Bob Dylan has drawn from nearly every possible strain of American music in his long and at times baffling career, and while he’s borrowed freely from country, folk, blues, gospel, rockabilly, pop, rock, jazz, and beyond, his songs always come out sounding exactly like
Bob Dylan and it’s difficult to imagine anyone else having written them. This set finds a tight group of Nashville players (they’re billed as
the Grassmasters) running through a dozen
Dylan songs in breakneck bluegrass style. The songs selected adapt nicely, but one misses
Dylan at the helm -- no one does
Dylan quite like
Dylan. ~ Steve Leggett