This set combines two of Bob Dylan's landmark albums from 1964, The Times They Are A-Changin' and Another Side of Bob Dylan, and the pairing is certainly an interesting one, since Times is perhaps Dylan's most directly political album while Another Side is one of his most insularly personal ones, and between them lies the chasm of debate that Dylan fanatics have taken up ever since, in what is probably a fruitless (and frivolous) search for the "real" Dylan. Both sides are here, and...   [ read more ]

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Though they rose from the working-class town of Birmingham and were adept translators of the British folk tradition, the Ian Campbell Folk Group had more in common with American folk collectives like the Weavers, the Big Three, and the Kingston Trio than they did Ewan MacColl or Pentangle. Castle/Sanctuary's sprawling 62-track anthology The Times They Are A-Changin' covers the familial folk collective's prolific '60s period. The Ian Campbell Folk Group mined sparse {\tra...   [ read more ]

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If The Times They Are a-Changin' isn't a marked step forward from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, even if it is his first collection of all originals, it's nevertheless a fine collection all the same. It isn't as rich as Freewheelin', and Dylan has tempered his sense of humor considerably, choosing to concentrate on social protests in the style of "Blowin' in the Wind." With the title track, he wrote an anthem that nearly equaled that song, and "With God on Our Side" and {&"Only a Pawn in The...   [ read more ]

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