Bob Dylan – Good As I Been To You (Limited Edition, 180 Gram LP Vinyl)
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Released the same year Dylan turned 51, Good As I Been To You finds him retreating to the folk and blues sources that first shaped him in the Greenwich Village coffeehouses of the early 1960s. Tracks like "Frankie & Albert" and "Hard Times" trace a lineage running from Mississippi John Hurt to Lead Belly, reminding anyone listening that Dylan was always, at his core, a song carrier.
LIMITED EDITION OF 5,000
Bob Dylan's First Solo Acoustic Album in Nearly 30 Years Remains an Overlooked Gem: Good As I Been to You Serves as a Prelude to His Celebrated Late-Career ArcSourced from the Original Master Tapes and Presented in Audiophile Sound for the First Time: Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition 180g SuperVinyl LP and Hybrid SACD Play with Riveting DetailCenturies-Spanning Cover Songs Punctuated with Strange Mystery, Common Circumstance, and Epic Adventure.
Three decades before he released The Philosophy of Modern Song - an insightful book devoted to 66 tunes that both impacted his career and the music world at large - Bob Dylan issued Good As I Been to You. The under-heralded 1992 album, Dylan's first solo acoustic album in nearly 30 years and first all-covers effort in nearly 20 years, can be seen as a prophetic prelude to what has become the Nobel Laureate's celebrated late-career arc. It's also an absorbing continuation of the custom Dylan has embraced since he first picked up a guitar. Resonating with the same originality, honesty, resolve, and age-defying relevance as the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music that fired Dylan's imagination as a kid in small-town Minnesota, this record contains the type of music the maverick singer-songwriter was playing during his acoustic sets at his period Never Ending Tour shows.
Sourced from the original master tapes, pressed at RTI, and housed in a Stoughton jacket, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g SuperVinyl LP, as well as the companion hybrid SACD of Good As I Been to You, reveal the immediacy, detail, and stripped-down nature of recording sessions that took place in Dylan's garage studio in California.
Simple, raw, and unplugged, the effort presents Dylan in peak form - and showcases a diversity of vocal phrasing, soulful chording, harmonica accents, and closeup ambiance that on these reissues emerge like never before. As the first-ever audiophile editions of this almost-lost classic, these collectible versions also benefit from natural tones, superb balances, and visceral directness. Good As I've been to You? Dylan has seldom been better.
Tracklist
Side A
A1. Frankie & Albert
A2. Jim Jones
A3. Blackjack Davey
A4. Canadee-I-O
A5. Sittin' On Top Of The World
A6. Little Maggie
A7. Hard Times
Side B
B1. Step It Up And Go
B2. Tomorrow Night
B3. Arthur McBride
B4. You're Gonna Quit Me
B5. Diamond Joe
B6. Froggie Went A Courtin'
UPC: 196587247119
Label: Mobile Fidelity
Release Date: 2.9.24
Format: LP Vinyl