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Recorded over the course of a year, Dylan's second album instantly transformed the scruffy young singer-songwriter from a promising young Woody Guthrie fan to the undisputed king of the folk revival, an alpha tiger with his claws bared and a wide, red-fanged grin. "Blowin' in the Wind" alone would have made his reputation — Peter, Paul and Mary had a gigantic hit with their cover around the same time as Freewheelin' was released, and all of a sudden, every singer in America wanted an acoustic guitar, a harmonica and an encyclopedic command of poetry and the folk repertoire. (Only two of those were available in stores.) But the album never lets up. It's a virtuosic parade of tender and bitter love songs and political screeds with a thousand years of momentum behind them. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" is still a shocking kiss-off, and features impossibly virtuosic guitar picking to boot; "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" mutates the traditional ballad "Lord Randal" into a poetic, prophetic vision of nuclear apocalypse; "Masters of War" confronts the "big guns" of the military-industrial complex with an unforgettable indictment. "Corrina, Corrina" is the only full-on "folk song" here, but the entire record is the sound of Dylan dragging the backward-looking establishment of the folk tradition into the New York City of 1963.
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It's hard to overestimate the importance of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the record that firmly established Dylan as an unparalleled songwriter, one of considerable skill, imagination, and vision. At the time, folk had been quite popular on college campuses and bohemian circles, making headway onto the pop charts in diluted form, and while there certainly were a number of gifted songwriters, nobody had transcended the scene as Dylan did with this record. There are a couple (very good) covers, with "Corrina Corrina" and "Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance," but they pale with the originals here. At the time, the social protests received the most attention, and deservedly so, since "Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War," and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" weren't just specific in their targets; they were gracefully executed and even melodic. Although they've proven resilient throughout the years, if that's all Freewheelin' had to offer, it wouldn't have had its seismic impact, but this also revealed a songwriter who could turn out whimsy ("Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"), gorgeous love songs ("Girl From the North Country"), and cheerfully absurdist humor ("Bob Dylan's Blues," "Bob Dylan's Dream") with equal skill. This is rich, imaginative music, capturing the sound and spirit of America as much as that of Louis Armstrong, Hank Williams, or Elvis Presley. Dylan, in many ways, recorded music that equaled this, but he never topped it.
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Blowin' In The Wind |
2:47 |
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| 02. | |
Girl From The North Country |
3:20 |
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Masters Of War |
4:32 |
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| 04. | |
Down The Highway |
3:24 |
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| 05. | |
Bob Dylan's Blues |
2:21 |
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A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall |
6:50 |
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| 07. | |
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right |
3:39 |
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Bob Dylan's Dream |
5:01 |
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| 09. | |
Oxford Town |
1:48 |
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| 10. | |
Talkin' World War III Blues |
6:25 |
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| 11. | |
Corrina, Corrina |
2:44 |
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Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance |
1:58 |
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| 13. | |
I Shall Be Free |
4:47 |
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13 Total Tracks, 49:36 Total Length
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Credits
- Bob Dylan - Guitar // Bob Dylan - Harmonica // Bob Dylan - Keyboards // Bob Dylan - Vocals // George Barnes - Bass // George Barnes - Bass // George Barnes - Guitar (Bass) // George Barnes - Guitar (Bass) // Leonard Gaskin - Bass // John Hammond, Sr. - Producer // Dick Wellstood - Piano // Dick Wellstood - Piano // Gene Ramey - Bass // Howard Collins - Guitar // John Hammond - Producer // Nat Hentoff - Liner Notes // Bruce Langhorne - Guitar // Herb Lovelle - Drums
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Other Details
- Instruments:
- Guitar (Acoustic) //
- Harmonica //
- Vocals
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