Dylanesque Live (DVD) Jonesboro GA

Dylanesque Live (DVD)

Bryan Ferry

Eagle Vision, 2007

http://www.bryanferry.com

REVIEW BY: David Bowling

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 07/02/2007

Dylanesque Live: The London Sessions is a companion DVD to the recent album Dylanesque. Bryan Ferry has had some brilliant successes and some spectacular failures throughout his long and varied career, yet Dylanesque Live is not a success or failure, which means it's not terribly interesting.

In his introduction to the DVD Brian Ferry said that he did not want to put a lot of time into the writing of songs and was looking for something quick. He had always admired the songs of Bob Dylan. That's not a promising intro, as  quick is not necessarily good and is not the best reason to produce an album.

Dylanesque Live is not a concert DVD but rather is Ferry and band in studio simply running through the songs on the CD.

Now, Bob Dylan’s material has been covered thousands of times, and three outcomes can occur: incompetence, unnecessary or a new interpretation (think Hendrix doing “All Along The Watchtower”). Dylanesque Live mostly falls into the second category.