Love and Theft (2001)

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 Charlie Patton)
8. Moonlight
9. Honest with Me
10. Po' Boy
11. Cry a While
12. Sugar Baby

Notes and Reviews

The musicians: Never-Ending Tour Band





Reviews:

From The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:

‘‘Love and Theft’’ [2001] This is Dylan’s 30th studio album, not counting compilations, and had
the unfortunate release date of September 11, 2001. It was his first new studio album since Time
Out of Mind four years earlier. The Dylan world seemed at once to divide into those finding it
much less substantial and those taking to it far more wholeheartedly. All agreed that the two albums
differ in nearly every respect. DANIEL LANOIS’ fingerprints are nowhere on
‘‘Love and Theft’’; the musicians used are, for the first time, Dylan’s Never-Ending Tour Band of the
day, augmented by AUGIE MEYERS and his brother; there are no obviously great songs—no equivalent
of ‘Not Dark Yet’ or ‘Highlands’. But on ‘‘Love and Theft’’ a tumult of generously packed minor songs
bump up boisterously against each other, like tuba players in a charabanc bouncing off on the
excursion of a lifetime, calling to and fro amongst themselves in excited dialogue about everything
under the sun. Dylan’s voice is almost completely shot here, yet what he does with it is most subtlely
nuanced and shrewdly judged. And he is in such a good mood! This is the warmest, most outgoing,
most good-humoured Bob Dylan album since Nashville Skyline, if not The Basement Tapes.

Rolling Stone review ...

Best Song:
"High Water" (for Charlie Patton)
According to Alias

Favorite Lyric:
"'Don't reach out for me,' she said
'Can't you see I'm drownin' too?'"
According to Alias