Fantastic album. Potentially in my top 100. Certainly in top 3 Dylan albums. Original pressing. I have many copies of this record but this one is surprisingly playable. Picked up recently for a mere $3. I prefer mono on the first four Bob albums as the stereo effect is weird when all you have is Bob’s voice, guitar and harmonica. Also, people may notice the difference in the cover picture crop (what a picture of Bob and Suze Rotolo walking in the Village!)between mono and stereo. This of course has Bob’s breakthrough hit Blowing in the wind but also great songs like Hard rain’s gonna fall, Masters of war, Don’t think twice it’s all right, Girl from the north country. What a great album. It had to be or Bob’s career was over as his first album had stiffed. At this point Bob figured out how to take classic folk tunes and discreetly- without giving up the house- turn them into original songs and he was writing tunes so fast the original withdrawn pressing had four songs that were replaced by new songs. There are very few copies of the original and it’s a holy grail record that now sells for silly money.
