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Article: Bob Dylan: We Like Him Like That
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 26, 2006
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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 get the point
of Dylan's performance art.
Dylan's chosen role as a live performer has always been to ...