European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 05, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Music new album is collection of old songs by John Rockwell new York lion l a in i i 111 lilt i la look ing loll Rol k port til one v. Lion some people thought defined the 1 Litls. With Raspy Oue his Herte a sir him Nam Aguilai and Wail ing 11.11 n Ion in a he Sang songs like Jim in in Hie him and or. Tarn Tourine that shaped .1 s understand cling of itself hut in Rei ent \ a i v i i n i Hai ill seemed so i , Eil i Lei to the pop Misie business 01 to the c culture at . Anil that s what makes his n a Willmm Lotti Rich so thought i i then v. He a aging Roc Kei s put out Sut h let spec lives it s a Vav of reminding us of tin ii Lustrous pas., and begging indulgent Foi their mole prosaic presents. Ltd finh has something of that ahot11 in his Rei ent r,01 k indeed his c Ai Eli Fol the past Lri or la years Annot be said to have1 been greeted Vilh lie s inner. Esrik k admiration that accompanied his e Erv e in the i . But there s mine Hen Blun in iced nostalgia a lot of Lemaick Bli poetic and in t Allol ii 20 Veals old Whiee ears in the making this set Zolleis holding alter i i i thus avoiding am thing Fiona i last Gli Elul ionic leis of his Dei line will e amp Lam that the Evidene e Heen Ihei Ehy skewed. Hut on the whole lulls is still i if olt . Dec i Centric ally assembled overview. In c on him lion with his i Cinelly published d / res i a 1 Hll Alln a a. Knopf a reprinting and expansion of his la arms j lil of tj7jisiah i Pili invites consider alien not just of what in does and does not contain hut More broadly of Dylan s lasting place in the history of american arts. The song selection and juxtapositions in Ithie h Dylan apparently had a big hand Are designed to thwart e lie bed expectations. As a Rule songs Are grouped thematically cutting across chronological and stylistic patterns. Thus the set opens with a Side of love songs from Lay Udy la of 1969, from his country Alburn Nashville Skyline to . Let or follow you Down of 1962 through songs from 1970, 1967 and 1965. But sometimes the songs arc More tightly linked Side two is All political songs from 1963-64. Mostly however Dylan Means to frustrate those who dissect my songs like rabbits As he puts it in Cameron Crowe s Booklet . Likewise those who make More than they should of his , , political , and jewish dichotomies. I m not any seeker or scare it of cod knows what he grumbles in the notes to the individual songs. There s nothing in any of my songs to Ever imply that i m even hallway searching for some lost Gold at the end of any Gie Al Bob by an t new fire in album is a c Olec fion from More than 20 or irs in music. Tvs Lexious Rainbow propaganda that s All that is. I Don t write c on Tensional songs i motion s go nothing to do with Dylan overstate s his c ase in his we k was All that dispassionate Why All a song e Jellee Al sketch la state client about his artistic life Whie h laps Ovi with any romantic Poel into his re a c or Ding to the songs in High a i Dylan has always had a moral underpinning. The deny his some time s Quirky Ejus songs about women about politic Al i overt Reh Giovis Seatch Ai e All based c one a Vic i x Ion not so Muc h Thi Ough the p plot esses of the Anglo Amer in in Pool through the1 militant Anuci of the prophetic messianic intervention. Hut Oik can find that sensibility among the Cranks on very Stie Elc Ornel. Presumably Dylan has elevated his Seart h into Ait and it he has presumably the proof is in this set. To this taste it most c is hut those trapped in the
