Bob Dylan “Bringing It All Back Home” 1965. Today, May 24th, is Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday (b. Robert Zimmerman, 1941). This record was my mom’s (she wrote her name on the back cover and the label in Sharpie) that she bought as a teenager, about 19 years old if I did my math right, and I heard the record a lot growing up. I’m not a big Dylan fan but Bringing It All Back Home, his fifth album, is pretty good – and apparently the rest of the world agrees. It’s considered one of the best rock albums of all-time and is credited with changing the face of folk rock and, to a large extent, ushering in the sound of the 60′s (though not without controversy; his hardcore folky fans were NOT pleased when Dylan plugged in). The album hit #6 in the US and went to #1 in the UK. Dylan released three singles from the LP: “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (one of my favorite Dylan tracks; #39 US, top 10 in the UK), “Maggie’s Farm” (another fave, #22 UK) and “Gates of Eden” which was the B-side for his iconic single “Like a Rolling Stone” (July ‘65. #2 US, #4 UK). I also like “Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream,” “Mr. Tambourine Man” – The Byrds’ jangly cover version went to #1 in both the US and the UK in ‘65 – and “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” with its famous lyric “He not busy being born is busy dying.”