Bob Dylan (Album)
Occupation
Bob Dylan - voc, g, harm,
Columbia Recording Studio, New York City
Bob Dylan is the debut album released in March 1962 by singer - songwriter Bob Dylan. It was produced by John Hammond and was released on Columbia Records. The album contains mostly traditional songs, some of which were re-arranged by Dylan, but also the two original compositions Talkin ' New York and Song To Woody.
Construction and content
John Hammond met Bob Dylan in September 1961 by chance during a private meeting know. At the time of the just made at performances in music venues of New York folk scene a name. Hammond invited him into the studio and offered him on September 29, a recording contract with Columbia on.
The debut album of Bob Dylan emerged in two recording sessions on 20 and 22 November 1961 in which Dylan accompanied himself with the guitar and harmonica. Of the 17 songs, most of which were recorded in one take, managed 13 on the album released in the following March. With eleven tracks are folk songs that after - or grossed Dylan in a newly arranged version. Mostly he used it also arrangements that he had " borrowed " by fellow folk musicians, so when Eric Von Schmidt's version of Baby, Let Me Follow You Down or Dave Van Ronks Arrangement of House Of The Risin ' Sun.
The two original compositions is the one to the Talking Blues Talkin ' New York, in which Dylan describes his experience as a newcomer in this metropolis. The ironic and sarcastic text can, for example, with lines like "A lot of people do not have much food on Their table, But They got a lot of forks ' n ' knives and They gotta cut somethin ' " has the lyrical potential of almost twenty years of Dylan guessed. Larger It became famous Woody Guthrie Song To Woody dedicated, in which Dylan brings his gratitude and admiration for his early role model for expression and its melody is based on the 1913 Massacre Guthrie title.