Bob Dylan - Love and Theft (2001) [MFSL, 2017]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 352 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 135 MB | Covers - 324 MB
Genre: Roots Rock, Country Rock, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (UDSACD 2164)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 352 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 135 MB | Covers - 324 MB
Genre: Roots Rock, Country Rock, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (UDSACD 2164)
Time Out of Mind was a legitimate comeback, Bob Dylan's first collection of original songs in nearly ten years and a risky rumination on mortality, but its sequel, Love and Theft, is his true return to form, not just his best album since Blood on the Tracks, but the loosest, funniest, warmest record he's made since The Basement Tapes. There are none of the foreboding, apocalyptic warnings that permeated Time Out of Mind and even underpinned "Things Have Changed," his Oscar-winning theme to Curtis Hanson's 2000 film Wonder Boys. Just as important, Daniel Lanois' deliberately arty, diffuse production has retreated into the mist, replaced by an uncluttered, resonant production that gives Dylan and his ace backing band room to breathe…