Track Listing

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 Blues
8. Gospel Plow
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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60168 in Music
• Released on: 1989-07-19
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2008.

Amazon.com
This album now seems as remarkable as his mid-'60s breakthoughs. Like Presley's Sun Sessions, it is both the remnant of a lost rural America and the seed of rock culture. The music is primarily Dylan, with acoustic guitar, barking traditional folk, and blues. He was 20, a Northern hick come to New York to be the next Woody Guthrie. It's amazing that at 20 he sings "In My Time of Dying" and "See That My Grave is Kept Clean," not as traditional songs, but making their doom and resignation sound personal. --Steve Tignor

Customer Reviews

Raw and Gutsy
"Bob Dylan" - An album that has sort of been ignored through the years, partially because Dylan only has a couple original songs on the album. But, to fully understand the man and what he would later become artistically, you must experience this amazing, gritty piece of Americana.

This album is not just folk, contrary to popular belief, neither was Bob...not really....this album is many things...blues, folk, gospel...sung and played by a real bluesman. It is a great collection of songs that are expressed from the soul.

The performances are quite spectacular for such a young man to be singing them. "In My Time of Dying", "You're No Good", "Man of Constant Sorrow", "Gospel Plow" and "House of the Rising Sun" are among the classics. "Song to Woody", written by Bob is beautiful. A MUST HAVE!

woody would have been proud
This is Bob at his unplugged best, wailing on the harmonica and playing his version of white-boy blues and folk. The recording is a little flat and sounds a little like Alan Lomax's hotel-room blues records, but Dylan shines through on this charming first album. If you are just discovering Dylan, you should probably start with the Greatest Hits albums or Another Side, Highway 61, Bringing It all Back Home and John Wesley Harding, but if you wish to hear Bleecker Bob exploring his roots, you have to own this one.

My favorite overall Dylan record
I really like the sparseness of just him and an acoustic guitar. Most of the songs are fast and more like country blues than the protest folk songs he would later write. I cant believe the gravely voice on FIXIN' TO DIE and IN MY TIME OF DYING come from the baby faced kid on the front. He sounds like some 60 year old black man from the Mississippi Delta. Great powerfull music!