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I know that and I'm more than happy
to go out there and play for them. But
that's not my life. My life is private and
personal and completely filled up."
Britain was also the locale for the
Jewish iconoclast's 1965 concert tour
that's preserved on Docurama's DVD
release of Don't Look Back. It features
director D.A. Pennebaker's cinema ver-
ite of Dylan's historic folk-rock transi-
tion and a penetrating portrait of his
unseen life on the road.
The enhanced medium offers never-

world that can set the record
straight on Bob Dylan. But
on his latest CD, Love and
Theft, the mercurial singer-songwriter is
comfortably seated like a riverboat gam-
bler on a winning streak.
Stacked high with a variety of musi-
cal forms and seminal simplicity,
Dylan's 43rd Columbia album emboss-
es a new watermark on his multi-
Grammy career and affixes his
gritty voice onto 12 new songs
that paddlewheel to perfection.
A prominent retro-ambience
pervades Love and Theft, which,
in truth, steals its title from a
1993 book by University of
Virginia Professor Eric Lott about
minstrel and burlesque shows of
the early 20th century.
Without pleading guilty, Dylan
steps away from his boot-heeled
incomprehensibility and delivers
an intentionally entertaining
template that Rolling Stone maga-
before-seen foomge
zine bestowed with its most-pres- Bob Dylan also is
offering
fans
a
new
plus five never-
tigious, five-star endorsement.
DVD
of
"Don't
before-issued live
Essential album highlights
Look Back" and
recordings that are
include "Honest With Me," a
unavailable elsewhere.
hard-rocking number that recalls an upcoming
autobiography.
And that's exactly
Dylan's 1965 classic "Highway
what Simon and
61 Revisited"; "Mississippi," an
Schuster expects from its newly
easy flowing tune, previously debuted
announced pact for Dylan's proposed
by singer Sheryl Crow; and "Summer
three-volume autobiography, to be
Days," a spirited blues workout.
titled Chronicles.
Other memorable tracks offer the
But the legendary songman, who
banjo-and-fiddle fashioned "Floater
turned 60 on May 24, told Time mag-
(Too Much To Ask)," a romantically
crooned "Moonlight" and a humorously azine that he'll probably rely less on
his memory and build his story upon
rendered "Po' Boy' (`.`Knockin' on the
"stuff that people think is true."
door, I say, 'Who is it, where you from?'
Dylan, nevertheless, is intending to stay
Man said, 'Freddy' I said, 'Freddy who?'
forever
young and make more music.
He said, 'Freddy or not, here I come').
"I stopped counting after 40,"
Dylan is performing songs from the
insisted the famed Minnesotan born
new album on his current concert
Robert Allen Zimmerman. "I've had a
tour, coming to Cobo Hall tonight.
God-given sense of destiny. This is
Yet despite a spate of favorable
what I was put on earth to do. A day
reviews, he harbors an underlying
above the ground is a good day." ❑
irony about his personal appearances.
"I don't even consider this work as a
part of my life. Not even close," he
Bob Dylan performs 8 p.m.
explained in a recent British interview.
Friday, Nov. 9, at Cobo Arena.
"My life doesn't revolve around my
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