World Gone Wrong

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With his songwriting muse on pause, Bob Dylan spent the mid-'90s recording old folk and blues standards with just himself, a harmonica, and an acoustic guitar. Good As I Been to You was the first effort. For the follow-up, World Gone Wrong, he went even further into the dark night of the soul. His voice aged by road-weary experience and informed by lifelong insight delivers just the right pathos to these tales of lost love and existential blight. Tom Paley, one of the original New Lost City Ramblers, popularized "Love Henry," a symbolic tale of a businessman who loses his soul traveling through the halls of corruption. Dylan delivers it as a funeral march and surrounds it with songs of similar sentiment. A modern acoustic blues classic. --Rob O'Connor

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World Gone Wrong
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • The world gone wrong, but Bob's still good...
  • Pure Dylan
  • Grows on you
  • Dylan Being Dylan
  • Pure and Good, but Can't Understand the Lyrics
 World Gone Wrong
Bob Dylan
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000029E8
Release Date: 1993-10-26

Tracks:

  1. World Gone Wrong
  2. Love Henry
  3. Ragged And Dirty
  4. Blood In My Eyes
  5. Broke Down Engine
  6. Delia
  7. Stack A Lee
  8. Two Soldiers
  9. Jack-A-Roe
  10. Lone Pilgrim

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With his songwriting muse on pause, Bob Dylan spent the mid-'90s recording old folk and blues standards with just himself, a harmonica, and an acoustic guitar. Good As I Been to You was the first effort. For the follow-up, World Gone Wrong, he went even further into the dark night of the soul. His voice aged by road-weary experience and informed by lifelong insight delivers just the right pathos to these tales of lost love and existential blight. Tom Paley, one of the original New Lost City Ramblers, popularized "Love Henry," a symbolic tale of a businessman who loses his soul traveling through the halls of corruption. Dylan delivers it as a funeral march and surrounds it with songs of similar sentiment. A modern acoustic blues classic. --Rob O'Connor

Album Description

Out-of-print in the US. Import pressing of this Grammy Award winning album, released in 1995. Sony / BMG.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The world gone wrong, but Bob's still good..........2007-06-05

Bob Dylan comes from an age of music where "what you play is what you get." Despite what some computer corrected music sounds like these days, human music often involves mistakes, flubs, cracking voices, and one-take cuts. Way back in the nascent days of folk, these elements were accepted warts and all. Voices and instruments blended acoustically in all their perfect imperfection. Much modern music propogates the illusion of "the perfect performance" by filtering out gargles, croaks, and gutterals. Some recordings don't sound human. Dylan stands in stark opposition to such fiddling. As such, he never fully embraced the world of electronic music, though working with Daniel Lanois brought him close. In the early 1990s, as 80s synth-drenched pop drowned in a mire of grunge, Dylan exhumed his former life as an unplugged troubador on two solo acoustic albums, "Good As I Been To You" and "World Gone Wrong." Neither included any originals. They feature a raw unedited Dylan squealing through folk and blues classics. Throughout, he flubs and frets notes, his voice bubbles, and his guitar sounds road weary. Despite these seeming flaws, Dylan delivers memorable and poingant performances. Though nowhere near as polished, these late folk efforts evoke the earlier "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'." "World Gone Wrong" follows the latter in theme: melancholic, brooding, and fed up. The one-take cuts grind this mood into the listener's brain.

"Strange things have happened, like never before," the first song, also the title track, opens. In the CD's arcane liner notes, which also evoke an earlier surreal era, Dylan credits this song to "the Mississippi Sheiks, a little known de facto group whom in their former glory mustve been something to behold. rebellion against routine," he continues, "seems to be their strong theme. all their songs are raw to the bone & are faultlessly made for these modern times (the New Dark Ages) nothing effete about the Mississippi Sheiks." Fourteen years after Dylan wrote that, one can look up "Mississippi Sheiks" on Wikipedia for more information. Is anything obscure anymore? The CD continues how it started: world-weary, out of control, and wasted. "Love Henry" tells the story of a cold-blooded murder from a parrot's point of view. When the murderess calls the bird down to her, it replies, "I won't fly down, I can't fly down / And light on your right knee / A girl who would murder her own true love / Would kill a little birdlike me." "Blood In My Eyes," also attributed to the Mississippi Sheiks, seeps with desperate sexual passion. Dylan's rendition almost hurts. "Ragged & Dirty" and "Broke Down Engine" pick up the pace but not the mood. Both tell stories of people at the end of their rope. "Delia" and "Stack A Lee" revisit the brutal murder theme. The stunning, and almost meditative, "Two Soliders" recalls death on the battlefield and a mother's pain. Dylan says he picked it up from the now late Jerry Garcia. "Jack-A-Roe" and "Lone Pilgrim" conclude the album appropriately.

