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''Down in the Groove'' is the twenty-fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 30, 1988 by Columbia Records. A highly collaborative effort, it was Dylan's second consecutive album to receive almost unanimous negative reviews. Released during a period when his recording career was experiencing a slump, sales were disappointing, reaching only #61 in the US and #32 in the UK. ==Recording and reception== "Even by Dylan standards, this album has had a strange, difficult birth," wrote ''Rolling Stone'' critic David Fricke. "Its release was delayed for more than half a year, and the track listing was altered at least three times. If the musician credits are any indication, the songs that made the final cut come from half a dozen different recording sessions spread out over six years." Like its predecessor ''Knocked Out Loaded'', Dylan once again used more collaborators than normal. In a review published in his Consumer Guide column, Robert Christgau wrote, "Where ''Self Portrait'' was at least weird, splitting the difference between horrible and hilarious, (is now ) forever professional—not a single remake honors or desecrates the original. All he can do to a song is Dylanize it, and thus his Danny Kortchmar band and his Steve Jones-Paul Simonon band are indistinguishable, immersed in that patented and by now meaningless one-take sound." Christgau would later call ''Down in the Groove'' "horrendous product".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Dylan Back: World Goes On )〕 Recently coming off of the album ''Knocked Out Loaded'', Dylan took the opportunity to further work on his collaborative efforts. The album features several guest appearances for the first time. Most prominent was the appearance of The Grateful Dead, who provided the album with one of the notable high spots on the album with the single “Silvio”. The track was later included on ''Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3'' and ''The Essential Bob Dylan''. As stated in the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the album shares no single recording session. This created a tone that the Encyclopedia described as, “raucous to pensive to sombre in a heartbeat”.〔 Encyclopedia of Popular Music.〕 In the book Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions, 1960-1994, author Clinton Heylin offers an explanation for the style and layout of the album's tracks. He states, “As it is, Dylan’s intent all along may have been to show the rich vein of music he listened to when growing up in Hibbing.” The author goes on further to describe how the album was a sensible step for Dylan, suggesting his issues with creative writing had hampered his ability to produce new material. A unique aspect of the album was the ‘garage rock’-type tour that followed. Dylan’s previous tour had placed a heavy emphasis on guest appearances to allow for a more variety themed show. The intimate nature of the smaller band allowed the artists to interpret songs differently each time they played. Often the performances held little resemblance to prior shows. In his review for ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, Fricke noted that "a highly anticipated—if somewhat unlikely—collaboration with Full Force, the top Brooklyn hip-hop posse, turned out to be an old ''Infidels'' outtake, 'Death Is Not the End,' newly garnished with some tasty but rather superfluous Full Force vocal harmonies." "Death Is Not The End" was covered by Nick Cave in 1996. In 2007, ''Rolling Stone'' labeled ''Down in the Groove'' as Bob Dylan's worst album.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Rolling Stone’s 15 Worst Albums By Great Bands )〕 Artist Rick Griffin, primarily known for the Grateful Dead's most iconic logos and poster art, was selected by Dylan to design the cover of the record jacket. Griffin designed a spectacular line art piece of Bob Dylan playing guitar while riding a horse backwards with an array of imagery in a style unlike his famous psychedelic work. Considered to be one of his last masterpieces, the intricate drawing ended up not being used for the album and Columbia Records featured a rather mundane photograph of Dylan on the release. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Down in the Groove」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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