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Studio:Columbia / Sony

Amazon.co.uk Review

This set captures a still-growing Dylan on the edge, just before he makes the jump to rock & roll, continuing to expand the notion of folk music with openhearted, unprecedented compositions and performances like "All I Really Want to Do", "Chimes of Freedom", "My Back Pages", and "It Ain't Me Babe". If Dylan's previous album The Times They Are A-Changin' was a bit too literal and focused on current events, Another Side indulges Dylan's more mythic and expansive side, making more rumour for the humour that would explode when Dylan formed a band. It's just Dylan, guitar, and harmonica here, but Another Side is a rock & roll album without that band. --Jimmy Guterman

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The "another side" here is the one where Bob Dylan fights against the expectations of the pop and folk music traditions he'd previously honored and updated. He does this musically, somewhat (he swaps acoustic guitar for piano on the fine country blues "Black Crow Blues"), but mainly he's busy subverting love song formulas on the anti-romantic "It Ain't Me Babe" and replacing the typical notion of emotional growth and maturity with one of innocence that's explicitly Blakean. Most remarkable of all is "Chimes of Freedom," another protest/love song, but one that's as poetic and visionary as any written, before or since. --David Cantwell

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