At the time of writing, today marks the two month anniversary of the passing of artist Suze Rotolo (the girl clutching Bob Dylan on the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and in the outtake photo above) the girlfriend and muse to Dylan in the early sixties. Let’s use this moment as an opportunity to put the spotlight on one of the Greatest Albums Ever Made, which was added the US Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry (recordings that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States”) in 2002.
The thing about Dylan is that there are so many facets, phases and layers to his work that countless trees have died with people writing books and articles trying to figure out this man’s psyche. Allen Ginsberg stated that when he heard the sixth track “A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall” he broke down and wept –because with that song, a new generation was taking up and surpassing the mantle established by Ginsberg and his beatnik peers a decade earlier.
Nothing significant can be said or written about this album that hasn’t already been done before, so I’ll just state that in this “iPod shuffle” generation it’s easy to ignore albums. However it’s worth the investment to listen to the album its entirely. Instead of listening to The Tallest Man on Earth, do yourself a favour and listen to the person Kristian Matsson is trying so hard to impersonate. -L.M Harrison
Bob Dylan vs. TIME Magazine (1965):
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