Bob Dylan albums (Music Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 103. Chapters: Blood on the Tracks, Highway 61 Revisited, "Love and Theft", The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Basement Tapes, Blonde on Blonde, Time Out of Mind, List of Basement Tapes songs, Bringing It All Back Home, Empire Burlesque, Desire, Shot of Love, Modern Times, Infidels, The Times They Are a-Changin', John Wesley Harding, Slow Train Coming, Oh Mercy, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Street-Legal, New Morning, Nashville Skyline, Planet Waves, Self Portrait, Together Through Life, Christmas in the Heart, Down in the Groove, Good as I Been to You, World Gone Wrong, Under the Red Sky, Knocked Out Loaded, Saved, Land of the Free Home of the Brave. Excerpt: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in May 1963 by Columbia Records. Whereas his debut album Bob Dylan had contained only two original songs, Freewheelin initiated the process of writing contemporary words to traditional melodies. Eleven of the thirteen songs on the album are original compositions by Dylan. The album kicks off with "Blowin' in the Wind", which would become one of the anthems of the 1960s, and an international hit for folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary soon after the release of Freewheelin. The album featured several other songs which came to be regarded as amongst Dylan's best compositions and classics of the 1960s folk scene: "Girl from the North Country", "Masters of War", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right". Dylan's lyrics embraced stories ripped from the headlines about civil rights and he articulated anxieties about the fear of nuclear warfare. Balancing this political material were love songs, sometimes bitter and accusatory, and material that features surreal humor. Freewheelin' showcased Dylan's songwriting talent for the first time, propelling him to national and international fame. The success of the album and Dylan's subsequent recognition led to his being named as "Spokesman of a Generation", a label Dylan came to resent. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan reached number 22 in the US (eventually going platinum), and later became a number one hit in the UK in 1964. In 2003, the album was ranked number 97 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2002, Freewheelin' was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. Both critics and the public took little notice of Dylan's debut album, Bob Dylan, which sold only 5,000 copies in its first year, just enough to break even. In a pointed rebuke to John Hammond, who had signed Dylan to Columbia Records, some within the com