Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan [Mono] (SuperVinyl 180g, LP)

Bob Dylan’s self-titled 1962 debut is as understated of an entrance as any significant musician as ever made. Well-versed in American roots music, Dylan simultaneously pays homage to tradition and extends it by putting his own stamp on classic material that metaphorically functions as the soil of contemporary songs and styles. Free of ego, and performed with masterful conviction, Bob Dylan ranks with the initial efforts of giants like Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones.

Nodding to Woody Guthrie and re-imagining Blind Lemon Jefferson’s „See That My Grave Is Kept Clean,” Dylan straddles the past and future. He authoritatively displays the ability to handle weighty topics such as death, sorrow, and lamentation with the vaudeville flair, bluesy mannerisms, and poignant command of an artist three times his then-20-year-old age.

Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition 180g 33RPM mono SuperVinyl LP brings the contents of this seminal release as close as they’ve ever come to live-in-the-studio quality. Transparent to the source, Dylan’s voice, acoustic guitar, and harmonica come across with exceptional realism — the „husk and bark” to which Robert Shelton referred in his legendary New York Times review of a Dylan appearance at Gerde’s Folk City — courtesy of the format’s nearly non-existent noise floor, groove definition, and quiet surfaces.

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Lista pieselor

1. You’re No Good

2. Talkin’ New York

3. In My Time of Dyin’

4. Man of Constant Sorrow

5. Fixin’ to Die

6. Pretty Peggy-O

7. Highway 51

8. Gospel Plow

9. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

10. House of the Risin’ Sun

11. Freight Train Blues

12. Song to Woody

13. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean