Bob Dylan: You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way

Rolling Stone hails "The Genius of Bob Dylan” this week with a freewheelin’ interview and five-star review of Modern Times, which is out next Tuesday. Bob has been on his Never-Ending Tour since 1988, playing well over http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifa hundred nights a year at Honky Tonks, Hockey Arenas, Jai Alai Frontons, State Fairs, Tupperware Parties, Pig Roasts, Corporate Christmas Parties and currently, Minor League Ballparks. But since 1997, with the release of Time Out Of Mind, he’s also been on a Never Ending Comeback. There’s the best-selling memoir Chronicles Volume 1, the Martin Scorsese documentary No Direction Home and several of his most legendary concerts released under the Bootleg Series banner. According to Rolling Stone, his old-fogey trifecta of Time Out of Mind, “Love and Theft” and Modern Times is on a visionary level with the 1965-66 Bringing it All Back Home/Highway 61 Revisited/Blonde on Blonde trilogy. Granted, the new albums took nine years to make and the 60s ones took 18 months, but still. As fine as the recent “comeback” albums by the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney were, no one ever seriously compared them with Beggar’s Banquet or Revolver. He says in the interview that he has “no retirement plans” but see him while you can.