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Despite its lengthy songs, Bob Dylan’s 2012 album Tempest frequently seemed less epic than simply long-winded. Or maybe its problem was just its performances: there’s often more to the master’s songs than he’s willing to offer in a recording studio. On the Amnesty International–branded tribute album Chimes of Freedom, California country-pop duo the Belle Brigade excavated this previously interminable late-’70s Dylan lyric-gush (which he’s never played live) and somehow made it riveting and gorgeous for nine straight verses.