Songs that have been so often been covered and interpreted and so long ago were written by bygone playwrights that they are basically free. And very classic in pop sense. It was not last Dylan, who actively helped with the weapons of folk, poetry and a new, emancipating political awareness to bury this old epoch of American popular music. Like a Rolling Stone.
To date, a significant proportion of the followers of eternal Nobel Prize for Literature candidate is committed to this break with tradition. Where is the rebellion, where freedom in this dusty fifties singsong, ask those. According to many followers reacted in social networks critical to hostile, according to the motto: Dylan makes Sinatra? The bites, is treason. Not to mention the harshness of the eternal anti-singer, the need to keep it in vogue did not sound right.
But here now Dylan sings suddenly, with dedication and fragility. That's really irritating, but one has the first passages have to be stated behind: even the classic song may Dylan. Unfortunately a bit too little is going on Shadows In The Night, it actually lacks the animating element that brought the rock in the pop world: the pathetic climax, solo. Dylan music here with a five-piece band from the era like beautiful, but monotonous. A real studio album does not replace his cover trips, although he always remains full of surprises.
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