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BOB DYLAN Knocked Out Loaded
Used Vinyl Record
Sleeve/Vinyl: EX/EX

Record Label: Columbia OC 40439

1986 Pressing. Album features backing by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. With custom inner sleeve with photos and song personnel.

Condition: Record still in it's original opened shrink wrap with Columbia hype sticker on front. Bottom left corner has been bent forward causing a crease. Other corners are sharp. Vinyl is very clean and plays well.

Side One
1. You Wanna Ramble
2. They Killed Him
3. Driftin' Too Far From Shore
4. Precious Memories
5. Maybe Someday

Side Two
6. Brownsville Girl
7. Got My Mind Made Up
8. Under Your Spell

Review: As with most other 1980s Bob Dylan albums, KNOCKED OUT LOADED is a piece-meal work--a combination of various sessions, performed by different groups of musicians, presenting the many sides of Bob Dylan. Touching upon juke-joint R&B ("You Wanna Ramble"), reeling Stones-like blues-rock ("Got My Mind Made Up," co-written by then touring partner Tom Petty and featuring his Heartbreakers), and a gospel arrangement of a Kris Kristofferson tune ("They Killed Him") which inevitably harkens back to Dylan's earlier spiritual explorations, the bard seems unsure where his own attention lay.Still, much as KNOCKED OUT lacks a sense of cohesion, it doesn't exclude the mystery of Dylan's best work. "Brownsville Girl," an eleven-minute opus co-written by playwright Sam Sheppard, is vintage Zimmerman, struggling to encompass an entire worldview within the context of a mid-tempo, brassy, Tex-Mex blues-as-passage-in-a-diary. It is a rough-edged diamond that is among the most unique parts of Dylan's entire catalog, and it was delivered so effortlessly that nobody dared think Dylan had lost any of his powers.