Line #15 Music/BobDylanAlbum


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: ''The man there said he loved my sound. He was raving about he loved my sound. Dollar a day's worth.'']]
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4	''Bob Dylan'' is the debut studio album by Music/BobDylan, released in 1962. It's almost entirely a CoverAlbum, save for two original compositions "Talkin' New York" and "Song To Woody". Produced and recorded at a very cheap budget it failed to make an impact at the time. Even when the singer broke to the mainstream with his SurprisinglyImprovedSequel ''Music/TheFreewheelinBobDylan'' the next year, ''Bob Dylan'' has never quite charted, sold or been acclaimed as high as his other albums. As a result Dylan pretty much [[CreatorBacklash dismissed]] his debut and [[CanonDiscontinuity wrote it out of canon]].
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7	!! Tracklist:
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9	[[AC: Side One]]
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11	# "You're No Good" (1:40)
12	# "Talkin' New York" (3:20)
13	# "In My Time Of Dyin'" (2:40)
14	# "Man Of Constant Sorrow" (3:10)
15	# "Fixin' To Die" (2:22)
16	# "Pretty Peggy-O" (3:23)
17	# "Highway 51" (2:52)
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19	[[AC: Side Two]]
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21	# "Gospel Plow" (1:47)
22	# "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" (2:37)
23	# "House Of The Risin' Sun" (5:20)
24	# "Freight Train Blues" (2:18)
25	# "Song To Woody" (2:42)
26	# "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" (2:43)
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29	!! ''Tropin' New York'':
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31	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Song To Woody"
32	--> ''Hear paupers and peasants and princes and kings.''
33	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''P'''retty '''P'''eggy-O".
34	* AsTheGoodBookSays: "Gospel Plow"
35	--> ''Mary, Mark, Luke and John''
36	--> ''All these prophets so good and gone''
37	* ContinuityNod: Dylan covers "Highway 51", a song he would later rework as "Highway 61 Revisited" on ''Music/Highway61Revisited'' in 1965.
38	* CoverAlbum: Except for "Song To Woody" and "Talkin' New York" all material here are covers. "You're No Good" is a Jesse Fuller cover, "Fixin' To Die" was originally written by Bukka White, "Highway 61" by Curtis Jones and "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" is a Blind Lemon Jefferson adaptation. "In My Time Of Dyin'", "Man Of Constant Sorrow", "Pretty Peggy-O", "Gospel Plow", "Baby Let Me Follow You Down", "House Of The Risin' Sun" and "Freight Train Blues" are all traditionals.
39	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Most of the songs here are covers. Dylan also imitates a lot of Guthrie's vocal mannerisms.
40	* EmptyFridgeEmptyLife: "Talkin' New York"
41	--> ''A lot of people don't have much food on their table''
42	--> ''But they got a lot of forks and knives''
43	--> ''And they gotta cut something''
44	* FaceOnTheCover: Dylan posing with his guitar. The photo was reversed so that the guitar wouldn't obstruct Columbia's logo.
45	* GriefSong:
46	** "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"
47	--> ''There's just one kind of favour I'll ask for you'
48	--> ''You can see that my grave is kept clean.''
49	** "In My Time Of Dyin'"
50	--> ''Well, in my time of dying don't want nobody to mourn''
51	--> ''All I want for you to do is take my body home''
52	--> ''Well, well, well, so I can die easy''
53	** "Highway 51"
54	--> ''Well, if I should die before my time should come''
55	--> ''And if I should die before my time should come.''
56	--> ''Won't you bury my body out on the Highway 51?''
57	** "Fixin' To Die Blues"
58	--> ''There's a black smoke rising, Lord''
59	--> ''It's rising up above my head, up above my head''
60	--> ''It's rising up above my head, up above my head''
61	--> ''And tell Jesus make up my dying bed.''
62	--> ''I'm walking kind of funny, Lord''
63	--> ''I believe I'm fixing to die, fixing to die
64	* {{Homage}}: "Song To Woody" is a tribute to Music/WoodyGuthrie.
65	--> ''Hey Woody Guthrie but I know that you know''
66	--> ''All the things that I'm saying and a many times more''
67	--> ''I'm singing you the song but I can't you sing enough''
68	--> '''Cause there's not many men that've done the things that you've done''.
69	* JacobMarleyWarning: "The House Of The Rising Sun"
70	--> ''Oh tell my baby sister not to do what I have done''
71	--> ''But shun that house in New Orleans they call the rising sun''.
72	* OneManSong: "Song To Woody" and "Man Of Constant Sorrow".
73	* OneWomanSong: "Pretty Peggy-O".
74	* TheQuest: "Pretty Peggy-O"
75	--> ''I've been around this whole country''
76	--> ''But I never yet found Fenneario.''
77	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "She's No Good"
78	--> ''I helped you when you had no shoes on your feet, pretty mama''
79	--> ''I helped you when you had no food to eat''
80	--> ''Now you're the kind of woman that just don't understand''
81	--> ''You're taking all my money and give it to another man.''
82	* RecordProducer: John H. Hammond.
83	* SelfTitledAlbum: Name and surname.
84	* ShoutOut:
85	** "Song To Woody" is a homage to Dylan's big inspiration Music/WoodyGuthrie and based on the melody of his song "1913 Massacre". The line "that come with the dust and are gone with the wind" paraphrases a similar quote from Guthrie's "Pastures Of Plenty". On Music/DavidBowie's ''Music/HunkyDory''from 1971, Bowie would in turn record a track "Song To Bob Dylan", paying tribute to his own musical guru.
86	** "Song To Woody" also name-drops blues and folk singers such as Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry and Music/{{Leadbelly}}.
87	** "Talkin' New York" is closely based on Guthrie's song "Talking Dustbowl Blues" from ''Music/DustBowlBallads'' and also references "The Ballad Of Pretty Boy Floyd" from that same album:
88	--> ''Now a very great man once said: "That some people rob you with a fountain pen."''
89	* SomethingBlues: "Freight Train Blues".
90	* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: "Man Of Constant Sorrow"
91	--> ''I'm going back to Colorado''
92	--> ''The place that I started from''
93	--> ''If I had known how bad you treat me honey''
94	--> ''I never would have come.''
95	* TrainSong: "Freight Train Blues"
96	--> ''Well, the only thing that makes me laugh again''
97	--> ''Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train''
98	* VocalEvolution: Dylan's voice sounds more like Music/WoodyGuthrie than the characteristic voice he would evolve into on his later albums.
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