EACH MFSL SACD is re-mastered by MOBILE FIDELITY SOUND LABS.  The greatest advancement since the introduction of stereo, Super Audio CDs employ the innovative single-bit encoding system, Direct Stream Digital.  Every SACD player performs superbly with Compact Discs. And Hybrid SACDs will play back beautifully on CD players

FIRST, WE HAVE Bob Dylan BLONDE ON BLONDE Numbered 5603 1ST EDITION EVER ON A Limited Edition Hybrid STEREO SACD. Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 9/500!

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - "Visions of Johanna" - Rated 413/500, "Just Like A Woman" - Rated 232/500!

DSD Technology, Superior Sound: Mobile Fidelity’s Hybrid SACD The Last Word in Digital Fidelity!

That Thin, That Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan’s Ground-Shaking 1966 Double LP Sent Tremors Throughout the World. Recorded With One of Most Ear-Awakening Lineups Ever Assembled: Al Kooper, Pig Robbins, Joe South, Kenny Buttrey, and The Band’s Rick Danko and Robbie Robertson Among Musicians. Ranked 9 on Rolling Stone’s List of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Vaudeville, Contemporary Pop, Fiery Rock and Roll, Memphis Blues, Folk-Derived Sagas Among Enriched Palette of Styles.

Blonde on Blonde: A double album that transcends time, defies space, suspends reality, and looks through the human soul and tells the listener characteristics about themselves they didn’t know. Professor Sean Wilentz, historian-in-residence for Bob Dylan’s Web site, comes as close to summing up its brilliance in his superb Bob Dylan In America as any who’ve tried: “The songs are rich meditations on desire, frailty, promises, boredom, hurt, envy, connections, missed connections, paranoia, and transcendent beauty in short, the lures and snare of love, stock themes of rock and pop music, but written with a powerful literary imagination and played out in a pop netherworld.” No lie.

As part of its Bob Dylan catalog restoration series, Mobile Fidelity is thoroughly humbled to have the privilege of mastering the iconic LP from the original master tapes and pressing it on hybrid SACD. The end result is the very finest, most transparent digital stereo edition of Blonde on Blonde ever produced. Forever renowned for what the Bard deemed that thin, that wild mercury sound, the albums famed aural character lives and breathes on this superb version, affording playback of previously buried information and lifelike presentation of the studio sessions.

Forever prized for a unique sound that cultural critic Greil Marcus tagged “the most glamorous record imaginable; listening you [can] see the checkered jester’s suit Dylan had worn on stage for the nine previous, furious months,” Blonde on Blonde is to music, production, prose, and performance as what hydrogen is to water. The secret to its inimitable aural character partially stems from Dylan’s request in Nashville to producer Bob Johnston to remove the baffles from the studio room, allowing the musicians to interact as well as the music to assume a more organic quality that drifts from one microphone to another. Mobile Fidelity’s reissue captures this ensemble ambience, with echoes, resonation, and some of the most natural timbres you’ll ever hear in plain sight.

The story of Blonde on Blonde is almost as compelling as the music within. Dylan, frustrated with how initial attempts fared in New York, relocating to Tennessee and pairing with Nashville’s top session players as well as members of what would become the Band, feverishly chasing perfectionism while also arriving at an on-the-fly feel that remains a reference point for recorded music. The Bard sweated over lyrics, demanded his band get the exact sounds he heard in his head, and limited most takes to a handful at most. A majority of songs were recorded long after midnight, the post-A.M. vibe reflected in the nocturnal aura, woozy optimism, inversion of intervals, and spiritual soulfulness of the playing.

As for the tunes? Chapters of books and lengthy theses are dedicated to the sheer conscious-altering power, mythical weight, character cast, and convention-obscuring magnetism of the lyrics to say nothing of the sophisticated albeit pure playing within, as arrangements touch upon gospel, R&B, pop, traditional and contemporary blues, vaudeville, folk, and more. Then there’s Dylan’s inventive phrasing, his manipulation of pitch and locution, helping the narratives to take on epic, inchoate, and cryptic meanings that continue to be deciphered to this day. Punch lines occur as frequently as romantic declarations, all delivered with salient references, traditional parallels, and elusive interpretations on par with those of Shakespeare.

Visions of Johanna. I Want You.  Rainy Day Women #12 & 35. Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. Absolutely Sweet Marie. We could go on. Essential doesn’t even begin to cover the genius of this record that, now, sounds better than Dylan himself can imagine.

"'It's easier to be disconnected than connected,' Dylan confessed in late 1965. 'I've got a huge hallelujah for all the people who're connected, that's great, but I can't do that.' He never sounded lonelier than in this seven-minute ballad, originally titled 'Seems Like a Freeze-Out.' Dylan cut it in a single take on Valentine's Day 1966, with Al Kooper on Hammond B3 organ." - Rolling Stone

"Dylan wrote this ["Just Like A Woman"] on Thanksgiving Day 1965 - three days after marrying Sara Lowndes - while on tour in Kansas City. His nonstop creative rush was taking a big toll. 'I don't consider myself outside of anything,' he said at the time. 'I just consider myself not around. He turned his torment into this song, allegedly inspired by his recently ended affair with doomed Andy Warhol starlet Edie Sedgwick." - Rolling Stone

Features:

 Super Audio CD

SACD Stereo SACD Layer

 This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!

