The Best of Bob Dylan

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The Best of Bob Dylan
The Best of Bob Dylan cover
Compilation album by Bob Dylan
Released November 15, 2005
Recorded July 1962-Spring 2001
Genre Rock
Length 77:56
Label Columbia
Producer John H. Hammond, Tom Wilson
Bob Johnston
Leon Russell
Gordon Carroll
Don DeVito
Jerry Wexler
Barry Beckett
Bob Dylan
Mark Knopfler
Daniel Lanois
Jack Frost (Pseudonym used by Bob Dylan)
Professional reviews

The Best of Bob Dylan is a single-disc compilation album containing songs by Bob Dylan, released on November 15, 2005. It is an abbreviation of The Essential Bob Dylan, though, like the U.K. "Best of Dylan" compilations, it is not considered a part of Dylan's official discography.

All songs on the album have been previously released, and, with the exception of "Not Dark Yet" and "Things Have Changed", all have been released in a re-mastered format by the Columbia label. With the exception of "Summer Days" (from Love and Theft), all were available on The Essential Bob Dylan.

The Best of Bob Dylan is available in a digipak format, in an attempt to imitate a vinyl record. The album has liner notes written by Bill Flanagan, with commentary on each of the album's tracks. In these notes, it is stated that the album is meant to be a sampler of Dylan's material for people who are now beginning to express interest.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Bob Dylan, except for the Dylan-Levy collaboration Hurricane.

  1. "Blowin' in the Wind"
  2. "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
  3. "Mr. Tambourine Man"
  4. "Like a Rolling Stone"
  5. "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"
  6. "All Along the Watchtower"
  7. "Lay, Lady, Lay"
  8. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
  9. "Tangled Up in Blue"
  10. "Hurricane"
  11. "Forever Young"
  12. "Gotta Serve Somebody"
  13. "Jokerman"
  14. "Not Dark Yet"
  15. "Things Have Changed"
  16. "Summer Days"

[edit] References

http://www.searchingforagem.com/2000s/International049.htm