
Bringing It All Back Home
Bringing It All Back Home is het vijfde studioalbum van Bob Dylan. Het werd uitgebracht op 22 maart 1965. Markeerde Dylans vorige album Another Side of Bob Dylan zijn breuk met de protestbeweging, Bringing It All Back Home markeerde zijn overgang naar de rockmuziek. Het jaar 1964 was het jaar van de Britse popinvasie, waarin Britse bands de Amerikaanse hitlijsten overspoelden. Toen Dylan de versie hoorde van "The House of the Rising Sun" door The Animals - met de orgelpartij van Alan Price - , een nummer dat hijzelf in een arrangement van Dave Van Ronk opgenomen had voor zijn debuutalbum, besefte hij dat hij een andere muzikale aanpak moest kiezen. Daarnaast wilde hij aangeven dat de muziek van de Britse popgroepen geworteld was in de rock en rhythm-and-bluesmuziek van zijn jeugd.
Bringing It All Back Home (known as Subterranean Homesick Blues in some European countries; sometimes also spelled Bringin' It All Back Home) is the fifth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in April 1965 by Columbia Records. In a major transition from his earlier sound, it was Dylan's first album to incorporate electric instrumentation, which caused controversy and divided many in the contemporary folk scene.
The album is split into two distinct halves; the first half of the album features electric instrumentation, in which on side one of the original LP, Dylan is backed by an electric rock and roll band. The second half features mainly acoustic songs. The album abandons the protest music of Dylan's previous records in favor of more surreal, complex lyrics.
The album reached No. 6 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart, the first of Dylan's LPs to break into the US Top 10. It also topped the UK charts later that spring. The first track, "Subterranean Homesick Blues", became Dylan's first single to chart in the US, peaking at No. 39. Bringing It All Back Home has been described as one of the greatest albums of all time by multiple publications. In 2003, it was ranked number 31 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", later repositioned to number 181 in the 2020 edition.