Bringing It All Back Home released: March 22, 1965 BUY

One of the most interesting Dylan albums, Bringing It All Back Home is in a sense two records. One side of the original 1965 LP release featured Dylan alone with his guitar, performing intensely poetic songs full of hermetic and at times surreal imagery, lines almost tripping over one another in their rush to be heard. “Mr. Tambourine Man,” became one of Dylan’s most enduringly popular songs; it was to the nascent drug and consciousness-expansion culture what “Blowin’ In The Wind” had been to the politically engaged folk culture of a few years before. The other side of the record was something else again – Dylan performing songs, most of them blues-based and full of barbed, scathing humor, accompanied by an electric rock and roll band. “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” and “Maggie’s Farm” cohabit with the tender and almost mystical love song-poems “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” and “She Belongs to Me.” This record once again changed every young songwriter’s sense of what was possible and desirable in songwriting, and it laid the groundwork for Highway 61 Revisited, which became one of the most influential albums of all time. Subterranean Homesick Blues | listen | She Belongs to Me | listen | Maggie's Farm | listen | Love Minus Zero/No Limit | listen | Outlaw Blues | listen | On the Road Again | listen | Bob Dylan's 115th Dream | listen | Mr. Tambourine Man | listen | Gates of Eden | listen | It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) | listen | It's All Over Now, Baby Blue | listen |