Bob Dylan: We Like Him Like That

From: The Washington Post | Date: August 26, 2006 | Copyright information

The review of Bob Dylan's performance in Frederick ["Dylan: Wheezin' in the Wind," Style, Aug. 21] spoke of disappointment. Imagine the disappointment of Post readers who expect knowledgeable commentary and instead were greeted with ill-informed snideness and recycled cliches.

For more than 40 years, Dylan's voice has been an acquired taste. The complaint that his phrasing and enunciation of the lyrics (unusually strong in Frederick, by the way) and his always-evolving song arrangements don't meet the reviewer's expectations is merely a lazy rehash of the stock criticism by people who don't ...

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