Sold Date: June 2, 2019
Start Date: May 26, 2019
Final Price: $27.50 (USD)
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ARTIST: Bob Dylan

TITLE: Bob Dylan

VINYL: Near Mint. Looks unplayed.

COVER: Nice shape. (See pic).

LABELS: Nice. (See pic).

INNER SLEEVE: poly lined plastic.

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NOTES: The album was recorded in three short afternoon sessions on November 20th through the 22nd, in Studio A at Columbia Studios in New York city, at a cost of $402 to record it.

The album cover features a reversed photo of Dylan holding his acoustic guitar, with this being done to prevent the neck of the guitar from obscuring Columbia's logo.

As to the recording process, John Hammond said, "Bobby popped every p, hissed every s, and habitually wandered off mike. Even more frustrating, he refused to learn from his mistakes. It occurred to me at the time that I'd never worked with anyone so undisciplined before."

AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder

Bob Dylan's first album is a lot like the debut albums by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones -- a sterling effort, outclassing most, if not all, of what came before it in the genre, but similarly eclipsed by the artist's own subsequent efforts. The difference was that not very many people heard Bob Dylan on its original release (originals on the early-'60s Columbia label are choice collectibles) because it was recorded with a much smaller audience and musical arena in mind. At the time of Bob Dylan's release, the folk revival was rolling, and interpretation was considered more important than original composition by most of that audience. A significant portion of the record is possessed by the style and spirit of Woody Guthrie, whose influence as a singer and guitarist hovers over "Man of Constant Sorrow" and "Pretty Peggy-O," as well as the two originals here, the savagely witty "Talkin' New York" and the poignant "Song to Woody"; and it's also hard to believe that he wasn't aware of Jimmie Rodgers and Roy Acuff when he cut "Freight Train Blues." But on other songs, one can also hear the influences of Bukka White, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, and Furry Lewis, in the playing and singing, and this is where Dylan departed significantly from most of his contemporaries. Other white folksingers of the era, including his older contemporaries Eric Von Schmidt and Dave Van Ronk, had incorporated blues in their work, but Dylan's presentation was more in your face, resembling in some respects (albeit in a more self-conscious way) the work of John Hammond, Jr., the son of the man who signed Dylan to Columbia Records and produced this album, who was just starting out in his own career at the time this record was made. There's a punk-like aggressiveness to the singing and playing here. His raspy-voiced delivery and guitar style were modeled largely on Guthrie's classic '40s and early-'50s recordings, but the assertiveness of the bluesmen he admires also comes out, making this one of the folk revival of which it was a part. Within a year of its release, Dylan, initially in tandem with young folk/protest singers like Peter, Paul & Mary and Phil Ochs, would alter the boundaries of that revival beyond recognition, but this album marked the pinnacle of that earlier phase, before it was overshadowed by this artist's more ambitious subsequent work. In that regard, the two original songs here serve as the bridge between Dylan's stylistic roots, as delineated on this album, and the more powerful and daringly original work that followed. One myth surrounding this album should also be dispelled here -- his version of "House of the Rising Sun" here is worthwhile, but the version that was the inspiration for the Animals' recording was the one by Josh White.

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VINYL GRADING:

M: Sealed Lp.

NM: Near mint. Record looks like new.

EX: Record looks almost like new. May have very light surface marks which have no effect on play.

VG+: May have marks and a little surface noise in spots but should sound great. 

VG-: Has more pronounced marks and background noise but will play without skipping or ticking.

G: Record has scratches but plays and might skip or jump.

P: Poor Condition. Only the rarest of records will be listed if ever.

 COVER GRADING

Covers are graded separately in the description.

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POSTAGE RATES

 (Double LPs count as 2 LPs, triple as 3, ect. )  Sadly,  International postage rates just went way up

USA:

PRIORITY mail $15.00 1st LP and $1.00 for each additional LP.

MEDIA mail $5.00 1st LP ; 50 cents each additional LP ( Media mail is a great deal, but I am in Hawaii and it usually takes 3 to 8 weeks from here )

Canada :

$16.00 1st LP ; $4.00 each additional LP

Rest of the World :

$24.00 1st LP ; $5.00 each additional LP

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