Some saw Dylan's cover albums as a sign that his muse had taken flight. Others saw it as an easy way to fulfill his soon to expire contract. Some were extactic at the return of "the acoustic Dylan." Some cried, for the umpteenth time, "comeback!" Nonetheless, the 1980s and 1990s left some skeptics weary of Dylan's direction. They need not have worried. Following an "MTV Unplugged" album, Dylan would start a streak that still hasn't let up, beginning with 1997's amazing "Time Out of Mind." In retrospect, "World Gone Wrong" fits right in with Dylan's overall ouvre: unpredictable, untarnished by needless perfection, and unapologetic.

5 out of 5 stars Pure Dylan.......2007-06-01

Dylan is a master. Trashed and criticized as the man who could not sing, he has endured. If you like pure country blues, I think this is Dylan at his best. He brings me to a time that I understand. Hey, hey babe...I got blood in my eyes for you...I love this work.

L. Mora

5 out of 5 stars Grows on you.......2007-05-06

Really lovely. One of his very best albums. For a man with a strange voice, he has great facility with it and ability to evoke the most subtle emotions and overtones. Just great.

4 out of 5 stars Dylan Being Dylan.......2007-01-09

Dylan is as enigmatic as ever in this offering . He never ceases to surprise. Dylan Fans will like this CD, those unfamiliar with the Master,s works will probably hate it. I personally enjoyed it very much, but I,m a dyed in the wool DYLAN FAN!!!!!

4 out of 5 stars Pure and Good, but Can't Understand the Lyrics.......2006-11-15

Dylan is authentic and sounds so on this acoustic guitar and voice cd. The songs are great classics, but the recording is weak insofar as the lyrics are not clear. This album would be so much better if you could hear the great classic lyrics of these great songs. So, 4 stars instead of 5, as the weak recording detracts from what otherwise would be a classic.
Do Right
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    		Do Right
    Nu Beginning , and Damon Little
    Manufacturer: World Wide Gospel
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    1. Interlude
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    World Gone Wrong
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • The world gone wrong, but Bob's still good...
    • Pure Dylan
    • Grows on you
    • Dylan Being Dylan
    • Pure and Good, but Can't Understand the Lyrics
    		 World Gone Wrong
    Bob Dylan
    Manufacturer: Columbia
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000025GOU
    Release Date: 1993-10-26

    Tracks:

    1. World Gone Wrong
    2. Love Henry
    3. Ragged & Dirty
    4. Blood in My Eyes
    5. Broke Down Engine
    6. Delia
    7. Stackalee
    8. Two Soldiers
    9. Jack-A-Roe
    10. Lone Pilgrim

    Amazon.com

    With his songwriting muse on pause, Bob Dylan spent the mid-'90s recording old folk and blues standards with just himself, a harmonica, and an acoustic guitar. Good As I Been to You was the first effort. For the follow-up, World Gone Wrong, he went even further into the dark night of the soul. His voice aged by road-weary experience and informed by lifelong insight delivers just the right pathos to these tales of lost love and existential blight. Tom Paley, one of the original New Lost City Ramblers, popularized "Love Henry," a symbolic tale of a businessman who loses his soul traveling through the halls of corruption. Dylan delivers it as a funeral march and surrounds it with songs of similar sentiment. A modern acoustic blues classic. --Rob O'Connor

    Album Description

    Out-of-print in the US. Import pressing of this Grammy Award winning album, released in 1995. Sony / BMG.

