This is the most important & inventive & diverse & profound & adept & entertaining & fascinating & influential & transcendent artists in American culture. Certainly the sweeps winner in any contest for the most best songs and and best singer-songwriter-musician. Some songs on this album are uncharacteristically slight but still fun, a few more are journeyman output. But five of them are soul-shaking major works of art which I have listened to at least 100 times during the past two years. What other living American artist in popular music or literature has created so many major works over this past half-century?
In my opinion The Tempest is one of Dylan's best efforts to date....from the opening jazzy,bluesy Duquense tune to the tribute to John Lennon I am in awe of the lyrics and melodies that Bob Dylan continues to come up with....how can anybody produce on such an exaulted and superior level.....thanks again, Bob......