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A terrific document of well arranged Dylan classics

tupac wayne gacy | tha baghdad basement | 05/05/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"all these songs have the life breathed back into them, and though Dylan has certainly gotten older, he hasn't lost his edginess as a performer. His songs are still challenging and poetic, and sound better then they have in years thanks to the all-star support he gets on this. a terrific addition to any Dylan collection, with hard edged classics getting a new and improved treatment. All I can say is, it certainly took awhile!"

Very Good Live Dylan Performance of his Classics

B. Marold | Bethlehem, PA United States | 03/21/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"'Unplugged' does not quite match your expectations if, as I did, you are looking forward to Dylan doing an entirely acoustic version of some of his most famous compositions. At its heart, it is simply Dylan performing nine of his most famous compositions with an amplified backup band, plus 'Shooting Star' and 'Dignity' which are not that familiar to me.



Now any performance of Bob Dylan material, especially by Bob Dylan, is not to be overlooked, but there is a lot of overlap here, if you already own Dylan's albums up through 'John Wesley Hardin'. In a sense, Dylan is doing covers of his own classic stuff. And, in many cases, the covers are different, but not necessarily better than the originals. 'All Along the Watchtower', for example, is clearly not as good as the original, and it is not even quite as good as the great cover done by Jimi Hendrix, but it's still Dylan, so it's a very respectable and interesting collection, just a bit more interesting than a 'Best of' collection of original recordings."