i can't say i've ever found the two all that different aside from a production standpoint. perhaps "retread" was really poor wording. "love and theft" is an exceptional effort in dylan's catalog and much better than "modern times" and "together through life" (these two i'd be more keen to call "retreads"), but i feel he perfected the same rootsy/bloozy approach a lot better with "time out of mind."
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