Description
DESCRIPTION
Self Portrait is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on June 8, 1970 by Columbia Records. Self Portrait was Dylan's second double album, and features many cover versions of well-known pop and folk songs. Also included are a handful of instrumentals and original compositions. Most of the album is sung in the affected country crooning voice that Dylan had introduced a year earlier on Nashville Skyline. Seen by some as intentionally surreal and even satirical at times, Self Portrait received extremely poor reviews upon release; Greil Marcus' opening sentence in his Rolling Stone review was: "What is this sh#t?" Dylan has claimed in interviews that Self Portrait was something of a joke, far below the standards he set in the 1960s, and was made to get people off his back and end the "spokesman of a generation" tags. Despite the negative reception, the album quickly went gold in the U.S., where it hit No. 4, and it gave Dylan yet another UK No. 1 hit before it fell down the charts. The album has since built a cult following and saw a retrospective positive re-evaluation with the release of The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) in 2013.
Tracks/Credits
1 All the Tired Horses
2 Alberta #1
3 I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
4 Days of 49
5 Early Mornin' Rain
6 In Search of Little Sadie
7 Let It Be Me
8 Little Sadie
9 Woogie Boogie
10 Belle Isle
11 Living the Blues
12 Like a Rolling Stone
13 Copper Kettle (The Pale Moonlight)
14 Gotta Travel on
15 Blue Moon
16 The Boxer
17 Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
18 Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)
19 Take a Message to Mary
20 It Hurts Me Too
21 Minstrel Boy
22 She Belongs to Me
23 Wigwam
24 Alberta #2
- Format: CD
- Genre: Rock
- Released: 1989-09-05