Bob Dylan's first new album in five years, Modern Times, is his 44th overall release and the third in an outstanding trilogy that includes Time Out Of Mind and Love and Theft. The new record features 10 new tunes spread out over two LPs with Dylan on keyboards, guitars, harmonica and vocals, accompanied by his touring band of Denny Freeman and Stu Kimball on guitars, Tony Garnier on bass and cello, George G. Receli on drums and Donnie Herron on steel guitar, violin, viola and mandolin. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The first of two transitional albums in which Dylan moved beyond protest and then beyond folk music. Here, in songs like "Chimes of Freedom" and "My Back Pages," he suggested that social issues were much more complicated than the increasingly-polarized times made them seem. His lyrics, meanwhile, also became more complicated and poetic. Other singers would mine this album for hits with "All I Really Want to Do" and "It Ain’t Me, Babe." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taking the first, electric side of Bringing It All Back Home to its logical conclusion, Bob Dylan hired a full rock & roll band, featuring guitarist Michael Bloomfield, for Highway 61 Revisited. Opening with the epic "Like a Rolling Stone," Highway 61 Revisited careens through nine songs that range from reflective folk-rock and blues to flat-out garage rock. Highway 61 Revisited had not only changed Dylan's sound, but his persona, trading the folk troubadour for a streetwise, cynical hipster. Highway 61 Revisited proved that rock & roll needn't be collegiate and tame in order to be literate, poetic and complex. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Bob Dylan returned from exile with John Wesley Harding, a quiet, country-tinged album that split dramatically from his previous three albums. A calm, reflective album, John Wesley Harding strips away all of the wilder tendencies of Dylan¹s rock albums...the album is his first serious foray into country, but only a handful of songs, such as "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight," are straight country songs. Instead, John Wesley Harding is informed by the rustic sound of country, as well as many rural myths, with seemingly simple songs like "All Along the Watchtower," "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" and "The Wicked Messenger" revealing several layers of meanings with repeated plays." — Stephen Thomas Erlewine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Recorded in three short days in January 1965, Bringing It All Back Home found Dylan "going electric" and gaining his first Top 40 airplay with "Subterranean Homesick Blues." |
Dylan's 1962 Demos For Witmark - First Time On Vinyl LP! In the spring of 1962, folk music manager Albert Grossman began to take an active interest in Dylan. He proposed that Dylan sign with the prestigious publisher M. Witmark & Sons. Dylan signed a contract with Witmark on July 12 and immediately recorded a demo of what would become his breakthrough song, "Blowin' in the Wind". Four months passed before Dylan returned to record another song, "Ye Playboys and Playgirls", but the next month, in December, he showed up with many new compositions, including three that would become classics of his, "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", "Ballad of Hollis Brown", and "Tomorrow Is a Long Time". All of Dylan’s 1962 demos for Witmark are reproduced here on LP for the first time. Features: • Vinyl LP Selections: Side A: 1. Man On the Street (fragment) 2. Hard Times In New York Town 3. Poor Boy Blues 4. Ballad For a Friend 5. Rambling, Gambling Willie 6. Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues 7. Standing On the HIghway 8. Man On the Street 9. Blowin' In the Wind 10. Long Ago, Far Away Side B: 1. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 2. Tomorrow Is A Long Time 3. The Death Of Emmett Till 4. Let Me Die In My Footsteps 5. Ballad of Hollis Brown 6. Quit Your Low Down Ways 7. Baby, I'm In the Mood For You | |
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