Bob Dylan - Original Mono Recordings - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Japanese remastered reissue. Sony. 2006. Album Tracks 1. Mihalis 2. There's No Way Out of Here 3. Cry from the Street 4. So Far Away 5. Short and Sweet 6. Raise My Rent 7. No Way 8. Deafinitely 9. I Can't Breathe Anymore

Steely Dan's gold-selling fifth studio album The Royal Scam, was produced by Gary Katz and was originally released by ABC Records in 1976. The Royal Scam features more prominent guitar work than the prior Steely Dan album, Katy Lied, which had been the first without founding guitarist Jeff Baxter. Guitarists on the recording include Walter Becker, Denny Dias, Larry Carlton, Elliott Randall and Dean Parks.The album was certified gold-selling and peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard 200.In common with other Steely Dan albums, The Royal Scam is littered with cryptic allusions to people and events both real and fictional. In a BBC interview in 2000, Becker and Fagen revealed that 'Kid Charlemagne' is loosely based on Owsley Stanley, the notorious drug 'chef' who was famous for manufacturing hallucinogenic compounds, and that 'Caves of Altamira, ' based on a book by Hans Baumann, is about the loss of innocence, the narrative about a visitor to the Cave of Altamira who registers his astonishment at the prehistoric drawings.Rolling Stone, in it's review of the album, described The Royal Scam, as Steely Dan's 'mostatypical record, possessing neither obvious AM material nor seductive lyrical mysteriousness. It also contains some of their most accomplished and enjoyable music.'... The overall feeling of Scam is one of just that tension. There is little of the self-confident gentleness that dotted Pretzel Logic, less still of the omniscience that suffused Katy Lied. The Royal Scam is a transitional album for Steely Dan; melody dominates lyric in the sense that the former pushes into new rhythmic areas for the group (more 'pure' jazz, semireggae and substantially more orchestration than before) while the verbal content is clearer, even mundane, by previous Dan standards, ' said the Rolling Stone review.Nearly every song on Scam concerns a narrator's escape from a crime or sing rece

Vinyl LP pressing including digital download. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the second studio album by legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. Whereas his self-titled debut album Bob Dylan had contained only two original songs, Freewheelin' represented the beginning of Dylan's writing contemporary words to traditional melodies. Eleven of the thirteen songs on the album are Dylan's original compositions. The album opens with InchBlowin' in the WindInch, which became an anthem of the 1960s, and an international hit for folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary soon after the of Freewheelin'. The album featured several other songs which came to be regarded as among Dylan's best compositions and classics of the 1960s folk scene InchGirl from the North CountryInch, InchMasters of WarInch, InchA Hard Rain's a-Gonna FallInch and InchDon't Think Twice, It's All RightInch. Album Tracks 1. Blowin' in the Wind 2. Girl from the North Country 3. Masters of War 4. Down the Highway 5. Bob Dylan's Blues (Album Version) 6. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 1. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 2. Bob Dylan's Dream (Album Version) 3. Oxford Town (Album Version) 4. Talkin' World War III Blues (Album Version) 5. Corrina, Corrina (Album Version) 6. Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance (Album Version) 7. I Shall Be Free (Album Version)