"Love and Theft"

"Love and Theft" is the 31st studio album by Bob Dylan, released on 11 September 2001 by Sony BMG. It was recorded digitally using Protools. The album continued Dylan's artistic comeback following 1997's Time out of Mind, and was given an even more enthusiastic reception. Though often referred to without quotations, the correct title is "Love and Theft". The title of the album was apparently inspired by historian Eric Lott's book, Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class, which was published in 1993. ""Love and Theft" becomes his Fables of the Reconstruction, to borrow an R.E.M. album title," writes Greg Kot in The Chicago Tribune (published Sep. 11, 2001), "the myths, mysteries and folklore of the South as a backdrop for one of the finest roots-rock albums ever made." The opening track, "'Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum,' includes many references to parades in Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where participants are masked, and "determined to go all the way" of the...