Bob Dylan (BBG Blind Boy Grunt Vinyl LP Playtested BBG 111) The Kindest Cut

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STEREOPHONIC

VPI MACHINE CLEANED & PLAYTESTED

Band/Artist: Bob Dylan

Album Title: The Kindest Cut

Catalogue Number: BBG 111

Year/Record Company: BBG Records: Blind Boy Grunt (no year noted)

1 LP – Stereo - 12 inch vinyl record - 33 1/3

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This stereophonic LP record album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

LP Condition: very good+

Shine: most

Scratches: a few light and several feather

Label Wear: minimal (completely readable)

Labels: see photos

Spindle Hole Wear: minimal

LP Sound: very good+ (no skips, no hang-ups, no missing audio; there is a pressing anomaly on side 1 & 2 that doesn’t affect play at all, each of the 3 copies of this record that I’ve seen have this same anomaly)

Surface Noise: very light

Jacket Condition: very good (completely readable)

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: light (no splits, no tape)

Back Ring Wear: light

Front Ring Wear: very light

Ink or pencil marks: none

Water Stains: there is a minimal stain on the front, upper left corner and a few very small stains on the back, along the spine (see photos)

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stamps/Stickers: 2 original stickers on the front and one original sticker on the back (see photos)

Sleeve Type: original blank sleeve, light wear; a new anti-static sleeve is also included

Side One

Run-Out Grooves (R1-3145A F/W N)

Hard Times In New York Town 2:14

Follow You Down 2:53

Sally Gal 1:41

Stealin’ 2:10

Gospel Plow 1:28

Ballad Of Donald White 4:32

Only A Hobo/Talkin’ Devil 2:43

Wade In The Water 2:54

Side Two

Run-Out Grooves (R1-3145B F/W N)

There Was A Time When I Was Blind (Reverend Gary Davis cover) 2:56

VD Blues 1:52

VD Waltz 0:49

VD City 1:45

VD Gunner’s Blues 2:33

Cocaine 2:14

Ballad Of Omie Wise 2:58

John Brown 4:18

Bob Dylan (/?d?l?n/; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter, who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades. At times, he performed and recorded by the pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt, apparently for contractual reasons. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he became a reluctant "voice of a generation" with songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" that became anthems for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement. In 1965, he controversially abandoned his early fan-base in the American folk music revival, recording a six-minute single, "Like a Rolling Stone", which enlarged the scope of popular music.

Dylan's lyrics incorporate a wide range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop-music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the performances of Little Richard and the songwriting of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Dylan has amplified and personalized musical genres. In his recording career, Dylan has explored many of the traditions in American song—from folk, blues, and country to gospel, and rock and roll, and from rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and the Great American Songbook. Dylan performs on guitar, keyboards, and harmonica. Backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed "the Never Ending Tour". His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but his songwriting is considered his greatest contribution.

Following his self-titled debut album in 1962, which mainly consisted of traditional folk songs, Dylan made his breakthrough as a songwriter with the release of the 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, featuring "Blowin’ in the Wind" and the thematically complex composition "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," alongside several other enduring songs of the era. Dylan went on to release the politically charged The Times They Are a-Changin' and the more lyrically abstract and introspective Another Side of Bob Dylan in 1964. In 1965 and 1966 Dylan encountered controversy when he adopted the use of electrically amplified rock instrumentation and in the space of 15 months recorded three of the most important and influential rock albums of the 1960s, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.

In July 1966, Dylan withdrew from touring after being injured in a motorcycle accident. During this period he recorded a large body of songs with members of the Band, who had previously backed Dylan on tour; these were eventually released as the collaborative album The Basement Tapes in 1975. In the late 1960s and early 70s, Dylan explored country music and rural themes in John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline and New Morning. In 1975 Dylan released his career-defining album Blood on the Tracks followed by the critically and commercially successful Desire the following year. In the late 1970s, Dylan became a born-again Christian and released a series of albums of contemporary gospel music, notably Slow Train Coming, before returning to his more familiar rock-based idiom with Infidels. Dylan's major works during his later career include Time Out of Mind, "Love and Theft" and Tempest. His most recent recordings have comprised versions of traditional American standards, especially songs recorded by Frank Sinatra.

Since 1994, Dylan has published seven books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. Dylan has sold more than 100 million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has also received numerous awards including eleven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award. Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power". In May 2012, Dylan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, and, in 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". (source: Wikipedia)

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