- Record Label: Amnesty International
- Release Date: Jan 24, 2012
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Jan 25, 2012Most of the artists here perform a similar trick, choosing love songs over protests, keeping things intimate instead of anthemic. Naturally, there are exceptions to the rule, but the scales on Chimes of Freedom are tipped toward pretty stripped-down sincerity.
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Jan 23, 2012The savviest musicians here flip Dylan's messages for their own aims, just as Dylan reappropriated protest songs by civil rights heroes....There's just one problem. That leaves 60-something more songs, and an unholy amount of strummy-strummy-strum.
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Jan 23, 201275 tracks from as many artists, ranging from the trad (Pete Townshend's "Corrina, Corrina", the upbeat old-time of Carolina Chocolate Drops' "Political World") to the rad (Sussan Deyhim's "All I Really Want to Do", Ke$ha's pleasingly pared "Don't Think Twice…").
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Feb 23, 2012Dylan covers are always a polarizing product, yet even purists will find moments on Chimes of Freedom worthy of the legacy it extols.
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Jan 23, 2012Cut half the roster on Chimes and you've got an amazing lineup of Dylan's peers and admirers.
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Jan 30, 2012There's plenty more good and bad.