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Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
The Times They Are a-Chingin'
Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Can You Please Crawl out Your Window
Just like Tom Thumb's Blues
Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat
Most Likely You Go Your Way
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You
Bob Dylan Singles A Sides and B Sides
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan Albums
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Times They Are a-Changin'
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Dylan's outstanding second album is a tremendous jump from its predecessor. Whereas
the debut established him as a peerless interpreter of folk and country-blues classics,
and a singer like none before, this followup features some of the most pungent original
songs of the '60s. "Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War," "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna
Fall," "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "I Shall Be Free": if this sounds like
the lineup for a greatest-hits collection, you've got the idea. Nat Hentoff's liner
notes are charmingly dated, but Dylan's idiosyncratic singing, unexpected lyrics,
and inimitable guitar and harmonica playing are as immediate and relevant as whatever
you heard on the radio today. (As great as this is, there's much more: a handful
of top-rank outtakes from Freewheelin' appear on the Bootleg Series box set.) --Jimmy
Guterman
The Times They Are a-Changin'
This is the re-released, remastered version. One of the darkest of Dylan albums,
Times... is the work of a 22-year-old who sounds no less sick of it all than the
ailing 55-year-old who made Time out of Mind. There's a place here for rousing protests
such as the title track and "When the Ship Comes In", but those songs are outnumbered
by the equally powerful, drainingly pessimistic likes of "Only a Pawn in Their Game",
"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll", and "The Ballad of Hollis Brown". It's as
if Dylan had to deliver his grimmest topical material before moving on to Another
Side's liberation and laughs. --Rickey Wright
Another Side of Bob Dylan
This set captures a still-growing Dylan on the edge, just before he makes the jump
to rock & roll, continuing to expand the notion of folk music with openhearted, unprecedented
compositions and performances like "All I Really Want to Do," "Chimes of Freedom,"
"My Back Pages," and "It Ain't Me Babe." If Dylan's previous album The Times They
Are A-Changin' was a bit too literal and focused on current events, Another Side
indulges Dylan's more mythic and expansive side, making more rumor for the humor
that would explode when Dylan formed a band. It's just Dylan, guitar, and harmonica
here, but Another Side is a rock & roll album without that band. --Jimmy Guterman
Bringing It All Back Home
"You sound like you're having a good old time," a purist Dylan fan is spotted telling
the artist in the documentary Don't Look Back just after the release of this, his
first (half-)electric album. He certainly does. Updating Chicago blues forms with
hilarious, tough lyrics--in fact, all but stealing the meter of Chuck Berry's "Too
Much Monkey Business" for "Subterranean Homesick Blues"--on one side, dropping some
of his most devastating solo acoustic science ("It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," "Mr.
Tambourine Man") on the other, the first of Dylan's two 1965 long-players broke it
right down with style, substance, and elegance. --Rickey Wright
