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Self Portrait is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on June 8, 1970 by Columbia Records. Self Portrait was Dylan's second double album, and features many cover versions of well-known pop and folk songs. Also included are a handful of instrumentals and original compositions. Most of the album is sung in the affected country crooning voice that Dylan had introduced a year earlier on Nashville Skyline. Seen by some as intentionally surreal and even satirical at times, Self Portrait received extremely poor reviews upon ; Greil Marcus' opening sentence in his Rolling Stone review was InchWhat is this sh#t?Inch Dylan has claimed in interviews that Self Portrait was something of a joke, far below the standards he set in the 1960s, and was made to get people off his back and end the Inchspokesman of a generationInch tags. Despite the negative reception, the album quickly went gold in the U.S., where it hit No. 4, and it gave Dylan yet another UK No. 1 hit before it fell down the charts. The album has since built a cult following and saw a retrospective positive re-evaluation with the of The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) in 2013. Album Tracks 1. All the Tired Horses 2. Alberta #1 3. I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know 4. Days of 49 5. Early Mornin' Rain 6. In Search of Little Sadie 7. Let It Be Me 8. Little Sadie 9. Woogie Boogie 10. Belle Isle 11. Living the Blues 12. Like a Rolling Stone 13. Copper Kettle (The Pale Moonlight) 14. Gotta Travel on 15. Blue Moon 16. The Boxer 17. Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) 18. Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go) 19. Take a Message to Mary 20. It Hurts Me Too 21. Minstrel Boy 22. She Belongs to Me 23. Wigwam 24. Alberta #2
