Product Description
Rare Early Japanese Pressing Still In Top Condition! Includes Inner Sleeve, Plus 8-Page Booklet With Lyrics In English & Japanese. The Landmark Bob Dylan LP, Featuring “Blowin’ In The Wind”, “Girl From The North Country”, “Masters Of War” … That’s Just The First Three Songs!
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Light surface mark on Side 2, briefly audible. Rest of LP is NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Edge / corner wear.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer — and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Blowin’ In The Wind
Girl From The North Country
Masters Of War
Down The Highway
Bob Dylan’s Blues
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Side 2:
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Bob Dylan’s Dream
Oxford Town
Talking World War III Blues
Corrina, Corrina
Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance
I Shall Be Free
AMG –
The record that firmly established Dylan as an unparalleled songwriter, one of considerable skill, imagination, and vision. It's hard to overestimate the importance of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the record that firmly established Dylan as an unparalleled songwriter, one of considerable skill, imagination, and vision. At the time, folk had been quite popular on college campuses and bohemian circles, making headway onto the pop charts in diluted form, and while there certainly were a number of gifted songwriters, nobody had transcended the scene as Dylan did with this record. There are a couple (very good) covers, with "Corrina Corrina" and "Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance," but they pale with the originals here. At the time, the social protests received the most attention, and deservedly so, since "Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War," and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" weren't just specific in their targets; they were gracefully executed and even melodic. Although they've proven resilient throughout the years, if that's all Freewheelin' had to offer, it wouldn't have had its seismic impact, but this also revealed a songwriter who could turn out whimsy ("Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"), gorgeous love songs ("Girl From the North Country"), and cheerfully absurdist humor ("Bob Dylan's Blues," "Bob Dylan's Dream") with equal skill. This is rich, imaginative music, capturing the sound and spirit of America as much as that of Louis Armstrong, Hank Williams, or Elvis Presley. Dylan, in many ways, recorded music that equaled this, but he never topped it.