The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Dylan's first great album, IMO. Content is good, quality is excellent. Album is mostly acoustic, so depth/presence isn't jaw-dropping, but certainly warmer than the best digital versions I have. Album jacket is meh, thin cardboard with plain, generic sleeve. But sound is good. Must-have album if you're a Dylan fan, and great album to have even if you're not. Vinyl is a great choice. FYI, I’m not one of those fanatics who think everything sounds better on vinyl. I’m a music fan. Over the years, I’ve accumulated thousands of cds, hundreds of records (and tapes …), and several terabytes of digital music files. For vinyl, I’ve found the sweet spot to be late 50s through about 1980, with most later albums sounding just as good (or better) digitally or on cd. I’ve owned this particular album digitally, on tape, cd, and vinyl, and so I know it very well. It's a must-have album for Dylan fans, and a should-have album for everyone else -- and the vinyl version is my favorite and the best version I've heard.

Good cd

"The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" is an album EVERY folk-rock fan should have and cherish. This is, in fact, one of the watershed albums of the 1960s; it's almost impossible to overstate its influence and enduring power over the decades. Dylan's first album had seemed a bit stiff, frankly; here, he decides -- instead of being the young, earnest interpreter of folk tradition -- to be himself, and the results are astounding. The album opens with a three-song blast that announced Dylan as THE major artist of the time: "Blowin' in the Wind," "Girl From the North Country" and "Masters of War." "Girl" could've been overshadowed by the other two, except for Dylan's impassioned but restrained vocal delivery and his full-blown, untamed harmonica. Even when being whimsical, Dylan sounded like serious business. In the hands of other artists, songs like "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" and "Bob Dylan's Dream" could have sounded like throwaways. He delivers them in an almost off-handed way, yes, but they still sound charming, witty and NECESSARY, all these decades later. This isn't my favorite Dylan album; the man has recorded so much colossal discs that each listener is going to have his personal favorites, and mine include "Blonde on Blonde" and "Blood on the Tracks." But this album pointed the way not only for Dylan but for countless folkies, rockers and folky rockers in the early 1960s. I cannot imagine how the American scene could have developed without it.

Great record and superb quality

Probably like a lot of you I bought the first 3 Dylan albums on vinyl after seeing “A Complete Unknown”. I grew up during the early Dylan years but was only a casual listener. I know most of these songs by heart and it’s great to hear them again on a good component stereo system to really appreciate this masterwork from over 60 years ago.

Love Dylan and very happy to be able to get this old music on CD. Thanks Amazon!

Dylan's sophomore album was really the recording which made him 'the voice of his generation,' containing several folk hits which have gone on to become standards-- inspirational folk anthems like "Blowin' In the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," and Dylan's achingly personal ode to regret and loss, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right." But if you scratch a little deeper, this album also has some wonderful deep tracks, too. There isn't a wasted effort anywhere on the album. "Masters of War" and "Oxford Town" bite as hard as any protest songs that Dylan ever wrote, and "Girl From the North Country" reworks the traditional English ballad "Scarborough Fair" into something wholly new and original. All of the songs on this album get better and better with repeated listening. 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' was really the first of a trio of albums which changed everything in popular music-- if you're new to Dylan, this is as good a place as any to get on the train. Dylan's next two records, 'The Times They Are a-Changin' and 'Another Side of Bob Dylan,' complete the trilogy of Dylan's classic acoustic-guitar protest-song folk albums. With 'Bringing It All Back Home,' Dylan started to pivot towards electric guitar and keyboards, with backing from a regular band instead of mostly performing alone onstage, and a second trilogy of classic electric rock music was completed by 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Blonde on Blonde.' While Dylan had other recordings which are truly great in their own right-- and which definitely deserve a listening-- I'd argue that this run of six albums in two neat trilogies, one acoustic and one electric, really form the corpus of Dylan's work. 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' is Dylan at his peak, performing at a level that he maintained pretty much throughout the sixties and into the seventies and beyond.

The first album by Bod Dylan. It is a folk classic. If you watch the Bob Dylan movie - this covers the very beginning of his music

Ottimo

Nice

Bardzo dobrze brzmiące wznowienie klasycznej płyty Dylana (plastikowe pudełko, kilkustronicowa książeczka). Polecam!

Bonito, se escucha súper bien fue un regalo y le encantó

Hace más de veinte años que no escuchaba este clásico de todos los tiempos. Como se decía de los vinilos, no hay surco que desmerezca. Incluye temazos como "Girl from the North Country" (una de mis canciones preferidas de todos los tiempos), "Masters of War", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" y "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (y la famosísima "Blowin' in the Wind"... la que menos me gusta). Compra obligada para los amantes de la música.