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- Sorti le: 2002-03-05
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Par Lawrance M. Bernabo
The reason we have "Duluth Does Dylan" instead of "Superior Sings Sinatra" or "Pittsburgh Play Prince," is because Robert Zimmerman was born here in the Zenith City as the terminus of the Great Lakes. In fact, on his second concert here a couple of years ago with Paul Simon, Dylan was playing outside and I was sitting on my porch listening, and he pointed over to the hillside and talked about having been born there in the hospital. It took Dylan a long time to come back and play his hometown, but he returned rather quickly and one way of embracing the return of this prodigious prodigal was this collection of local bands covering the town's famous native son.
If you live outside of Duluth (most people do, you know), then the only artist you are probably going to recognize is going to be slowcore pioneer Low, who get the honor of the last track on the album, a nice a cappella version of "Blowin' In The Wind." The rest is a series of hit and misses, the finally tally being totally up to your individual tastes in terms of music in general and Dylan in particular. These Duluth bands go as much obscure songs from the extensive Dylan repertoire, such as "Quit Your Low Down Ways" and "Father of Night" as they do for the certified hits like "It Ain't Me Babe" and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." The extremes go from a fairly faithful version of "It Ain't me Babe" by Mayfly and a version of "All Along the Watch Tower" by The Dames that follows the Jimi Hendrix revision to what Gild does with "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" where Jennifer Jones sings the song and in-between the verses the lyrics to "All I Really Want to Do" are rapped. "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" starts off in the Dylan mode but then takes an interesting turn in the direction of heavy metal. Father Hennepin's cover of "Girl from the North Country" is nice and Black Eyed Snakes' version of "Tombstone Blues" also stands out.
Brad Nelson, publisher of the local "RipSaw" magazine, wrote the liner notes for this album and argues that there is a Duluth sound, a common thread that runs through the work of these bands and is akin to the Seattle sound of the grunge movement or the Minneapolis sound of Prince, the Replacements, et al. Of course, that particular hypothesis is hard to confirm when you have 15 groups playing songs by the same guy. For my money (support your local bands) there are more hits than misses and while the music might go over the line here and there, you have to admit that the singing voices cannot help but be more palatable than Dylan's affected Woody Guthrie twang. Nothing here is as polished as the Indigo Girl's cover of "Tangled Up in Blue," which is probably my all time favorite cover song, but that is not the point of "Duluth Does Dylan," which is offering up something a bit more raw.
Besides, I like Chris Monroe's cover art of Dylan hanging outside the Original Coney Island.
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