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• “This idea that the road to truth and beauty runs adjacent to a verge of madness is essential late seventies Dylan.”

• “Bob Dylan has decided to make another folk record thrown together with the same kind of bravura and carefree chutzpah (at least it looks that way) as Bob Dylan was: mixing styles and nationalities of songs, sexes and classes of narrators in a way that is both refreshing and dynamic.”

• “If everyone around you in the world is just run down and going over the same old ground, it is hard to pick yourself up.  So you look elsewhere – which on the album Dylan does perfectly soon after with his beautiful rendition of Alberta.”

• “So looking at the song’s lyrics it is simple: exactly the opposite of Dylan’s work, and yet it is equally stunningly brilliant.”

• “Here the opening tells us all: acoustic guitar, bass and gentle percussion.  The only surprise we get is the second line of the chorus with the harmonies.”

• “It was 1963. Dylan and Orwell were a double dose of surrealism, absurdism, politics, existentialism and the dread of popularism. I was 15 now and the boy was vanishing into the man.”

• “A Neapolitan mandolin and a half-hidden marimba conjure the image of a lone figure sitting in a waterside café on a warm evening, while male voices hum a four-note melody behind him.”

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• “Similar in tone to Fallen Angels but soothing in its immediacy, this creative display of new perspectives on old classics is just what Dylan needed before he embarked on Triplicate.

• “Meanwhile, back in Australia there is a story that in 1978 a beer company ran a special promotion whereby purchasers of a 24-can carton could get a free copy of Masterpieces!  The story may well be apocryphal, but I feel it really ought to be true.”

• “Frank Carolan, who was present at the gig, says the minority intent on spoiling the second half of the gig that night left him scratching his head.”
  

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