Album Reviews5/10
Dylan at 5/10: The Voice Survives an Album Nobody Wanted
Bob Dylan's 1973 outtakes album is a cobbled-together stopgap of covers, but his voice makes it a fascinating time capsule. We rank the tracks.
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Album Reviews9/10
Bob Dylan and The Band Prove the Basement Tapes Were Worth the Bootleg Wait — 9/10
Bob Dylan & The Band's legendary 1967 basement sessions, finally released in 1975, capture a loose, essential moment in rock history. Reviewed.
Album Reviews8/10
Bob Dylan’s ‘Triplicate’: Thirty Standards, Sung With Conviction
Bob Dylan's Triplicate is a sprawling 30-song standards set, too long but with highlights as good as anything he's done this century.
Album Reviews7.6/10
Together Through Life: Bob Dylan Relaxes Into the Groove, and It Suits Him
Bob Dylan's 2009 album Together Through Life is a loose, romantic bar-band record steeped in Tex-Mex and blues. A solid, confident listen that knows its limits.
Album Reviews8/10
Bob Dylan Sings Sinatra Straight — and Makes the Standards Sound Like Confessions
Bob Dylan's 2015 album Shadows in the Night reimagines Great American Songbook standards with raw intimacy, proving his late-career genius.
Album Reviews9.5/10
Rough and Rowdy Ways: Bob Dylan’s Late-Career Masterpiece Stares Down the End
Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways is a dense, warm meditation on mortality and American history, earning a 9.5/10 for its literary depth and tender voice.
Album Reviews7.7/10
Bob Dylan’s ‘Fallen Angels’: Warm, Well-Sung Standards That Stop Short of Essential
Bob Dylan's 2016 album Fallen Angels finds the legend covering Great American Songbook standards with a warm, country-tinged sound. Our review: 7.7/10.
Album Reviews7/10
Alone With a Guitar, He Let the Old Murder Ballads Speak for Themselves
Bob Dylan's 1993 album World Gone Wrong: a dark, fatalistic set of traditional folk songs that critics called a signal document. Our review rates it 7.0.
Album Reviews4/10
Under the Red Sky at 36: How Bob’s Nursery-Rhyme Experiment Left Three Keepers Buried in Filler
Bob Dylan's 1990 album Under the Red Sky reviewed: a short, uneven folk-rock record with a few standout songs like 'Born in Time' and 'God Knows.'
Album Reviews9.4/10
Bob Dylan Stares Down Old Age on Time Out of Mind — 9.4/10
A deep dive into Bob Dylan's 1997 album Time Out of Mind, a swampy reckoning with mortality and loss, highlighting its peaks and production.