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Turning to digital, the mainly unplugged remakes of his back catalogue on Bob Dylan’s Shadow Kingdom [Columbia/Legacy 19658767492 CD] are tricky ones to employ, because decades (literally) of familiarity with songs such as ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ and ‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight’ are thrown out with the bathwater. The performances bear no resemblance to the well-known originals, so it’s harder to focus just on the sound.

That said, I had played the disc enough times to feel confident about using it, and there was a reward in the way the MxV Integrated handled vocals. Those who have followed Dylan over the past 60 years have heard the changes in his voice – the same applies to all singers, from Cher to Springsteen to McCartney – and this soundtrack CD most assuredly is Dylan circa-the-2020s. Dan D’Agostino’s designs have always viewed music through a micro lens, and the tiniest traces of rasp and richness underscored the more common nasality.

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