The Vandals Took the Handle

Next in line of the Bob Dylan albums is the wonderful Bringing It All Back Home. Backing off from "protest" and overtly political songs ( however you might like to interpret Maggie's Farm ) and heading off into more of an enigmatic stream of consciousness kind of poetry with the 115th Dream, Gates Of Eden and Mr Tambourine Man ( which I always think of as an earlier work than this somehow ) The first hints of electricity and band backings on several tracks too, notably the aforementioned Maggie's Farm and Subterranean Homesick Blues and also on more laid back numbers including Love Minus Zero/No Limit and She Belongs To Me. Mr Tambourine Man and It's Alright Ma ( I'm Only Bleeding ) retain acoustic roots and the other iconic song featured is It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, another song that could be seen as being in a continuing line through to Like A Rolling Stone, Positively 4th Street etc. The sleeve notes don't credit the musicians although I know the info must be out there on the net somewhere. If the famous performance of these songs at the Newport Festival is anything to go by, they probably include Mike Bloomfield and other members of the Butterfield Band. I know it is too early for Robbie Robertson and co.