Bob Dylan (1965):The gauntlet could be found clanging around on the floor from the opening stanza of “Like a Rolling Stone,” a career-making track from Dylan's second electric album. “The first two lines,” Dylan once said, “which rhymed ‘kiddin’ you’ with ‘didn’t you,’ ju...
“East Side Story” sounds much like a garage Bruce Springsteen, its tense tale of a working-class criminal’s death backed by a grinding fuzz riff and cinematic bongos. “Persecution Smith” itself qualifies as one of the best knockoffs of Dylan circaHighway 61 Revisited. “Vagrant Winter”...