Empress Valley have been gentle transferrers of this tape. This import CD features a newly discovered tape made from dubs from outtakes and rehearsals connected to the album (With an additional couple of takes from an alternate source slotted on to the end). To the modern listener, they may take issue with the rather too slick, polished production – Rather stylised and ’80’s’ sounding, it’s not as synth-led as, say, “Empire Burlesque” but lacks the heart of an album that should be more rock than gossamer gospel. At the time however, the reviews were insipid – Rolling Stone giving the kindest rating of 3 and a half stars, it’s sister publication, ‘The Rolling Stone Album Guide’ being less keen, awarding it only 2 stars out of 5. It is a powerful album, Dylan still drawn to drag fire from his religious conversion and, more so than ‘Saved’, he was still reaping the reward of the highs of his bucolic live shows. Appearing as the last of Dylan’s Christian albums, it certainly gets a little more love than ‘Saved’ and sometimes deservedly so. Shot Of Love, as deemed by many listicles, seems to float around the middle of a few of Bob Dylan’s “best of” lists.
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