Bringing It All Back Home

Bringing It All Back Home is an album of original songs by American musician Bob Dylan, released on March 22, 1965. It has often been described as the first "folk rock" album. The first side of the LP features Dylan backed by an electified band, while side two features four solo acoustic songs.

Aftermath

The release of Bringing It All Back Home coincided with the final show of a joint tour with Joan Baez. By now, Dylan had grown far more popular and acclaimed than Baez, and it would be the last time they'd perform together in a very long time. (She would accompany him on another tour in May of 1965, but Dylan would not ask her to perform with him.) The timing was appropriate as Bringing It All Back Home signaled a new era.

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One of Dylan's most celebrated albums, Bringing It All Back Home was soon hailed as one of the greatest albums in rock history. In early editions of The Rolling Stone Record Guide, critic Dave Marsh wrote a glowing appraisal: "By fusing the Chuck Berry beat of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles with the leftist, folk tradition of the folk revival, Dylan really had brought it back home, creating a new kind of rock & roll that made every type of artistic tradition available to rock." Clinton Heylin later wrote that Bringing It All Back Home was possibly "the most influential album of its era. Almost everything to come in contemporary popular song can be found therein."

Related Topics:
Chuck Berry - Rolling Stones - Beatles

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Before the year was over, Dylan would record and release another album, which would take his new lyrical and musical direction even further.

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