Description
- Self Portrait
- Artist: Bob Dylan
- Format: CD
- Release Date: 9/5/1989
- LABEL: Sbme Special MKTS.
- UPC: 886978991423
- GENRE: Rock
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.
Tracklist:
- 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
