Product Description
Very Rare Actual 1968 First New Zealand Pressing On Solid Orange CBS Label! Flipback Cover With Pinched Spine, Labels Are Clean.
Condition – Vinyl: VERY GOOD PLUS! Light surface marks.
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD! Medium ring wear / shelf wear, creases, discolouring and name on back.
Side 1:
John Wesley Harding
As I Went Out One Morning
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
All Along The Watchtower
The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest
Drifter’s Escape
Side 2:
Dear Landlord
I Am A Lonesome Hobo
I Pity The Poor Immigrant
The Wicked Messenger
Down Along The Cove
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
AMG –
Simple, direct, and melodic... Bob Dylan returned from exile with John Wesley Harding, a quiet, country-tinged album that split dramatically from his previous three. A calm, reflective album, John Wesley Harding strips away all of the wilder tendencies of Dylan's rock albums -- even the then-unreleased Basement Tapes he made the previous year -- but it isn't a return to his folk roots. If anything, the album is his first serious foray into country, but only a handful of songs, such as "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight," are straight country songs. Instead, John Wesley Harding is informed by the rustic sound of country, as well as many rural myths, with seemingly simple songs like "All Along the Watchtower," "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine," and "The Wicked Messenger" revealing several layers of meaning with repeated plays. Although the lyrics are somewhat enigmatic, the music is simple, direct, and melodic, providing a touchstone for the country-rock revolution that swept through rock in the late '60s.