Tell tale signs

http://www.landorcom.com/index.php/article/it/2009-01-28/18033.html

Great article. You encapsulate his resurgence in the 80's and 90s very well. I always take exception to calling all of the 80's a fallow period since, to my mind, some of his finest songs were written in that decade, and they appear in the Gospel trilogy, and in Infidels. And how can we forget Brownsville Girl--from Knocked out Loaded? Yes, in Knocked out Loaded and Down in the Groove, he had lost his way, agreed. At Empire Burlesque, not all is lost either, though clearly he had lost his way in terms of how to reach his audience, I'm sure the rejection from the Gospel years was also a trauma. How else to explain what they did to When The Nigh Comes Falling From the Sky? A great song. So no doubt, commercially and even production-wise, he had lost his way, but again, there are quite of few great works in there, in terms of songs. In fact, as good as or better than 60's material. Now why would someone chime in just to say that your review is late? Yikes. Agree with a lot of your review. I find the live selections questionable, with the exception of High Water, which closes out Disc 1 in fabulous fashion. Disc 2 continues the excellence of Disc 1 with its first 5 tracks, then it feels spotty after that, although I do like the inclusion of Cross the Green Mountain and the Lonesome River Duet to close out the 2 disc set. I think the pricing of the 3 disc set is a joke on the whole bootleg concept in these days of illegal downloads, etc. It's like Dylan is forcing them to be bootlegs b/c very few would be willing to pay that price for the 3rd. So in essence, disc 3, if not the entire volume, becomes pirated and bootlegged, loved and stolen, as in love and theft.