Dylan & the Dead

• Dylan & the Dead [Columbia, 1989] C-

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• Bob Dylan
• Bob Dylan/The Band
• Grateful Dead
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Consumer Guide Reviews:

Dylan & the Dead [Columbia, 1989]
Dylan is Bob, the influential singer-songwriter who's resurfaced as the brains of the Traveling Wilburys; the Dead are Grateful, and not just because charismatic guitarist-antileader Jerry Garcia survived an offstage coma--they're rich men, and they sound it. Like Dylan, Garcia plays hardest and works most playfully when somebody pokes him a little--Ornette Coleman, say. But unlike Ornette, Dylan's not forever young, and what he makes of his catalogue here is exactly what he's been making of it for years--money. C-