John Wesley Harding is great. It was his retreat from the rock n roll sound. Can't gto wrong with the mono recordings boxset. There are plenty of great albums after John Wesley Harding. Start with the next one, Nashville Skyline. It's his first real country album. It features some great guitar playing, a new voice from Dylan and a really great duet with Dylan and Johnny Cash.
After Nashville Skyline there is Self Portrait, skip it. It's one of his worst, rumour is that he released as somewhat of a joke, and I believe it.
After Self Portrait, you have New Morning. It is one of my all time favorite Dylan albums. I strongly reccomend it.
Then there is Pat Garret and Billy The kid. It features one of his greatest songs, "knockin on heavens door". Most tracks are instrumentals, some really great, guitar led instrumentals. Songs feature the great Bruce Langhorne and Roger Mcguinn on guitar and the great Booker T. Jones of Booker T. and the MG's on bass, playing some great bass lines.
After that you have Planet Waves. Another one of my favorite Dylan albums. It's his only studio album featuring The Band. It features one of his biggest hits "forever young", actually, 2 different versions of the song. It also contains some of my personal Dylan favorites like "Something there is about you", "Going, going, gone" and in my opinion, one of Dylans greatest songs ever, "Dirge". It's a very dark song, as you can tell by the name. It features some of great lyrics and some great, dark piano playing from Dylan; Robbie Robertsons acoustic guitar playing on the song is absolutely bone-chilling.
Finally we get to Blood on The Tracks, which is a great album, but I feel that it is a little over-hyped. It's certainly a must have for your collection.
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