Long a Bob Dylan fan, Bryan Ferry remade ˝A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall˝ for his 1973 self-titled album of covers. This time around, the celebrated Roxy Music leader turns in Dylanesque, recasting 11 Dylan classics during a single live-in-the-studio week that leaves the album sounding vibrantly faithful to the original numbers. Far be it for the imaginative contrarian to retrace Dylan’s steps, and sure enough--despite an omnipresent harmonica--Ferry does just the opposite. The raw rocker ˝Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues˝ becomes a seductive British pop song, while despair and loneliness turn into effervescence for the driving ˝Simple Twist of Fate.˝ Ferry’s ageless tenor injects a modern momentum into early Dylan imprints ˝Positively 4th Street˝ (with strings!), ˝All I Really Want to Do,˝ and ˝The Times They Are A-Changing,˝ and gloriously respects the more recent ˝Make You Feel My Love˝ (from 1997’s Time out of Mind). But the best is yet to come, as the oft-covered ˝Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door˝ may never have received better treatment and ˝Baby, Let Me Follow You Down˝ loses not a beat of its original knock-down luster. The record closes with ˝All Along the Watchtower,˝ a twin tribute to Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, the visionary for this adaptation