Bob Dylan

In DeAgostini's opinion, we need to hear Dylan's eponymous (vocab point!) first album third. 

Commercially it makes sense I suppose. There are no well-known original songs on here for them to push. 

I definitely feel we are going backwards. 

There are times when he seems to be trying too hard to get that gutbucket folk/blues voice, almost to the extent of shredding his larynx. 

This may explain a lot in the future, of course. 

Most of the songs on this album are Trad.  House of the Rising Sun, Man of Constant Sorrow. An awful lot about death for a twenty-year old. 

He generally does them well. His acoustic guitar fair rattles along. 

Delighted to still hear the odd flub and slightly out -of-tune guitars, though curiously fewer than on the next two albums. 

Just two originals here, of which Talkin' New York is the better. 

Many artists have a song on an album that proves to be the sign of things to come. Talkin' New York is very like what we will hear on TFBD and TTTAA.

I think I could already have guessed this from what I know of him, but this clear backwards step shows how much he develops in three albums.