"THE MONO VINYL BOX SET" - BOB DYLAN (VINYL / BOX-SET)

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"THE MONO VINYL BOX SET"  -  BOB DYLAN

(VINYL / BOX-SET)



This exceptional Columbia Box Set has set standards for presentation and quality remastering. There's a lot to get through - so onwards to the tambourine men stuck inside Memphis mobiles again...

Released October 2010 in the USA on Columbia/Legacy MONO-88697761042 - "The Original Mono Recordings" by BOB DYLAN offers you 8 studio albums (one a double) in their original MONO mixes and breaks down as follows...

1. "Bob Dylan" - debut LP released 19 March 1962 in the USA on Columbia CL 1779 (Mono) and July 1962 in the UK on CBS Records BPG 62022 (Mono) -
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 [Side 2]
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

2. "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" - 2nd album released 27 May 1963 in the USA on Columbia CL 1986 (Mono) and November 1963 in the UK on CBS Records BGP 62193 (Mono) -
1. Blowin' In The Wind
2. Girl From The North Country
3. Masters Of War
4. Down The Highway
5. Bob Dylan's Blues
6. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
7. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right [Side 2]
8. Bob Dylan's Dream
9. Oxford Town
10. Talkin' World War III Blues
11. Corrina, Corrina
12. Just Allow Me One More Chance
13. I Shall Be Free

3. "The Times They Are A-Changin'" - 3rd album released 13 January 1964 in the USA on Columbia CL 2105 (Mono) and May 1964 in the UK on CBS BPG 62251 (Mono) -
1. The Times They Are A-Changin'
2. Ballad Of Hollis Brown
3. With God On Our Side
4. One Too Many Mornings
5. North Country Blues
6. Only A Pawn In Their Game [Side 2]
7. Boots Of Spanish Leather
8. When The Ship Comes In
9. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
10. Restless Farewell

4. "Another Side Of Bob Dylan" - 4th album released 10 August 1964 in the USA on Columbia CL 2193 (Mono) and November 1964 in the UK on CBS Records BPG 62429 (Mono) -
1. All I Really Want To Do
2. Black Crow Blues
3. Spanish Harlem Incident
4. Chimes Of Freedom
5. I Shall Be Free No. 10
6. To Ramona
7. Motorpsycho Nitemare [Side 2]
8. My Back Pages
9. I Don't Believe You
10. Ballad In Plain D
11. It Ain't Me Babe

5. "Bringing It All Back Home" - 5th studio album released 27 March 1965 in the USA on Columbia CL 2328 (Mono) and May 1965 in the UK on CBS Records BPG 62515 (Mono) -
1. Subterranean Homesick Blues
2. She Belongs To Me
3. Maggie's farm
4. Love Minus Zero/No Limit
5. Outlaw Blues
6. On The Road Again
7. Bob Dylan 115th Dream
8. Mr. Tambourine Man [Side 2]
9. Gates Of Eden
10. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
11. It's All Over Now, baby Blue

6. "Highway 61 Revisited" - 6th studio album released 30 August 1965 in the USA on Columbia CL 2389 (Mono) and September 1965 in the UK on CBS Records BPG 62572 (Mono) -
1. Like A Rolling Stone
2. Tombstone Blues
3. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
4. From A Buick 6
5. Ballad Of A Thin Man
6. Queen Jane Approximately [Side 2]
7. Highway 61 Revisited
8. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
9. Desolation Row

7. "Blonde On Blonde" - 7th studio album (a double) released 16 May 1966 in the USA on Columbia C2L 41 (Mono) and August 1966 in the UK on CBS Records DDP 66012 (Mono) -
1. Rainy Day Women No 12 & 35 [Record 1 - Side 1]
2. Pledging My Time
3. Visions Of Johanna
4. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
5. I Want You [Record 1- Side 2]
6. Memphis Blues Again
7. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
8. Just Like A Woman

1. Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine [Record 2 - Side 3]
2. Temporarily Like Achilles
3. Absolutely Sweet Marie
4. 4th Time Around
5. Obviously 5 Believers
6. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands [Record 2 - Side 4]

8. "John Wesley Harding" - 8th studio album released 17 December 1967 in the USA on Columbia CL 2804 (Mono) and February 1968 in the UK on CBS Records BGP 63252 (Mono) -
1. John Wesley Harding
2. As I Went Out One Morning
3. I Dreamed Of St. Augustine
4. All Along The Watchtower
5. The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest
6. Dear Landlord [Side 2]
7. I Am A Lonesome Hobo
8. I Pity The Poor Immigrant
9. The Wicked Messenger
10. Down Along The Cove
11. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight


The packaging is classily done. The debut "Bob Dylan" even has its 'Columbia Records' advert inner bag reproduced. The withdrawn 'two women' photographs on the inner gatefold of original copies of the 1966 "Blonde On Blonde" double album is unfortunately AWOL (probably due to licensing - Columbia have used the more commonly seen replacements). The 56-page booklet is visually and thoughtfully put together too - gorgeous black and white photos of Dylan in bookshops, in the studio, having a cigarette, at his typewriter, chatting to tea-ladies - there's full track-by-track info, an American Discography and reissue credits. STEVE BERKOWITZ produced the reissue and MARK WILDER did the superlative remastering from original first generation master tapes.

As the GREIL MARCUS liner-notes exhaustively tell you - STEREO through the early to late Sixties was something of an afterthought. The MONO mixes were where it was at for the artists and the producers (and they claim the public too). But for those of us who have grown up from the Seventies onwards on the STEREO versions - hearing these 'overplayed' recordings in such stark one-channel force is a revelation. You also forget how pretty and touching some of the songs were/are - the brilliance of his lone original on the cover-heavy debut album - "Song For Woody" - the sweet longing of "Girl From The North Country" (lyrics from it title this review). There's the gorgeous amble of "Corrina. Corrina" and "She Belongs To Me" - with the B-side cool of "From A Buick 6". The sheer aural kick that comes off "Pledging My Time" from 1966 still whacks me sideways - same goes for the electric and acidic wit of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat". And the side long "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands" has more genius lyrics in it than most people know what to do with. An exemplary release - and one that reeks of pride.

Was Bob Dylan really that good? Did he deserve the Godlike status he was held in? Does he still warrant that crown of glory to this day? You bet your subterranean rainy day women he does. Good on ye Mister Zimmerman. Extraordinary stuff...

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