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“Love and Theft”
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work
“Love and Theft” · Love and Theft was released on 11 September 2001 and is Bob Dylan's thirty-first studio album. It was his first record with the band he was touring with at the time, joined by keyboard player Augie Meyers. The twelve tracks were recorded in May 2001 in twelve days at Clinton Recording in Manhattan. According to engineer Chris Shaw, he let go of arrangements quickly and would try a song in another key, at another tempo or in another style until it fitted.
The sound draws on old American music: jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley and Country Swing. The characters are crooks, gamblers and drifters. High Water (for Charley Patton) paints a portrait of Southern history, and Sugar Baby closes as a long, sombre ballad with plenty of echo. Critics received it even more enthusiastically than the record before. According to Dylan himself, it is about business, politics and war, and perhaps a little love.
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Track list
- 1Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum4:46Apple Music ↗
- 2Mississippi5:21Apple Music ↗
- 3Summer Days4:54Apple Music ↗
- 4Bye and Bye3:18Apple Music ↗
- 5Lonesome Day Blues6:06Apple Music ↗
- 6Floater (Too Much to Ask)5:00Apple Music ↗
- 7High Water (For Charley Patton)4:03Apple Music ↗
- 8Moonlight3:24Apple Music ↗
- 9Honest With Me5:49Apple Music ↗
- 10Po' Boy3:09Apple Music ↗
- 11Cry a While5:05Apple Music ↗
- 12Sugar Baby6:41Apple Music ↗
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