Artforum
January 1997
5) Bob Dylan: “All Along the Watchtower,” from The Concert for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (Columbia). For the moment, the only licensed, recorded proof that what Dylan and his shocker of a combo (Winston Watson, Tony Garnier, Bucky Baxter, John Jackson) were doing on stage in 1995 was more than an illusion—and, until Having a Rave Up with Bob Dylan appears, the only proof that reinventing yourself in your fifties as a lead guitarist embracing syncopation as the source of all values is a brilliant idea.
Concert for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (Columbia, 1996). With one song each from Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Johnny Cash, Booker T. and the MGs, Sam Moore, and Bob Dylan, and three by Melissa Etheridge.