Bob Dylan & The Band: Before The Flood (Asylum AB-201)
Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 29 August 1974
"THERE'S A flood out in California, and up north it's freezing cold/and this living off o' the road — it's gettin' pretty old." John Phillip Sousa locomotive syncopation pushed to its grotesque old testament conclusion under the weight of Bob Dylan's catalytic transformation from messianic recluse to stage-fraught visionary monster, still.
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