“Women and Country” marks Jakob Dylan’s second album in his solo music career, which has thus far been unimpressive and simply another odd chapter in what has been a bizarre journey of ups and downs for the ultimate prodigal son.
T-Bone Burnett produces this lackluster album and polishes it finely. The detail is immaculate and mostly superior to the content and direction of the whole. Dylan sacrifices his ambition and concept for a flat-lining sound that plays more like a lazy collection of ideas than anything remotely prodigious or pointed.
The constant monotony of Dylan’s vocals on every track is underwhelming to the point of frustration because the guy possesses the golden pipes his father never did but apparently refuses to use them here in 2010.
It’s unfortunate that such a deeply seated human concept falls so flat, and it’s equally baffling why it does when Dylan concocted it himself.
Burnett follows up his last effort, the “Crazy Heart” soundtrack, with
another strong execution of his production. It’s the most obvious
salvation on an otherwise lackluster album.
No women, no country, just nothing
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