Numbered, Limited Edition

 Mastered From Original Master Tapes

Selections:

1. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

2. Pledging My Time

3. Visions of Johanna

4. One of Must Know (Sooner or Later)

5. I Want You

6. Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again

7. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

8. Just Like a Woman

9. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)

10. Temporary Like Achilles

11. Absolutely Sweet Marie

12. 4th Time Around

13. Obviously 5 Believers

14. Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline on Numbered 804 Limited Edition Hybrid STEREO SACD from Mobile Fidelity! Features Duet with Johnny Cash!

Relaxed 1969 Album Soothes With Country Sounds and Amicable Simplicity. Experience Dylan's All-Time Cleanest Vocal Performances Like Never Before: Soft, Smooth Croon a Dramatic Change from His Past. Songs Reflect Rustic Charm, Cozy Retreat, Idyllic Satisfaction. Includes Duet With Johnny Cash as Well as "Lay Lady Lay" and "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You"

A collection of songs featuring the voice and guitar of Bob Dylan, with Kenny Buttrey, Charles McCoy, Pete Drake, Normal Blake, Charlie Daniels and Bob Wilson. Featuring guest artist Johnny Cash.

For an artist whose career is flush with enigma, myth, and disguise, Nashville Skyline still surprises more than almost any other Bob Dylan move more four decades after its original release. Distinguished from every other Dylan album by virtue of the smooth vocal performances and simple ease, the 1969 record witnesses the icon's full-on foray into country and trailblazing of the country-rock movement that followed. Cozy, charming, and warm, the rustic set remains for many hardcore fans the Bard's most enjoyable effort.

Features:

• Super Audio CD

• SACD Stereo SACD Layer

• This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!

• Numbered, Limited Edition

Selections:

1. Girl From The North Country (feat. Johnny Cash)

2. Nashville Skyline Rag

3. To Be Alone With You

4. I Threw It All Away

5. Peggy Day

6. Lay Lady Lay

7. One More Night

8. Tell Me That It Isn't True

9. Country Pie

10. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

  Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks on Numbered 4621 Limited Edition Hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity! Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 16/500!

TAS Rated 5/5 Music, 4.5/5 Sonics in the April 2013 Issue of The Absolute Sound!

 Presence, Immediacy, Naturalness, Realism in Spades: Mobile Fidelity Reissue Makes Blood on the Tracks Among Most Lifelike-Sounding Albums You’ll Ever Hear!

 Dylan's Masterpiece Break-Up Album: Sentimental Redemption Arises Amidst Sorrow, Turmoil, Sadness, and Pain. Songs Flow Like Rivers, Acoustic and Electric Elements Merge Like Bezels on a Diamond. Ranked 16 on Rolling Stone's List of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Includes - Tangled Up In Blue, Simple Twist of Fate,Idiot Wind, Buckets of Rain.

 Bob Dylan was at several crossroads in the mid-1970s. Artistically, he was largely written off as being past his prime. Emotionally, he was suffering through a painful divorce from his then-wife Sara Lowndes. Creatively, he appeared at a stalemate, his previous decade's unprecedented run of transformational brilliance finished. Then came Blood on the Tracks.

 A start-to-finish cycle that documents a lover's pursuit of, entanglement with, and loss of a woman, the bracingly intimate 1975 effort remains one of the most encompassing break-up albums ever made and ranks as the most personal statement of the Bard's career. To hear it is to experience the agony, frustration, trauma, highs, lows, confusion, sadness, and, ultimately, requisite redemption associated with intimate relationships gone astray. Dylan maintains it's a work of fiction, but it's evident close-vested autobiographical premise is what helps make it universal: It's the icon singing through tears, going out of his mind, battling hallowing emptiness, firing shots across the bow, and accepting culpability. It is, in short, a consummate expression of love's darker sides and the consequences of what happens when dreams unravel.

 As part of its Bob Dylan catalog restoration series, Mobile Fidelity is thoroughly humbled to have the privilege of mastering the iconic LP from the original master tapes and making it available on hybrid SACD. Fantastically presenting both the solo acoustic and band-supported songs with the utmost clarity, dynamics, presence, immediacy, spaciousness, imaging, and balance, this version shines a high-powered light on the fluid vocal phrasing, timbral shifts, functional rhythms, and inward-looking strumming that contribute to every song here serving as a wound-exposing confessional.

 For all the melancholic pain, unresolved questions, shattered memories, wasted times, unrequited dialogs, and weary regret within, Blood on the Tracks remains as daring as it is reflective. Rather than follow for a monotone caustic vibe, Dylan's songs burrow into the subconscious for the manners in which they are even-keeled, mellow, and occasionally, even peaceful. Dignity, honor, poignancy, and fairness all traits uncommon in any situation in which partners dissolve histories, change hearts, and attribute blame instill the record with equilibrium on par with the consistency of the flowing melodies.

