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This album now seems as remarkable as his mid-'60s breakthroughs. Like Presley's Sun Sessions, it is both the remnant of a lost rural America and the seed of rock culture. The music is primarily Dylan, with acoustic guitar, barking traditional folk, and blues. He was 20, a Northern hick who came to New York to be the next Woody Guthrie. It's amazing that at 20 he sings "In My Time of Dying" and "See That My Grave is Kept Clean", not as traditional songs, but making their doom and resignation sound personal. --Steve Tignor EMD
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2005 Remastered Edition of his 1962 debut album - (jewel case) features 'Baby Let Me Follow You Down' 'House Of The Rising Sun'
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The eponymous debut album of the greatest poet and songwriter of the Twentieth Century sounds as fresh today as it did forty yeares ago. This collection sees Dylan pay homage to and reinterpret his sources of inspiration from the blues and folk genre. Traditional favourites such as Fixin'To Die, Pretty Peggy-O and House of the Rising Sun get vigorous treatment from Dylan who is so exuberant here with his accompanying guitar, voice and infamous harmonica. The sparse and raw feel of this album still strike the listener who can hear Dylan celebrating and partly imitating his roots. Dylan's debt to Woody Guthrie is acknowledged in the poignant Song To Woody who was dying in hospital at the time of writing. This and the Chirpy and sardonic Talking New York are the only two original compositions on the album but Dylan proves what a master interpreter he was(and still is)of the trad. folk song with an accomplished version of Erich Von Schmidt's Baby Let Me Follow You Down. Dylan made this song his own which he famously performed it at The Band's Last Waltz in 1976 which summed up the history of American popular music at the time. The melodic and plaintive Man of Constant Sorrow provides a perfect vehicle for Dylan's voice and features prominently in the Coen Brothers' film O Brother Where Art Thou? sang by The Soggy Bottom Boys. This collection has no soggy bottom and has great variety from the sheer joy of Freight Train Blues where Dylan has real fun with his hillbilly hick up vocal and train impressions to the intense and sombre See That My Grave is kept Clean. What Dylan went on to achieve with his own songs and sensiblity had incredible impact on the evolution of popular music culture and from his debut album you can hear where he was coming from and tell where he was going. Roots and potential aside this album remains a pleasure to play and revel in the American folk tradition.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Marrissey
Format:Audio CD
Perhaps due to its illustrious successors, Bob Dylan's first major release has often been viewed with little positivity and shrugged off as collection of folk cover songs, wholly incomparible to the later Dylan, who broke away from such folk restraints and penned some of the greatest songs of all time.. It is true that the songs on here are predominantly covers, and Dylan is best known for his fantastic song-writing, but taking the time to listen, the songs on this album are good folk songs and Dylan is in fine vocal form on them (if a little rough around the edges).
The highlight of the album is "House of the Rising Sun", sung from a female perspective rather than the bizarre male version of The Animals, this is my favourite ever performance of the song and certainly showcases Dylan's already burgoning talent. "Man of Constant Sorrow" is also well performed and, while perhaps not quite as good as the O Brother Where Art Thou? version, it's certainly in a different style and a good listen. "Talkin' New York", however, is the song that really showcases Dylan to come, with all the witty and inciteful lyricism so typical of Bob ("Talkin' New York" and "Song to Woody" are the only original songs that appear on the album).
Ultimately, "Bob Dylan" is a good folk album. The fact that it gives an incite into the early roots of the greatest songwriter ever to live is a welcome bonus, but ultimately it's a good work in its own right, and were it released by any multitude of other bands it would be seen as their greatest. Just don't expect a Highway 61 or Blonde on Blonde.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. D. Bain
Format:Audio CD
On reading some of the previous reviews for this product I notice that some were written over TEN years ago. Strange indeed when you consider that this particular version of Dylan's first album for Columbia records is on the Hallmark record label and was only released in 2013. Although originally recorded by Columbia, this album is now over 50 years old and therefore no longer covered by UK copyright laws, which explains how this version (and several others, one adding a Joan Baez album, another tagging a few tracks by some of Dylan's contemporaries of the time such as Dave Van Ronk and yet another offering both mono and stereo versions) are now on sale. Since Columbia owns the original masters I can only assume that these albums have been sourced from good vinyl copies of the original album. Amazon has obviously been somewhat remiss here in attaching reviews pertaining to the original Columbia release to this particular one. As for the music itself, it's a great early Dylan album of mostly covers of other people's songs. As a Dylan fan I've never had too much time for the way that Columbia records has marketed much of his output, for example releasing albums in Japan or Australia only, Thus making them hugely expensive imports for USA and European fans. However if I were considering buying this album I would still opt for the still widely available Columbia release purely for the fact that they have the original masters from which to produce the album, as well as all the original artwork.
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its not what I thought it was going to be
Personally I wouldnt reccommend this album It falls way short of his previous stuff to my mind but,each to there own you may like it
Published 1 month ago by christopher john roberts
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Blast from the Past.
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Published 1 month ago by Mr. S. J. Harper
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what's not to like ?
Practically anything Bob sings sounds fine to me.
I do enjoy these oldies but goodies.
And he looks cute on the cover too.
I do enjoy these oldies but goodies.
And he looks cute on the cover too.
Published 3 months ago by frenchgirl
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Original Dylan
This was the Dylan that crashed into our lives. People of my age will remember the shock. Todays generation will see why it started.
Published 5 months ago by Gordon Reynell
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An intriguing debut
As an evangelical Bobcat, Dylan's first album is something of a curiosity to me. Recorded in 1961 when he was just 20, 'Bob Dylan is a entirely different beast to its 1963 follow... Read more
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Published 7 months ago by Mike London
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the original dylan
this is in fact the first dylan album i first bought it when it came out.he was alowed to put some of his own work on it.its crude and not well planned but he trys . Read more
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Published 10 months ago by Victor
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50 years today since its release
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Published 14 months ago by D. J. H. Thorn
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