Coil and Theft

Love and Theft (2001) is an album of Bob Dylan, American Auteur-compositeur-interprète of Folk - Rock.

Dylan carried out this album four years after, Time Out off Mind , which had been received, Love and Theft had even more success, even if its new style of music could divert its first fans.

The album was gold disc and #5 to the the United States and #3 with the the United Kingdom. Dylan gained the Grammy Award (2002) of the best album of traditional Folk.

Love and Theft was diffused the September 11th, 2001, the day of the attacks at the World Trade Center. To date, it is before last album recorded in studio by Dylan, and the 2nd shutter of the trilogy buckled at the time of the publication of very last sound opus " Modern Times" , left on August 29th, 2006.

The recording

Sessions of recording were made the every day from May 9th to 21st, 2001. Dylan was the producer, he took a pseudonym Jack Frost not to be too much in obviousness in this function.

The group which accompanied it was it that which had carried out rounds with him since June 1999, supplemented by a musician of studio, Augie Meyers.

Titles of the album

All the compositions were made by Bob Dylan.

"Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum" - 4:46
" Mississippi" - 5:21
" Summer Days" - 4:52
" Bye and Bye" - 3:16
" Lonesome Day Blues" - 6:05
" Floater" - 4:59
" High Toilets (for Charlie Patton) " - 4:04
" Moonlight" - 3:23
" Honest with Me" - 5:49
" Po' Boy" - 3:05
" Cry has While" - 5:05
" Sugar Baby" - 6:40

Musicians

Bob Dylan - Guitar, Piano, Song
Larry Campbell - Guitar, Banjo, Mandoline, Violin
Charlie Sexton - Guitar
Tony Garnier - low Guitar
Augie Meyers - Accordion, Organ
David Kemper- Battery
Clay Meyers - Bongos

External bonds

Texts of the songs of Bob Dylan
Small pocket and infos by allmusic

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