The Essential Bob Dylan

Description

Includes Blowin’ in the Wind; Don’t Think Twice, It’s All
Right; The Times They Are A-Changin’; It Ain’t Me Babe; Maggie’s Farm; It’s
All Over Now, Baby Blue; Mr. Tambourine Man; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Like
a Rolling Stone; Positively 4th Street; Just Like a Woman; Rainy Day Women 12
& 35; All Along the Watchtower; Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn); Lay,
Lady, Lay , and more. 30 tracks! Two discs of music don’t exactly
provide for a thorough overview of four decades of recording, particularly if
the subject of the retrospective is one of the most important and prolific
performers of his time. So The Essential Bob Dylan definitely skates over the
leagues-deep oeuvre of Dylan, summarizing his monumental first half-dozen
years in disc one and skirting over the following 34 years in disc two.
Delving into Columbia’s three Dylan greatest-hits packages (though curiously
purging “I Want You,” a genuine hit single in its day), Essential offers only
a few surprises, opting for The Basement Tapes version of “Quinn the Eskimo”
over the Self Portrait remake that made it onto Greatest Hits Volume II and
tossing in “Things Have Changed” from the Wonder Boys soundtrack for
completists. But this 30-track overview is designed with newcomers, not
Dylanologists, in mind. –Steven Stolder

Features:

Product Details:

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.33 inches; 4 Ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Columbia
• Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2000
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 4 minutes
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 27, 2006
• Label ‏ : ‎ Columbia
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
• Best Sellers Rank: #13,022 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl) #117 in Contemporary Folk (CDs & Vinyl) #242 in Country Rock (CDs & Vinyl) #255 in Folk Rock (CDs & Vinyl)