Another Side of Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan

Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan's fourth studio album, came out on Columbia on August 8, 1964, with Tom Wilson producing, and the title means exactly what it says. Earlier that same year the title song of The Times They Are A-Changin' had become an anthem for the civil rights and antiwar movements; here Dylan steps away from that socially conscious style, and parts of the folk world took it badly. Irwin Silber, editor of Sing Out!, complained that Dylan had drifted away from people and got caught up in the trappings of fame.

The setup, though, is the same lone troubadour as before: just Dylan, his acoustic guitar and his harmonica, with a detour to the piano on "Black Crow Blues". It stalled at No. 43 in the States before eventually going gold, and it reached No. 8 in Britain in 1965.

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