Is It Rolling Bob?: A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan
Michael Gray, Observer Music Monthly, 15 August 2004
THE SUBTITLE CONFESSES that all we have here is a concept album – that despite the liner notes claiming that "Jamaica was into Bob Dylan", it's really just producer Gary Himelfarb (crazy name, crazy guy) who is "into Bob Dylan".
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