Name: Self Portrait
Brand: Columbia (USA)
SKU: 295088
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Self Portrait

By Bob Dylan

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Format

CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Release Date

5 September 1989

Album: Self Portrait
#	Song Title	Time
1)	All the Tired Horses
2)	Alberta #1
3)	I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
4)	Days of '49
5)	Early Morning 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
14)	Gotta Travel On
15)	Blue Moon
16)	Boxer, The
17)	Mighty Quinn, The (Quinn the Eskimo)
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

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EAN

0074643005029

Writer

Bob Dylan

Producer

Bob Johnston

Country

USA

Studio/Live

Mixed

Guest Artist

Robbie Robertson; Rick Danko; Garth Hudson; Levon Helm; Richard Manuel; David Bromberg; Norman Blake; Doug Kershaw

Label

Columbia (USA)

Dimensions

14 x 12.5 x 1.1 centimetres (0.10 kg)

Performer Notes

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Personnel includes: Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar); Byron T. Bach, Brenton Banks, George Binkley, Norman Blake, David Bromberg, Albert W. Butler, Kenneth Buttrey, Fred Carter, Jr., Marvin D. Chantry, Ron Cornelius, Charlie Daniels, Rick Danko, Dottie Dillard, Peter Drake, Delored Edgin, Jolie J. Fott, Bubba Fowler, Dennis A. Good, Emanuel Green, Hilda Harris, Levon Helm, Frederick Hill, Karl T. Himmel, Garth Hudson, Lillian Hunt, Martin Katahn, Doug Kershaw, Millie Kirkham, Al Kooper, Sheldon Kurland, Charlie McCoy, Martha McCrory, Barry McDonald, Richard Manuel, Oliver Mitchell, Carol Montgomery, Bob Moore, Gene A. Mullins, Gary Van Osdale, June Page, Rex Peer, Bill Pursell, Robbie Robertson, Alvin Rogers, Frank C. Smith, Maeretha Stewart, Anthony Terron, Bob Wilson, Stu Woods.
Engineers: Neil Wilburn, Don Puluse, Glynn Johns.
Originally released as a 2-LP set.
Personnel: Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards); Robbie Robertson (vocals, guitar); Levon Helm (vocals, mandolin, drums); Rick Danko (vocals, violin); Richard Manuel (vocals, keyboards, drums); June Page, Albertine Robinson, Martin Katahn, Dorothy Ann Dillard, Maretha Stewart, Hilda Harris (vocals); Charlie McCoy (guitar, harmonica); Al Kooper (guitar, horns, keyboards); David Bromberg, Fred Foster, Bubba Foller, Fred Carter, Ron Cornelius, Charlie Daniels (guitar); Pete Drake (steel guitar); Brenton Banks (violin, synthesizer); Sheldon Kurland, Doug Kershaw, George Binkley III, Byron Bach, Emanuel Green (violin); Marvin Chantry, Gary VanOsdale (viola); Martha McCrory (cello); Garth Hudson (saxophone, keyboards); Freddie Hill, Ollie Mitchell (trumpet); Dennis Good (trombone); Albert Wynn Butler (horns); Bob Wilson (piano, organ); Al Rogers, Kenny Buttrey, Karl Himmel (drums).
Unknown Contributor Roles: Gene A. Mullins; Barry McDonald; Lilian Hunt; Anthony Ferron; Frank Smith ; Delores Edgin; Rex Peer; Carol Montgomery; Solie Fott; Norman Blake; Bill Pursell; Millie Kirkham.
This willfully eccentric album is among the most misunderstood in Dylan's catalog. It's surely the oddest recorded moment in a career far from devoid of left turns. Dylan himself doesn't even appear on the opening tune, wherein a female chorus repeats a spiritual-sounding refrain over strings and organ. Some of the tunes pick up where NASHVILLE SKYLINE left off, with Dylan crooning over country-ish backup. Elsewhere, he tackles an unusual group of cover tunes, including Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain," Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer" and the Everly Brothers' classic "Take A Message To Mary."
He takes a relaxed, homespun approach on the traditional murder ballad "Little Sadie." He offers us a glimpse of Bob the bluesman on "Woogie Boogie" and the Elmore James chestnut "It Hurts Me Too." He even covers himself, with a new version of "Like A Rolling Stone." The eclectic outside material and the lack of any anthems for the Woodstock generation to hang their preconceptions on led many to dismiss this album as perversely slight. If you buy into that party line, you'll never know what you're missing.

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (9/3/70, p.40) - "...another musical explosion for Dylan, a breaking out from the constraints of his past work....Dylan has adapted a new sound, and with it has explored relationships and emotions that are no longer elemental, but which approach the complexity of life.."

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By Mark on October 8, 2006

There's been all kinds of crap hung on this album. While some of it is justified, this album isn't as bad as most of the critics will tell you. There's plenty to enjoy on this double album, including "Copper Kettle", "Early Morning Rain" and "Mighty Quinn". No one will care if you skip over the bad stuff, although you should listen to it all at least once so you can make up your own mind.

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