Another Side of Bob Dylan
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Another Side of Bob Dylan is published in the August 1964 fourth studio album by American songwriter Bob Dylan. It should be facing the protest song - phase another side of Dylan. " Is (with few exceptions) no longer hear the critic from the service, but Dylan, the private man, a man in conflict with his emotions on this record. "
The music on the album is still based on the folk music, the lyrics, however, already contain many surrealist elements.
The most famous song on the album is It Is not Me Babe, this has been covered already in the same year by Johnny Cash for his album Orange Blossom Special. It can be used as Dylan's desire to no longer be the leader of a movement, to be interpreted. Even more clearly brings My Back Pages turning away of the ego of the role of the preacher and proclaimer of supposedly simple truths and a rejection of simple black and white thinking expressed.
Bob Dylan recorded the album on 9 June 1964 in a single session. It was also a first attempt, Mr. Tambourine Man incorporated entity, but in only appeared on the following album. The album reached # 43 in the U.S. charts in 1965 and ranked 8th in the UK.
In parts of the folk scene made the album for astonishment. So Irwin Silver published in which he edited folk magazine Sing Out! an open letter to Dylan, in which he expressed his anxiety that the singer threatened by the circumstances of fame and success to lose contact with the base, which finds expression in his new songs. The folk singer Phil Ochs, however, defended in Broadside Magazine Dylan's right to change.
The Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young refers in the song Flags Of Freedom on his 2006 album Living With War pretty clearly on the song Chimes Of Freedom.