The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bought this album after going to see the movie "Complete Unknown"Brought back memories when I was revising at college. Some great songs on, I've purchased a few more as well as Essential Dylan which is also a good buy for Bob Dylan fans.

Fabulous bought vinyl years ago so not heard for a long time. (no record player)On purchasing this CD it all come back just what an amazing songwriter and poet Dylan is.

It IS Bob Dylan - So 5 Stars... Although Some May Disagree...It Wasn't Always An Easy Ride For Mister Zimmerman....As Far As The Vinyl-Issue Of This LP Goes..COLUMBIA Records Had A Press Release That Indicated That Bob Had To Wait " Just Over Ten Years " To Be Awarded A Gold Disc For " The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan "( For COLUMBIA Records This Met Sales Of 500,000 Units Of An LP. However, Some Labels Issued Gold Discs For More Or Even Less Sales For An LP - The R.I.A.A. Did Have Specific Guide-Lines ** )** DUNHILL Records Often Issued Gold Discs For Singles That Sold 800,000 Units Often Stating That They Were " Million-Sellers " However, To Be Fair, Most DUNHILL Singles That Had This Type Of Award, Had Hits That Eventually Sold Well Over A Million Or More...By The Time Bob Received This Award, He Had Already Re-Invented Himself And Had " Gone Electric " And Virtually Had Become A House-Hold Name With Huge LP Sales From 1965 Onward.Then Again, Prior To This Period, Only The " Tuned-In " Knew Who Bob Was.In Early 1963 At Santa Monica High School, Our Government Class Was Involved In Discussions Relating To Any Influence(s) That " Communist Folk Singers " Had On The Young Attending Classes On U.S. Campuses.Our Teacher Made It Known That She Loved Trini Lopez ( He Was Getting To Be A Pretty Hot Property Then )But AS Far As Any " Folk / Protest " Singers Went,....She Didn't Think Much Of Bob " Dielin " .The " Beat-Nicks " And " Folkies " Down In Venice Knew Who Bob Dylan Was, And That's Where I First Heard Him On Record, At A Small House At 49th & Speedway Where ,As I Thumbed Through The LPs, ...I Found Were As By Peter,Paul And Mary, The Rooftop Singers, And The Kingston Trio And Bob Dylan.( At That Same Gathering Was A Guy With A Guitar And A Strange High-Pitched Voice, Along With A Black Bongo Player Who Accompanied Him When He Sang His Versions Of " Folk " ....People Called Him " Buckley " )A Few Years Later, Just A Few Doors Down, Resided People Such As Janis Joplin And Stephen Stills.So Much For A Short " History " Of Venice ( California ) Jim Morrison Liked It There Too...Name-Dropping Eh ?Now, Those Very Same Properties ( Or Where They Once Stood ) Sell For Massive $$$...This Is Early Bob Dylan At His Pre-Electric Best ( Before Joan Baez Called Him " A Fake, A Phoney, And A Fraud " )COLUMBIA Must Have Known They Were On To Something, And Thanks To Producer John Hammond, Bob Continued His Long Association With The Company, And ( With A Few Exceptions ) Released That Many LPs That Are Now Considered To Be His Finest Work To Date.( Thanks To Whatever Higher-Power, The Infamous Head Of A&R, The Pop-Rock-Folk Music Hater- Mitch Miller, Could Not Prevent Bob Signing With COLUMBIA Records, Though Mister Miller Tried )For Some Reason, Whatever Method Of Audio Reproduction, Bob Dylan Is One Of The Very Few Acts, That I Can Play Anytime, Anywhere, Acoustically, And / Or " Electric " And The Tracks Never Sound ' Dated '.Though " Star " And " Super-Star " And All Of The Rest, Are So Oft Applied ( Often To Those Un-Deserving Of Such )There Is One Word That Can Only Be Said Of A Few, Such As Bob Dylan....Unique !

Great LP

The album that started it all! 1963! A friend played me this (I still hadn't heard his first, somewhat tentative album) & it was something of a musical epiphany for me. It was the first time I'd heard songs addressing social issues & not just dealing with love relationships, though there are the latter on here too ('Girl from the north country' & 'Don't think twice, it's alright' being the two main ones). Of course, since hearing this I got to listen to the likes of Woody Guthrie & the great blues singers & realized there were others before Bob who sang about wider issues than man-woman relationships...but he was the first for me. Everyone knows how much Bob developed over the decades, sometimes annoying purists who wanted him to stay some sort of 'spokesperson' for his generation which he never was. There are other equally brilliant Dylan albums, all in different ways, but with tracks like 'Blowin' in the wind', 'Oxford town' & 'A hard rain's a-gonna fall', this remains an essential.

I think you know by now that this reviewer is not the biggest fan of Bob Dylan but, it has to be said, the early LPs are really pretty good and the guy has a wonderful knack for writing great poetry.

Just wish I'd bought this CD years ago, I'd always loved the photos on the front & back covers of a young Dylan with his then time girlfriend Suze Rotolo. I already had most of Dylan's famous songs on various other albums.Thou not A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall or Bob Dylan's Dream which somehow or another I only first heard about 5 years ago & have always thought since then is a great track. A kind of right man's song about mates of from long ago that will never be forgotten and about traveling the open road or on railway boxcars like Woody Guthrie did for years. Since listening to this album I've got to absolutely love Girl From The North Country, Corrina Corrina, Talkin' World War III & I Shall be Free.Also within the cover there is other good black & white photos of Dylan, a full review of the album & the meanings & reasons as into why as Dylan wrote all the songs at the time he did. In the past I made up I made up a tapes of Bob Dylan's songs for people & wrote the singer as being "The Razz Man". Obviously I had to explain the reason why I called Dylan this name. I'd made it up myself as a nickname for him because as you know his real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman. I love playing with words and as you see the initials of his 3 given names make up RAZ. Add an extra Z & it gives you the word RAZZ which can mean "deride". And that is what I feel Dylan does in a lot of his songs, to sing against the establishment with contempt, mockery & ridicule which I admire so much. I hope that makes sense to some people.All and all it's an album well worth buying!!!

Just what I wanted. Good quality product, no problem with delivery