Audio CD review:
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding

Band: Bob Dylan Title: John Wesley Harding Rating: Release Date: 01 June, 2004 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: John Wesley Harding 2: As I Went Out One Morning 3: I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine 4: All Along The Watchtower 5: The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest 6: Drifter's Escape 7: Dear Landlord 8: I Am A Lonesome Hobo 9: I Pity The Poor Immigrant 10: The Wicked Messenger 11: Down Along The Cove 12: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

Customer Reviews An underrrated gem of an album With just a bass, drums, guitar and harmonica Bob Dylan returned to basics on this uderrated masterpiece(certainly the most underrated of Dylan's career). In a time when intellectual pretensions were the order of the day comes John Wesley Harding. The album is steeped in biblical references and western mythology. The album also has a natural flow and should be listened to from beginning to end to fully appreciate it. Well any way you listen to it, one things for certain, this is one of the essential Dylan albums. . The hobo drifter's sad dream Even the black-and-white cover depicts weird characters that seem altogether misplaced and awkward, and somehow haunting. With simple melodies (which are not country songs at all) and perfectly clear vocal renderings (the clearest maybe on any Dylan album, especially around that era), the strange stories and solitary images stand out like statues in a desert. . . . two riders were approaching, and the wind began to howl. . . The two cheerful and melodic love songs to close the album seem almost unreal, almost like wishful thinking, in this context. Dylan D. Had it on vinyl now updating all my Dylan to C. Still sounds great after all these years. . You can see a complete list of all Bob Dylan discography, or go back to the Bob Dylan tabs