Self Portrait

Self Portrait is a 1970 double album by Bob Dylan. It consists mostly of covers, with a handful of instrumentals, original compositions (some of which appear in two different takes), and live tracks culled from a set he gave with The Band at the Isle of Wight festival earlier that year. The album was given very poor reviews when released, the most memorable coming from Greil Marcus writing in Rolling Stone, famously opening the review with, "What is this shit?" Dylan has gone on record saying he intentionally made Self Portrait far below the standards he set in the 1960s to get people off of his back, and end the "spokesman of a generation" tags; but he has also given other, contradictory accounts of his motives.

Related Topics:
1970 - Double album - Bob Dylan - The Band - Isle of Wight - Greil Marcus - Rolling Stone

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Still, the album quickly went gold in the US, where it hit #4, and it gave Bob Dylan yet another UK #1 hit before it fell down the charts.

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