Dylan's debut album 50 years on: the birth of an enigma

Released on 19 March 1962, Bob Dylan's debut remains a landmark of popular cultureA rollicking rush on guitar is followed by the line, "I don't know why I love you like I do", sung with something between a hollow laugh and a stab of pain; and after one minute and 37 seconds it is over. Side one, track one, of the first album by Bob Dylan, the most elusive, talented and influential American performer and poet of the 20th century.There follows a classic talkin' blues that sounds like the work of a...

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