My name is Ben Burrell and this is Bob Dylan album by album, a podcast that brings you an in-death look at each Bob Dylan studio recording record by record.

Welcome to the first episode on Bringing It All Back Home. We're going to look at this album over a few episodes. What a great album this is.

For a while it was my favourite Dylan album that was eclipsed somewhat by O Mercy,, which I don't, I think that the rate of classics

is probably higher on bringing it all back home. In fact, it's definitely high on bringing all back home.

But, you know, I just love Omercy, as regular listeners of this podcast will know, and are now

probably shouting at their mobile devices and or laptops to please stop talking about Omercy again.

Bringing it all back home though is a great album, a brilliant record and it's an album that

was my very first purchase of a Bob Dylan record. I've listened to his music ever since I was

young via my dad, kind of being forced to listen to it, if you will. But I got into him when I

was leaving college and going to university and I started to buy his albums my kind of first week

of university and I brought Bring Now Back Home First. I don't know why, maybe because of

Subterranean Homestick Blues and I also liked it's all over now, Baby Blue. I didn't particularly

never song that well, but I really liked the title. i was sort of drawn in by that title um so i think this album is absolutely

wonderful it's one of bob's best it has some of his best songs on it i think it's a really

important album as well so we are dedicating multiple episodes to it and that will start today

with subtraining homesick blues that is a focus of this episode as is maggie's farm two songs that are

intrinsically linked before we go there thank you for your messages um this season so far um I had quite

for messages in the last couple of days uh hi to Matt hi to Kirsty as well and hi to Zachary

um all messaging saying are you not going to do knocked out loaded then and the answer to that is

no I can't face it I don't want to put myself through doing an episode on the album. No, I'm joking.

I have actually recorded an episode of that album. But like I was saying the other week, I had

my tonsils taken out recently. And that episode on Knocked Out Loaded was going to be the first

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