Excellent!  Which albums?

I’m sure you noticed that Rolling Stone recently concurred with me that Like a Rolling Stone is the single greatest rock-and-roll song ever written.  Not only that, ... it’s cut 1/side 1 of the single greatest rock-and-roll album.  Just about every song on Highway 61 Revisited is a true masterpiece that would work as the featured cut on an album of its own.  I won’t pull in all the links (they’re on the album’s webpage), but man oh man:  Desolation Row, Ballad of a Thin Man, Queen Jane Approximately, Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry, all on the same record.

If there’s one Dylan CD to rip, that’s undoubtedly it.

Yes, in fact, Highway 61 Revisited is one of them. Also, Live 1966 “The Royal Albert Hall Concert” The Bootleg Series Vol. 4, Before the Flood, John Wesley Harding, and At Budokan.

We’ve had a very Bob Dylan evening. And the lad’s Christmas list just grew.

Ah yes, the Royal Albert Hall, the famous show where someone in the audience yells “Judas!” just before the start playing LARS.  In response, Dylan tells his band “play f*ckin’ loud” and they do.

See if he can get a copy of The Basement Tapes, the famed sessions with The Band in their group house in Woodstock (Big Pink, as in The Band’s first record, Music From ...).  Much of it familiar stuff, but played with raw immediacy.  Some of those sessions were on Great White Wonder, the original “bootleg” record, appearing hither and yon on college campuses in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.  I had a copy way back when, of the “blue stamped title” variety.  Columbia eventually packaged the Basement Tapes as a “real” record.

Yes Columbia did.  I own a copy of it, along with seven other Dylan albums and four Band albums.  Sheesh.  Are we all about the same age, or what?

Hey, custodians are cool! Don’t you read Frazz?

I say this as one who worked as a janitor in my own high school two or three days a week my senior year, of course; I may be biased.

Christmas is coming, N. It may be a Dylan one. The Basement Tapes would be a good addition, I think. He’d like every one of the CDs he’s borrowed, too. Funny...he’s identified All Along the Watchtower as one of his favorite songs and Like a Rolling Stone, of course.

Yep, custodians are cool, Linkmeister. And no, I didn’t read Frazz until you mentioned it. I’ve consumed a month’s worth already. Lots of snickering and snorting going on here. It’s pretty funny.

I love to listen to his music. But I have to admit, there are only a few that I even know the names of   kinda before my time lol. But i will have fun following the links and learning a little more about him!

Dylan’s songs were covered by hundreds of singers, of course.  If he likes Watchtower, tell him to listen to the Hendrix version.