Bob Dylan – Infidels (CD)
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Liner Notes
Released during a period when many had written Dylan off, Infidels arrived with Mark Knopfler and Mick Taylor contributing some of the most supple, unhurried guitar work of Dylan's recorded career. The reggae-inflected rhythms, courtesy of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, gave songs like "Jokerman" and "Sweetheart Like You" a loose, sun-drenched groove that felt genuinely alive, a far cry from the stiff production that had plagued some of his earlier eighties output.
Infidels is the twenty-second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on October 27, 1983, by Columbia Records.
Produced by Mark Knopfler and Dylan himself, Infidels is seen as his return to secular music, following a conversion to Christianity, three evangelical gospel records, and a subsequent return to a less religious lifestyle. Though he has never abandoned religious imagery, Infidels gained much attention for its focus on more personal themes of love and loss, in addition to commentary on the environment and geopolitics.
Christopher Connelly of Rolling Stone called those gospel albums just prior to Infidels "lifeless" and saw Infidels as making Bob Dylan's career viable again. According to Connelly and others, Infidels is Dylan's best poetic and melodic work since Blood on the Tracks. The critical reaction was the strongest for Dylan in years, with the album almost universally hailed for its songwriting and performances. The album also fared well commercially, reaching #20 in the US and going gold, and #9 in the UK.
Tracklist
Disc 1
1. Jokerman
2. Sweetheart Like You
3. Neighborhood Bully
4. License To Kill
5. Man Of Peace
6. Union Sundown
7. I And I
8. Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight
UPC: 886978991621
Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Release Date: 6.1.04
Format: CD