I said last week that I wasn’t going to specifically review the song content of the Dylan albums, due to them being so well known, but I have to with this one. Mainly because of the quite amazing step change from the first album, which saw Bobby Z mixing a bunch of trad arr. tunes with a few originals while starting to make his mark on the musical world. The difference in this album, released just over a year later is all about the fully formed originals that in the main make up Freewheelin’. The trio of Blowin’ In The Wind, Masters Of War and A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall for example, are impossible to beat in terms of social commentary and delivered with real venom and anger. And sounding more relevant today than they have for years.
The mono mastering only adds to the directness of the delivery. A real classic.
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