Knocked Out Loaded was the first Dylan album I owned, given to me by a friend of my dads for my 12th birthday. I've always had to defend my love of this one beyond "it was my first Dylan album". But this is right: both "his creative nadir" and it "contained the kernels of his next renaissance."
Elizabeth Nelson@paranoiacs.bsky.social · 3w ago"Dylan had famously struggled to adjust to the evolving recording techniques of the digital age, a struggle clearly abetted by the additional problem that he simply didn’t give a shit." On my substack, recalling the miasmic charm of "Knocked Out Loaded". theparanoidstyle.substack.com/p/driftin-to...
