= MONO = SINISTER LATE NIGHT GROOVER 1967 ORIG BOB DYLAN JOHN WESLEY HARDING

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        SUPER RARE *MONO* 1967 FIRST PRESSING

            360 SOUND COLUMBIA COLLECTIBLE                                

                         BOB DYLAN

           JOHN WESLEY HARDING 

          USA - Columbia Records 360 Sound - CL 2804 = MONOPHONIC

 SUPER RARE in MONO ....  1967 first printing with original printed inner sleeve

Issued in very limited quantity in MONO format in the last month of 1967 

 INVESTMENT ITEM ....very few copies were released in MONO and are highly sought after as a result - and clean copies, prime example here - are valued, and sell for triple figures. All major label record companies had all but phased out the mono format by 1967...it's really special to find a MONO pressing of this album, there weren't that many made 45 years ago and far less survived ...

The rare mono release offers different song mixes from the stereo release, as well as a different bold and warm punch in the playback that also differs from the stereo...  

Again, super rare 1967 *MONO* collectible on the famously collectible 360 Sound Columbia label of the sixties in CLEAN condition...extremely rare to find the 45 year old album in mono THIS clean ...

Everyone has their own favourite lesser known Dylan album, this is ours.
And a lot better than the very good but flagrantly overrated "Blood On The Tracks".

THEE nighttime Dylan listening LP, it seems cheerfully innocous at first but there is a definite sinister and fatalistic tone just stirring beneath the surface.

For almost the whole duration, the subjects, characters and stories are unremittingly cryptic, dark, bare and have a strange quiet creepiness to them.
The stories are all about Hoboes, Immigrants, Loners, Monks, Gamblers, Murderers, Evil Women, Prisoners, Outlaws and Bandits. See an emerging theme here?

For starters, theres no choruses anywhere, on the whole album.
It's another record with a Dylan cadence that would never be used again, sounds like a mixture of Freewhelin' talking blues with hints of his rural croon, but all done very subtly and quietly.
The sonics too, are superficially pleasant backround but have that strong sense of unease about them. The strange pitter-patter drumming here may actually the most prominent sound, with Dylans guitar being the counter-rhythm, glued together with a nearly inaudible bass. Theres something almost subliminal in the it's simplicity coupled with the weird drums.
Oh, and almost forgot, it contains Bobs best harmonica playing he's ever done. Not something that usually comes to mind when Dylans mentioned but here all the playing is gorgeous, spare and never exists just to fill out the song. The opening Harmonica solo for "As I Went Out One Morning" is stunningly beautiful, with no hyperbole or bullsh*t. The track itself is very haunting with it's strange cryptic story and lovely melody.

After three enormously popular and rocking Electric works, Dylan goes back to-basics in big way. At the time, 1967, the year psychedelic excess was at it's giddy extreme, this record must have sounded impossibly out-of-touch, Dylan really didn't (Doesn't) give a hoot.
It's the most subtly unsettling album to that point heard. It's also a grower, being the most cryptic and sparse albums Dylan ever recorded as well one of the most personaly revealing with "Another Side Of".

A:

John Wesley Harding

As I Went Out One Morning

I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine

All Along the Watchtower

The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest

Drifter's Escape

B:

Dear Landlord

I Am a Lonesome Hobo

I Pity the Poor Immigrant

The Wicked Messenger

Down Along the Cove

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

CONDITION: The cover: solid on both sides and all seams, near "EX" (excellent) and better  =  having no writing, no split seams and still with bright original colors...

The vinyl:  is highly shiny & clear on both sides, "EX" (excellent) to M- has only a couple very soft hairline scuffs that do not affect the audio playback...play grade was minty clean = Potentially an album we would keep in our own collection. Both 360 Sound *MONO* labels are clean

keeper!

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record