Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan

This is the first of the Bob Dylan albums on this list I've got. Honestly, I've been slightly dreading these: I know it's blasphemous to say, but I've just never really got Dylan. But that said... I enjoyed this, a lot. I knew the most famous songs (Subterranean Homesick Blues, Maggie's Farm, Mr Tambourine Man), but hearing them in the context of the album made them work a lot better for me - on the whole, I still don't like Mr Tambourine Man, won't lie - and some of the unknown-to-me songs were pure pleasures, I particularly enjoyed She Belongs To Me and Outlaw Blues. One thing that I have found about this journey so far - and I'm still very early in it - is that it's giving me the tools to understand albums like this in context a little better. I feel like I'm slowly piecing together bits of a jigsaw and noticing how parts fit together that I'd never noticed before.

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