I'm not a specialist in modern Dylan boots (I have a couple from Rolling Thunder and some soundboards from the Before The Flood tour), but I really dig the boot of the 2009 Hollywood Palladium residency. It's got MONSTER drums on All Along The Watchtower, for starters, which is cool. Gives it a Tom Waits military stomp.
And there's a Ballad of a Thin Man where Bob sounds like he always wanted to: a broken-down old hobo. I listen to Thin Man from that boot more than any released versions - for some reason it's so cool to me to hear it as a mean old-man blues-rock number. One of the songs where his bar band schtick pays off. I'm not gonna try to argue it's definitive or anything, but it's a song that really suits him as a 70-year-old dude.
― Everything You Like Sucks, Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:26 (twelve years ago)