B O B D Y L A N
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LOVE AND THEFT

Bob Dylan commented about the new album exclusively to U.S.A. Today,
"All the songs are variations on the 12-bar theme and blues-based
melodies. The music here is an electronic grid, the lyrics being the
sub-structure that holds it all together.

"The songs themselves don't have any genetic history. Is it like
Time Out Of Mind, or Oh Mercy, or Blood On The Tracks, or whatever?
Probably not. I think of  it more as a greatest hits album, Volume 1
or Volume 2. Without the hits; not yet, anyway."

Columbia Records President Don Ienner believes the timing is perfect  for a new Bob Dylan album, "'Love and Theft' is an album for the masses, not just for the core Bob Dylan fans. There are a lot of people who Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2001  aren't being served by much of the music that they hear today, and this is the kind of record that people are hungry for. Bob Dylan is a one-of-a-kind artist making one-of-a-kind music and "Love and Theft" proves it again."

The release of "Love and Theft" marks another milestone in the career of 
one of the world's most extraordinary artists, and comes amidst one of 
Bob Dylan's most creative and prolific periods. In only four
years since 1997's release of the platinum Time Out Of Mind -- one of
the artist's biggest-selling and most critically acclaimed albums,
and for which he received three Grammy Awards, including Album Of The
Year -- Bob Dylan has performed nearly 450 concerts around the world.
He also wrote and recorded "Things Have Changed," featured in the
film Wonder Boys, for which he received both the Academy Award and
Golden Globe earlier this year.