THIS DYLAN AUDIOPHILE SET STARTS WITH TWO MFSL TITLES 

1ST TITLE IS Bob Dylan The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan on 1ST EDITION EVER IN THIS Numbered Limited Edition 180 GRAM 45RPM 2LP GATEFOLD JACKET SET from Mobile Fidelity!  

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 97/500!

Michael Fremer Rated 10/10 Music, 10/10 Sonics!

One of TONEAudio Magazine's 2012 Best Audiophile Pressings!

Wider Grooves, Superior Sound: Mobile Fidelity’s 45RPM Edition The Last Word in Analog Fidelity! 

Dylan’s 1963 Sophomore Effort Marks the Beginning of a Cultural Sea Change. Record’s Ambitious Poetry, Melodies, and Moral Conviction Transformed Songwriting, Folk, and Pop. Ranked #97 on Rolling Stone’s List of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Includes “Masters of War,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” and “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”. 

It’s the album the ignited sea changes in pop culture, music, songwriting, poetry, and the social consciousness. It’s the creation of a 22-year-old visionary still years away from casting a jaundiced eye to the media. It’s the sound of change, the feeling of ground shifting beneath one’s feet, and the entrance of an entirely new way of thinking. It’s the effective beginning of what’s arguably the boldest career in music history, the yawning vortex into the complex mind, supernatural wordplay, and folk techniques of a vocalist/guitarist whose name is forever associated with transformation. It’s The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. 

As part of its Bob Dylan catalog restoration series, Mobile Fidelity is thoroughly humbled to have the privilege of mastering the iconic LP from the original master tapes and pressing it on 45RPM LPs at RTI. The end result is the very finest, most transparent analog edition of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan ever produced. Never before has the resonance of his nylon guitar strings, fingerpicked notes, shivering harmonica fills, or plainspoken timbre possessed such clarity, openness, body, or realism. 

With the advantage of wider and deeper grooves, the 45RPM pressing affords the opportunity to detect more information and lavish in extra richness. Whether it’s the exaggerated nasal accents employed on “Down the Highway” or the decay of each strummed line on the entirely acoustic album, previously concealed details, microdynamics, and ambient cues surface—enhancing the listeners’ experience and taking them inside Columbia’s Studio A where history was made by leaps and bounds. 

Exponentially surpassing the potential he demonstrated on his debut, Dylan became a mirror of the concerns, issues, and feelings confronting the nation. Writing and singing with penetrating honesty, observational wit, moral conviction, and scathing emotion, he digs into the madness of war (“Masters of War,” “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”), hypocrisy of segregation (“Oxford Town”), urgency of civil rights and freedom (“Blowin’ in the Wind”), and multiple angles of unrequited love (“Girl From the North Country,” “Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right”) with a literate astuteness and depth that, nearly 50 years later, still leave audiences slack-jawed. Satire, absurdist humor, and traditional blues also pepper the album, which rests upon graceful melodies and sparse, poignant patterns. 

Viewed as protest songs, love songs, folk songs, or talking blues songs, the material on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan remains amongst the most astonishing and imaginative ever committed to tape. It deserves—as much as you deserve—a fidelity that makes as closely intimate as possible the music’s connection with you. You deserve this edition. 

"Every other version I played sounded veiled and distant compared to this double 45. Mobile Fidelity has completely refurbished its playback and cutting chain, supervised by Tim DeParavicini. It's easy to hear. This is the best sounding edition of this album I've yet heard, "Pan"-Demonium or otherwise." - Michael Fremer, analogplanet, Music 10/10, Sound 10/10!
Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• 45rpm Speed Edition
• Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes
• One of TONEAudio Magazine's 2012 Best Audiophile Pressings
• Pressed at RTI

Selections: 
LP1 - Side 1:
1. Blowin’ In The Wind
2. Girl From The North Country
3. Masters Of War
4. Down The Highway
LP1 - Side 2:
1. Bob Dylan’s Blues
2. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
3. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
LP2 - Side 3:
1. Bob Dylan’s Dream
2. Oxford Town
3. Talking World War III Blues
LP2 - Side 4:
1. Corrina, Corrina
2. Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance

3. I Shall Be Free

NEXT FOR YOUR TURNTABLE BOB DYLAN BLOOD ON THE TRACKS 33 & 1/3 COLLECTORS MFSL SERIES - FOR THE COLLECTOR WHO WANT IT ALL 1ST FOR THEIR TURNTABLE THE NOW TREMENDOUSLY RARE & VALUABLE OUT OF PRINT MFSL AUDIOPHILE 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION HALF SPEED MASTERED LP.  

