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As Important Now as it was Over Forty Years Ago Feb 02, 2010
This is Bob Dylan's second album, recorded way back in the early Sixties, when he was barely twenty years old. It includes "Blowin' in the Wind" which I'm told took America by storm when Peter, Paul and Mary sang it. Then it became sort of the anthem of those protesting the Vietnam war. What a burden all this must have put on a young man's shoulders. Fortunately Bob Dylan was up to the task and didn't crack under the pressure of it all. Now, it's over four decades later and Dylan is still pumping out songs, though they don't have the rage you can find in "Hard Rain," one of the best songs Dylan has ever done. The images just pour at you from every line. This is a must own album and if you look at the situation we find ourselves in today, you'll see that not only has this record stood the test of time, but that it's as important now as it was over forty years ago.
A Young Poet Who Grabs You With His Words Jan 25, 2010
This is Bob Dylan's second album, but it's the one that made him known to the general public at large. He penned most of the songs on the record, including the famous, "Blowing in the Wind," a song that would live on for generations. Also included on this record is the very long and very good, "A Hard Rain Must Fall," which tells the story of a man asking his young son questions. The answers, if you listen to them, will really move you and get you to asking a lot of questions yourself. "Girl From the North Country" is a terrific song where a young and soulful Bob Dylan asks anybody traveling to the North Country if they'd remember him to a girl who lives there. I can't help it, I picture a coal miner's daughter. Even back then, Bob Dylan was a poet who could grab you and make you think with his words.
The Breakout Album Dec 24, 2009
Dylan's second album, the one that first made him famous, is filled with great songs, from the deceptively simple "Blowin' in the Wind" to his first experiment at using poetry in his lyrics, "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." There are some throwaway songs. Dylan's songwriting brilliance is made clear, but he hasn't yet figured out how to make the album stand as a unit, a characteristic he would have in the albums that followed this one.
Freewheelin' has the first of his protest songs, the kind of music that would make him famous and from which he would rebel. Overall, this is an essential album for Dylan fans precisely because it illustrated how quickly he was developing and showed that even at a very early age he was already the best songwriter around.
--Lawrence J. Epstein, author of Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan
Freewheeling Bob Dylan is a must Oct 12, 2009
If you are a true Bob Dylan fan, Freewheeling Bob Dylan is a must. I already have it on a record but it is well-worn and I just can't lose these songs. I already have the 3 CD compilation set 'Biography' which has the most well know songs from this CD on it. Unfortunately, it doesn't include 'The Talking World War 3 Blues' and 'I Shall Be Free'. These are some of his great comic songs with wonderful, imaginative lyrics that paint hilarious pictures in your mind. I also have many of his other albums which I love too but 'Freewheeling' will always be my favorite. Also HOW I got the original 'Freewheeling' record I'll never forget. In high school I traded another kid a 'Jan and Dean' album of surfer boy songs for it. ha!! We both left the transaction thinking we got the best of the other one. So to my high school friend Donald, wherever you are: SUCKER!! ha, ha.
If you are really a Bob Dylan fan, trust me, Don't miss adding 'The Freewheeling Bob Dylan' to your collection.
The First Of Many Great Album's By Bob Dylan Jun 19, 2009
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan was realesed back in 1963 over 46 years ago yet still is a timeless and classic album. This was way back when Dylan was still a folkie and two years before he plugged in. This album's topics range from things that were maijor topics over 40 years ago, segeragation, nuclear warfare, and well change of course. Tracks such as, "Blowin' In The Wind", and "Masters Of War", find Dylan protesting against segregation and war and the millitary(the masters of war), and in the song he sings, "And I hope you die", were lyrics that were never sung or recorded ever before till then. Songs like, "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall", was about that something was going to happen due to the fact it was written at a time when the whole world feared that nuclear anhilation was eminent, "Talking World War Three Blues", was about a sort of dream Dylan had about how World War Three happened and how it was "just a bad dream". Freewheelin' finds Dylan for the first time writing songs with protest and meaning, and like I said was and is the first of the many great albums Dylan has came out with.
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