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Bob Dylan: Remastered | 
| Artist: Bob Dylan
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 20298
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099751989127
ASIN: B0009JK0QQ
Release Date: June 20, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | You're No Good | | • | Talkin' New York | | • | In My Time of Dyin' | | • | Man Of Constant Sorrow | | • | Fixin' To Die | | • | Pretty Peggy-O | | • | Highway 51 Blues | | • | Gospel Plow | | • | Baby, Let Me Follow You Down | | • | House Of the Risin' Sun | | • | Freight Train Blues | | • | Song To Woody | | • | See That My Grave Is Kept Clean |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This album now seems as remarkable as his mid-'60s breakthroughs. 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 who came 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 EMD
From 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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Underrated Dylan October 25, 2008
This is an album I bought by chance and I was completely amazed its not a more talked about Dylan album. The main difference between this album and his others that he released a few years later was that the songs here are not his except for "Song for Woody" and "Talkin New York". This means that on this album its more about the playing and the feel of the music and voice rather than the lyrics itself. I think this album shows how talented and skillful Dylan really was on guitar and he had pretty much mastered the blues by the time this was out.
I absolutely recommend this album but just don't expect songs with lyrics like "Blowin in the Wind" or "The Times They Are a-Changing", this is simple plain music played from the heart.
 generally ok stuff October 20, 2008
This is a raw, bluesy selection of songs, and aswell as it being a very big jump from this to 'another side' two years later, it also strikes me as sounding very differrent to anything else Bob recorded. The songs are all covers except two ('talkin' new york', a diary note set to music that reflects Dylan's rather sarcastic sense of humour, and the reflective 'song to woody', apparently written in the style of Woody Guthrie, which is one of the strongest tracks here), but he has obviously put in alot of effort and is clearly having fun. He also sings in a slightly differrent voice, because he's not singing through his nose. If you're a good fan of Bob Dylan buy this, because the chances are you'll like at least some of it. If you're not, treat yourself to a more famous album like 'bringing it all back home' or 'another side of Bob Dylan'.
 FIVE STARS April 23, 2008
There's no doubt about it - this is a 5 star album. Many people seem to see this as a footnote in Dylan's discography, I beg to differ.
To me, even now after listening to this album for over forty years, it seems phenomenal that an unknown young man of twenty years should walk into a recording studio and produce this. It seems like he chose the right songs and matched them to a raw unselfconscious energy that, in a sense, Dylan could never achieve again.
And that Song To Woody is still one of my favourite Dylan songs, truly heartfelt in its sentiment and performance, succinct yet direct in it's meaning.
Listening to Dylan has introduced me into so many ideas musicians poets philosophers and perhaps best of all was the inspiration to go search the work of Woody Guthrie.
I only have one complaint and that's the awful stereo mix, I have the CD but I'd rather listen to my old vinyl in mono. Just for the record (no pun intended) the same applies to Freewheelin.
Easily Dylan's best album. January 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Never has the raw energy of Dylan's first effort been surpassed in contemporary music. The very fact that the instrumentation - acoustic guitar, harmonica, nothing else - is so sparse, makes this a masterpiece.
The best words for the overall atmosphere are 'sombre', 'haunting', adjectives that would be totally out of place for 99% of today's
clownish pop and rock productions.
confident debut October 5, 2007
This is an interesting document in a terrific career. Really, I don't think there's any doubt that Bob Dylan is a genius, a terrific musician and a performer of intense emotional focus. I guess I prefer Neil Young's music generally, but I don't think of Young as a genius; more a very hard working artist.
So as I say, this, Dylan's debut album is a very interesting document. It's interesting to try to imagine the time that this was recorded - in the context of what was to come from Dylan over the years - none of it existed yet.
The arrangements are very simple, just one voice, one blues harp, one guitar. And all three are exceptional. Vocally, Dylan is more emotive here than I've heard him on any record since. Here he is proving that he can sing like the great blues singers, without directly apeing any of them. He snarls and growls and mumbles... it's all very well considered. Dylan's harp breaks on "You're No Good" and "Gospel Plow" are as good as any I've heard elsewhere, and his guitar playing shines as he backs himself expertly.
Now, I know this record is supposed to be folk, but I think it's much more rooted in the blues. There's very little in the way of a traditional folk song besides Dylan's own composition, "Talkin' New York".
Other reviewers have addressed the Woody Guthrie comparisons, saying that the only track that sounds like Guthrie is "Song to Woody". I don't even agree to that extent. I don't think ANY of the record sounds like Woody, with the possible exception of "Talkin' New York" - Guthrie did several Talkin' style tunes, but especially not "Song to Woody". That's nothing like Guthrie. Really, if anyone ever tries to tell you that early Dylan is largely ripping off Woody Guthrie, tell them they're full of crap and question whether they've actually heard any Guthrie. I'll bet they haven't. Dylan has essentially studied traditional American music - folk, the blues, country - and mastered it. He'll prove that time and again throughout his career.
So anyway, more specifically about this record: sure I prefer "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", "Another Side of Bob Dylan" and "The Times They Are A Changin'", but if you like those you're probably already well on your way to being a big Dylan fan. And if you're a big Dylan fan... what are you waiting for? You may as well get this one too.
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