Dylan's best folk albums

Ditto...that's my favourite too...

 

Do you know any of Leonard Cohen's early stuff? I'm sure you'd really like it

 

I've never heard of him...

 

I only have the middle two out of that list, but I definately prefer Freewheelin' to the Times They Are A-changin', even though they both have some great songs.

 

Man Dylans done so much great work over the years, even with just the early work, or rather SPECIALY with those early works. I like the first album a lot too because even through his genius you can still see that he's searchin' for himself, that's one reason that album realy appeals to me, I voted for The Time They Are A Changin' but those 2 (Freewhilin' and the Times...) are both so exceptional that it's really hard to pick either one. BTW, how cool was that documentary on the BBC (PBS in the States)? Man, it's about time for another Folk-revival, we've gotta stir things up a bit I think, get back on track.

-Amadeo

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Back in the early 60's once described as 'the Canadian Bob Dylan' - and IMHO he was the only other folk song writer of that era who was on a par with Dylan. I'd highly recommend 'The Songs of Leonard Cohen' as the best intro. Sheer poetry. Magic.
He's still around - these days he's a part time Buddhist monk (don't please ask me how you can be a part-time monk).

 

It was very cool indeed to have Bob on TV 2 nights in a row.:sunglasse The film had some great stuff, I thought - total magic - from Bob, of course, but also some of the other artists.
Wouldn't it be really great if someone did a follow up to take us from the mid-60's up to now with Bob's career...

A folk revival would be just wonderful - I see some signs of it too - certainly, there's more interest growing. I think it's inevitable really, as it would be a much needed counter to the increasingly irrelevant pop/rock/dance music scene.
Right at home anyone can make folk music - that's why it's so appealing to me anyway.

 

exactly man. hey I was out here in Amsterdam going from record store to record store looking for some Odetta cd's, and I was thinking , hell, there's like NO record stores that even have a Folk section anymore!

I think it's definetly starting to lean back towards that direction again too, but Acoustic music isn't always Folk music.

Man a part 2 of that Dylan documentary would be great! There's far too less coverage about that half of his career as it is I think, I do like earlier Dylan myself as well, but he's done some undoubtedly amazing stuff, even recently with Time Out Of Mind, I love the way his voice has aged too, has major texture to it now, by that alone you can hear he's got a tale to tell.

 

Agree completely!

I also like 'Love and Theft' - it's steadily grown on me - but 'Time out of Mind' is a really great album.

Few years ago, I used to be a rock n' roller - then I quit playing music altogether for some years. Now, I'm getting very into learning english folk songs, esp. of the industrial revolution period, and I really enjoy singing them. Not trying to achieve anything with this - it's just, well- fun, I guess. But the laments of the early 19th century folk singers and balladeers over the horrors of industrialization have, I feel, a deep resonance with to-days world of environmental meltdown and so on.

Myself, I think what would be really great is if folk music could become a focus for green issues, and a new peace movement, in the way it was for civil rights and anti-nukes etc back in the early 60's.

 

Nashville Skyline is a great album. I especially liked the duet he did with Johnny Cash on it, "Girl From The North Country".

 

i'd have to say freewheelin' is my favorite just because personally, i think that "a hard rain's a-gonna fall" is pretty much one of, if not the best song bob dylan ever wrote... there's so much imagery, so much emotion, and so many different ways it can be interpreted... it's just such a powerful song... allen ginsberg even cried when he first heard it, because he connected "hard rain" to the nuclear activity of the time (although bob dylan said he was actually talking about hard rain.... literally).. masters of war is also an extremely powerful song (and scarily fits the situation in the world today)... and i think "blowin' in the wind" requires no commentary!

 

yea, so basically, u just saw the no direction home movie?

 

i actually have not, considering the fact that i don't have cable tv in my apartment at the moment, but i think i've read enough stuff on dylan, and seen him in concert enough times to compensate for it.

anyway, thanks for the insult.... i thought this was supposed to be a site full of nice people

 

I'd put "a hard rain's a-gonna fall" among dylan's best ever, just look at my name lol but as far as I know dylan did write it about a nuclear apocalypse...the song describes his visions of the world left afterwards. this was in 1962 (cuban missile crisis) when dylan was his protestiest...

...and I love "don't think twice, it's all right" so freakin much

 

In an interview Dylan said 'Hard Rain' isn't about neuclear apocalypse.

 

I love this man and all his work, how can anyone pick?

 

i only have blonde on blonde, what does everyone recomend is the best?

 

Blood on the Tracks...is my favourite of all...but its up to your own personal taste...

 

BlackBillBLAKE, I would not take anything Dylan said during interviews in the 1960s seriousyl he was just fuckin with every1. And the only reason why i said that about NO DIRECTION HOME is because 1) Her name is NO DIRECTION HOME (so was the documentary) 2) It was her first post (right after the documentary came out. 3) In No Direction Home(the documentary) the audience sees a never before released interview where Ginsberg says exactly what NO DIRECTION HOME(the poster) said in her post.
There should be some posts or discussion about his lesser known albums that are just as good as some of the albums that are being discussed here.

P.S. I am a nice person but i dont like it when ppl try and claim that they know so much about dylan when they really dont.

 

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