There's a great new album out of Robyn Hitchcock doing Dylan covers. It's going in my top ten for sure. I like this better than anything Hitchcock's done since
Storefront Hitchcock. The highlight is an especially spooky acoustic version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" that sounds like the more introspective material on
I Often Dream of Trains or
Eye.
The production is unobtrusive without being austerely folky (it's a nice change from the slickness of RH's recent work), and Robyn's vocal inflections are a good match for Dylan's lyrics, which demand a suitably charismatic singer to put them over.
This is the tracklist:
Disc stripes
1 Visions Of Johanna
2 Tangled Up In Blue
3 Not Dark Yet
4 4th Time Around
5 Desolation Row
6 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
7 Dignity
8 Visions Of Johanna
Disc dots
1 Tell Me Mama
2 I Don't Believe You
3 Baby Let Me Follow You Down
4 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
5 Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat
6 One Too Many Mornings
7 Ballad Of A Thin Man
8 Like A Rolling Stone
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 November 2002 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
it's great and further proof that any record robyn puts out on editions paf! is much better than whatever he is putting out on a major label (not that the rest of the stuff is BAD per se but "mossy liquor" and "a star for bram" are much more fun that their companion albums. not heard "side three" yet)
the full band one is great - good old homer/ departure lounge!
― chris browning (commonswings), Friday, 29 November 2002 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yeah, I quite like it. I've debated putting in my top 10 list, but I'm still not sure if it really is a great album or I just like it because I adore all the original songs so much anyway.
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 29 November 2002 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link