(*½) October 26, 1993. 29th Studio Album
As the follow-up to Dylan’s previous album of traditional folk recordings, there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with World Gone Wrong, but I find most of it melancholy and monotonous. Many of the songs chosen are more obscure than on the earlier Good as I’ve Been to You. Each track is rendered faithfully with sparse acoustic guitar and harmonica (on one song), are well-recorded, and delivered with strong and clear vocals. However, I find the liner notes Dylan wrote for each song more interesting than the album itself. “Blood in My Eyes” and “Stack A Lee” are the most appealing, but there’s no killer track, or horrible one either, that stand out.