Library Rock's Backpages

Bob Dylan: Saved (Columbia)

Richard Riegel, Creem, October 1980

I NEVER bothered buying Bob Dylan's landmark albums when they were released, in the frantic 1960s. All my friends then already had all the albums, and at the liberal colleges I attended, it got to be nearly impossible to walk down the hallways in the dorms without hearing Dylan's raspy vocals and warbling harmonica issuing from each cell.

Total word count of piece: 634

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.