From Brooklyn to Dylan: Montreal Gazette's Top 10 Albums of 2009
January 17th, 2010
1. Buddy Holly: The Apartment Tapes (Geffen). Fine – so they were recorded 50 years ago. Still, it took this long to finally get a proper CD version (on the Down the Line: Rarities compilation). These songs, in their undubbed form, are filled with more truth, beauty and sadness than anything I heard all year.
2. Bob Dylan: Together Through Life (Columbia). More blues-based than Dylan’s other late-career masterpieces, it carried the dust of authenticity, with grace to spare.
