(****½) August 8, 1964. Fourth Studio Album.
I love just about every song on Dylan’s fourth album, which contains one of my (many) all-time favorites, “Chimes of Freedom”, plus classics “It Ain’t Me Babe,” “”My Back Pages,” and “All I Really Want to Do.” The whole album has a bluesy, biting edge to it, along with some comic relief in “”Motorpsycho Nightmare” and “I Shall Be Free No. 10,” and the tender love songs “To Ramona” and “Ballad in Plain D.” Amazingly, it was all recorded in one session, and despite just being acoustic guitar, harmonica and some piano, it rocks.
Top 5….not much I can say about this album that hasn’t already been said.
I have always liked how Bob evolved over the years. The 1960s folk/discovering electric guitar Bob sounds so different from rocking Bob and religious Bob. He has never one to be satisfied of where he is at.