"Love and Theft"

A prophet who has re-invented himself with the times reveals the secret of his lasting power in his 2001 album “Love and Theft”. Robbing the identities of a massive range of American folk heroes, Bob Dylan wears the masks of vaudeville performers, black-faced minstrels, rockabilly nomads and country story-tellers to give us a slice of an American Pie too real not to recognize. Dylan’s deceptive shape-shifting and identity theft is so honest, just like the Duluth-Minnesota-born folk singer, Robert Zimmerman, who came to New York City in 1961 claiming he was a New Mexican-born troubadour. Bob Dylan has famously been so elusive and secretive, but on this album and all of his other albums, he bears his soul like a true poet. His more recent albums, like “Love and Theft” written in the autumn of his days, reveal a life that has been truly felt.