David wrote: "It's a pretty good buy... two discs plus a fat booklet and (for now) a two-track DVD for something like $19.95. It's just Bob with a few duets with Joan Baez and (I think) Scarlet Rivera.
Sound quality is excellent, the performances are great... this comes right at the end of Bob's very creative mid-70s period. Good stuff." Thanks David...is it full of "Desire" stuff though? Joey, Hurricane, Isis, etc -- it's far from my favorite Dylan album; big disappointment to me after Blood on the Tracks. And as for 'can die-hard Dylan fans be die-hard Joni fans,' gee, I never even considered that question. I always assumed that everyone was like me, and that if you love Joni you'd have to love Dylan as well. Though they are 2 very different sorts of lyricists, and their music stems from 2 different traditions, their intelligence, integrity, and sheer brilliance places them both on the same artistic level in my eyes. And, my 2 cents on the statue: though it's fun to imagine this statue or that statue, the truth is (as someone mentioned the other day) that figurative memorial statues are usually pretty dreadful -- because they are art made by committee. (Ask Joni's views on that!) To get a worthwhile piece of art, they'd have to commission a great artist and let her do what she wants. Someone like Louise Bourgeois. Bruce
