Amazon.co.uk Review
This intriguing live album spans Bob Dylan's unique career--from an unknown teenager in a Minneapolis hotel room to the gnarled veteran countless world tours. It is a pleasing--if idiosyncratic--compilation, gathering together several decades' worth of rare and unreleased material on one disc. Highlights include a young Dylan ruminating on the traditional "Handsome Molly", the spectral version of "To Ramona" from the classic film
Don't Look Back and a pulsing "Dead Man" from 1981. There are also otherwise-unavailable concert versions of "It Ain't Me Babe" and
Woody Guthrie's "Grand Coulee Dam", plus a clutch of songs from 2000's acclaimed shows--the jaunty gospel "Somebody Touched Me", a rockabilly "Country Pie" and his first original song of the 21st Century: the Oscar-winning
Wonder Boys theme "Things Have Changed". Complete with unfamiliar photos and well-balanced track selection, this is a welcome souvenir of the roller coaster ride that is Bob Dylan in concert.
--Patrick Humphries