Bob Dylan

Artist: Bob Dylan
Label: Sony International
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4571191054074
ASIN: B000A3H6KO

Release Date: 2005-08-16

Bob Dylan

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Tracks:

You're No Good
Talkin' New York
In My Time of Dyin'
Man of Constant Sorrow
Fixin' to Die
Pretty Peggy-O
Highway 51 Blues
Gospel Plow
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
House of the Risin' Sun
Freight Train Blues
Song to Woody
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

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Album Description

Limited edition Japanese pressing of the remastered 1962 album features the 13 original tracks packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Sony. 2005.

Album Details

Japanese Digitally Remastered Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Customer Reviews:

Up Tempo and Slow, Sad and Promising.......2006-04-03

For me "House of the Rising Son" is the stand out song on this record, though they are all good. Bob Dylan without backup, just his guitar and harmonica. I particularly liked the up tempo "Talkin' New York." He nails that city, cold and promising, big, but with coffeehouses too. "Song to Woody" is a tearjerker if you know what it's about, sad even if you don't. Gotta love Bob Dylan's sound on this record, gotta be glad that he got a job in New York town. It's been an awful long time since I've played this record. I don't know why, because it's so good. I'm glad I came back to it for this short review. I'll be playing it more often, that's for sure.

So I Can Die Easy.......2006-04-03

This album is not only Bob Dylan's first, but it's as bluesy as they come, for a folk album that is. Just listen to Dylan sing, "So I can die easy, Jesus' gonna make my dying bed," in "My Time of Dying," the power of his vocals will rip a tear out of even the driest eye. And his sad tribute to Woody Guthrie, that's another that'll bring tears to your eyes. Dylan was crooner back then and a darned good one.

So Young, So very Good.......2006-04-03

The Lonesome sound of Bob Dylan's harmonica in "Man of Constant Sorrow," then he picks it as he sings of a man about to ramble, a promise of a new beginning, then sorrowful again. Precious. "In My Time of Dying" so sad as Mr. Dylan sings, "All I want from you is to take my body home." Then there is the haunting "House of the Rising Son," perhaps one of the best songs Bob Dylan has ever done. He takes the poor girl's part so well, rips your heart out with that song. And he was so young.

It's a long way from Highway 51 to Highway 61.......2006-04-03

But if you've stayed along for the ride, you've seen Bob Dylan progress from a bluesy folksinger to a full blown rock and roller, from a Minnesota kid from the sticks who took New York by storm, then the world. This is the record that started it all and it's as good as any Bob Dylan's ever put out. Yes It was a long way between those highways, a long trip, but for Bob Dylan those few short years were only the beginning and if you're new to Bob Dylan, this is the place to start, no matter what anybody says, because the best place to being is always the beginning, don'tcha know.

Still Stands Out.......2005-10-30

Is it just me or does Bob Dylan look like Shirley McLaine on the cover of this record. He does, you know he does, but he sure as heck doesn't sound like Shirley McLaine. He doesn't sound like anybody that had gone before. His body was twenty or twenty-one, but his voice was a hundred years old on this, his first album, an album of mostly covers. But he takes those old blues and folk songs and breathes new life into them even as he changes them and makes them his own.
He takes the female lead in "House of the Rising Sun" and he chills your soul with it. Later the Animals would have a hit with this song, but Dylan was there first. Likewise, Led Zeppelin would later record "In My Time of Dying," and though I'm sure they decided to do that song because Robert or Jimmy heard it on this album. They sure changed it, but that's another review.

"Song to Woody," Dylan's tribute to Woody Guthrie was penned by Dylan and is one of the standouts on the album as far as I'm concerned, but then there are so many standouts on this disc. "Baby Let Me Follow You Down," for example. A bluesy folk song here, but a stunning rocker when he did it on the '66 tour with the band and again during the Band's movie "The Last Waltz."

I could go on praising this record forever. You should go out and get it if you don't already own it.

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