Hammond, originally signed Dylan to Columbia. Hammond, an old friend and musician whose father, John H. In the meantime, Dylan turned his attention to another folk-rock experiment conducted by John P. It was quickly discarded, though Wilson would more famously use the same technique of overdubbing an electric backing track to an existing acoustic recording with Simon & Garfunkel's " The Sound of Silence". This took place in the Columbia 30th Street Studio in December 1964. The first unsuccessful test involved overdubbing a " Fats Domino early rock & roll thing" over Dylan's earlier, acoustic recording of " House of the Rising Sun", according to Wilson.
Dylan would remain on good terms with the Beatles, and as biographer Clinton Heylin writes, "the evening established a personal dimension to the very real rivalry that would endure for the remainder of a momentous decade."ĭylan and producer Tom Wilson were soon experimenting with their own fusion of rock and folk music. In retrospect, this meeting with the Beatles would prove to be influential to the direction of Dylan's music, as he would soon record music invoking a rock sound for at least the next three albums. During this time, Dylan's lyrics became increasingly surreal, and his prose grew more stylistic, often resembling stream-of-consciousness writing with published letters dating from 1964 becoming increasingly intense and dreamlike as the year wore on.ĭylan returned to the city, and on August 28, he met with the Beatles for the first time in their New York hotel. At least two songs were written that month: " If You Gotta Go, Go Now" and " It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)". Another song, " Gates of Eden", was also written earlier that year, appearing in the original manuscripts to Another Side of Bob Dylan a few lyrical changes were eventually made, but it's unclear if these were made that August in Woodstock.
Tambourine Man" was written in February 1964 but omitted from Another Side of Bob Dylan. And in the dead of night, he would wake up, grunt, grab a cigarette, and stumble over to the typewriter again." Dylan already had one song ready for his next album: " Mr. Baez recalls that "most of the month or so we were there, Bob stood at the typewriter in the corner of his room, drinking red wine and smoking and tapping away relentlessly for hours. When Joan Baez went to see Dylan that August, they stayed at Grossman's house. ( July 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭylan spent much of the summer of 1964 in Woodstock, a small town in upstate New York where his manager, Albert Grossman, had a place. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. Bringing It All Back Home has been described as one of the greatest albums of all time by multiple publications. The first track, " Subterranean Homesick Blues", became Dylan's first single to chart in the US, peaking at No. It also topped the UK charts later that spring.
6 on Billboard 's Pop Albums chart, the first of Dylan's LPs to break into the US top 10. On side one of the original LP, Dylan is backed by an electric rock and roll band-a move that further alienated him from some of his former peers in the folk music community. The album abandons the protest music of Dylan's previous records in favor of more surreal, complex lyrics. The first half of the album features electric songs, followed by mainly acoustic songs in the second half. It was released on March 22, 1965, by Columbia Records.