Vintage Bob Dylan Records

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As a recording artist, Bob Dylan has seen his music pressed onto monaural and stereo LPs and 45s; magnetized onto lengths of acetate and polyester tape, be they reels, cassettes, or 8-tracks; and even offered as digital downloads. In recent...
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As a recording artist, Bob Dylan has seen his music pressed onto monaural and stereo LPs and 45s; magnetized onto lengths of acetate and polyester tape, be they reels, cassettes, or 8-tracks; and even offered as digital downloads. In recent decades, Dylan’s main record label, Columbia, has released more than a dozen box sets (on vinyl, cassettes, and CDs) and has packaged even more official reissues of previously illegal bootlegs, Dylan being one of the most pirated artists in history. Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, Dylan’s recording career began in 1962, when Columbia Records released “Bob Dylan,” a collection of 11 traditional and folk tunes, plus two original compositions. Produced by John Hammond, who played a key role in the careers of an incredibly diverse range of artists, from Billie Holiday and Benny Goodman to Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen, Dylan’s first album for Columbia featured the young Minnesotan alone in the studio, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica. That album was recorded in just two days, but Dylan’s second album, “The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan,” was recorded over the course of a year and featured an inverse ratio of new and traditional material. Future greatest hits on “Freewheelin'” include “Blowin' in the Wind” (also released as a single) and “A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall.” In 1965, Dylan released two albums on Columbia, both of which reflected his embrace of electric guitars and other amplified instruments. On “Bringing It All Back Home,” released in March, Dylan gave his fans a side of the folky Dylan, with numbers like “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” as well as an electric side, beginning with “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” each of whose four verses famously pivots on the words “Look out kid.” A few months later, in June, Dylan debuted his electric band at the Newport Folk Festival, with three members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band on guitar, bass, and drums (Mike...
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