Doing Their Dylan

from the NY Times' UrbanEye

As if “I’m Not There,” Todd Haynes’s Dylan biopic, didn’t have enough celebrities — everyone from Cate Blanchett to Heath Ledger plays the singer — now there’s an equally star-studded concert version. Tonight at the Beacon Theater, catch Cat Power, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Yo La Tengo with Buckwheat Zydeco and others do their best Zimmy. Can’t afford tickets? Spring for the CD instead. James has a credible nasal twang on “Goin’ to Acapulco,” writes Ben Ratliff. And Sufjan Stevens “builds up the religious-themed ‘Ring Them Bells’ into an industrious little world of arrangements.”
Critics’ Choice by Ben Ratliff