Bob Dylan released: March 19, 1962 BUY

In November 1961 Dylan entered the studio alone with his guitar (and harmonica) and recorded an album full of the kinds of traditional songs he had been busy absorbing in Minneapolis and Greenwich Village. Although sometimes thought of as merely a warm-up for the great things to come, Bob Dylan already showed that the young singer paid little mind to the folk orthodoxies of his moment, mixing Anglo-American folk material such as “Man of Constant Sorrow” and “Pretty Peggy-O” with blues-based material like Blind Lemon Jefferson’s “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean” and Bukka White’s “Fixin’ To Die.” The album contained only two original songs, a talking blues about his arrival in New York City, and the fine “Song To Woody,” an homage to balladeer Woody Guthrie, Dylan’s idol at the time he arrived in New York City. You're No Good | listen | Talking New York | listen | In My Time of Dyin' | listen | Man of Constant Sorrow | listen | Fixin' to Die | listen | Pretty Peggy-O | listen | Highway 51 Blues | listen | Gospel Plow | listen | Baby, Let Me Follow You Down | listen | House of the Rising Sun | listen | Freight Train Blues | listen | Song to Woody | listen | See That My Grave is Kept Clean | listen |