Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding LP MONO

Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding 

Bob Dylan’s eighth album followed a lengthy hibernation due to a motorcycle accident in which the singer re-evaluated his art. He emerged with a set of stark simplicity and heartfelt intensity, melding folk, rock, and country with a mesmerising power that set off a huge back-to-basics movement in rock that lasted well into the next decade. A biblical purity encompasses the collection as Dylan paints graphic portraits of the disenfranchised–hobo, immigrant, drifter, messenger–articulating the uncertainty of the times. The best-known song here is the apocalyptic “All Along the Watchtower”, which would soon be electrically redefined by Jimi Hendrix. The mood lifts on the final track “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight”, a beautifully tender love song, suggesting that this is where salvation lies. John Wesley Harding repays repeated play with ever-unfolding metaphor and interpretation, including four hidden Beatles on the cover.

Tracklist:
1. John Wesley Harding
2. As I Went Out One Morning
3. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
4. All Along the Watchtower
5. The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Preist
6. Drifter's Escape
7. Dear Landlord
8. I Am a Lonesome Hobo
9. I Pity the Poor Immigrant
10. The Wicked Messenger
11. Down Along the Cove
12. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

Label: Columbia
Released: 1967/2017