Only two tracks on Dylan’s debut album were his own compositions and it failed to hit the Billboard 100. The album sold less than 5,000 copies in its first year and earnt Dylan the nickname ‘Hammond’s Folly’ from record executives.
Having come to prominence in the early 1960s with songs that chronicled the social situation in the USA, Dylan’s dramatic shift away from his traditional instruments of acoustic guitar and harmonica was said to have, ‘electrified one half of his audience, and electrocuted the other.’
On the 19th March 1962, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan released his eponymous debut album.
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