Track Listing

1. World Gone Wrong
2. Love Henry
3. Ragged And Dirty
4. Blood In My Eyes
5. Broke Down Engine
6. Delia
7. Stagger Lee
8. Two Soldiers
9. Jackaroe
10. Lone Pilgrim

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38720 in Music
• Released on: 1997-01-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

Back to his roots?
This album and the one which preceded it are often talked of in terms of contractual obligation but for myself i would like to think there's a little more going on here - i like to think of it as the man's revaluation of his own role after twenty or so years of trying to hit the highs that he had achieved in his early career and frquently ending up putting out over-produced, substandard and often complacent discs with the odd hint of greatness peppered throughout. So here we have a Dylan aware of this going back to his record collection (to reaquaint himself with those that had inspired the young prodigy that he was?) and his acoustic guitar, switching on a mic and recapturing some of his former glory before going on to find something like a coherant voice again on his more recent releases.

A bold, brave move for someone who many had written off to appear so naked to the world but he pulled it off; this is Dylan nodding to the past and looking to the future.

A thing of beauty and a gift to those who stuck with him through the hard times.

Dreadful cover shot though, very few people can pull off a top hat and Dylan ain't one of them.

Thank God he's doing covers
When Dylan wrote his own songs he usually "borrowed" heavily from others especially songs in the public domain.And this is where its at nowadays.\World gone wrong-great title the World began to go wrong when God picked up 100 pounds of clay!
However to the newbie Dylan is an acquired taste as he growls down his nose-but its not that far removed from the slurp of the 60s.
As well as the accompaniment from acoustic guitars and harmonica the album would have benefitted from other instruments
Everything comes around again-right from Self Portrait when all those damned rock critics wondered what he was doing.
But that was leading up to the 80s when the cover version spread its wings.
Now there's as many covers of Dylan songs as his own!
Hopefully Dylan will spend the rest of his career doing nothing but covers
"He walks all over you cause he knows he can
"Hey hey hey he's the Carpet Man"

Unexpectedly brilliant
Frankly Dylan's recorded attempts at over people's songs have often been poor-look at some of the more unfortunate examples on Self Portrait or Down In The Groove-so the idea of a solo Dylan recording a covers album isn't particularly exciting.World Gone Wrong,the 1993 follow-up to the previous year's Good As I Been To You (itself a decent covers album) is actually fantastic-rarely heard,but the likes of World Gone Wrong and Blood In My Eyes anticipate the bleak lovelorn morbidity of 1997's excellent (self-composed) Time Out Of Mind,and as such deserves a wider audience.