Bob Dylan - Songbook With Friends

The Song and Dance Man.

Bob Dylan lives in that moment between a whisper and a cry, where words stop behaving — and begin to sing. He electrifies poetry, turns folk into upheaval and protest into pop, expanding what a song can be. Born in 1941 as Robert Zimmerman in Minnesota, he finds his truth on the radio and arrives in New York at twenty — not to preserve folk, but to reinvent it. Greenwich Village becomes his laboratory, and Dave Van Ronk, the scene’s “janitor,” shows him that folk is blood, not etiquette. With Joan Baez, his rough-edged voice meets a movement that suddenly resonates worldwide — no later than when “Blowin’ in the Wind” breaks out of the clubs and climbs the charts. And when he turns up the amplifiers at Newport in 1965, one thing is clear: Dylan doesn’t follow a genre — he changes the rules. He keeps moving: folk hero, rock rebel, Nobel poet — every label too small. His songs outlast trends because they hold contradictions in one hand: sacred and profane, intimate and mythic, America arguing with itself. Dylan isn’t a genre — he’s a weather system everything else has to face. SONGBOOK WITH FRIENDS is a collection of his most beautiful songs — enriched by extraordinary interpretations from other artists and signature songs by close companions along the way.

Side B

1. Song To Woody - Bob Dylan
2. Blowin' in the Wind - Lincoln Square
3. Mixed Up Confusion - Bob Dylan
4. You're No Good - Bob Dylan 
5. Where Have All The Flowers Gone - Peter, Paul & Mary
6. Highway 51 - Bob Dylan
7. In My Time Of Dyin' - Bob Dylan
8. We Shall Overcome - Pete Seeger