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Oh Mercy is the twenty-sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on September 12, 1989, [1] by Columbia Records. Produced by Daniel Lanois, it was hailed by critics as a triumph for Dylan, after a string of poorly reviewed albums.
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Sep 18, 2015 · All three albums have been heralded as Dylan masterpieces, and today they make Oh Mercy look like a brief rebound from the miserable '80s, not the comeback it was originally trumpeted to be.
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The songs on “Oh Mercy” are written by Bob Dylan mostly in a painting room that he arranged in his house in Malibu.
Oct 7, 2023 · If I compare the first verse from the two extant versions, the “Oh Mercy” version (“God knows I need you / God knows I do / God knows that there ain’t nobody / Ever gonna take the place of you”) seems, at least at first glance, to belong to a song clearly about a love relationship (either requited or unrequited), while the “Red Sky ...
Jul 30, 2019 · Released on September 18, 1989, Oh Mercy felt modern yet timeless, accessible yet imbued with ambiguity. Dylan, never known for loving his studio records, would call it “haunting, not stumbling...
Jul 12, 2020 · After three studio records where he'd sounded disinterested, Bob Dylan's "Oh Mercy" saw the artist arrive with a new sense of focus and purpose.
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Aug 22, 2024 · Yet this tone of restraint itself makes Oh Mercy a unique and distinctive addition to his oeuvre. Most critics rated it as his most consistent and effective album of the decade, although Dylan himself (always suspicious of the use of studio ‘trickery’) was somewhat ambivalent about the results.
