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1964

Another Side of Bob Dylan

Greenwich Village · 1961–1964

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Why it matters

Recorded in a single night session in June 1964, it trades topical protest for personal, playful and searching songs. It marked his break from the role of folk spokesman.

Dylan cut this album in New York in one long evening in June 1964, with Tom Wilson producing and friends drifting in and out of the studio. He played it almost entirely alone on guitar and harmonica, with piano on one track, and the loose, sometimes giggling performances reflect the speed of the session. Many of the songs had been written on travels earlier that year, including a stay in Europe. Gone were the newspaper-headline ballads; in their place came comic shaggy-dog stories, flirtatious love songs, a bitter account of a breakup and a few searching reflections on his own earlier certainties. Folk purists were dismayed, and parts of the folk press publicly scolded him for turning inward. Other artists heard something new, and the Byrds and the Turtles would soon find hits in its songs. Looking back, it is the hinge between the protest singer and the electric poet who arrived next.

Track list · 11 songs

  1. 1All I Really Want to Do
  2. 2Black Crow Blues
  3. 3Spanish Harlem Incident
  4. 4Chimes of Freedom
  5. 5I Shall Be Free No. 10
  6. 6To Ramona
  7. 7Motorpsycho Nitemare
  8. 8My Back Pages
  9. 9I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
  10. 10Ballad in Plain D
  11. 11It Ain’t Me, Babe

Where its songs lead

All I Really Want to Do · Covered byAll I Really Want to DoThe Byrds · 1965The Byrds put out their electric version as a single in 1965, a year after Dylan's own.All I Really Want to Do · Covered byAll I Really Want to DoCher · 1965Cher turned it into her first solo hit in 1965, racing the Byrds' version up the charts.Spanish Harlem Incident · Covered bySpanish Harlem IncidentThe Byrds · 1965The Byrds gave it a jangling electric arrangement on their 1965 debut album.Chimes of Freedom · Covered byChimes of FreedomThe Byrds · 1965The Byrds put the song on their first album, next to their Mr. Tambourine Man hit.Chimes of Freedom · Covered byChimes of FreedomBruce Springsteen · 1988Bruce Springsteen released a live version to promote the Human Rights Now! tour.My Back Pages · Covered byMy Back PagesThe Byrds · 1967The Byrds' 1967 version became one of the best-known covers of the song.

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