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A Tribute to Bob Dylan, Both Reverent and Rowdy

There weren’t many pretty voices at “I’m Not There,” a tribute to Bob Dylan at the Beacon Theater on Wednesday night tied in with the coming Todd Haynes film. Mr. Dylan wasn’t there, but echoes of his voice were. Singers rasped, cackled and near-yodeled, and the songs thrived on the treatment. They were written to provoke, not to soothe.
The concert didn’t push Mr. Dylan’s adaptable songs very far. It was a night of folk-rock, full of strummed acoustic guitars. Some singers were backed by the Southwestern mariachi-rock band Calexico; others had the Million Dollar Bashers — led by Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth and including the guitarist J Mascis from Dinosaur Jr. [...]

di Jon Pareles, articolo completo (3488 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 9 novembre 2007