much to Ask)" show extraordinary confidence. He's labeled these songs "blues-based," but in typical Dylan fashion what would promise to be the most overtly blues number here--"High Water (for Charlie Patton)"--sounds like a banjo-based gunfighter ballad. But then that's this artist's gift: confounding expectations. --Robert Baird