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars The world gone wrong, but Bob's still good..........2007-06-05

    Bob Dylan comes from an age of music where "what you play is what you get." Despite what some computer corrected music sounds like these days, human music often involves mistakes, flubs, cracking voices, and one-take cuts. Way back in the nascent days of folk, these elements were accepted warts and all. Voices and instruments blended acoustically in all their perfect imperfection. Much modern music propogates the illusion of "the perfect performance" by filtering out gargles, croaks, and gutterals. Some recordings don't sound human. Dylan stands in stark opposition to such fiddling. As such, he never fully embraced the world of electronic music, though working with Daniel Lanois brought him close. In the early 1990s, as 80s synth-drenched pop drowned in a mire of grunge, Dylan exhumed his former life as an unplugged troubador on two solo acoustic albums, "Good As I Been To You" and "World Gone Wrong." Neither included any originals. They feature a raw unedited Dylan squealing through folk and blues classics. Throughout, he flubs and frets notes, his voice bubbles, and his guitar sounds road weary. Despite these seeming flaws, Dylan delivers memorable and poingant performances. Though nowhere near as polished, these late folk efforts evoke the earlier "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'." "World Gone Wrong" follows the latter in theme: melancholic, brooding, and fed up. The one-take cuts grind this mood into the listener's brain.

    "Strange things have happened, like never before," the first song, also the title track, opens. In the CD's arcane liner notes, which also evoke an earlier surreal era, Dylan credits this song to "the Mississippi Sheiks, a little known de facto group whom in their former glory mustve been something to behold. rebellion against routine," he continues, "seems to be their strong theme. all their songs are raw to the bone & are faultlessly made for these modern times (the New Dark Ages) nothing effete about the Mississippi Sheiks." Fourteen years after Dylan wrote that, one can look up "Mississippi Sheiks" on Wikipedia for more information. Is anything obscure anymore? The CD continues how it started: world-weary, out of control, and wasted. "Love Henry" tells the story of a cold-blooded murder from a parrot's point of view. When the murderess calls the bird down to her, it replies, "I won't fly down, I can't fly down / And light on your right knee / A girl who would murder her own true love / Would kill a little birdlike me." "Blood In My Eyes," also attributed to the Mississippi Sheiks, seeps with desperate sexual passion. Dylan's rendition almost hurts. "Ragged & Dirty" and "Broke Down Engine" pick up the pace but not the mood. Both tell stories of people at the end of their rope. "Delia" and "Stack A Lee" revisit the brutal murder theme. The stunning, and almost meditative, "Two Soliders" recalls death on the battlefield and a mother's pain. Dylan says he picked it up from the now late Jerry Garcia. "Jack-A-Roe" and "Lone Pilgrim" conclude the album appropriately.

    Some saw Dylan's cover albums as a sign that his muse had taken flight. Others saw it as an easy way to fulfill his soon to expire contract. Some were extactic at the return of "the acoustic Dylan." Some cried, for the umpteenth time, "comeback!" Nonetheless, the 1980s and 1990s left some skeptics weary of Dylan's direction. They need not have worried. Following an "MTV Unplugged" album, Dylan would start a streak that still hasn't let up, beginning with 1997's amazing "Time Out of Mind." In retrospect, "World Gone Wrong" fits right in with Dylan's overall ouvre: unpredictable, untarnished by needless perfection, and unapologetic.

    5 out of 5 stars Pure Dylan.......2007-06-01

    Dylan is a master. Trashed and criticized as the man who could not sing, he has endured. If you like pure country blues, I think this is Dylan at his best. He brings me to a time that I understand. Hey, hey babe...I got blood in my eyes for you...I love this work.

    L. Mora

    5 out of 5 stars Grows on you.......2007-05-06

    Really lovely. One of his very best albums. For a man with a strange voice, he has great facility with it and ability to evoke the most subtle emotions and overtones. Just great.

    4 out of 5 stars Dylan Being Dylan.......2007-01-09

    Dylan is as enigmatic as ever in this offering . He never ceases to surprise. Dylan Fans will like this CD, those unfamiliar with the Master,s works will probably hate it. I personally enjoyed it very much, but I,m a dyed in the wool DYLAN FAN!!!!!

    4 out of 5 stars Pure and Good, but Can't Understand the Lyrics.......2006-11-15

    Dylan is authentic and sounds so on this acoustic guitar and voice cd. The songs are great classics, but the recording is weak insofar as the lyrics are not clear. This album would be so much better if you could hear the great classic lyrics of these great songs. So, 4 stars instead of 5, as the weak recording detracts from what otherwise would be a classic.
    Battle of the Bands 3, Semifinals Live
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      Ernie Ball , and Sony Records
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        Manufacturer: John Cuningham
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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