Comments on: Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:21:50 +0000

“The faces that you see in the tree is the cover of “rubber soul””

Thanks man – it’s good to know my brain wasn’t completely cooked.

By: Nantucket Art

Nantucket Art — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:20:47 +0000

I think this whole sleeve is about rejecting the mythical figure Dylan had become during the mid sixties.

The year before recording this album Dylan nearly died in a motorbike crash, causing him to retreat to the hills of Woodstock to rethink his life and career.

The photo used on the resulting album looks just like a family shot – this is not a photoshoot of a rockstar. Dylan stands as an equal amongst the other figures – debunking the folk-hero myth and presenting him in a more humble tradition of country music.

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:51:58 +0000

The faces that you see in the tree is the cover of “rubber soul”

By: Robbie

Robbie — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:05:33 +0000

this is a bob dylan record… and is clearly not about the crop of an image or type used.
whats written here is waaaay over thought, do you really think the person cropping this photo thought it to this extent?
and the font is great, defiantly puts the record in its ‘time period’

By: Erik Haegl

Erik Haegl — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:41:42 +0000

Way back in them bad ole days what we knew Dylan was best at was what we called F-cking with your head. He, Lennon and others seemed to compete in this sport. I’ve even used it myself when I worked in a Arkansas refridgerator plant and f-cked with coworkers’ heads over The Late Great Planet Earth.

And M. Cohen you may be thinking of Their Satanic Majesties Request by The Stones 6 months after Sgt. Peppers

By: Mitchel Cohen

Mitchel Cohen — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:16:13 +0000

I remember waiting with our group at SUNY Stony Brook for this album, and when it came out we played it over and over again looking for clues to where Dylan was trying to take us THIS time.

We looked examined the cover with a magnifying glass back when, and indeed there are faces embedded in the tree trunk and elsewhere, reminscent, yes, of the Rolling Stones’ “Magical Mystery Tour,” which one-upped the Beatles’ “Sergeant Pepper” cover ….

By: Marc Jones

Marc Jones — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:27:13 +0000

So does anyone know what the font is? It’s a bit like Eagle, but has extra details in the A and E

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:26:32 +0000

If you turn the album over and look along the top edge of the tree you’ll see tiny faces that look like Dylan and the Beatles embedded there – I swear I saw them once back in the 60’s.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:47:07 +0000

1. I actually like that font, as long as it’s not overused. In this case, it works perfectly.

2. The dude farthest to the right looks like Horatio Sanz from Saturday Night Live. I’d never noticed before.