Another side of Bob Dylan

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Another side of Bob Dylan
Studio album by Bob Dylan

Publication
(s)

August 8, 1964

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Folk

Title (number)

11

running time

50m 44s

occupation Bob Dylan - voc , g , harm

production

Tom Wilson

Studio (s)

  • June 9, 1964
  • Columbia Recording Studio, New York
chronology
The Times They Are a-Changin '
( 1964 )
Another side of Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home
( 1965 )

Another Side of Bob Dylan is the fourth studio album by the American songwriter Bob Dylan , released in August 1964 . After the protest song phase, as the title suggests, it should show another side of Dylan. "On this record (with a few exceptions) you no longer hear the critic from the service, but Dylan, the private citizen, a person dealing with his emotions."

The music on the album is still oriented towards folk music, but the lyrics already contain a lot of surrealistic elements.

The most famous song on the album is It Ain't Me Babe , which was covered by Johnny Cash for his album Orange Blossom Special in the same year . It can be interpreted as Dylan's desire to stop being the leader of a movement. My Back Pages expresses the ego's turning away from the role of preacher and herald of supposedly simple truths and a rejection of simple black and white thinking even more clearly .

Bob Dylan recorded the album on June 9, 1964 in a single session. There was also a first attempt to record Mr. Tambourine Man ; the title only appeared on the following album. Another Side of Bob Dylan peaked at number 43 on the US charts and number 8 in the UK in 1965.

The album caused astonishment among parts of the folk scene. So published Irwin silver in which he edited folk magazine Sing Out! an open letter to Dylan, in which he expressed his concern that the singer threatened to lose contact with the grassroots due to the circumstances surrounding fame and success, which is also expressed in his new songs. Folk singer Phil Ochs, on the other hand, defended Dylan's right to change in Broadside Magazine .

The Canadian singer and songwriter Neil Young refers in the song Flags of Freedom on his 2006 album Living with War quite clearly to the song Chimes of Freedom .

Track list

  1. All I Really Want to Do - 4:04
  2. Black Crow Blues - 3:14
  3. Spanish Harlem Incident - 2:24
  4. Chimes of Freedom - 7:09
  5. I Shall Be Free No. 10 - 4:47
  6. To Ramona - 3:52
  7. Motorpsycho Nitemare - 4:33
  8. My Back Pages - 4:22
  9. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - 4:22
  10. Ballad in Plain D - 8:16 am
  11. It Ain't Me Babe - 3:33

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathias R. Schmidt: Bob Dylan and the sixties. Departure and departure. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1983, p. 82.
  2. https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000218157 Orange Blossom Special from Johnny Cash at allmusic.com
  3. Cf. Mathias R. Schmidt: Bob Dylan and the sixties. Departure and departure. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1983, p. 86 ff.
  4. Irwin Silber: An Open Letter to Bob Dylan. Sing Out !, November 1964 , accessed online January 16, 2009.
  5. Cf. Mathias R. Schmidt: Bob Dylan and the sixties. Departure and departure. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1983, p. 89 f.
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