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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0827969239629 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony MPN: 92396 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: June 01, 2004 Studio: Sony Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Dylan's outstanding second album is a tremendous jump from its predecessor. Whereas the debut established him as a peerless interpreter of folk and country-blues classics, and a singer like none before, this followup features some of the most pungent original songs of the '60s. "Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War," "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "I Shall Be Free": if this sounds like the lineup for a greatest-hits collection, you've got the idea. Nat Hentoff's liner notes are charmingly dated, but Dylan's idiosyncratic singing, unexpected lyrics, and inimitable guitar and harmonica playing are as immediate and relevant as whatever you heard on the radio today. (As great as this is, there's much more: a handful of top-rank outtakes from Freewheelin' appear on the Bootleg Series box set.) --Jimmy Guterman Average Rating:
 Rating: - Blowin' In The WindReleased the year I was born, 1963, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" became the album which best represents a turbulent time in America. Put this cd on, for those of us who spent at least a part of our lives in those stormy years, the album evokes a lot of memories, and a lot of feelings, particularly about the America we could've become before Kennedy fell, before Viet Nam, before King fell, before we lost our innocense. The first track "Blowin' in the Wind" became the anthem of the ... Read More Rating: - The Voice of The Generation of '68?In reviewing Bob Dylan's 1965 classic album Bringing All Back Home (you know, the one where he went electric) I noted that it seemed hard to believe now that both as to the performer as well as to what was being attempted that anyone would take umbrage at a performer using an electric guitar to tell a folk story (or any story for that matter). I further pointed out that it is not necessary to go into all the details of what or what did not happen with Pete Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival in ... Read More Rating: - Early Dylan savedThis brought me back to the time I was a Dj at WKDK in Newberry, South Carolina. The 33 record came in, I played it and was told to put it on the back shelf. To controversial for the time and place. I ended up with the record and played it until 33's faded out. Over the years I remembered that record and often wished I could play it again and then I found the CD on Amazon. The CD is exactly as I remember the record but a better quality. Anyone interested in the early Dylan and that time period should ... Read More Rating: - Young & Wise DylanWhat more can be said about Dylan's Freewheelin'? He was only 21 but he already knew what life was going to be like. He sounds as if he's his own reincarnation - he'd been there and back! Wise words pour from his mind and come to us as this life riddle imagery. May the wind keep on blowin'... Rating: - More than just a protest album...It took quite a long time - much longer than most albums, actually - for this to make its mark on me. But now that it has, I can safely endorse its mythic reputation. It's marred the slightest bit by some ponderous philosophy ("Bob Dylan's Dream"), and while some lyrics from "I Shall be Free" are priceless, the many explicit references to '60s pop culture date the song. Still, there's a lot to like, even to love, about this one. The mood of the album varies from humorous but thought-provoking satire ("Bob ... Read More |
