Here’s a little album for all the Bob Dylan fans here. This is his Self titled debut album Bob Dylan. Released in 1962, he covers a few of the old folk songs that Influenced his music for years to come. If you aren’t familiar with the album (or even if you are), have a little listen and see what you think. Hope you enjoy!
Bob Dylan Debut Album
Tracks;
1. Fixing to Die
2. Talking New York Blues
3. In my Time of Dying
4. A Man of Constant Sorrow
5. Fixin to Die
6. Pretty Peggy O
7. Highway 51
8. Gospel Plow
9. Baby, let me follow you down
10. House of the Rising Sun
11. Freight Train Blues
12. Song to Woody
13. See that my Grave is Kept Clean
Who is Bob Dylan?
Bob Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman in Hibbing Minnesota in 1942 where he grew up for a keen taste for music and performing. Throughout his teens he played Guitar and Piano and was attracted to the Rock n Roll scene. Emulating the stars of the day like Jerry lee Lewis, little Richard and Buddy Holly. He played in various Rock n Roll bands at home. But he wanted to take his music to the world.
Inspired by Folk legend Woody Guthrie, Bob started playing many of the old traditional folk tunes of the dustbowl era and began to write his own. Dylan left Minnesota for the bright lights of New York city where he soon moved. Playing gigs around Greenwich Village Bob started to establish a name for himself as Bob Dylan. This name he took was inspired by his liking of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
While he was in New York city, Dylan decided to visit his hero Woody guthri in hospital where the aged folk writer was dying. This inspired him to write his song ‘Song to Woody’ which is featured here on his debut album.
In 1965, Dylan went Electric, causing an uproar at the Newport festival that year by disgruntled, more conservatively Folk fans of his who called him ‘Judas’ for apparently selling out to the Pop industry. But this didnt deter Bob and he carried on with another Fifty Plus albums after that.
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