Significant longplayers from yesteryear

11 September 2026

Grandmaster songwriter BOB DYLAN (85) released his 31st album,
titled LOVE AND THEFT on 11 September 2001, today 25 years ago.

It peaked at #5 in the US and #3 in the UK.

The record continued Dylan‘s artistic comeback following 1997’s Time Out Of Mind.

The title of the album was apparently inspired by American historian Eric Lott‘s
1993 book Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class,

The record won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

Rolling Stone wrote: “On ‘Love and Theft’, he turns this fantasy into a stone-cold Dylan
classic. ‘Love and Theft’ takes us on a full-blown tour of American song in all its burlesque splendor, which includes, of course, Dylan’s own psychedelic mutations of the blues.

Talk about bringing it all back home: Dylan veers into country, ragtime, vaudeville, deep blues, cocktail-lounge corn, the minstrel show and the kind of rockabilly he must have bashed out with his high school band more than forty years ago. “

TUTV: My favorite singer-songwriter-performer of all-time went
back, once more, to the decades he loves the most, the 50s and 60s,
and returned with his umpteenth triumph.

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