The rolling stones steel wheels4/1/2024 ![]() Deep-sixing nostalgia, the Stones and Dylan have made vital albums of, for and about their time. Steel Wheels rocks with a fervor that renders the Stones’ North American tour an enticing prospect indeed, while Oh Mercy explores moral concerns and matters of the heart with a depth and seriousness Dylan has not demonstrated since Desire. Now, in the summer of love of the past, the Stones and Dylan have weighed in with albums that signal renewed conviction and reactivated sense of purpose. In Dylan’s case, the most obvious message conveyed by the shoddy, almost willfully unfocused nature of his recent work - specifically Knocked Out Loaded and Down in the Groove - was that he had simply stopped caring about making records. The Stones’ last two albums, Undercover and Dirty Work - not to mention Mick Jagger’s solo recordings - ranged from bad to ordinary, and Keith Richards’s bitter public baiting of Jagger suggested that this particular twain might never again productively meet. In the past few years the reverence typically shown both the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan has worn perilously thin. ![]() ![]() Nothing reinvigorates Sixties icons like having something to prove. ![]()
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