Bob Dylan这个名字让你想到什么？一张忧郁的脸孔、一副沧桑的嗓音、唱着反战歌曲，没错，就是他！Bob Dylan，原名Robert Allen Zimmerman，出生于1941年5月24日的美国明尼苏达州Duluth市。他深受美国现代民谣之父Woody Guthrie的影响，并且在其它方面如腔调、服装、姿态等等也都无不模仿Woody的神情。 Dylan被传奇制作人John Hammond发掘后，便开始连续录制了好几张非常具有政治意识的民谣抗议歌曲，这样的大胆作风旋即冲击了当时的乐坛，当然也立刻获得各方评论界的一致赞扬。甚至在当时整个乐坛已逐渐被类似Beatles的英国歌手占领之时，Bob Dylan却都还能在排行榜上占有一席之地，更加证明了他在当时确实激励了无数的青年开始拿起吉他唱出属于他们世代的民歌。 Dylan写出了大量的优秀作品，他的歌曲成为民权和反战运动的圣歌，像《随风飘逝》Blowin in the Wind 和《大雨将至》A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall这样的抗议歌曲，有像传统的《科里纳，科里纳》Corrina Corrina和以传统为基础的《来自北部乡村的女孩》Cirl from the North Country这样的爱情歌曲，还有像《我将会自由》（I Shall Be Free）这样的滑稽歌曲。迪伦成了民谣摇滚英雄。 Bob Dylan创立了全新的民间摇滚风格，提高了歌词的内涵和品味，改变了摇滚乐原来那种低俗的趣味，他通过深厚、丰富的、完全诗化的抒情化了的歌曲的主题，使听众随着音乐表现出来的原始冲击力感悟到了摇滚乐的那种容易被忽略掉的神韵。他那略显忧郁的、鼻音浓重的粗犷音质，很容易让听众识别。那强劲而粗放的、几乎不加修饰的吉它弹奏，则融入了布鲁斯音乐的精致风韵。 Bob Dylan的歌常常简单得让人吃惊，只有一把吉他加上个口琴。但也正因为这些方面的原因，人们在唱他的歌时觉得更加亲切随意。当你听厌了某些肤浅的歌词、无病呻吟的矫情……你可以回过头来，寻找一些真诚而有个性的、简单而附着灵魂的音乐来听，那么Bob Dylan的音乐应该是你的首选。 这是一张偏向乡村音乐的专辑，也是Dylan从六十年代末至七十年代处那段事业低估的开端。虽然这长专辑非议不断，但那只是对于Dylan而言的，人们对他的期望太高了。要是仅仅从一张专辑来说的话，这张绝不会比任何一位乡村歌曲大师的成名之作差。

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Bob Dyla的影响力主要体现在60年代，如果没有迪伦，无疑摇滚乐将走一段弯路，将不会有“披头士”（BGEATLES，THE）的《佩珀军士》（Sgt.Pepper），不会有“滚石”的《乞丐的宴会》（Beggar’s Banquet），也不会有“乐队”的《来自大平克的音乐》（Music form Big Pink），这就是他的影响程度。他对音乐的最主要的贡献，这点也影响了列农和麦卡特尼之后的很多歌手，那就是歌词的深刻寓意与音乐成为同等重要的一部分，从他一开始的抗议歌曲，就展示了他的歌词比他的音乐更浪漫、更激动人心。他对工业国家整个一代人的敏感性的形成起了很大的作用，他的音乐对理解和分析60年代是至关重要的。

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture for more than 50 years.

巴布·狄倫，原名勞勃·艾倫·齊默曼，美國創作歌手、藝術家和作家。從1961年發布首張專輯至今，狄倫在流行音樂界和文化界引起的影響已超過50年。他的大多數著名作品都來自1960年代的反抗民謠，也被廣泛認為是當時美國新興的反叛文化的代言人，儘管他否認了這一點

The Basement Tapes is a studio album by Bob Dylan and The Band, released in 1975 by Columbia Records. Most of the album was actually recorded eight years earlier, in the basement of a house shared by the musicians. As Bob Dylan recovered from a near-fatal motorcycle accident during 1967, he called on The Band to help him experiment with themes of traditional folk music and Americana; these explorations, and their possible links with the earlier Anthology of American Folk Music, are explored in Invisible Republic by author Greil Marcus. The sessions laid the foundation both for the approach of Dylan's 1967 album John Wesley Harding, and for the Band finding their own voice on 1968's Music From Big Pink. The Dylan LP, a critically-acclaimed departure from the surrealist rock and roll he had recently pioneered on his milestone trio of albums from 1965 and 1966, was as much of a shock to his fans as were those records to his earlier folk audience. Both it and Music From Big Pink would greatly influence the turn, by many contemporary popular musicians, away from the psychedelic music that reached its height in 1967, toward an embrace of country-influenced folk styles. Material from the sessions had been heavily bootlegged since 1968, with the most famous being 1969's Great White Wonder. It wasn't until Dylan's comeback with Blood on the Tracks in 1975 that any of it was officially released, and The Basement Tapes was welcomed with high praise from fans and critics. Compiled by Robbie Robertson, the album features new songs and many overdubs made by The Band long after the original sessions. More complete and authentic documents of the 1967 tapes have since surfaced and are traded by fans, while the later Band tracks have appeared as bonus tracks on CD reissues of their proper albums. The Basement Tapes peaked at #7 in 1975 on Billboard's (North America) Pop Albums chart and reached #8 in the UK. In 2003, the album was ranked number 291 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author, poet, and visual artist who has been a major figure in popular culture for more than fifty years.

Blonde on Blonde代表了Bob Dylan音乐生涯的顶峰，它以简单的结构，更为流畅抒情的曲风，展现出一片强大而特殊的梦想景象。在滚石杂志选出的“史上500张最佳专辑”中排名第 9，可见地位之显赫。更值得一提的是，它还是史上首张正式双唱片，是作为摇滚音乐人的迪伦突破传统单片唱片的限制、灵感膨胀的阶段性创造力的极致体现。 总之，无论从何种角度来讲，Blonde on Blonde完全担当得起“伟大”这个形容词。这是因为：一、它无限释放了乐手的即兴能力，让乐手与歌手真正融入一体，使得整张唱片到处都充满着创造力的生机；二、迪伦以天赋的文字能力将社会现实以模糊化的意象方式表现出来，从而增强了专辑的文化内涵和重量，引发了一代又一代歌迷通过迪伦的音乐来展现自己无穷尽的求知欲。 “摇滚民谣之父”滚石杂志“史上500张最佳专辑”NO.9

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2008.