Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 19, 1989)
• Original Release Date: March 19, 1962
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000024R8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #133,775 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
This album now seems as remarkable as his mid-'60s breakthoughs. 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 come 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

Product Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2008. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Raw and Gutsy, March 28, 2000

By	Randall K. Ventresca (Sarasota, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

"Bob Dylan" - An album that has sort of been ignored through the years, partially because Dylan only has a couple original songs on the album. But, to fully understand the man and what he would later become artistically, you must experience this amazing, gritty piece of Americana.

This album is not just folk, contrary to popular belief, neither was Bob...not really....this album is many things...blues, folk, gospel...sung and played by a real bluesman. It is a great collection of songs that are expressed from the soul.

The performances are quite spectacular for such a young man to be singing them. "In My Time of Dying", "You're No Good", "Man of Constant Sorrow", "Gospel Plow" and "House of the Rising Sun" are among the classics. "Song to Woody", written by Bob is beautiful. A MUST HAVE!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deliberately rough and unpolished: folk music, October 27, 1999

By A Customer

Bob Dylan in an early eighties Rolling Stone interview recounted how he and a friend once attended a performance of a certain soi-disant "folk singer". "That's not a folk singer," Dylan complained to his friend, "a folk singer sings folk songs". "Well, you started THAT [singing "originals" in lieu of folk songs]," his friend answered. "Yes," admitted Dylan, "but I never would have done it if I hadn't sung the folk songs first." When he first ventured into New York, Dylan told the interviewer, he met people who knew hundreds of obscure and poignant folk songs and their history. They weren't trained musicians or especially skilled guitarists and singers, yet they WERE de facto ethnomusicologists, and that is something. Nowadays when you go to hear a "folk singer", you don't hear something, you hear nothing, the narcissism and solipsistic self-indulgence of someone who thinks he needs no training or knowledge or technique, just his innate "creativity". Well, ladies and gentlemen, Bob Dylan thought otherwise. He knew and knows he could never achieve, say, the brilliance of "Blonde on Blonde" if hadn't done his homework here. This album is an education. I can't recommend it enough.

And, by the bye, while I'm recommending things, there is also, for musicians, "Pentatonic Scales for the Jazz Rock Keyboardist" by Jeff Burns.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars woody would have been proud, December 4, 2004

By	M. D. Friedman (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is Bob at his unplugged best, wailing on the harmonica and playing his version of white-boy blues and folk. The recording is a little flat and sounds a little like Alan Lomax's hotel-room blues records, but Dylan shines through on this charming first album. If you are just discovering Dylan, you should probably start with the Greatest Hits albums or Another Side, Highway 61, Bringing It all Back Home and John Wesley Harding, but if you wish to hear Bleecker Bob exploring his roots, you have to own this one.