BOB DYLAN - SELF PORTRAIT. 24 track Double Vinyl. Catalogue Backfill. Due 6th November.
Released in 1970, Self Portrait combines original recordings with interpretations of traditional and contemporary songs. Highlights include "All The Tired Horses," "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)," "Copper Kettle," and "Early Mornin' Rain.”
The album features four tracks taken directly from Bob Dylan’s (backed by The Band) performance at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 31, 1969:
Like a Rolling Stone (Side B, Track 6)
The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) (Side C, Track 5)
Minstrel Boy (Side D, Track 3)
She Belongs to Me (Side D, Track 4)
Bob Dylan at the time was purposefully retreating from his towering, pressurised role as the reluctant "spokesman of a generation" and the prophet of the 1960s counterculture. Having recently turned towards a smooth, crooning country style on Nashville Skyline (1969) and settled into domestic life away from the public eye, Dylan later admitted that Self Portrait was partly a deliberate "joke" or a way to dump a load of miscellaneous tracks and throw fans off his pedestal. The eclectic mix of pop standards, folk covers, instrumental whimsy (Wigwam), and soft crooning left contemporary critics and fans utterly bewildered—prompting Greil Marcus's famous Rolling Stone review opening, "What is this shit?"—though later reappraisals, such as 2013’s expanded archival release Another Self Portrait, reframed the record as a curious, subterranean exploration of traditional American song.
Side A
A1: All the Tired Horses
A2: Alberta #1
A3: I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
A4: Days of '49
A5: Early Mornin' Rain
A6: In Search of Little Sadie
Side B
B1: Let It Be Me
B2: Little Sadie
B3: Woogie Boogie
B4: Belle Isle
B5: Living the Blues
B6: Like a Rolling Stone (Live)
Side C
C1: Copper Kettle (The Pale Moonlight)
C2: Gotta Travel On
C3: Blue Moon
C4: The Boxer
C5: The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) (Live)
C6: Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)
Side D
D1: Take a Message to Mary
D2: It Hurts Me Too
D3: Minstrel Boy (Live)
D4: She Belongs to Me (Live)
D5: Wigwam
D6: Alberta #2
Cat. No. 19802998801
BOB DYLAN - SELF PORTRAIT. 24 track Double Vinyl. Catalogue Backfill. Due 6th November.
Released in 1970, Self Portrait combines original recordings with interpretations of traditional and contemporary songs. Highlights include "All The Tired Horses," "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)," "Copper Kettle," and "Early Mornin' Rain.”
The album features four tracks taken directly from Bob Dylan’s (backed by The Band) performance at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 31, 1969:
Like a Rolling Stone (Side B, Track 6)
The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) (Side C, Track 5)
Minstrel Boy (Side D, Track 3)
She Belongs to Me (Side D, Track 4)
Bob Dylan at the time was purposefully retreating from his towering, pressurised role as the reluctant "spokesman of a generation" and the prophet of the 1960s counterculture. Having recently turned towards a smooth, crooning country style on Nashville Skyline (1969) and settled into domestic life away from the public eye, Dylan later admitted that Self Portrait was partly a deliberate "joke" or a way to dump a load of miscellaneous tracks and throw fans off his pedestal. The eclectic mix of pop standards, folk covers, instrumental whimsy (Wigwam), and soft crooning left contemporary critics and fans utterly bewildered—prompting Greil Marcus's famous Rolling Stone review opening, "What is this shit?"—though later reappraisals, such as 2013’s expanded archival release Another Self Portrait, reframed the record as a curious, subterranean exploration of traditional American song.
Side A
A1: All the Tired Horses
A2: Alberta #1
A3: I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
A4: Days of '49
A5: Early Mornin' Rain
A6: In Search of Little Sadie
Side B
B1: Let It Be Me
B2: Little Sadie
B3: Woogie Boogie
B4: Belle Isle
B5: Living the Blues
B6: Like a Rolling Stone (Live)
Side C
C1: Copper Kettle (The Pale Moonlight)
C2: Gotta Travel On
C3: Blue Moon
C4: The Boxer
C5: The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) (Live)
C6: Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)
Side D
D1: Take a Message to Mary
D2: It Hurts Me Too
D3: Minstrel Boy (Live)
D4: She Belongs to Me (Live)
D5: Wigwam
D6: Alberta #2
Cat. No. 19802998801
