The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

One of my favorite Dylan albums. I play it very often.

Love Dylan and very happy to be able to get this old music on CD. Thanks Amazon!

Excellent album.

The first album by Bod Dylan. It is a folk classic. If you watch the Bob Dylan movie - this covers the very beginning of his music

Got here quickly, arrived without incident and sounds great.

For Bob Dylan's fans, this is a must have! He always knew the truth and wasn't afraid to share it! Too bad we don't have these people around us now! Now that would be one fine day!

Dylan's sophomore album was really the recording which made him 'the voice of his generation,' containing several folk hits which have gone on to become standards-- inspirational folk anthems like "Blowin' In the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," and Dylan's achingly personal ode to regret and loss, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right." But if you scratch a little deeper, this album also has some wonderful deep tracks, too. There isn't a wasted effort anywhere on the album. "Masters of War" and "Oxford Town" bite as hard as any protest songs that Dylan ever wrote, and "Girl From the North Country" reworks the traditional English ballad "Scarborough Fair" into something wholly new and original. All of the songs on this album get better and better with repeated listening. 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' was really the first of a trio of albums which changed everything in popular music-- if you're new to Dylan, this is as good a place as any to get on the train. Dylan's next two records, 'The Times They Are a-Changin' and 'Another Side of Bob Dylan,' complete the trilogy of Dylan's classic acoustic-guitar protest-song folk albums. With 'Bringing It All Back Home,' Dylan started to pivot towards electric guitar and keyboards, with backing from a regular band instead of mostly performing alone onstage, and a second trilogy of classic electric rock music was completed by 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Blonde on Blonde.' While Dylan had other recordings which are truly great in their own right-- and which definitely deserve a listening-- I'd argue that this run of six albums in two neat trilogies, one acoustic and one electric, really form the corpus of Dylan's work. 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' is Dylan at his peak, performing at a level that he maintained pretty much throughout the sixties and into the seventies and beyond.

"The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" is an album EVERY folk-rock fan should have and cherish. This is, in fact, one of the watershed albums of the 1960s; it's almost impossible to overstate its influence and enduring power over the decades. Dylan's first album had seemed a bit stiff, frankly; here, he decides -- instead of being the young, earnest interpreter of folk tradition -- to be himself, and the results are astounding. The album opens with a three-song blast that announced Dylan as THE major artist of the time: "Blowin' in the Wind," "Girl From the North Country" and "Masters of War." "Girl" could've been overshadowed by the other two, except for Dylan's impassioned but restrained vocal delivery and his full-blown, untamed harmonica. Even when being whimsical, Dylan sounded like serious business. In the hands of other artists, songs like "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" and "Bob Dylan's Dream" could have sounded like throwaways. He delivers them in an almost off-handed way, yes, but they still sound charming, witty and NECESSARY, all these decades later. This isn't my favorite Dylan album; the man has recorded so much colossal discs that each listener is going to have his personal favorites, and mine include "Blonde on Blonde" and "Blood on the Tracks." But this album pointed the way not only for Dylan but for countless folkies, rockers and folky rockers in the early 1960s. I cannot imagine how the American scene could have developed without it.

Ottimo

Bardzo dobrze brzmiące wznowienie klasycznej płyty Dylana (plastikowe pudełko, kilkustronicowa książeczka). Polecam!

Dylan en estado puro

It IS Bob Dylan - So 5 Stars... Although Some May Disagree... It Wasn't Always An Easy Ride For Mister Zimmerman.... As Far As The Vinyl-Issue Of This LP Goes.. COLUMBIA Records Had A Press Release That Indicated That Bob Had To Wait " Just Over Ten Years " To Be Awarded A Gold Disc For " The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan " ( For COLUMBIA Records This Met Sales Of 500,000 Units Of An LP. However, Some Labels Issued Gold Discs For More Or Even Less Sales For An LP - The R.I.A.A. Did Have Specific Guide-Lines ** ) ** DUNHILL Records Often Issued Gold Discs For Singles That Sold 800,000 Units Often Stating That They Were " Million-Sellers " However, To Be Fair, Most DUNHILL Singles That Had This Type Of Award, Had Hits That Eventually Sold Well Over A Million Or More... By The Time Bob Received This Award, He Had Already Re-Invented Himself And Had " Gone Electric " And Virtually Had Become A House-Hold Name With Huge LP Sales From 1965 Onward. Then Again, Prior To This Period, Only The " Tuned-In " Knew Who Bob Was. In Early 1963 At Santa Monica High School, Our Government Class Was Involved In Discussions Relating To Any Influence(s) That " Communist Folk Singers " Had On The Young Attending Classes On U.S. Campuses. Our Teacher Made It Known That She Loved Trini Lopez ( He Was Getting To Be A Pretty Hot Property Then ) But AS Far As Any " Folk / Protest " Singers Went,....She Didn't Think Much Of Bob " Dielin " . The " Beat-Nicks " And " Folkies " Down In Venice Knew Who Bob Dylan Was, And That's Where I First Heard Him On Record, At A Small House At 49th & Speedway Where ,As I Thumbed Through The LPs, ... I Found Were As By Peter,Paul And Mary, The Rooftop Singers, And The Kingston Trio And Bob Dylan. ( At That Same Gathering Was A Guy With A Guitar And A Strange High-Pitched Voice, Along With A Black Bongo Player Who Accompanied Him When He Sang His Versions Of " Folk " ....People Called Him " Buckley " ) A Few Years Later, Just A Few Doors Down, Resided People Such As Janis Joplin And Stephen Stills. So Much For A Short " History " Of Venice ( California ) Jim Morrison Liked It There Too...Name-Dropping Eh ? Now, Those Very Same Properties ( Or Where They Once Stood ) Sell For Massive $$$... This Is Early Bob Dylan At His Pre-Electric Best ( Before Joan Baez Called Him " A Fake, A Phoney, And A Fraud " ) COLUMBIA Must Have Known They Were On To Something, And Thanks To Producer John Hammond, Bob Continued His Long Association With The Company, And ( With A Few Exceptions ) Released That Many LPs That Are Now Considered To Be His Finest Work To Date. ( Thanks To Whatever Higher-Power, The Infamous Head Of A&R, The Pop-Rock-Folk Music Hater- Mitch Miller, Could Not Prevent Bob Signing With COLUMBIA Records, Though Mister Miller Tried ) For Some Reason, Whatever Method Of Audio Reproduction, Bob Dylan Is One Of The Very Few Acts, That I Can Play Anytime, Anywhere, Acoustically, And / Or " Electric " And The Tracks Never Sound ' Dated '. Though " Star " And " Super-Star " And All Of The Rest, Are So Oft Applied ( Often To Those Un-Deserving Of Such ) There Is One Word That Can Only Be Said Of A Few, Such As Bob Dylan....Unique !

Wow! An album that sounds great side a&b. Will play this until I wear it out! Beautiful