Bob Dylan-Bob Dylan (1962)

May 15, 2024

Artist: Bob Dylan

Label: Columbia

Format: LP

Cat #: PC 8579

Year of Release: 1962

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1970's reissue

Listed Condition VG/VG+

Sell Date: 5/2/24

Sell Price:$8.93

Discogs Last Sold: 3/5/24 NM/VG+ $9.00

Low: $3.98 M/VG+

Median: $12.49

Average: $12.81

High: $24.99 M/NM

Current low price: $12.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 16

Have/Want: 285/176

Where Sold: Minneapolis, MN

Time it took to sell: 9 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester used That's Entertainment mid 80's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

"You're No Good!" the 3 year old Reverse Collector proclaimed to his mother. "David! That's an awful thing to say! Go to your room!" I was just saying what was on the cover of the Bob Dylan song list on the album I had. I was a fluent reader by age 3, as opposed to simply memorizing text my parents read to me when I was 2. I understood the concept of "Good" and "Bad" and the word "No" and that "You're" was a contraction of "You Are" and yet I still could not comprehend that she could not understand I was making a mimicking proclamation, not a literal accusation. I couldn't offer a better explanation other than I was merely stating what was written on the album cover. So to my room I went with my kiddie record player and child's handling of mom's folk records that would degrade her second pressing 2-eye mono copy to the F (Fair above Poor) level grade-wise.

I actually sold that copy a couple months ago for around $75 dollars but somehow the old listing got consolidated with the 6-eye (that's Columbia Records logo speak) original and after conferring with the buyer, gave a cancel and refund. As of this writing, I still have it. This copy that sold last week was a Stereo condition upgrade I bought used in the early 80's.

As a 3 year old, my favorite tracks were "Gospel Plow" and "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean." I liked my Folk singers gruff and yelling like Dave Van Ronk on the Blues Project compilation, which was the king of that style. I also liked the conversational stuff like "Talkin' New York" or the intro to "Baby Let Me Follow You Down." That song of course got usurped in performance quality by the Live 1966 performances with The Band (or The Hawks) backing Bob electric. That one may have hijacked my brain, but I still prefer the original "Song To Woody" over later day live renditions.

I was going to hold off on posting this until Bob's 83rd birthday, but that is a couple weeks out and I've caught up on everything else that sold recently. I've got nothing else to post tomorrow, so here it is. Listening to this a few times over the last few days and weeks, I've grown to like this very good, but very young Bob album a little more.

Forever young, in a way.

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Other Bob Dylan Titles Discussed

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)

Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

Nashville Skyline (1969)

New Morning (1970)

Watching The River Flow b/w Spanish Is The Loving Tongue (1971)

Before The Flood (1974)

Slow Train Coming (1979)

Saved (1980)

Shot Of Love (1981)