Bringing It All Back Home
Occupation
- Bob Dylan - voc, g, harm, p,
- John Hammond, Jr. - g
- John Sebastian - bg
- Kenny Rankin - g
- Bobby Gregg - dr
- John Boone - bg
- Al Gorgoni - g
- Paul Griffin - p, org
- Bruce Langhorne - g
- Bill Lee - bg
- Joseph Macho Jr. - bg
- Frank Owens - p
Studios
Bringing It All Back Home is the published in March 1965 fifth studio album by American songwriter Bob Dylan. It is considered one of the first folk-rock albums. In Europe it was sold under the title Subterranean Homesick Blues.
On the first side of the LP Dylan is accompanied by a band with electrically amplified instruments. The second side was recorded acoustically and contains the songs "Mr. Tambourine Man "and" It's All Over Now, Baby Blue ", which gained primarily through the versions of The Byrds or Them awareness.
Style and concept
Bringing It All Back Home, especially the first side of the LP, is in marked contrast to Dylan's previous albums and is the start of his shift from traditional folk to rock, which takes place in his next albums.
On the A-side for the first time and almost exclusively come electrically amplified instruments to use and Dylan is accompanied by a band. This transformation from a protest singer and a figurehead of the counterculture into the confident and independent artist who was considered by his former fan base mainly as a betrayal and a scandal makes itself felt also in content. Even on the second side of the LP, Dylan mostly solo, accompanying himself settles into the old style with acoustic guitar and harmonica, the lyrics are poetic, complex and surreal, what is the latest with this album to Dylan's trademark.
Even the title of the album is ambiguous: " Bringing it all back home" may on the one hand a return to the roots mean ( Dylan was already playing in college in a rock band ), or " to make it very clear ." In more recent research also been argued that Dylan was taken in fitting with this album the blues, in the first half of the 60 years of British bands (especially the Rolling Stones), quite literally wanted to bring back to America again.
Success
Bringing It All Back Home reached number 1 in the UK album charts and # 6 on the Billboard 200 in the United States. The single " Subterranean Homesick Blues" reached # 9 of the UK Top 40 and number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100, " Maggie 's Farm " placed on rank 22 of the UK singles chart. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, neither album nor singles were able to place in the charts.
The music magazine Rolling Stone chose in his published 2003 list of the 500 best albums of all time Bringing It All Back Home at No. 31, " Subterranean Homesick Blues" at number 332 of the 500 best songs of all time ( 2004).
Despite the commercial success and sold-out world tour, attended the album and especially Dylan's " electrification " of shared reactions in his audience. He was partially booed at the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965 in his first appearance, in which he played his new material, together with the Butterfield Blues Band by the audience. This split reaction, marked by boos and demonstrative Störapplaus, also continued on his tour, which began in August 1965. The first half played Dylan solo with acoustic guitar and harmonica, the second half with electric guitar and accompanied by the band The Hawks, which later became The Band emerged. This second part made regularly for violent audience reactions, so Dylan had to insult than Judas, for example, at his concert in Manchester.
Dylan released the album Highway 61 Revisited, and in May of the following year the album Blonde on Blonde in August 1965. He took so within a very short time, beginning with Bringing It All Back Home, three of the most influential albums in rock history.
Cover image
The records cover shows a view taken by Daniel Kramer Photography. In the photo Dylan is sitting on a couch to see a magazine on his lap and a Persian cat, beside him on the couch scattered records. In the background a lady lolling lascivious in red dress. It involves Sally Grossman, wife of Dylan's manager Albert Grossman, in whose house the shot was taken. In addition to the records Dylan is among other things, Eric Von Schmidt - The Folk Blues of Eric Von Schmidt, Lotte Lenya - Sings Berlin Theatre Songs by Kurt Weill, Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers and The Impressions - Keep on Pushing. In addition, the Bob Dylan album Another Side of Bob Dylan is a bit off behind the woman in red, albeit covertly, to be clearly seen. In addition, you can see a copy of Time Magazine from January 1, 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson on the cover and a yellow fallout shelter sign. Furthermore, serves the photograph of an effect, which creates a bright ring around the display in the center, outside which blurs the image, giving the impression can be awakened, consider the scene as an outsider. Heinrich Detering describes the image as " luxurious and decadent inner world of intimate privacy [ ... ], filled with fragments of a work history and threatened by an apocalyptic destruction ".
It is also noteworthy that this is the first Dylan album where the track list is not on the record covers. The cufflinks, wearing Dylan on the photo to be those on the Joan Baez in her song " Diamonds & Rust " (1975) applies ( "ten years ago I bought you some cufflinks ").
The back of the record cover and the booklet of the CD show more pictures of Dylan, among others, Joan Baez and Allen Ginsberg. In addition, a prose text by Dylan is printed, this is also a novelty. The rapid, associative writing style of this text can be found later in the book Tarantula again, this is largely built around this time.
Aftereffect in popular culture
The cover artwork of Christiane Rösingers album Songs of L. and Hate (2010 ) is the modeled of Bringing It All Back Home; the album title, however, is a throwback to Leonard Cohen's album Songs of Love and Hate.