Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Even a cursory glance at the highlights would be enough to confirm this first disc's classic status: the rambunctious stomp of "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", the shrill punctuation of Dylan's harp on the surly rant of "Pledging My Time", a riotous neck-wrung blues soloing on "Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat", opulent, elegiac verses on "Visions Of Johanna", the popish affectations and beautiful detail of "I Want You" and "Just Like A Woman."
Consolidating what he'd begun on Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited, the recording of Blonde On Blonde was part of an intense, fertile outpouring for Dylan. One can understand why Dylan and producer Bob Johnston were keen to present as much of it as they could. As a result however, the taut energy of the first disc become somewhat elasticised across the second, "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands", whose eleven minute length even caught the backing musicians by surprise, being the chief culprit. Of course one person's prolix poetry is another's visionary epic.
One point which both sceptics and believers can all agree on however is the extent to which Dylan is utterly at ease with himself here. Credit also, should go to the crew backing him up. And if their backing is at times a little hurried or patchy, the improvisatory nature of their trying to keep up with the man at the microphone is also a part of this album's overall charm.
Tracklisting
A
1. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
2. Pledging My Time
3. Visions Of Johanna
4. One Of Us Must Know
B
1. I Want You
2. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
3. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
4. Just Like A Woman
C
1. Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine
2. Temporary Like Achilles
3. Absolutely Sweet Marie
4. 4th Time Around
5. Obviously 5 Believers
D
1. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
Released: 20th November 2015
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