Bringing It All Back Home is Bob Dylan’s fifth studio album, released by Columbia in the spring of 1965 and produced by Tom Wilson. It was recorded at Columbia’s Studio A in New York on 13–15 January 1965, and it was the first of his albums to use electric instruments. The first side has Dylan with an electric rock and roll band, and the second is mostly acoustic. The move caused controversy and divided the folk scene of the time.
Dylan recorded the first session alone, on piano or acoustic guitar, and brought in a band the next day. The guitarists on the band sessions were Al Gorgoni, Kenny Rankin and Bruce Langhorne, with Paul Griffin (and, on the last day, Frank Owens) on piano, Joseph Macho Jr. and William E. Lee on bass, and Bobby Gregg on drums. “Maggie’s Farm,” on the electric side, was the first song recorded on the final day, and one take was all it needed. The acoustic side includes “Mr. Tambourine Man,” which Dylan had written in early 1964, and the closing “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” recorded with only Dylan’s acoustic guitar and harmonica and William E. Lee’s bass.
The album reached No. 6 on Billboard’s pop albums chart, the first of Dylan’s LPs to reach the American top ten, and topped the British chart later that spring.
Tracklist
- 1 Subterranean Homesick Blues 2:20
- 2 She Belongs to Me 2:49
- 3 Maggie’s Farm alt version 3:59
- 4 Love Minus Zero 2:51
- 5 Outlaw Blues 3:04
- 6 On the Road Again alt version 2:40
- 7 Bob Dylan's 115th Dream 6:32
- 8 Mr. Tambourine Man alt version 5:26
- 9 Gates of Eden 5:42
- 10 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 7:32
- 11 It’s All Over Now Baby Blue alt version 4:13
