| Bob Dylan |  | Artist: Bob Dylan
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 11,458
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 827969423929
EAN: 0827969423929
ASIN: B0009MAP90
Release Date: June 21, 2005
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| • | You're No Good - Bob Dylan, Fuller, James | | • | Talkin' New York - Bob Dylan, Dylan, Bob | | • | In My Time of Dyin' - Bob Dylan, Traditional | | • | Man of Constant Sorrow - Bob Dylan, Traditional | | • | Fixin' to Die - Bob Dylan, White, Booker T. Wa | | • | Pretty Peggy-O - Bob Dylan, Traditional | | • | Highway 51 Blues - Bob Dylan, Jones, Curtis | | • | Gospel Plow - Bob Dylan, | | • | Baby, Let Me Follow You Down - Bob Dylan, Davis, Gary [1] | | • | House of the Risin' Sun - Bob Dylan, Holmes, Terry | | • | Freight Train Blues - Bob Dylan, McDowell, Mississip | | • | Song to Woody - Bob Dylan, Dylan, Bob | | • | See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Bob Dylan, Jefferson, Blind Le |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 41
 Bob Dylan, now centered in glorious mono September 15, 2005
TBE (New Orleans)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
The audio quality of this remastered CD is head and shoulders superior to the standard CD that we have endured for decades.
Do not be put off by the monophonic sound (not labeled as such on the CD package, probably for that reason). These recordings are the result of two sessions from November 1961, featuring Bob Dylan solo on vocal, guitar, and harmonica. The stereo version, on both LP and CD, had an idiotic arrangement of vocal and harmonica on one channel, and guitar on the other. Depending on how far apart your speakers are, you could have Dylan playing guitar 20 feet away from where he is singing and playing harmonica!
This is the case no more! Unless you are fortunate enough to have the mono LP of this debut album, you have never heard it the proper way until now, with this superb, newly remastered CD, with Bob Dylan--vocal, harmonica, and guitar--centered between your speakers.
This CD also contains a few previously unpublished photos from the recording sessions.
Although the booklet doesn't say so, I believe this was DSD mastered. Steve Berkowitz, also uncredited on this remaster, is in charge of the overall remastering of Dylan's catalog. He deserves a lot of thanks.
The standout tracks are "Fixin' To Die," "Gospel Plow," and "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down." For an excellent outtake from these sessions, "House Carpenter," you need to buy "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3."
Trivia: This first album, "Bob Dylan," was originally going to be released under the title "Free Wheeling." A variation of the title survived for the second album.
Bob's First Chance At Fame July 5, 2005
Sarah Carpenter (Ontario Canada)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
It's easy to critize the first effort by an artist, especially after the fact, once we have all seen the tremendous heights that his career has soared to and the lows that inevitably follow. But this album is remarkable, not just because of what came after. I dare anyone to listen to "In My Time Of Dyin'" or "House Of The Rising Sun" and tell me otherwise. It took a while for this album to grow on me, though after my very first listen I couldn't help but play "In My Time Of Dying"' over and over, even humming the lyrics at work. "Talkin' New York", "Pretty Peggy-O", "Song to Woody" and a few others could have fit perfectly on any of the three albums that followed this one. We also get a lot more of a yodeling sound in "Man Of Constant Sorrow" and "Freight Train Blues." I rated this album five stars because I love it and everything else by Bob, but I wouldn't choose this to start your collection. Having said that my first cd was the live bootleg 1966, so maybe it doesn't really matter where you begin. One last thing is about the quality. I own the old cd version and have just purchased the remastered version. WHATEVER YOU DO, SPEND THE COUPLE EXTRA BUCKS AND GET THE REMASTERED VERSION. There's nothing explicitely wrong with the old one, but the too aren't in the same league sonicly.
Back Where It All Begins September 5, 2005
FairiesWearBoots8272 (USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Hearing Bob Dylan's 1962 debut album is quite a revelatory experience. After forty years of albums of varying quality and varying musical styles, Dylan's very first LP might be shocking to the first-time listener. Here we have a 20-year-old Bob Dylan performing thirteen blues and folk songs with a gusto that he has rarely displayed since. I can't say it enough: these recordings are simply astounding. Dylan doesn't simply perform these songs. He attacks them as if he's out to prove himself to the world (Just look at that smug picture on the cover). He's announcing to the world: "Here is Bob Dylan. A name that you will never forget". This results in one of the most invigorating recordings of Dylan's career. Although only two of the songs were written by Dylan ("Talkin' New York" and "Song To Woody"), this is a fantastic album. Some of his best singing and guitar and harmonica playing are to be found here. He makes all of the traditional songs uniquely his own and delivers them in a sincerity you would never have guessed possible for a 20-year-old kid.
This album is not what you would call one of Dylan's masterpieces, however it is an electrifying record that any serious fan of Bob Dylan should seek out. It's a rare glimpse at a young and hungry Bob eager to make his mark on the musical world. Highly recommended for all but newcomers.
The First is One of the Best October 30, 2005
Zachary Hackett (Reno, Nevada)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
Roots Firmly Planted in the Blues November 9, 2005
Stephanie Sane (from the Asylum)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I think Bob Dylan had just turned twenty when he recorded this album. I heard some of his Witmark demos and the tape he did in that Minnesota hotel room, but good as those recordings were, they can't light a candle to his first release on Colombia Records. With the exception of the haunting "Song for Woody," a ballad dedicated to Woody Guthrie and "Baby Let Me Follow you Down," all of the other songs are covers. But that doesn't mean they're not any good, on the contrary, Dylan's version of "House of the Rising Sun" is perhaps the best I've ever heard. This records shows us that Dylan had his roots firmly planted in the blues.
Reviewed by Stephanie Sane
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