Bob Dylan - "Love and Theft" (2001)

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Near Mint Original U.S. 1st Pressing

Columbia Records: C2 85975
Format: 2X12" LP, Black Vinyl
Includes: Original Custom Photo/Liner Notes Inner Sleeves
Cover Condition: VG++, The only flaw being a very minor, and I mean tiny, ding to the lower left corner (see photo) otherwise Near Mint! Purchased brand new by me hardly ever pulled from the shelf and always stored vertically in a protective poly sleeve.
Vinyl Condition: NEAR MINT! Played once. Gorgeous vinyl! Custom inner sleeves also Near Mint!



Release Info: "Love and Theft" is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 31st studio album, released by Columbia Records in September 2001. 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. In 2003, the album was ranked #467 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, while Newsweek magazine pronounced it the 2nd best album of its decade.


In an interview conducted by Alan Jackson for The Times Magazine in 2001, before the album was released, Dylan said "these so-called connoisseurs of Bob Dylan music...I don't feel they know a thing, or have any inkling of who I am and what I’m about. I know they think they do, and yet it’s ludicrous, it's humorous, and sad. That such people have spent so much of their time thinking about who? Me? Get a life, please. It’s not something any one person should do about another. You’re not serving your own life well. You’re wasting your life."

"Love and Theft" generated controversy when some similarities between the album's lyrics to Japanese writer Junichi Saga's book Confessions of a Yakuza were pointed out.[12][13] Translated to English by John Bester, the book was a biography of one of the last traditional Yakuza bosses in Japan.

In the article published in the Journal, a line from "Floater" ("I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound") was traced to a line in the book, which said "I'm not as cool or forgiving as I might have sounded." Another line from "Floater" is "My old man, he's like some feudal lord." On the first lines of the book is the line "My old man would sit there like a feudal lord."

All songs were written by Bob Dylan.

1."Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum" – 4:46
2."Mississippi" – 5:21
3."Summer Days" – 4:52
4."Bye and Bye" – 3:16
5."Lonesome Day Blues" – 6:05
6."Floater (Too Much to Ask)" – 4:59
7."High Water (For Charley Patton)" – 4:04
8."Moonlight" – 3:23
9."Honest with Me" – 5:49
10."Po' Boy" – 3:05
11."Cry a While" – 5:05
12."Sugar Baby" – 6:40