John Wesley Harding [Digipak] [Super Audio Hybrid CD] by Bob Dylan (CD, Sep-2003, Columbia (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	827969032060
Artist:	Bob Dylan
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2003
Record Label:	Columbia (USA)
Genre:	Country Rock, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. John Wesley Harding
2. As I Went Out One Morning
3. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
4. All Along the Watchtower
5. Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, The
6. Drifter's Escape
7. Dear Landlord
8. I Am a Lonesome Hobo
9. I Pity the Poor Immigrant
10. Wicked Messenger, The
11. Down Along the Cove
12. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

Details
Playing Time:	39 min.
Producer:	Bob Johnston, Steve Berkowitz (Reissue)
Distributor:	Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano); Pete Drake (steel guitar); Charles McCoy (bass); Kenny Buttrey (drums).Includes liner notes by Bob Dylan.This is a stereo hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.Personnel: Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano); Pete Drake (steel guitar); Kenny Buttrey (drums).Photographer: David Gahr.Bob Dylan's eighth album followed a lengthy hibernation due to a motorcycle accident in which the singer re-evaluated his art. He emerged with a set of stark simplicity and heartfelt intensity, melding folk, rock, and country with a mesmerizing power that set off a huge back-to-basics movement in rock that lasted well into the next decade. A biblical purity encompasses the collection as Dylan paints graphic portraits of the disenfranchised--hobo, immigrant, drifter, messenger--articulating the uncertainty of the times. The best-known song here is the apocalyptic "All Along the Watchtower," which would soon be electrically redefined by Jimi Hendrix. The mood lifts on the final track "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight," a beautifully tender love song, suggesting that this is where salvation lies. John Wesley Harding repays repeated play with ever-unfolding metaphor and interpretation, including four hidden Beatles on the cover.

Editorial Reviews
[T]his spare collection of outlaw allegories and Biblical allusions is in stark contrast to the louder aesthetics prevailing elsewhere at the time...
Q

5 stars out of 5 - ...one of Dylan's most cryptic and thematically complex albums....its songs are rife with religious imagery, both explicit and implied....a masterful move - the original Dylan unplugged.
Rolling Stone (20000330)

Ranked #15 in Rolling Stone's 50 Coolest Records.
Rolling Stone (20020411)