
Bob Dylan - Another Side Of Bob Dylan - Vinyl LP
Heavy weighs the prophet's mantle. By 1964, after three revolutionary albums,Bob Dylan was chafing at the "voice of a generation" accolades that were piling up in his inbox. He was equally resistant to those, especially the folk purist crowd, who tried to constrain him to a particular role, admonishing him if he stepped outside of what they deemed the "correct" approach. Dylan came to see their rigid mindset as being just as restrictive as that of the "straight" society they sought to escape. He wanted to be free to follow his own muse without judgment or interruption and, most importantly, without having the role of "leader" thrust upon him. If you were looking for a new protest paragon to follow, well, it wasn't him, babe. Really, Dylan was beginning to include personal themes in his songs rather than solely chronicling broad, cause-based subjects. While that was still important to him, many saw any deviation from fighting social injustice as a betrayal. Thus, the cries of "sellout"