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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