Maybe I should listen to this again. When it came out I thought meh. Much preferred TOOM although that was gloomy enough that I need to be in a particular frame of mind to appreciate it. L&T, from memory, had too many songs with an orthodox 3 chord blues structure, something I just find impossible to enjoy these days, particularly in faster tempos. I tend to like Lanois productions for Dylan: "Oh Mercy" may be my favourite Dylan album nowadays, certainly my pick as his most critically underrated. But I'm only a moderate Dylan fan and don't generally listen very carefully to the lyrics, so I'm pretty unrepresentative.
― frankiemachine, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link