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1001 Albums Day 84 – Bringing It All Back Home

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Bob Dylan with guitar and harmonica in the recording studio, standing in front of a music stand.

If they keep putting Bob Dylan albums up for me I am going to run out of superlatives to use in my reviews. Bringing It All Back Home is a pivotal album for Dylan with the half electric / half acoustic format. It’s a lyrical masterpiece with so many quotable lines – even if you only pull them from “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” which is just a brilliant song in every way. The fact that it can coexist on the same record with “Mr. Tambourine Man” is just crazy.

I get it, some people don’t care much for Bob Dylan. If you’ve read any of my other reviews for this project you can see that I have my own preferences and there is a lot of popular, well rated music that escapes me.

If you can just give yourself to the music and the experience and just take it all in, it’s astounding though. It’s hard to pick out just one Dylan record and call it one of the best of all time, but that’s because he has made so many that qualify, including this one.


To learn more about the 1001 Albums Project, I first wrote about it here.


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2 responses to “1001 Albums Day 84 – Bringing It All Back Home”

  1. sparklyhappilyc4e2de1b0c Avatar

    Great perspective. Which I am not a close Dylan follower I strangely have a great love of the song Don’t Think Twice; It’s All Right. Not a happy song but oh well

    1. Not strange at all, that’s a fantastic song with one of my favorite lyrics”

      I ain’t a-saying you treated me unkind
      You could’ve done better but I don’t mind
      You just kinda wasted my precious time
      But don’t think twice, it’s all right

      Susan Tedeschi does a great version of this with The Allman Brothers – I’ll post it tonight for you!

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