A majority of songs were recorded long after midnight, the post-A.M. The Bard sweated over lyrics, demanded his band get the exact sounds he heard in his head, and limited most takes to a handful at most. Dylan, frustrated with how initial attempts fared in New York, relocating to Tennessee and pairing with Nashville's top session players as well as members of what would become the Band, feverishly chasing perfectionism while also arriving at an on-the-fly feel that remains a reference point for recorded music.
The story of Blonde on Blonde is almost as compelling as the music within. Mobile Fidelity's reissue captures this ensemble ambience, with echoes, resonation, and some of the most natural timbres you'll ever hear in plain sight. The secret to its inimitable aural character partially stems from Dylan's request in Nashville to producer Bob Johnston to remove the baffles from the studio room, allowing the musicians to interact as well as the music to assume a more organic quality that drifts from one microphone to another. Prized for a unique sound that cultural critic Greil Marcus tagged "the most glamorous record imaginable listening you see the checkered jester's suit Dylan had worn on stage for the nine previous, furious months," Blonde on Blonde is to music, production, prose, and performance as what hydrogen is to water.
Forever renowned for what the Bard deemed "that thin, that wild mercury sound," the album's famed aural character lives and breathes on this superb version, with wider and deeper grooves affording playback of previously buried information and lifelike presentation of the studio sessions. The end result is the very finest, most transparent analog edition of Blonde on Blonde ever produced. Professor Sean Wilentz, historian-in-residence for Bob Dylan's Web site, comes as close to summing up its brilliance in his superb Bob Dylan In America as any who've tried: "The songs are rich meditations on desire, frailty, promises, boredom, hurt, envy, connections, missed connections, paranoia, and transcendent beauty-in short, the lures and snare of love, stock themes of rock and pop music, but written with a powerful literary imagination and played out in a pop netherworld." No lie.Īs part of its Bob Dylan catalog restoration series, Mobile Fidelity is thoroughly humbled to have the privilege of mastering the iconic LP from the master tapes and pressing it on 45RPM LPs at RTI. Recorded With One of Most Ear-Awakening Lineups Ever Assembled: Al Kooper, "Pig" Robbins, Joe South, Kenny Buttrey, and The Band's Rick Danko and Robbie Robertson Among Musiciansīlonde on Blonde: A double album that transcends time, defies space, suspends reality, and looks through the human soul and tells the listener characteristics about themselves they didn't know.
Wider Grooves, Superior Sonics: Mobile Fidelity's Definitive 45RPM Vinyl Box Set Is the Last Word in Analog Fidelity "That Thin, That Wild Mercury Sound": Dylan's Ground-Shaking 1966 Double LP Sent Tremors Throughout the World, Ranked #9 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde on Numbered Edition 180g 45RPM Vinyl 3LP Box Set from Mobile Fidelity
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