Album Review: Dylanesque by Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry recording an album of Dylan covers may sound a misjudgment to rival Duran Duran's infamous 1995 assault on Public Enemy and Led Zeppelin. But Ferry makes this bizarre project work by tackling the songs on his own terms, refusing to incline his languid croon even slightly towards Dylan's nasal whine. Purists may cry sacrilege, but the Roxy Music singer vastly improves Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues and All Along the Watchtower by imbuing their edgy agitation with his classicist pop sensibility.

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