Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde 180g 2LP MONO

Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde (MONO)

Track Listing

A1: Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35
A2: Pledging My Time
A3: Visions Of Johanna
A4: One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)

B1: I Want You
B2: Memphis Blues Again
B3: Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
B4: Just Like A Woman

C1: Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine
C2: Temporary Like Achilles
C3: Absolutely Sweet Marie
C4: 4th Time Around
C5: Obviously 5 Believers

D1: Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands

Rock Masterpiece Reissued On Double LP. Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 38/500

Blonde On Blonde is the seventh studio album by Bob Dylan, originally released as a double album on June 20, 1966 by Columbia Records. Recording sessions began in New York in October 1965 with numerous backing musicians, including members of Dylan's live backing band, the Hawks. Though sessions continued until January 1966, they yielded only one track that made it onto the final album - "One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)". At producer Bob Johnston's suggestion, Dylan, keyboardist Al Kooper, and guitarist Robbie Robertson moved to the CBS studios in Nashville, Tennessee. These sessions, augmented by some of Nashville's top session musicians, were more fruitful, and in February and March all the remaining songs for the album were recorded.

'Blonde On Blonde' completed the trilogy of rock albums that Dylan recorded in 1965 and 1966, starting with 'Bringing It All Back Home' and 'Highway 61 Revisited.' Combining the expertise of Nashville session musicians with a modernist literary sensibility, the album's songs have been described as operating on a grand scale musically while featuring lyrics one critic called "a unique blend of the visionary and the colloquial." It was one of the first double albums in rock music.

'Blonde On Blonde' spawned two singles that were top twenty hits in the US: "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" and "I Want You."

"Rock's first studio double LP by a major artist was, as Bob Dylan declared in 1978, 'the closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my head ... that thin, that wild-mercury sound.' Blonde on Blonde was mainly recorded in Nashville with session pros (another rock first), who created an almost contradictory magnificence: a tightly wound tension around Dylan's quicksilver language and incisive singing in barrelhouse surrealism such as 'Rainy Day Women #12 and 35' and 'Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again.' Amid the frenzy, Dylan delivered some of his finest, clearest songs of comfort and desire: the sidelong beauty 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands' and 'I Want You,' the title of which Dylan almost used for the album." - Rolling Stone, 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time

Album Credits

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Musician – Al Kooper, Bill Aikins, Charlie McCoy, Hargus Robbins, Henry Strzelecki, Jaime Robertson, Jerry Kennedy, Joe South, Kenneth Buttrey, Wayne Moss
Producer – Bob Johnston
Written-By – B. Dylan

Release Information

Label: Columbia – C2L 41, Legacy, Sony Music – 88875146311

Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, Gatefold, 180 Gram

Country: Europe

Released: 2015

Genre: Rock

Style: Folk Rock