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Free Music Notes for New MorningFree Music Review: Excellent Record, Very Pleased Hit: 4 StarsI absolutely love Dylan's new style in this record. It has great moments, and in my opinion is a very easy record to listen to. I feel this album is unrated and is better than people claim. It's full of gospel, country, folk, you name it. And just like most Dylan records, you need to be in the right setting or mood. I mean it's kind of hard to go from listening to Freewheelin' Dylan to Modern Times. I highly recommend this album to anybody, it's almost a masterpiece.
Free Music Review: This One Misses The Band Hit: 4 StarsSome excellent songs such as Time Passes Slowly, and Went to See Gypsy coupled with some inferior material, Day of the Locusts, Father of Night. Dylan is in fine voice and the best songs seem to capture life's warm and wistful moments. Given that this came out in 1970, this would have benefitted from The Band, his partners on the Basement Tapes, who would have added crisper musicianship, choruses and some additional songs. They really would have added drive to the title track.
Free Music Review: Decent Dylan, No Better Hit: 3 StarsThis was the first of Bob Dylan's many "comeback" albums, necessarily so because "Self Portrait," which preceded it, was so dreadful. Highlights include Bob's version of "If Not For You," the title song, the jubilant and salty "One More Weekend," and the hilarious "Went to See the Gypsy." "Day of the Locust" is a cynical view of academia, reflecting on Dylan's receiving an honorary degree from Princeton. Other than that, as in "Went to See the Gypsy," a lot goes on here, but very little happens. A big step up from "Self Portrait," but far below the standards Dylan set for himself in the 60's.
Free Music Review: Different from other Dylan'sI Hit: 5 StarsI gave this as a present to a die hard Dylan fan...he loved it! He says it's different...in a good way.
Free Music Review: NEW MORNING Hit: 3 StarsSorry folks, I went ahead and filed this one with some of his others. Maybe someday I'll check it out again to see if I missed something, but I'll move on to Love and Theft in the meantime and let you know something. This album made Street Legal seem a top prize. There is an interesting "beatnik" type song that is out of date seeing the "beatniks" came out of the late 50's to the early 60's, but don't let my opinion influence your taste. I have other hot suggestions that won't disappoint anyone in my other reviews. I still think he is a top composer and songwriter, no matter what. No one can compose hundreds of songs and make them all top prizes, you know.
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