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Only once in his career has Bob Dylan recorded as much as half of a studio album in Minnesota. As it happened, that album turned out to be the most beloved he's ever made.

It's hard to follow 'Like a Rolling Stone' as an opening track, but Bob Dylan more than manages on his epochal album 'Highway 61 Revisited.'

Artists aren't typically their own best critics, but Bob Dylan offered the definitive description of his 1966 classic 'Blonde on Blonde' when he said it was 'the closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind...that thin, that wild mercury sound.'

Perhaps the defining album of the '50s and '60s folk revival, 'The Times They Are A-Changin'' exemplifies the Woody-Guthrie-inspired persona folkies mourned when Dylan went electric.

The first in the trilogy of albums representing the summit of Bob Dylan's vast achievements, 'Bringing It All Back Home' crackles with energy and plumbs the depths of dark emotions.

Despite its easygoing title and cozy cover photo, 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' saw the artist growing, deepening, and darkening his daunting songcraft.

An autumnal masterpiece, 'Time Out of Mind' definitively established Bob Dylan as being among the rare artists who remain capable of profound work throughout their lives.

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Despite the fact that Bob Dylan's rootsy recordings with the Band weren't officially released until several years after they were tracked, they number among Dylan's most influential...and with Dylan, that's really saying something.