Throughout, tunes come on and proceed as if they could continue forever, Dylan spinning poetic verses and conversations amidst finely tied knots of acoustic notes, chords, and fills, the deceivingly simple architecture conjuring the intertwined refractions of a bezeled jewel, various angles, colors, and textures conjoining into a gorgeously inseparable whole. Backed by Tony Brown's flexible albeit subtle bass, Buddy Cage's country-streaked pedal-steel guitar, and Paul Griffin's soul-baring organ an instrument used to shadow, tuckpoint, and illuminate here as effectively as any time in rock history Dylan pours soulful emotion, open his veins, and bleeds.

 Ranked 16 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and replete with existential thought, piercing directness, raw singing, and majestic arrangements.

 "[T]hanks to state-of-the-art remastering, this classic has never sounded better, especially in this new Mobile Fidelity SACD... The music ranges from the Blonde on Blonde-era organ balladry of 'Idiot Wind' and the self-effacing blues of 'Meet Me in the Morning' to the wordy 'Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts' and the folksy finger-style guitar of 'Buckets of Rain.' ... [I]t has... a sonic purity - that well suits the intimate nature of these sessions." - Greg Cahill, The Absolute Sound, April 2013, 5/5 Music, 4.5/5 Sonics

 Features:

 Super Audio CD

 SACD Stereo SACD Layer

 This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!

 Numbered, Limited Edition

 Mastered From Original Master Tapes

Selections:

1. Tangled Up in Blue

2. Simple Twist of Fate

3. You're A Big Girl Now

4. Idiot Wind

5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

6. Meet Me in the Morning

7. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

8. If You See Her, Say Hello

9. Shelter From the Storm

10. Buckets of Rain

Bob Dylan BOB DYLAN Numbered 2602 Limited Edition Hybrid STEREO SACD from Mobile Fidelity! Mastered from the Original Master Tapes!

Numbered, Limited Edition Hybrid SACD!

Understated 1962 Debut Launched Immeasurably Influential Career

Album Stands as the Clearest Connection to Dylan's Purist Folk Roots

Ghosts of Woody Guthrie and Blues Legends Appear Throughout Recording of Originals and Covers

Transparent to the Source: Pressing Brings the Simple Sounds of Dylan's Voice, Acoustic Guitar, and Harmonica into Lifelike Perspective

Bob Dylan's self-titled 1962 debut is as understated of an entrance as any significant musician as ever made. Already well-versed in American roots music, Dylan simultaneously pays homage to tradition and extends it by putting his own stamp on classic material that metaphorically functions as the soil of our contemporary songs and styles. Free of ego, and performed with masterful conviction, Bob Dylan ranks with the debut efforts of similar artistic giants Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones.

Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's world-renowned mastering system, this restored hybrid SACD version brings the contents of this seminal release as closest as they've ever come to master tape-quality. Transparent to the source, the simple sounds of Dylan's voice, acoustic guitar, and harmonica take on lifelike perspective and dimensions the "husk and bark" to which Robert Shelton referred in his now-legendary New York Times review of a Dylan appearance at Gerde's Folk City. MoFi has made possible an inexpensive time-traveling trip back to the Greenwich Village coffeehouses and folk clubs in which Dylan cut his teeth, albeit in much better fidelity and without any annoying background noise.

Much has been made of the commercial indifference that greeted the album upon its low-key release. Yet focusing on sales figures and the reaction of a public not yet hip to Dylan's name or music is to miss the forest for the trees. Distinguished from the era's other folk efforts by way of the determination, brazenness, and lived-through-this worldliness Dylan approaches the material and sings the songs, Dylan lays the groundwork for the path he'd soon trailblaze and everyone else would follow.

By nodding to Woody Guthrie at the same time he completely re-imagines a sobering tune such as Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean," Dylan straddles the past and future. He also displays, with challenging authority and savant-like expertise, the ability to handle weighty topics such as death, sorrow, and lamentation with the vaudeville flair, bluesy mannerisms, and poignant command of an artist three times his age.

As Dylan scholar and pop-culture critic Greil Marcus observed in 2010, "Everybody knew Joan Baez and the Kingston Trio; if you knew Bob Dylan, you knew something other people didn't, something that soon enough everybody had to know. Within a year, an album could put an adjective in front of the singer's name as if it were already common coin." It all starts here.

Features:

 Super Audio CD

SACD Stereo SACD Layer

This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!

 Numbered, Limited Edition

Selections:

1. You're No Good

2. Talkin' New York

3. In My Time of Dyin'

4. Man of Constant Sorrow

5. Fixin' to Die

6. Pretty Peggy-O

7. Highway 51

8. Gospel Plow

9. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

10. House of the Risin' Sun

11. Freight Train Blues

12. Song to Woody

13. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean