Bob Dylan-At Budokan (1978)

"Bob Dylan is the Picasso of the song" is how the legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen referred to Dylan and that is how we can define this album "At Budokan" is a totally unexpected twist, an unprecedented musical variation on Dylan's sound and has nothing to do with his previously released work.
Dylan appeared in the land of the rising sun, accompanied by an outstanding band, altering several of his great classics, giving them an innovative and evolving sound. The album began with the perpetual “Mr. Tambourine Man”, one of the legendary songs of the genius from Minnesota, to continue reeling off hits like “Shelter From The Storm”, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” or the immortal ballad “Ballad Of a Thin Man”, coming from his eternal “Highway 61 revisited” , we will pass with a certain air to “Reggae” in “Knockin 'On Heaven's Door” and that we can also appreciate in “Don't Think Twice, It's All Right” another one that undergoes an extraordinary change is “All Allong The Watchtower”, with a wind section and memorable guitar riffs.
As anecdotal data, the album ends with "The Times They Are A-Changin", (times are changing), coincidence or genius? ...
Originally, this musical work was recorded in 1978, during a tour that Dylan realized by Japan. At the time of the publication of this direct anthology and compilation in 1979, many of Dylan's followers and analysts criticized it harshly, even claiming that it was one of the worst albums in rock history ...
And it is that sometimes many years have to pass for the importance and quality of a famous work like this to be appreciated and recognized, by a musician whose songs elevated rock to the category of art.