The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

This was the perfect gift.

Great CD from Dylan arrived on time

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Probably like a lot of you I bought the first 3 Dylan albums on vinyl after seeing “A Complete Unknown”. I grew up during the early Dylan years but was only a casual listener. I know most of these songs by heart and it’s great to hear them again on a good component stereo system to really appreciate this masterwork from over 60 years ago.

Much appreciated

Dylan at early acoustic best!

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.

Well packaged, prompt delivery! Great music!