Dylan,Bob - Essential Works: 1961 - 1962 (Ltd.) (Sealed) (LP)

TRACKLISTING: A1. You're No Good A2. Talkin New York A3. In My Time Of Dyin A4. Man Of Constant Sorrow A5. Fixin' To Die A6. Peggy B1. Highway 51 Blues B2. Gospel Plow B3. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down B4. House Of The Risin Sun B5. Freight Train Blues B6. Song To Woody B7. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean C1. Mixed-Up Confusion C2. Introduction C3. Poor Lazarus C4. Mean Old Southern Railroad C5. Fixin’ To Die D1. Smokestack Lightnin’ D2. Hard Travellin’ D3. The Death of Emmett Till D4. Standing On The Highway D5. Baby Please Don’t Go LP FORMAT DETAILS: Pressed on standard weight black vinyl OVERVIEW: Robert Zimmerman, aka the rock-folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1941. His first three albums – Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changing – reoriented both folk music and rock. His early songs were largely inspired by Woody Guthrie, and in turn provided inspiration (and soon a religion) to many music fans around the globe. There is no doubt that the baby-boomers of 1968 – a whole generation – were seeking an ideal, and the promise of change in Dylan’s first songs transformed a merely average nasal-toned folk singer into a figurehead of the protest movement, and later one of its high priests. But there are also those who will remember how Dylan invented his own life-story as an orphan with Indian blood who spent his childhood in a circus/ Or how he happily explained to 'Time' why their magazine was pointless (and to CBS News why opinions expressed by media were useless and harmful.) Of course they were, and so Bob was there to change the world. Times, indeed, they were changing, and Bob began wearing silk shirts way before he was handed the Nobel Prize for Literature. We need more Jesus Christs and Bob Dylans as world-changers.