“Bob Dylan has sung in many voices on his records: the nasal-braying alarm of "A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall"; the acidic dismissal in "Like a Rolling Stone"; the country hermit on The Basement Tapes; the grizzly wisecracking drifter on 2001’s Love and Theft and 2006’s Modern Times. But Dylan, who turns 68 in May, has […]”
“Dylan again sounds like a one-man preservation society, exploring popular song traditions that halted around the release of his own first record in 1962.”