Bob Dylan – Self Portrait [CD]

Description

Self Portrait is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on June 8, 1970 by Columbia Records. Self Portrait was Dylan’s second double album, and features many cover versions of well-known pop and folk songs. Also included are a handful of instrumentals and original compositions. Most of the album is sung in the affected country crooning voice that Dylan had introduced a year earlier on Nashville Skyline. Seen by some as intentionally surreal and even satirical at times, Self Portrait received extremely poor reviews upon release; Greil Marcus’ opening sentence in his Rolling Stone review was: “What is this sh#t?” Dylan has claimed in interviews that Self Portrait was something of a joke, far below the standards he set in the 1960s, and was made to get people off his back and end the “spokesman of a generation” tags. Despite the negative reception, the album quickly went gold in the U.S., where it hit No. 4, and it gave Dylan yet another UK No. 1 hit before it fell down the charts. The album has since built a cult following and saw a retrospective positive re-evaluation with the release of The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) in 2013.

Tracklist:

1. All the Tired Horses
2. Alberta #1
3. I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
4. Days of 49
5. Early Mornin’ Rain
6. In Search of Little Sadie
7. Let It Be Me
8. Little Sadie
9. Woogie Boogie 1
10. Belle Isle 1
11. Living the Blues 1
12. Like a Rolling Stone 1
13. Copper Kettle (The Pale Moonlight) 1
14. Gotta Travel on 1
15. Blue Moon 1
16. The Boxer 1
17. Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) 1
18. Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go) 1
19. Take a Message to Mary 2
20. It Hurts Me Too 2
21. Minstrel Boy 2
22. She Belongs to Me 2
23. Wigwam 2
24. Alberta #2

UPC: 886978991423
Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Release Date: 9.5.89
Format: CD