The original album cover art depicts a situation bad enough that no one would want to be in. I made it even worse but surrounding the artist with six more on both sides of the person he is trying to avoid.
This is really bringing it all back home.
The album's cover, photographed by Daniel Kramer with an edge-softened lens, features Sally Grossman (wife of Dylan's manager Albert Grossman) lounging in the background. There are also artefacts
scattered around the room, including LPs by The Impressions (Keep on Pushing), Robert Johnson (King of the Delta Blues Singers), Ravi Shankar (India's Master Musician), Lotte Lenya (Sings Berlin
Theatre Songs by Kurt Weill) and Eric Von Schmidt (The Folk Blues of Eric Von Schmidt).
Visible behind Grossman is the top of Dylan's head from the cover of Another Side of Bob Dylan; under her right arm is the magazine Time with President Lyndon B. Johnson on the cover of
the January 1, 1965 issue. There is a harmonica resting on a table with a fallout shelter (capacity 80) sign leaning against it. Above the fireplace on the mantle directly to the left of
the painting is the Lord Buckley album The Best of Lord Buckley. Next to Lord Buckley is a copy of GNAOUA, a magazine devoted to exorcism and Beat Generation poetry edited
by poet Ira Cohen, and a glass collage by Dylan called 'The Clown' made for Bernard Paturel from coloured glass Bernard was about to discard.
Dylan sits forward holding his cat (named Rolling Stone) and has an opened magazine featuring an advertisement on Jean Harlow's Life Story by the columnist Louella Parsons
resting on his crossed leg. The cufflinks Dylan wore in the picture were a gift from Joan Baez, as she later referenced in her 1975 song "Diamonds & Rust". More
No. 31, Rolling Stone, The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time; No. 65, Rate Your Music, The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time;
No. 189, The Virgin All-Time Album Top 1000.
No. 47, Rolling Stone, The 100 Greatest Album Covers.
Photo by Daniel Kramer. Album produced by Tom Wilson. Columbia 1965.
One of Dylan's most celebrated albums, Bringing It All Back Home was soon hailed as one of the greatest albums in rock history. In 1979 Rolling Stone Record Guide,
critic Dave Marsh wrote a glowing appraisal: "By fusing the Chuck Berry beat of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles with the leftist, folk tradition of the folk
revival, Dylan really had brought it back home, creating a new kind of rock & roll that made every type of artistic tradition available to rock."
Clinton Heylin later wrote that Bringing It All Back Home was possibly "the most influential album of its era. Almost everything to come
in contemporary popular song can be found therein." In 2003, the album was ranked number 31 on Rolling Stone magazine's
list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. More
(A) Subterranean Homesick Blues - She Belongs To Me - Maggie's Farm - Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Outlaw Blues - On the Road Again - Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
(B) Mr. Tambourine Man - Gates of Eden - It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
"Mr. Tambourine Man" live at the Newport Rock Festival 1964 from BobDylanTV on YouTube.
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