Robyn Sings

There's a great new album out of Robyn Hitchcock doing Dylan covers. It's going in my top ten for sure. I like this better than anything Hitchcock's done since Storefront Hitchcock. The highlight is an especially spooky acoustic version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" that sounds like the more introspective material on I Often Dream of Trains or Eye.

The production is unobtrusive without being austerely folky (it's a nice change from the slickness of RH's recent work), and Robyn's vocal inflections are a good match for Dylan's lyrics, which demand a suitably charismatic singer to put them over.

This is the tracklist:

Disc stripes
1 Visions Of Johanna
2 Tangled Up In Blue
3 Not Dark Yet
4 4th Time Around
5 Desolation Row
6 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
7 Dignity
8 Visions Of Johanna

Disc dots
1 Tell Me Mama
2 I Don't Believe You
3 Baby Let Me Follow You Down
4 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
5 Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat
6 One Too Many Mornings
7 Ballad Of A Thin Man
8 Like A Rolling Stone