Dylan

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DYLAN is a career-spanning retrospective of Bob Dylan's music. This definitive Bob Dylan collection chronicles the artist's four decades of groundbreaking studio recordings, as well as his unparalleled influence on popular music and culture. DYLAN serves as both a comprehensive introduction for new fans and an expansive, cherished overview for long-time Bob Dylan devotees. This 3-CD Deluxe Box Set is an elegant gift item and keep-sake. The 51-track set is housed in a beautiful cloth-covered box, and the LP-style vinyl-grooved CDs are presented in replica classic LP sleeves featuring iconic Dylan and Columbia imagery. The box also features a magnificent 40 page book with extended liner notes and rare photos, and 10 limited edition postcard lithograph prints. TRACKLISTING: Disc 1 Song To Woody Blowin' In The Wind Masters Of War Don't Think Twice, It's All Right A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall The Times They Are A-Changin' All I Really Want To Do My Back Pages It Ain't Me Babe Subterranean Homesick Blues Mr. Tambourine Man Maggie's Farm Like A Rolling Stone It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Positively 4th Street Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Just Like A Woman Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) All Along The Watchtower Disc 2 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere Lay, Lady, Lay If Not For You I Shall Be Released Knockin' On Heaven's Door On A Night Like This Forever Young Tangled Up In Blue Simple Twist Of Fate Hurricane Changing Of The Guards Gotta Serve Somebody Precious Angel The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar Jokerman Dark Eyes Disc 3 Blind Willie McTell Brownsville Girl Silvio Ring Them Bells Dignity Everything Is Broken Under The Red Sky You're Gonna Quit Me Blood In My Eyes Not Dark Yet Things Have Changed Make You Feel My Love High Water (For Charley Patton) Po' Boy Someday Baby When The Deal Goes Down

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It's about time the record-buying public was offered up a decent, updated Dylan compilation! After all, artists with far less in the way of cultural influence, sales figures, or sheer release numbers have put out many more retrospective collections. Think of this, then, as your Dummies' Guide to Dylan. And for those who really aren't sure if they like the reedy Poet of a Generation® or not, there's even a single CD Cliffs Notes-sized version. For everyone else, there's a triple-disc edition with deluxe packaging and nifty artwork. Even the most marginal fan might quibble with the selection--shouldn't, like, half of it be taken from The Basement Tapes, rather than just one tune?--but there's not a mediocre song on here. It's a tad surprising that the songs are arranged chronologically, rather than grouped by grand themes, the way Johnny Cash's music was on his Love, God, Murder set. But then it is such a pleasure to watch Dylan's progression, to listen as he so quickly works through his influences, goes electric, discovers country music and then God—and then finally somehow wraps it all up together like some alchemical, one-man version of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. No matter how you wrap it up, or which commercials it acts as the soundtrack to, or what professors might try to eulogize it to death, this is music that remains as thrillingly alive today as a rattlesnake coiled and hissing in your boots tomorrow morning. --Mike McGonigal