The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

One of my favorite Dylan albums. I play it very often.

Love Dylan and very happy to be able to get this old music on CD. Thanks Amazon!

Excellent album.

The first album by Bod Dylan. It is a folk classic. If you watch the Bob Dylan movie - this covers the very beginning of his music

Got here quickly, arrived without incident and sounds great.

For Bob Dylan's fans, this is a must have! He always knew the truth and wasn't afraid to share it! Too bad we don't have these people around us now! Now that would be one fine day!

Dylan's sophomore album was really the recording which made him 'the voice of his generation,' containing several folk hits which have gone on to become standards-- inspirational folk anthems like "Blowin' In the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," and Dylan's achingly personal ode to regret and loss, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right." But if you scratch a little deeper, this album also has some wonderful deep tracks, too. There isn't a wasted effort anywhere on the album. "Masters of War" and "Oxford Town" bite as hard as any protest songs that Dylan ever wrote, and "Girl From the North Country" reworks the traditional English ballad "Scarborough Fair" into something wholly new and original. All of the songs on this album get better and better with repeated listening. 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' was really the first of a trio of albums which changed everything in popular music-- if you're new to Dylan, this is as good a place as any to get on the train. Dylan's next two records, 'The Times They Are a-Changin' and 'Another Side of Bob Dylan,' complete the trilogy of Dylan's classic acoustic-guitar protest-song folk albums. With 'Bringing It All Back Home,' Dylan started to pivot towards electric guitar and keyboards, with backing from a regular band instead of mostly performing alone onstage, and a second trilogy of classic electric rock music was completed by 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Blonde on Blonde.' While Dylan had other recordings which are truly great in their own right-- and which definitely deserve a listening-- I'd argue that this run of six albums in two neat trilogies, one acoustic and one electric, really form the corpus of Dylan's work. 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' is Dylan at his peak, performing at a level that he maintained pretty much throughout the sixties and into the seventies and beyond.

"The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" is an album EVERY folk-rock fan should have and cherish. This is, in fact, one of the watershed albums of the 1960s; it's almost impossible to overstate its influence and enduring power over the decades. Dylan's first album had seemed a bit stiff, frankly; here, he decides -- instead of being the young, earnest interpreter of folk tradition -- to be himself, and the results are astounding. The album opens with a three-song blast that announced Dylan as THE major artist of the time: "Blowin' in the Wind," "Girl From the North Country" and "Masters of War." "Girl" could've been overshadowed by the other two, except for Dylan's impassioned but restrained vocal delivery and his full-blown, untamed harmonica. Even when being whimsical, Dylan sounded like serious business. In the hands of other artists, songs like "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" and "Bob Dylan's Dream" could have sounded like throwaways. He delivers them in an almost off-handed way, yes, but they still sound charming, witty and NECESSARY, all these decades later. This isn't my favorite Dylan album; the man has recorded so much colossal discs that each listener is going to have his personal favorites, and mine include "Blonde on Blonde" and "Blood on the Tracks." But this album pointed the way not only for Dylan but for countless folkies, rockers and folky rockers in the early 1960s. I cannot imagine how the American scene could have developed without it.