At pualio's request, I'm posting a little-known Dylan album, Self Portrait. This is probably the one that, according to his book Chronicles, he made intentionally bad in order to try to disengage from a public that was hounding him more and more to behave like a savior, the voice of a generation.
Yes, it is kind of bad. But there a handful of gems on it, including Alberta #1 & #2, The Mighty Quinn, and Gotta Travel On. But it's still kind of fascinating to hear Dylan's failed attempts at crooning Blue Moon, and (in a disaster of vocal overdubbing) Simon & Garfunkel's The Boxer. You have to hear that one to believe it.
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