Song Review: Bob Dylan, Drew Sherrod & Strange Daddy - “Masters of War” (SherGun Remix)
Drew Sherrod and Strange Daddy trod relatively lightly on their remix of Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War.”
And the second “Masters” redux of 2018 is by far the superior one.
Skipping the electronica that sunk the previous “Avener Rework” of the Viet Nam-era classic, the duo instead opted to add percussion and synthesized orchestration, giving the song a dramatic backdrop one might expect to hear as cable-news war coverage goes to commercial.
Sherrod and Daddy earn major props for finding a way to tamper with an essentially perfect song without ruining it. They couldn’t have hoped to improve on Dylan’s original, but they could’ve inflicted heavy damage.
Thankfully, they did not.
Grade card: Bob Dylan, Drew Sherrod & Strange Daddy - “Masters of War” (SherGun Remix) - B-
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