By Paul Bradley 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ***** - Ekcellent 
     
     **** - very Good 
     
    
   
   
    
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     -**-Fair. 
     
    
   
   
    
     «small, 
     
    
   
   
    
     **1/2 Shot of Love - Bob, 
     
     . Dylan 7' 
     
    

    
     After Bob Dylan's 
     
     last two albums, anything 
     
     he does now could only be 
     
     an improvement." Extolling 
     
     the virtues of his born- 
     
     again Christianity on 
     
     Slow Train Coming and 
     
     Saved was a commendable 
     
     moral exercise on‘ Dylan's 
     
     part, but it made-for two 
     
     of the worst albums in 
     
     recent  In not _ 
     
     necessarity taking a ’shot 
     
     at ,the man's themes - 
     
     rather, that Dylan got 
     
     carried away with ideals 
     
     and simply neglected to 
     
     inject any lyrical or 
     
     melodic quality into his 
     
     efforts. , / ' , 
     
    

    
     I am pleasedto report 
     
     that Shot of love  an 
     
     hrproveuent— and a 
     
     relatively substantial 
     
     one. Dylan appears to 
     
     have taken a cue from the 
     
    
   
   
    
     DEXTER T. GNOME 
     
    
   
   
    
     scathing criticism which 7 ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sloup'l‘rain and Saved 7 
     
     receiVed. The "fire and 
     
     Brimstone, revival ’ 
     
     meeting mood has been 
     
     toned down significantly. 
     
     Far and away the 
     
     best song on the album 
     
     (and one of Dylan's best 
     
     in years) is "Ienny Bruce" 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ - a stirring tribute to 
     
    
   
   
    
     the controversial legend 
     
     of satire who did for 
     
    
   
   
    
     I comedy what Dylan did ~ 
     
    
   
   
    
     for POP music. Dylan 
     
    

    
     and Bruce have something 
     
     very important in common-1 
     
     when each was at his ' 
     
     respective peak, he was 
     
     hated by the establish- 
     
     ment. Dylan writes: 
     
     "Lenny Bruce. . never > 
     
     robbed any churches/ never 
     
     out off any babies heads/ 
     
     he didn't commit any 
     
     crime/ just ripped off , 
     
     the lid before its  ./ 
     
     Lenny Bruce was bad/ . . 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ he was the brother you 
     
    
   
   
    
     never had. " 
     
    

    
     "Every Grain of Sand" 
     
     also features Dylan at 
     
     the best we have heard 
     
     in some time. Sure, the 
     
     song is spiritually 
     
     influenced; yet it is 
     
     delivered in a quaint, 
     
     introspective and very 
     
    
   
   
    
     listenable , manner. 
     
    

    
     The title track, _ ~' 
     
     "Shot of Love", has 
     
     potential but it never 
     
     quite gets off the 
     
     ground ~ possible because 
     
    

    
     ’it sounds a little too 
     
     much like "Gotta Serve 
     
     Somebody" from Slow Train. 
     
     The remaining tunes» have 
     
     that recorded-in—the- 
     
     basement feel about them 
     
     and have too many rough 
     
     edges to be accessible 
     
    

    
     to anyone but a devoted 
     
     Dylan fan. a 
     
    

    
     If you have never 
     
     thought much'of Dylan's 
     
     past work, this l.p. will 
     
     do little to change your 
     
     opinion. ‘For the rest of 
     
     us, Shot of Love is 
     
     eVidence that the man \ 
     
     still has some good music 
     
     in him. - 
     
    
   
   
    
     ***1/2 Pirates - Rickie 
     
     :ee Jones ' 
     
     With Pirates, Rickie 
     
     Lee Jones has established 
     
     'herself as one of the 
     
     premiere female artists 
     
     in music today. The. 
     
     immediate temptation is .- 
     
     r to accuse Jones of 
     
     imitating Nelanie Safka 
     
     (they sound that much 
     
     alike). However, this 
     
    
   
   
    
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     THE SUN, Thursday, October 1, 1981, page 7 
     
    
   
   
    
     eel 
     
    
   
   
    
     . lady has too much talent 
     
    
   
   
    
     to need to imitate anyone. 
     
     Like Melanie, Rickie 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lee Jones '. voice has the 
     
    
   
   
    
     range and pitdn that make 
     
     everything from a whisper 
     
     to a scream sound good. 
     
     Unlike Melanie, Jones' 
     
     songs have an air of 
     
     sophistication that the 
     
     former could never 
     
     achieve (as in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     splendid "Live it Up") . 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is difficult to 
     
     categorize the music on 
     
     Pirates into any 
     
     particular genre. Jones 
     
     has struck an effective 
     
     balance of R&B, ’jazz, and 
     
     a little bit of soul; and 
     
     she moves quite nicely 
     
    
   
   
    
     from one style to 
     
     another (Contrast the 
     
    
   
   
    
     laid-back "A Lucky Guy" 
     
     with "Woody and Dutch on 
     
     Slow TRain to Peking',‘ a 
     
     jazzy, up—tempo number). 
     
    

    
     None of the songs on 
     
     Pirates bear any 
     
     resemblence to her hit 
     
     "Chuck E's in love". 
     
     That's another reason why 
     
     I like this album so 
     
     much. ReccOmmended cuts: 
     
     "Living It Up", "Skeletons", 
     
     "We Belong Together", "A 
     
     Lucky Guy", and "The 
     
     Returns". 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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