Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home

This sounds great and one of Dylans best. $20 bucks for this is a no brainer.

I have a US original mono press and this reissue by Sundaze is a near replica in of sonics. Highly recommended mono cut here. Punchy and clear. Buy with confidence.

This is the seminal album that forever changed my life. While all of my girlfriends were talking about boys and dates, I was walking home from school, cutting across Springhaven Golf Course, singing every song as loud as I could.

This release coincides with the concerts Dylan was putting on at this stage of his career. He was interested both in his acoustic music [though less and less with the protest songs, which he had written and sung just as a toe in the door, and Bob speaks about this at length in his book], the rising pleasure he was finding with his electric sound, and he was mixing both of these styles with his new found surrealistic lyrics [the use of LSD had effected and refined his thinking process without a doubt] ... so “Bringing It All Back Home” was truly that, bringing everything he was and had learned to an actual starting place, a home of his very own, if you will. His concerts would continue to be divided into two sections, half would be acoustic sets, while the other half would be backed with his electric band. Both, the new found lyrics, and the electric instruments were pushing away his Folk fans, and that seemed just fine for Dylan, but he wasn’t ready to make the leap from Folk to Rock in one step, this album reflects that bridge, and is the reason so many people adopted the Folk Rock genre.

I can’t an album that has been combed over more for hidden meanings, including both the lyrics and the album artwork, until The Beatles “Sgt. Pepper” came along ... and it’s my opinion that The Beatles were taking a cue from Dylan, creating mystery and questioning with their lyrics and album artwork.

The music roams from Folk, to Rock, to Blues and a new style that belonged to Bob and Bob alone. More then half of the songs are very lengthy and require your attention, but giving Dylan that attention is not at all difficult ... it’s a pleasure.

It’s such a personal album for me, a release that came at a critical juncture in my cognitive thinking process, that I feel I would be doing this release an injustice to try and describe the intensity, or the freshness Bob brought to the world through “Bringing It All Back Home” without being able to sit down with you and discuss each and every one of the songs. But since that’s impossible, I suggest you devote an afternoon to the album, the artwork, the history of the times, and have a great deal of fun with questions, conjectures and the places these songs will take you.

Bob cast a long shadow shadow against a blank musical wall, and this album would forever change everything any of us had or thought we had known about music.

If you find yourself listening to CD's or the later stereo issues, you're missing the glory of the mono production, and the essence of the times ...