Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: Dylan
Year: 1973
Dylan is the thirteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in November 1973 by Columbia Records. Dylan was compiled
and issued with no input from Dylan himself, using outtakes—two from Self Portrait and the remaining seven from New Morning. It followed the
artist's departure from Columbia for Asylum Records, and the announcement of his first major tour since 1966.
Commonly regarded as the worst album in Bob Dylan's catalog, it was assembled after the singer briefly jumped ship for David Geffen's fledgling
Asylum Records. Dylan didn't want the record to be released, and it's easy to see why -- the album is a collection of covers that are poorly
performed on purpose. Tackling both contemporary writers (Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi," Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr. Bojangles"), pop songs
("Can't Help Falling in Love," "A Fool Such as I"), and traditional numbers ("The Ballad of Ira Hayes," "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue"), Dylan
attempts to sabotage each number, but none of the results is quite so shocking, or funny, as the deconstructions on Self Portrait.
Although Dylan received very poor reviews, it managed to hit #17 in the US and become a gold record. Perhaps not surprisingly, it became his first
album never to chart in the UK, where his albums generally charted higher than in the US.
It is the only non-compilation Dylan album not to be released on CD in the North American market; in Europe, the CD was called Dylan – A Fool Such as I.
A different recording of "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" had been issued as the B-side of Dylan's 1971 single "Watching the River Flow".
Track listing:
First seven tracks recorded June 1970 for New Morning sessions, last two recorded April 1969 for Self Portrait sessions.
Side one:
1. "Lily of the West" (Trad, arr E. Davies, J. Peterson) – 3:44
2. "Can't Help Falling in Love" (George Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore) – 4:17
3. "Sarah Jane" (Trad, arr Dylan) – 2:43
4. "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" (Peter LaFarge) – 5:08
Side two:
5. "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 5:31
6. "Mary Ann" (Traditional) – 2:40
7. "Big Yellow Taxi" (Joni Mitchell) – 2:12
8. "A Fool Such as I" (Bill Trader; wrongly attributed to James Buford Abner, who wrote a gospel song with the same title) – 2:41
9. "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" (alternate take) (Charles Badger Clark) – 4:13
Rip Info:
Thorens TD 125 MK II
Audio-Technica - AT30HE MC Cartridge
Audioquest Head shell Leads
TP 60 Tone Arm
NAD Phono Preamp PP2
Audioquest Sidewinder Interconnects
Direct into: Xonar D1 Soundcard
Wavelab 6.1 recorded at 32 bit float 192 kHz
iZotope RX 2
Track Labels and Conversion to 24 bit 96 kHz with Audacity
No Music was harmed, no noise reduction, blah, blah, blah, etc...