Dylan Revists

[Landys ghost]

Dylan has revisited his work so many times it's almost impossible to keep track of the changes.

Although there are good reasons to say 1966 was the first re-visit that really was just electrifying accoustic material, except perhaps for One Too Many Mornings, which 3 years later went Country,and in 76 almost punk, before settling down to being a laid back song of nostalgia in the 90's

Just like a woman at the Bangladesh concert was a total reinvention and quite possibly showed him how this kind of revisionism could
help him endure and take large bodies of his work forward, and then you come to.........

Tangled up in blue, it would be quite possible to make an entire album of re-writes and different arrangements

the NY outake
the O/R on BOTT
Renaldo & Clara
Alone with Sax accompaniment
Real Live
and all the NET versions

it's like Monet painting his water lillies from different angles - sheer genius

[Sandrine]

It's one of a reason that I like him.

For me, he is a real artist because he proposes different things. I have envy to follow him.

[ersatzid]

it's like Monet painting his water lillies from different angles - sheer genius

Very astute, landy. Its not just the keys or the tune that he revisits the songs with, its also teh way he sings seems to give new dimensions to the song. TUIB sung on teh album BOTT has almost an entirely new twist when he sings the same song differently. That song particularly aquires new meanings and new doimensions. Though there are others that simply take the listeners for granted, But most of them gain a new perspective.