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Bob Dylan

Bringing It All Back Home

c. 1969 · Columbia CS 9128 · Stereo · US · LP · 33 1/3 RPM

Pressing details

Label	Columbia
Catalogue number	CS 9128
Year	c. 1969
Mono / Stereo	Stereo
Country	US
Format	LP
Speed	33 1/3 RPM
Genre	Rock - Folk Rock
Producer	Tom Wilson
Musicians	Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano), Bruce Langhorne (guitar), Al Gorgoni (guitar), Kenny Rankin (guitar), Steve Boone (bass), Joseph Macho Jr. (bass), William E. Lee (bass), John Sebastian (bass, uncredited on the jacket), Bobby Gregg (drums), Paul Griffin (piano), Frank Owens (piano), John P. Hammond (guitar, uncredited on the jacket)

Matrix / Runout

Side A:  XSM-79423-1C 0 1 S
Side B:  XSM-79424-1G 1 S 0 C 3

Condition

Cover: EX
Vinyl: EX

Variant chronology

1965 - US Columbia two-eye red stereo label, CS 9128 only on cover
1967 - US Columbia two-eye stereo repress, CS 9128
1969 - US Columbia two-eye stereo repress, cover misprinted with both CS 9128 and CL 2328 catalogue numbers  <- this copy
1972 - Canada Columbia reissue, KCS 9128 prefix
1976 - US Columbia reissue, CS 9128

This Pressing

Later two-eye stereo repress (c. 1969) - Columbia red two-eye label, front cover misprinted with both CS 9128 and CL 2328 catalogue numbers.

The Album

Recorded in New York in January 1965, this was Bob Dylan's fifth studio album and the record on which he fused his folk songwriting with electric rock and roll instrumentation for the first time, side one cut with a full band and side two left solo and acoustic. It arrived amid the folk community's growing unease at Dylan's direction, setting up the controversy that would explode later that year at the Newport Folk Festival. The surreal, stream-of-consciousness wordplay of songs like "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" sits alongside the lyrical intimacy of "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" and "Mr. Tambourine Man," the latter becoming a hit for the Byrds within months. The album is widely regarded as the opening statement of folk rock and a pivotal turn in Dylan's career, bridging his early protest-song period and the fully electric Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde that followed. It has since been consistently ranked among the most significant and influential rock albums ever made, prized for both its lyrical ambition and its role in reshaping what a singer-songwriter record could sound like.

Tracklist

Side 1

1. Subterranean Homesick Blues
2. She Belongs To Me
3. Maggie's Farm
4. Love Minus Zero/No Limit
5. Outlaw Blues
6. On The Road Again
7. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

Side 2

1. Mr. Tambourine Man
2. Gates Of Eden
3. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
4. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

The Label

The side labels are the standard Columbia red two-eye stereo design: COLUMBIA arched in white at the top, a circular "eye" logo at both left and right of the spindle, black-to-white "360 SOUND" arrows at the lower rim and STEREO centered at the bottom - the two-eye label family Columbia used from the early 1960s into 1970. The front cover carries both the stereo catalogue number CS 9128 (top right) and the old mono number CL 2328 (small, beside the Columbia logo, upper left) - a cover misprint that identifies a later repress rather than the original 1965 stereo issue, whose jacket carries CS 9128 alone. This places the copy among the later two-eye repressings of the title rather than the first stereo pressing.

Fidelity

This pressing carries the original 1965 analogue master recording through Columbia's standard commercial stereo pressing chain, with no audiophile remastering applied. Columbia two-eye pressings of this title are prized by collectors for a full-bodied, direct analogue sound, with the earliest stereo pressing standing as the benchmark cut of the album on vinyl; mono and later audiophile reissues such as the Mobile Fidelity and Sundazed editions offer their own distinct mastering choices. As a later two-eye repress rather than the first stereo pressing, this copy shares the same basic cutting lineage and sounds close to the original issue while ranking just beneath it.

Notes

This is a two-eye stereo Columbia pressing of CS 9128, identified as a later repress rather than the original 1965 stereo issue by the cover, which carries both the stereo number CS 9128 and the discontinued mono number CL 2328 - a known misprint on repressings from the late 1960s. The red two-eye label with black-to-white 360 Sound arrows was in continuous use across these repressings, so the label design alone does not separate this copy from the first pressing; the dual catalogue numbers on the jacket do. The runout stamper suffixes on this copy do not match the lowest-generation stampers recorded for the original 1965 release, consistent with a later run.

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