New releases from the Eagles, Bob Dylan covers, Levon Helm
AllMusic.com
The Eagles
Long Road Out of Eden
Polydor
A full 28 years after their last studio album , The Eagles return with their highly-anticipated, long-in-the making comeback, . This double-disc set is available only at Wal-Mart store (and through their online site), a move which is bound to irk some fans, but this is an album made with the fans in mind as almost every one of the band's classic hits has a doppelganger here, deliberately evoking memories of the band at their peak.
Original Soundtrack
I'm Not There
Columbia
Todd Haynes' impressionistic Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There features six different actors playing Dylan and the soundtrack follows a similar tactic, employing rockers and folk stringers of all stripes to sing some of Bob's back pages. Not all of this is familiar -- in fact, there are as many obscure tunes as there are hits here, but the allure of I'm Not There is how the oddities mean as much as the standards, and how the re-creations of Dylan's classic work are as powerful as the re-interpretations here on this fascinating double-disc soundtrack.
Levon Helm
Dirt Farmer
Vanguard
During the Band's original run (from 1968 to 1976), Robbie Robertson may have been the group's strongest songwriter and the idea man behind most of their best work, but Levon Helm was truly the group's heart and soul with his tough, sinewy Arkansas vocals and his indomitable, loosely tight drumming.... Dirt Farmer is ... a pleasant surprise... easily Helm's best recorded work since American Son, and an absorbing look back at his roots as the son of a farm family in the rural South.