   

Bob Dylan Blood On The Tracks Numbered MFSL Limited Edition 180 GRAM RARE & VALUABLE AUDIOPHILE LP

 Michael Fremer Rated 10/10 Music, 9/10 Sonics in his June 2013 reviews on analogplanet! 

Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks on Numbered Limited Edition 180g LP from Mobile Fidelity!

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 16/500! 

Presence, Immediacy, Naturalness, Realism in Spades: Mobile Fidelity Reissue Makes Blood on the Tracks Among Most Lifelike-Sounding Albums You’ll Ever Hear! 

Dylan’s Masterpiece Break-Up Album: Sentimental Redemption Arises Amidst Sorrow, Turmoil, Sadness, and Pain. Songs Flow Like Rivers, Acoustic and Electric Elements Merge Like Bezels on a Diamond. Ranked 16 on Rolling Stone’s List of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time! Includes “Tangled Up In Blue,” “Simple Twist of Fate,” “Idiot Wind,” “Buckets of Rain”. 

Bob Dylan was at several crossroads in the mid-1970s. Artistically, he was largely written off as being past his prime. Emotionally, he was suffering through a painful divorce from his then-wife Sara Lowndes. Creatively, he appeared at a stalemate, his previous decade’s unprecedented run of transformational brilliance finished. Then came Blood on the Tracks. 

A start-to-finish cycle that documents a lover’s pursuit of, entanglement with, and loss of a woman, the bracingly intimate 1975 effort remains one of the most encompassing break-up albums ever made and ranks as the most personal statement of the Bard’s career. To hear it is to experience the agony, frustration, trauma, highs, lows, confusion, sadness, and, ultimately, requisite redemption associated with intimate relationships gone astray. Dylan maintains it’s a work of fiction, but it’s evident close-vested autobiographical premise is what helps make it universal: It’s the icon singing through tears, going out of his mind, battling hallowing emptiness, firing shots across the bow, and accepting culpability. It is, in short, a consummate expression of love’s darker sides and the consequences of what happens when dreams unravel. 

As part of its Bob Dylan catalog restoration series, Mobile Fidelity is thoroughly humbled to have the privilege of mastering the iconic LP from the original master tapes and pressing it on dead-quiet LPs at RTI. The end result is the very finest, most transparent analog edition of Blood on the Tracks ever produced—and the first-ever proper analog reissue. Fantastically presenting both the solo acoustic and band-supported songs with the utmost clarity, dynamics, presence, immediacy, spaciousness, imaging, and balance, this version shines a high-powered light on the fluid vocal phrasing, timbral shifts, functional rhythms, and inward-looking strumming that contribute to every song here serving as a wound-exposing confessional. 

For all the melancholic pain, unresolved questions, shattered memories, wasted times, unrequited dialogs, and weary regret within, Blood on the Tracks remains as daring as it is reflective. Rather than follow for a monotone caustic vibe, Dylan’s songs burrow into the subconscious for the manners in which they are even-keeled, mellow, and occasionally, even peaceful. Dignity, honor, poignancy, and fairness—all traits uncommon in any situation in which partners dissolve histories, change hearts, and attribute blame—instill the record with equilibrium on par with the consistency of the flowing melodies. 

Throughout, tunes come on and proceed as if they could continue forever, Dylan spinning poetic verses and conversations amidst finely tied knots of acoustic notes, chords, and fills, the deceivingly simple architecture conjuring the intertwined refractions of a bezeled jewel, various angles, colors, and textures conjoining into a gorgeously inseparable whole. Backed by Tony Brown’s flexible albeit subtle bass, Buddy Cage’s country-streaked pedal-steel guitar, and Paul Griffin’s soul-baring organ—an instrument used to shadow, tuckpoint, and illuminate here as effectively as any time in rock history—Dylan pours soulful emotion, open his veins, and bleeds. 

Ranked 16 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and replete with existential thought, piercing directness, raw singing, and majestic arrangements. 

