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Sessions for Love and Theft were held at Sony Music's recording studios in midtown Manhattan, scheduled at approximately 3:30 p.m. every day between May 9th and the 21st in 2001. The players gathered for these sessions were Charlie Sexton on guitar, Larry Campbell on guitar as well as mandolin, violin, and banjo, Tony Garnier on bass, David Kemper on drums and percussion, and Augie Meyers on keyboards and accordion. Augie Meyers, who has known Dylan since the 1960's, had previously played in the Sir Douglas Quintet as well as Time Out of Mind.

The album is named after a 1993 study of black minstrelsy by Virginia social historian Eric Lott, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. However, Love and Theft is only tangentially about popular exploitation of black culture. Not surprisingly the album's jaunty style was reminiscent of the live shows leading up to Love and Theft, in which Dylan covered numerous songs pre-dating rock 'n' roll and re-arranged his older material with country and blues styles that also pre-dated rock 'n' roll.

BOB DYLAN: "LONE PILGRIM" is from an old Doc Watson record. what attracts me to the song is how the lunacy of trying to fool the self is set aside at some given point. salvation & the needs of mankind are prominent & hegemony takes a breathing spell."

I came to the place where the lone pilgrim lay,
And patiently stood by his tomb,
When in a low whisper I heard something say:
How sweetly I sleep here alone.

The tempest may howl and the loud thunder roar
And gathering storms may arise,
But calm is my feeling, at rest is my soul,
The tears are all wiped from my eyes.

The response to World Gone Wrong was very positive, with many regarding it as superior to Good As I Been to You.

The balance of songs in World Gone Wrong swung more towards rural blues. Two had been recorded by Mississippi Sheik, two more by Blind Willie McTell, one by Willie Brown, and another by Frank Hutchinson. Songs popularized by Tom Paley and Doc Watson were also recorded.

In the case of "The Two Soldiers," Dylan had been performing it live since 1988. As Clinton Heylin writes, on World Gone Wrong Dylan invested it "with that classic impersonality the true traditionalist seeks."

Like its predecessor Good As I Been to You, World Gone Wrong was recorded to fulfill the terms of his January 18, 1988 contract. It would be the final album released under that contract.

World Gone Wrong is the second consecutive traditional folk music album made by Bob Dylan, which was recorded and released in 1993. Like its predecessor Good As I Been to You, World Gone Wrong is comprised of traditional folk numbers, all arranged and played on acoustic guitar and harmonica by Dylan.

World Gone Wrong, while again critically praised (winning "Best Traditional Folk Album" at the Grammys), was also overlooked in the record shops, with a #70 US peak and a #35 in the UK