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Details: Self Portrait is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on June 8, 1970 by Columbia Records. Self Portrait was Dylan's second double album, and features many cover versions of well-known pop and folk songs. Also included are a handful of instrumentals and original compositions. Most of the album is sung in the affected country crooning voice that Dylan had introduced a year earlier on Nashville Skyline. Seen by some as intentionally surreal and even satirical at times, Self Portrait received extremely poor reviews upon release; Greil Marcus' opening sentence in his Rolling Stone review was: "What is this sh#t?" Dylan has claimed in interviews that Self Portrait was something of a joke, far below the standards he set in the 1960s, and was made to get people off his back and end the "spokesman of a generation" tags. Despite the negative reception, the album quickly went gold in the U.S., where it hit No. 4, and it gave Dylan yet another UK No. 1 hit before it fell down the charts. The album has since built a cult following and saw a retrospective positive re-evaluation with the release of The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) in 2013.
Tracklist:
- All the Tired Horses
- Alberta #1
- I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
- Days of 49
- Early Mornin' Rain
- In Search of Little Sadie
- Let It Be Me
- Little Sadie
- Woogie Boogie
- Belle Isle
- Living the Blues
- Like a Rolling Stone
- Copper Kettle (The Pale Moonlight)
- Gotta Travel on
- Blue Moon
- The Boxer
- Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
- Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)
- Take a Message to Mary
- It Hurts Me Too
- Minstrel Boy
- She Belongs to Me
- Wigwam
- Alberta #2
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