Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan’s eponymous debut studio album, Bob Dylan proved to be the joker in the pack of Dylan’s catalogue. Featuring only two original compositions, the album provided listeners with a majority of tracks that are covers, perhaps because Dylan was not yet up to folk standards. The LP was recorded in the course of two days, comprising the tracks Dylan had been playing had coffee houses in New York.

Sean Egan wrote about the album in The Mammoth Book of Bob Dylan:

Bob Dylan, then, is a frequently silly and jejune album, one on which the artist is still working out childhood demons, and doesn’t even – it would seem – have the vocabulary or craft to do so via his own songs.

The album barely registered on the radar upon release, but went on to peak at #13 on the UK charts in 1965.