Bob Dylan (studio album) by Bob Dylan

Only some performers can echo the times they live in. Fewer can catch the zeitgeist of the time, and only one in a generation can shape the times to come.

Yet, even for the evident heir apparent to Woodie Guthrie's crown, this performer, due to his youthful inexperience, can only offer glimpses of what's to come.

He is, at this time at the transitional point where the tide is on the horizon; a tide that will soon enough rise to meet the high walls of the mighty fortress enforced by the Old Guard, the rulers of the age.

It is, of course, in no small part, thanks to the works of this performer, that we know what lies beyond those fortress walls.

9/10!

I am coming to this album late on after knowing Dylan for years - but I haven't been what you would call a folkie. I have opened up to it more in recent years and so delved in here. I think I was right to wait as although I like it - and some cracking tracks like Talkin New York, House of the Rising Sun and Song To Woody - it isn't amongst my favourite Dylan or even that folk albums I have since found

Not Dylan's best album but very interesting of course and some clear signs of what was to come later on in his career

From VictorVale 11/20/2020 23:09

Forte estreia do menino Dylan! Versões poderosas e o começo do letrista que viria a ser!

From 2nd-Impressions 10/03/2020 23:40

54/100

Best tracks: In My Time of Dyin', House of the Rising Sun
Worst tracks: Fixin' to Die, Freight Train Blues

Tenía más altas expectativas. El album debut de Bob Dylan, lanzado en 1962, en mi opinión tiene temas muy olvidables, además de la baja calidad en la producción de ese tiempo. Hace un par de días escuché The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan por primera vez, siendo ese el segundo album de Bob Dylan que escuché (después de Highway 61 Revisited). Lo amé y decidí escuchar toda su discografía. Siendo este album debut el tercer disco que escucho, puedo decir que de los tres es el que menos he disfrutado, pero si hay algo que me gusta es que, por lo que veo más adelante en su discografía, Bob Dylan mantiene su esencia de escribir letras filosóficas y usa su inseparable armónica. Lamento ser un poco duro con este album, pero, por lo que veo, su discografía solo mejora. Pronto seguiré con el resto de su trabajo.

From llibnanoon 06/22/2020 18:36

Average Track Rating = 78.84

The start of a legend. Not a favorite album of mine, but it's clear in it's influence and roots. Here, on full display, Dylan is slowing chiseling out what he will become: the voice of a generation.

Song to Woody alone makes this album an all time great. Shows the promise of Dylan's writing for the years to come.

Overall a enjoyable album, with some good tracks like the versions of "House of Rising Sun", "Man of Constant Sorrow" and "See that my grave is kept clean". A traditional folk album that has it's merits even If pullen away from the rest of the legend that is Bob Dylan.