Bob Dylan

MaxPain,

I too love this collection, would urge you to take a listen to Red River Shore, one of my favorite Dylan songs/recordings ever, and to think he left it off of Time Out Of Mind. His last 5 or so have been at least as good as anything he has ever written, recorded and released.

Oh yes I've many times enjoyed the red river shore. In fact the whole time I've owned this two disc set I've never made it over to disc two. So when I did I was floored!! I'm just blown away on how well this recording sounds. I mean so tonally correct. Spacially correct, unlike my spelling. I just picked up blood on the tracks and all I can say is Bob Dylan never disapoints.

Gohst I saw Los lobos at Rivinia a few years back. Loved them, they opened for Los lonely boys. At first I was baffled, I thought LLB was like this one hit wonder band. Wrong! They were great I became a fan!

So, what would be Dylans best??? Must own stuff, or even in order of worst to best?

thanks for the suggestion, just reserved it at the library. i'm a lifelong dylan worshiper but had not heard this record. look forward to it!

"So, what would be Dylans best???"

Wow...that's tough. This guy has recorded so much, I don't see how to pick a "best"...personal favorites, maybe. For me, probably, "John Wesley Harding", "Blood on the Tracks", "Time Out of Mind", and his latest, "Together Through Life". Ask me next week and it might be a different set of albums. By the way, has anyone heard, "Bob Dylan Live 1975 (The Bootleg Series Volume 5)? This recording really captures the crowd excitement...there's electricity coming off this one.

Dylan's best? Of the 47 or so albums he's put out, I'd estimate that 40 of them are well worth owning if you like him at all.

Aside from the albums that all Dylan fans have (you know which ones those are), a few that I consider to be essential that may have slipped by you, are:

Planet Waves
New Morning
Oh Mercy
Empire Burlesque
Infidels

Happy Listening.