This Topic concerns Bob Dylan’s 2001 studio album Love and Theft as a musical work and as a significant late-career recording.

Its scope includes Dylan’s first album as sole producer, credited to the Jack Frost pseudonym; the largely live recording process with members of his touring band and guest musician Augie Meyers; the arrangements and contributions of Larry Campbell, Charlie Sexton, Tony Garnier, and David Kemper; and the album’s songs, including “Mississippi,” “Po’ Boy,” “High Water,” “Lonesome Day Blues,” “Floater,” and “Sugar Baby.” It also includes the album’s engagement with blues, rockabilly, country, swing, Tin Pan Alley, vaudeville, jazz, folk, and other American musical traditions; discussions of lyrical borrowing and literary influence; its release on September 11, 2001; its relationship to Time Out of Mind and Dylan’s late-career trajectory; critical and commercial reception; and recognition including the Grammy Award for Contemporary Folk Album and later Grammy Hall of Fame status. Time Out of Mind is relevant as context, but it is a distinct album and not the subject of this Topic.