The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Description

It is with this second album that everything truly begins. The before and the after. Even though this masterpiece of raw, urgent, and sincere folk is in line with Woody Guthrie and other Dock Boggs, it revolutionizes the genre by concentrating protest songs, pure poetry, allegorical paintings, and a redefinition of traditional songs. The raw guitar is a guiding thread, the unusual nasal voice grabs the listener by the collar, and the harmonica stumbles or moans. Dylan sings of rebellion, the soul, the earth, the sky, the heart, war, love, hate, pretty much everything his prose can shape. And everything is instantly classic: Blowin' In The Wind, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna-Fall, I Shall Be Free, etc., the mere mention of the titles is enough in itself.