The Essential Bob Dylan
by Bob Dylan
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 31 October 2000
- Label: Columbia
- Country: United States
- Length: 2:03:45
- Community rating: 4.14/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
An incredibly sprawling, platinum-selling double album aiming to distill the unparalleled, shape-shifting career of the legendary American songwriter. The tracklist effectively maps his journey from a Greenwich Village folk purist to a controversial electric rock pioneer, concluding with material from his late-1990s critical renaissance. It notably features 'Things Have Changed', the recently released, Oscar-winning track that reaffirmed his enduring lyrical sharpness.
Genres
Descriptors: Folk, grief, breakup, regret, comprehensive
Tracklist
- Blowin' In The Wind (2:46)
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (3:37)
- The Times They Are A-Changin' (3:11)
- It Ain't Me, Babe (3:32)
- Maggie's Farm (3:51)
- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (4:14)
- Mr. Tambourine Man (5:26)
- Subterranean Homesick Blues (2:17)
- Like A Rolling Stone (6:07)
- Positively 4th Street (3:53)
- Just Like A Woman (4:50)
- Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 (4:34)
- All Along The Watchtower (2:31)
- Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) (2:18)
- I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (2:39)
- Lay, Lady, Lay (3:17)
- If Not For You (2:40)
- I Shall Be Released (3:02)
- You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (2:44)
- Knockin' On Heaven's Door (2:30)
- Forever Young (4:56)
- Tangled Up In Blue (5:41)
- Shelter From The Storm (5:02)
- Hurricane (8:33)
- Gotta Serve Somebody (5:24)
- Jokerman (6:15)
- Silvio (3:06)
- Everything Is Broken (3:13)
- Not Dark Yet (6:28)
- Things Have Changed (5:08)
Credits
- Bob Dylan - primary artist, words by, music by
- Bob Wilson - accompanied by
- Charlie Daniels - accompanied by
- Charlie McCoy - accompanied by
- Kenny Buttrey - accompanied by
- Norman Blake - accompanied by
- Pete Drake - accompanied by
- Jacques Levy - written-by [written with]