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Bob Dylan, the living legend of folk who led the anti-war movement with folk music, the 'Godfather of Folk' and 'Nobel Laureate'! Bob Dylan's 'spirit of the times and songs that became poetry', his debut album [Bob Dylan], which is his first declaration to the world, and the songs from the historic masterpiece [Free Wheelin' Bob Dylan] are here on [The Essential Hits] 2CD album!
Recalling Bob Dylan, I felt a pang of nostalgia, remembering myself in the late '80s winter at Shin00 Records, the first department store-style record store in Jongno 3-ga, choosing records with my meager allowance, escaping the burden of the academic achievement test. My first licensed LP album [Bob Dylan Greatest Hits] that I bought with my own money!
Bob Dylan in my late teens! Did I know and like him? Or did I come to know him because I liked him? I only started because I liked soft melodies like "One More of Cup of Coffee" or "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," but he was not a singer who only sang soft melodies and emotional lyrics.
Born on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, with the real name Robert Allen Zimmerman, Bob Dylan met his folk music teacher 'Woody Guthrie' in New York in '61 and caught the eye of producer John Hammond, and in '62, he recorded his historic debut album [Bob Dylan].
In this album, except for one folk song, he opens the era of a true 'singer-songwriter' who writes, composes, accompanies, and sings himself, which becomes the cornerstone of his second album [Free Wheelin' Bob Dylan], a textbook of folk music released the following year. "House of The Rising Sun" (Kim Sang-guk's cover "The House of the Rising Sun"), which is well known as a hit song by Joan Baez or the British band Animals, is actually a folk song from the southern United States, and you can feel the freshness of 21-year-old Bob Dylan. "In My Time Of Dying," which is better known as a song by Led Zeppelin, is originally Bob Dylan's song. If there are masterpieces that hardcore folk enthusiasts like, there are "Man Of Constant Sorrow" or "Talkin' in New York," which are excellent tracks where you can get a glimpse of Bob Dylan's awakened youth.
The greatest folk album in history, 2nd album [Freewheelin' Bob Dylan]!
[Freewheelin' Bob Dylan], an immortal folk masterpiece completed in '63 when Bob Dylan was only 22 years old, is evaluated as an album that fully shows the true nature of a Protestant fighter who contemplates the meaning of singer-songwriter and the era that only folk music can produce.
As "Masters Of War," which is called 'the greatest Protestant song of all time,' shows, American society at the time was experiencing sharp conflicts due to the black civil rights movement represented by Martin Luther King and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and many people who felt disillusioned with reality due to the hypocrisy of the rulers were caught up in resistance movements against the system. If you listen to "Blowin in the Wind" (Twin Folio's cover "The Answer Only the Wind Knows") or "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (Lee Yeon-sil's cover "Shower"), masterpieces that show why Bob Dylan is called a poet and philosopher in his career, you will feel a strange catharsis from the combination of incomprehensible profound lyrics and pure sensitivity that opens your eyes and ears to sensitive reason and the lives around you. "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" was written during the Cuban crisis in '62, and the sense of crisis escalating due to the confrontation between Kennedy and Khrushchev comes as desperation. On the other hand, "Girl From The North Country," which is better known to us as it was inserted in the movie [Silver Linings Playbook], is a heartbreaking love ballad about longing for lost love.
Perhaps this unique sentiment of Bob Dylan is the root that opened the domestic acoustic guitar culture in the '70s. In fact, Kim Min-ki, Han Dae-soo, Yang Byung-jip, Seo Yu-seok, and Yang Hee-eun are generations who directly absorbed Bob Dylan's nutrients. "Don't Think Twice It's All Right," which is well known to us as Yang Byung-jip's cover "Reverse" in the '70s and Kim Kwang-seok's cover "Car Going on Two Wheels" in the '90s, is also a masterpiece that represents the acoustic guitar and jeans culture of the '70s. For reference, Bob Dylan's 2nd album ranks 97th on Rolling Stone's 'Greatest Albums of All Time'.
After that, Bob Dylan accepts the new trend represented by the Beatles and pours out masterpieces of folk rock that introduced electronic instruments despite the jeers of many hardcore fans. The famous rock and roll debut album [Highway 61] (1965), [Blonde on Blonde] (1966), which is said to be the most cherished by Bob Dylan himself as the first double album in the rock genre to complete the folk rock album trilogy (3 parts), etc. Until the late '60s, when he was temporarily submerged due to a traffic accident, almost all the albums he released, along with the Beatles, who sublimated popular music into art with the beauty of melody, were artists who completed the 'inner self' somewhat opposed to the Beatles, saying that 'popular music should contain not only melody but also a clear message and timeliness'.
This album contains the most important masterpieces of Bob Dylan's debut on 2 CDs, who is still considered the most influential figure in the history of popular music with various creativity and artistry that does not distinguish genres such as rock, folk, blues, country, and gospel.
Every song on the CD is worth listening to. It contains the amazing spirit of the times of a 22-year-old youth 60 years ago. I hope that teenagers who are familiar with hip-hop and K-pop will also expect a chance encounter with a master, just like I did 30 years ago. Good things are universal to any generation, and music seems to be especially so.
Commentator Park Tae-soon (CEO of Audio Shelter 'Mecca')
