Track Listing

1. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
2. Mississippi
3. Summer Days
4. Bye And Bye
5. Lonesome Day Blues
6. Floater (Too Much To Ask)
7. High Water (For Charley Patton)
8. Moonlight
9. Honest With Me
10. Po' Boy
11. Cry A While
12. Sugar Baby

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #706 in Music
• Released on: 2004-03-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

Epic Masterpiece - One of the great albums
Bob Dylan's album Love and Theft is easily in my top 5 albums, maybe even Dylan's finest.

The best songs are Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, Summer Days, Lonesome Day Blues and Cry a While.

Essential.

Dylan knows all about theft
Maybe its a comment on his methods of songwiting-that every other song is wallopped from something else usually PD or out of copyright.
And here its the Man of Many Voices who has gone through his folksinger period to the slurping era of at least 3 albums to singing down his nose to this latest voice where he becomes a sort of Howlin' Wolf.
Whatever the Dylan voice is never less than reassuring-its always a friendly sound.Its a Guvenor voice which is technically better than any of the Sinatra/Martin/Bennett types because THEY couldn't have done his songs but HE could have done theirs!
My main interest in Dylan is not as much what he says in the songs-which might be above my brain-but with the COVERS he does and the stuff he copies.Add to that I'm interested in Dylan covers by other people.
In spite of Dylan always reinventing himself he really stays in the same turf-the songs here could have lived in the mid 60s.
I don't actually think of Dylan as a singer songwriter as he's probably-like the Beatles-done as many covers.He's an interpreter of folk,blues,Gospel and country music first and foremost.
Dylan could have made a great Christmas album and passed off all the carols as his own-after all folk singers like Jean Ritchie did that-maybe Joan Baez did even if its only trad.arr.....
But what he's done here is make the kind of song the Stones have forgotten how to write in Honest with me-which has a powerful 2 note riff going through it
You listen to this album Love & Theft and keep hearing lines you heard elsewhere-the 34th & Vine from Kansas City or a line from Cry me a river or even "woke up this morning think I'll dust my broom".
Dylan takes from common stock and always has done.That's what makes the man great

A fine surprise.
I bought this album based on the 30 second clips I heard of High Water on Itunes (I was actually looking for Charley Patton songs). I wasn't disappointed. It rocks, it shuffles, it bemuses, it just puts a smile on your face. I don't really know very much of Dylan's work post Blood on the tracks, but he sounds unrecognisable here, not that it's for the worse. The band is incredibly tight but not flashy, the lyrics are cool, and way the album closes is great.

Particular highlights:
Mississippi
High Water (I seriously love this track)
Honest With Me
Po' Boy
Sugar Baby