Music
January, 2002
"She Said, 'You can't repeat the past.' I said, 'You can't? What do you mean you can't? Of course you can,'" sputters Bob Dylan in one of the hundreds of wonderful lines on Love and Theft (Columbia), his best album since (choose one) Blood on the Tracks or The Basement Tapes. The CD reclaims old musical materials, a rock-and-roll pace and a youthful conviction that life is out there for the taking. Its concern with the passage of time comes naturally, and its tone is epitomized by the...