Audio CD review:
Bob Dylan - Self Portrait

Bob Dylan - Self Portrait

Band: Bob Dylan Title: Self Portrait Rating: Release Date: 24 August, 1989 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: All The Tired Horses 2: Alberta #4 3: I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know 4: Days Of 49 5: Early Mornin' Rain 6: In Search Of A Little Sadie 7: Let It Be Me 8: Little Sadie 9: Woogie Boogie 10: Belle Isle 11: Living The Blues 12: Like A Rolling Stone 13: Copper Kettle 14: Gotta Travel On 15: Blue Moon 16: The Boxer 17: The Mighty Quinn (Quinn, The Eskimo) 18: Take Me As I Am 19: Take A Message To Mary 20: It Hurts Me Too 21: Minstrel Boy 22: She Belongs To Me 23: Wigwam 24: Alberta #2

Editoral Review Released in 1970 at a time when those on the radical left were hungering for their then-unimpeachable hero to reclaim his role as the conscience of his generation, Bob Dylan instead delivered a pop-inflected collection largely made up of rather indifferently performed covers. Self Portrait stands as a truly perverse collection. Youth culture was at a boiling point and the one figure the vanguard of The Movement hoped would galvanize all those street-fighting men and women was . . . crooning "Blue Moon"? In hindsight, Self Portrait is, at best, pleasant. The uncharacteristically lush likes of "All The Tired Horses," "Wigwam," and "Copper Kettle" are mighty nice, in fact. But then the tepid covers of "The Boxer," "Early Mornin' Rain," and "Gotta Travel On," as well as perplexingly lifeless live versions of "Like a Rolling Stone" and "She Belongs to Me" drag the whole set down and leave one wondering what Dylan was thinking when he selected such a provocative title for such an unrevealing album. --Steven Stolder .. You can see a complete list of all Bob Dylan discography, or go back to the Bob Dylan tabs