Bob Dylan Albums

    ------ About the album Highway 61 Revisited performed by Bob Dylan

This album was released in 1965, not 1985, and shows Dylan transitioning to electric folk rock during a controversial period in his career. Like a Rolling Stone made the top 10 on radio.

    ------ About the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan performed by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is one of the most important figures in music, America, etc. The Freewheelin' album is only his second album, but it is one of his most stunning ones. It's up there with Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blood on the Tracks, The Times They Are A-Changin', Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Modern Times, etc. On a personal level, it is my favorite album by him. I am a huge folk music fan ,and I consider this the greatest folk album ever! Though it is no my favorite folk album, personally. You probably already know the critically aclaimed tracks such as : Blowin' in the Wind, Girl from the North Country, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall,and Don't Think Twice It's All Right. The rest of the tracks are just as beautiful! Bob Dylan's Dream, and Bob Dylan's Blues are truely, off the cut great songs of Dylan. Down the Highway is really fun to play on the guitar. I Shall Be Free leaves be laughing harder than the last time. Talkin' World War III Blues is my personal favorite of the album, and maybe by Dylan in general. Every single song on Freewheelin' is pure amazing story telling. These songs truely put an image in your head. It is a highly recomended from my point of view! If you like folk music, and play guitar, buy at set of harmonicas, and learn these songs while you are at it. They are so fun! I give the album a 9.5! If he maybe had something even better than the two covers he did on the album, then I'd give Bobby a perfect score. Not saying those songs are bad though. Get this! It is worth your hard earn cash!

    ------ About the album Modern Times performed by Bob Dylan

wow,just wow...the first time i listened to this album,i said to myself,wha??...but it is a MASTERPIECE!!...i gotta say,i did that with most of his albums,to me,they GROW on you..thats the best way i can descibe it..

    ------ About the album Together Through Life performed by Bob Dylan

i love bob just like the reat of us,and if this album came out before time out,love and theft,modern times,it would be a little better in my eyes,but coming after those three great albums,it seems to me its not up to par...but still a good album..

    ------ About the album Bringing All Back Home performed by Bob Dylan

this album blew my mind. i had of course heard songs like subterranean homesick blues and mr. tamborine man, but to the depth of his brillancy i was truely blind. for those who don't own the record, buy it, steal it, download illeagly, whatever you've got to do. it will cleanse your soul.

    ------ About the album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits performed by Bob Dylan

Thank you very much for replying. I had forgotten most of the lyrics. The other side of the album had a live version of John Birch Society Blues, but I have that on CD's. No way can I recall the other cuts on that album. Thanks again, and God Bless.

    ------ About the album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits performed by Bob Dylan

Reviewer Eddie wanted to find the lyrics of this beaut little song from one of Bob's early bootleg LPs. I had a collection of five of Bob's Bootlegs back in the 70s, Eddie, and really loved that ballad, too. From memory, I think it was on the Stealin' Bootleg. There is a version of it on "No Direction Home: The Soundtrack"(Bootleg Series Vol 7). I cannot say whether it is the same version, but would be surprised if it isn't.

This was performed right in the middle of Bob's Woody Guthrie period, and he has obviously borrowed most of the lyrics from his hero. Note his use of the wind metaphor, which he used in "Blowin in the Wind", to convey the sense of surrendering to the vagaries of fate.

Here are the lyrics, Eddie:-

I was young when I left home,
And I been out a-ramblin' round,
And I never wrote a letter to my home.
To my home, Lord, to my home,
And I never wrote a letter to my home.

It was just the other day,
I was bringin' home my pay,
When I met an old friend I used to know.
Said: "Your mother's dead and gone
And your sister's all gone wrong,
And your daddy needs you home right away"

Not a shirt on my back
Not a penny on my name
But I can’t go home this a-way
This a-way, Lord, this a-way
And I can’t go home this a-way.

If you miss the train I'm on
Count the days I am gone
You will hear that whistle blow hundred miles
Hundred miles, honey baby, Lord, Lord, Lord
And you'll hear that whistle blow hundred miles.

When I'm playin' on a track, Ma would come and woop me back,
On them trussles down by ol' Jim McKay’s.
When I pay the debt I owe to the commissary store,
I will pawn my watch and chain and go home.
Go home, Lord, Lord, Lord,
I will pawn my watch and chain and go home.

Used to tell my ma sometimes when I see them ridin' blind,
Gonna make me a home out in the wind.
In the wind, Lord, in the wind,
Make me a home out in the wind.

I don't like it in the wind,
I go back home agin,
But I can’t go home this a-way.
This a-way, Lord, Lord, Lord
And I can’t go home this a-way.

I was young when I left home.
And I been all a-ramblin' round.
And I never wrote a letter to my home.
To my home, Lord, Lord, Lord.
And I never wrote a letter to my home.

    ------ About the album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits performed by Bob Dylan

I'm sorry, this is not a review, but a plea for help in finding the lyrics that were on a bootleg album. There was no title obviously, but I found the album in Manhatten Beach, CA in 1970. I lost the album in a tornado that destroyed my mobile home...and my lp collection, including Dylan's albums. Thanks to God, I and my son recovered from our injuries, but I've been looking for this particular song since 1991: "I was young when I left home, Lord I've been out ramblin' round, and I never wrote a letter to my home. It was just the other day, I'd been drinkin' on my pay, when I ran into a friend I used to know. Said your Mother's dead and gone, baby Sister's all gone wrong, and your Daddy needs you home right away. When I pay the debt I owe, at the commissary store, I will pawn my watch and chain and go home." It has been over 18 years since I've listened to that album. Thanks to God, my son and I recovered from our injuries we suffered that day in l99l. My age is 62, and I owned all of Dylan's lp's until that tornado. Can you help me? Thanks for your time.

    ------ About the album Blonde on Blonde performed by Bob Dylan

So many amazing song in just one CD. you have to get this album! Best songs hre are :Visions of Johanna, I Want You
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

Just Like a Woman

Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine ,One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)

    ------ About the album Live 1966-Bootleg Series Vol. 4 performed by Bob Dylan

This may be the best live album I've ever heard. It is two discs, the first half being Dylan by himself with his acoustic guitar and harmonica, the second consisting of an electric Dylan being backed by the Band. Dylan seems to be in a trance through the first half, and his voice and harmonica play lead to the most subtly beautiful versions of those songs imaginable. But from the first snarl of the second half, he seems to be going out of his way to vent at the audience. The result is a sonic extravaganza. The thought of these two halves representing the same era of play seems impossible. The striking difference in tone of the first half and the second half can be attributed to far more than a simple change of instruments, as it is rumored that the first half is heroin induced, as opposed to the cocaine laiden second half, but that hardly matters. Dylan proves with this album that he is far more than a "voice for a generation" (whatever that nonsense mean); he is a fantasticmusician and brilliant performer. If you want to listen to a guy who is trying to be the champion of the people or a political messenger then this album is not for you. But if you want to know why Bob Dylan is really the most influential artist to come out of the Sixties, this is it (sorry, but if you really think it has anything to do with "Blowing in the Wind" or "Times Are A-Changin'" then you really need to re-evaluate).