How Bob Dylan Made a Pre-Rock Masterpiece With 'Love and Theft'

At the dawn of the 21st century, Bob Dylan seemed to be back on a creative roll. His last LP, 1997's Time Out of Mind, had recently taken home a Grammy for Album of the Year, and in 2000, he won the Best Original Song Oscar for "Things Have Changed," from the movie Wonder Boys. Another artist might've been content with all that, especially an artist about to turn 60. But the greatest late-career re-emergence in rock history was just getting started. When work began on Love and Theft in May 2001,