"As the headline reads, Mobile Fidelity has untangled all of the musical lines that are not exactly hidden on any version, but are presented here with startling clarity, three-dimensionality and solidity... The acoustic guitars ring with far greater precision, again without transient overemphasis... [T]he LP lays it all out so clearly you hear every pick strike and see each instrument in stark 3D relief occupying its own layered space. You'll hear the percussion with a clarity and precision not found on any other edition but again without added brightness or transient stridency and the studio reverb has never before been so easy to track, if you track such things. More importantly the acoustic guitars' harmonic structure has never before sounded so complete. Most importantly, Dylan's voice sounds utterly natural and convincing... This Mobile Fidelity Blood on the Tracks is yet another 'must have' Dylan vinyl reissue that's better than the original. Unlike the original this reissue is presented in a 'Tip on' gatefold jacket in which are some candid Dylan photos and the full panel illustration found on the second pressing's back cover. A nice touch. Well done Mo-Fi guys!" - Michael Fremer, analogplanet. Music 10/10, Sound 9/10 .

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Half-Speed Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes
• Gatefold Jacket

Musicians:
Bob Dylan, vocals, guitar, harmonica, organ, mandolin
Tony Brown, bass
Buddy Cage, steel guitar
Paul Griffin, organ
Eric Weissberg & Deliverance

Selections: 
Side 1:
1. Tangled Up in Blue
2. Simple Twist of Fate
3. You’re A Big Girl Now
4. Idiot Wind
5. You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Side 2:
1. Meet Me in the Morning
2. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
3. If You See Her, Say Hello
4. Shelter From the Storm
5. Buckets of Rain

 

THIS PRESSING HAS BECOME SO RARE THAT SELLER ARE SELLING IT FOR AS MUCH AS $350  IN THE PAST.

E-BAY STORE FOR YOUR INDIVIDUAL OBI REPLICA SELECTIONS - INDIVIDUAL TITLE INFORMATION OR INDIVIDUAL PURCHASE JUST HIT THIS STORES TAB & TYPE IN FOR DYLAN TITLES USE CODE BDYLAN INTO THE SEARCH FIELD WITHIN OUR STORES SECTION AS YOUR PERSONAL CODE FOR ALL INDIVIDUAL TITLES + INFORMATION WILL APPEAR.

THEN FOR YOUR HOME OR CAR STEREO BLOOD ON THE TRACKS & FREWHEELIN JAPAN REPLICA AUDIOPHILE CDS 

- WHAT IS A JAPAN "MINI/REPLICA-LP-SLEEVE" CD. ALSO RARE AND OUT OF PRINT COLLECTORS PRESSING FROM 2004. EACH HAS THE SAME TRACKS AS THE LPS

COLLECTORS PLEASE NOTE - Japanese 2004 ORIGINAL RELEASE WITH THE VERIFICATION SILVER & BLACK MARKETING STICKER STILL ATTACHED TO THE PLASTIC WRAP FOR COLLECTORS WHO WANT TO BE ASSURED THEY OWN THE ORIGINAL RELEASE.

Have you ever lamented the loss of one of the 20th Century's great art forms, the 12" vinyl LP jacket? Then "mini-LP-sleeve" CD's may be for you. 

Mini-sleeve CDs are manufactured in Japan under license. The disc is packaged inside a 135MM X 135MM cardboard precision-miniature replica of the original classic vinyl-LP album. Also, anything contained in the original LP, such as gatefolds, booklets, lyric sheets, posters, printed LP sleeves, stickers, embosses, special LP cover paper/inks/textures and/or die cuts, are precisely replicated and included. An English-language lyric sheet is always included, even if the original LP did not have printed lyrics. 

Then, there's the sonic quality: Mini-sleeves have dedicated remastering (20-Bit, 24-Bit, DSD, K2/K2HD, and/or HDCD), and can often be superior to the audio on the same title anywhere else in the world. There also may be bonus tracks unavailable elsewhere. 

Each Japan mini-sleeve has an "obi" ("oh-bee"), a removable Japan-language promotional strip. The obi lists the Japan street date of that particular release, the catalog number, the mastering info, and often the original album's release date. Bonus tracks are only listed on the obi, maintaining the integrity of the original LP artwork. The obi's are collectable, and should not be discarded. 

All mini-sleeve releases are tremendously limited editions mainly pressed on future orders only and once released immediately out of print. This fact along with other latter features we've mentioned make these titles rare collectibles that sell in the collectors markets for $100's of dollars apiece. Japanese digitally re-mastered Mini LP replica Limited Edition Collection with OBI sash down the front – VERY FEW pieces made world-wide and are immediately Out of Print. Recorded from the finest Original Masters available. Comes with anti-static sleeves similar to Vinyl LPs, Cardboard packaging like an LP. Actual miniaturized version of the 12” LP in 4” CD version.

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