Bob Dylan - Robert Zimmerman Plays Bob Dylan - One Year In NYC

Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-consciousness narratives. As a vocalist, he broke down the notion that a singer must have a conventionally good voice in order to perform, thereby redefining the vocalist's role in popular music. As a musician, he sparked several genres of pop music, including electrified folk-rock and country-rock. And that just touches on the tip of his achievements. Dylan's force was evident during his height of popularity in the '60s — the Beatles' shift toward introspective songwriting in the mid-'60s never would have happened without him — but his influence echoed throughout several subsequent generations, as many of his songs became popular standards and his best albums became undisputed classics of the rock & roll canon. Dylan's influence throughout folk music was equally powerful, and he marks a pivotal turning point in its 20th century evolution, signifying when the genre moved away from traditional songs and toward personal songwriting.

As the title, Robert Zimmerman Plays Bob Dylan, implies, these recordings show the young man we all now know as Dylan finding his way in NYC after bumming a ride from Madison in the early months of 1961. Featuring songs that were left off of his first two Columbia LPs, Bob Dylan and The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, as well as other assorted demos and unreleased recordings, this essential LP of early recordings perfectly captures his growth from traditional folk music interpreter into what he would become: America's greatest living songwriter.


Tracklist:


Side A:
1. He Was A Friend Of Mine
2. Man On The Street
3. Hard Times In New York Town
4. House Carpenter
5. Rambling, Gambling Willie
6. Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues

Side B:
1. Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
2. Let Me Die In My Footsteps
3. Quit Your Low Down Ways
4. Worried Blues
5. No More Auction Block
6. Kingsport Town


Bob Dylan - Robert Zimmerman Plays Bob Dylan - One Year In NYC
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