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When was the album released link:
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A deep dive into Blonde on Blonde
And why I think it’s Bob Dylan’s best album

This album kind of cheats… But, cheaters always prosper and Dylan doesn’t care about the critical response, so he does this. He makes it a double album, more quantity, yet, there’s barely a drop in quality, if any.
He puts out 14 songs, with over 70 minutes of music. Mostly bound by vinyl, albums in that era rarely go past 45 minutes.
The pure significance of this fact, is something to explore.
Documented officially as the 15th double album of all time, although those above him were mostly live albums and compilations – Dylan effectively changed the game (again) forever, as so many others quickly followed, such names like Donovan, Jimmy Hendrix, Cream and The Beatles. Most experts can agree this was the first double album for rock music.
This album is so massive and had so many musicians on it. It’s unreal the talent that was on this, it’s really only comparable to something today such as an all star team in sports. There’s even major speculation on who played what and when and where. The Band had a strong influence on the album and Robbie Robertson contributed his talents on the electric guitar on multiple tracks. Then you have Kenny Buttrey who was as quoted as "one of the most influential session musicians in Nashville history". Charlie McCoy, who I shouldn’t have to explain to you how good he is as we’ve heard him on Desolation Row…Along with multiple other Grammy award winning musicians made this into a masterpiece. This was a gathering in the heart of music for America in Nashville, Tennessee. Combined with one of the best song writers of all time in the peak of his career… This album did not disappoint and remains one of the best of all time. We will backtrack later on the Nashville talk, as the record was never intended to be recorded there.
I don’t need to convince many in saying how great of an album it is; I don’t think anyone has or can rate this below an 8 out of 10, or 4 out of 5.
I will try to convince you that it is Dylan’s best album. And I know, Highway 61 Revisited and Blood on The Tracks are very much up there as well, but, when you’re competing with 14 songs (5 of them singles), I think I can make the case for it.
Now, this is still a deep dive at heart so we will talk about the history.

SOURCES:

“Revolution in the air – The songs of Bob Dylan 1957 – 1973” by Clinton Heylin
“Bob Dylan All the songs – The story behind every track” by Philippe Margotin & Jean-Michel Guesdon
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