Any Bob Dylan fans?

Blood on the Tracks is my favorite album of his. Absolutely brilliant from start to finish.

I recently bought "The Essential Bob Dylan" as my first venture into Dylan. Definitely some good stuff. Lay Lady Lay just came on my phone just after seeing this topic name, so I felt moved to share.

Love his writing, his voice range is limited..Only Tom Petty can make him worth soing to see live.

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Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower - Studio Version - Lyrics - YouTube

Oh yes. I have all of his early LPs. One of his eary great ones was

bob dylan time they are a changing - YouTube

Here's a great rendition of his best ever song ...
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone (USA) - YouTube

Elvis Costello's version of "I Threw It All Away" is even better than Dylan's, in my humble opinion. Really stunning and proof that his music can be interpreted in so many ways.

Elvis Costello/Spectacle: I Threw It All Away - YouTube

I love this song! Don't Think Twice

Don't Think Twice It's Alright (Post Productions) - YouTube

Bob Dylan is a native of Minnesota and he is beloved here. But it is in NYC where he has the largest and most loyal following. I am a huge fan of his having been introduced to his great work by the late Murray the K who may have been the greatest DJ of all time.

Bob Dylan is legend. I'm a fan, but I just have a greatest hits compilation of his and that's all. (for now)

Mister Tamborine Man and Subterranean Homesick Blues are a couple songs of his that I really like.

Bill Shadowcat said:

Bob Dylan is legend. I'm a fan, but I just have a greatest hits compilation of his and that's all. (for now)

Mister Tamborine Man and Subterranean Homesick Blues are a couple songs of his that I really like.

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Subterranean Homesick Blues-Song - YouTube

He made Christian albums? That's strange. I heard in an interview that he made a pact with the devil. He sounded real depressed when he said it. Maybe he was just pulling everybody's leg. Who knows...

He is my favorite artist (well he and Arcade Fire)
HW61 Rev is my favorite album of any artist. I've probably listened to it over 300 time. By the way,I here a lot of things in Desolation Row that relate to the holocaust. Two such verses are "across the street". I believe he is clearly referring to Jews that continued to keep the Feast of Passover. They nailed the curtains is simply his way of saying that they had to be very careful that the candle was not seen by anyone outside. And "in a perfect image of a priest",the male head of the home wore the pure white robe during Passover,as was also worn by the high priest in the temple/tabernacle.
"the Titanic sails at dawn I believe refers to the ship full of Jewish refugees who thought the were escaping the death camps. But Cuba,the US and Canada turned them away. Ezra pound and T S Eliot fighting in the capton's tower I believe is the capton of the ship,a German officer,struggling with his conscience. He grew more and more sympathetic for his passengers every day. One account I read stated that he considered running the ship aground so the Jews could be spared being sent back to Europe and the death camps. He simply wandered around in the Caribbean hoping against hope some country would alow them to port. "Calipso singers... ",well,calipso music originated in that very same area. Sadly the ship had to return to Europe and ,though many were granted asslym several hundred ended up in death camps where many were murdered.
My wife is NOT a Dylan fan,but she defined his music better than anyone else to me "He makes you think" He is,in my opinion,his own genre. A group of one.
Any Arcade Fire fans here?

I heard once that he became involved with a group of ultra-orthodox Jews. Whether or not they were Messianic I was unable to find.

To add to what I wrote in my first post on this thread,I believe Bob was drawing a parallel between the way Jews were treated by Nazis and the ugly way blacks have been treated here in "the land of the free" . His very first verse "They're selling postcards of the hanging..they're painting the passports brown" clearly suggests that possibility. "The hanging" refers to 2 black men hung in the town square(by the way,a mere 20 miles from Bob's hometown) and the Nazis painted Jewish passports brown. I think,in a way he's asking us to look at our own selves. Was not what we whites did to blacks equally appalling? And why did we murder off most native Americans instead of making slaves of them as well. And any serious fan of Dylan knows the he has a very tender heart towards blacks.