Sebastian Cabot Sebastian Cabot, Actor/Bob Dylan, Poet Album Review, Songs, Rating

Home > Actors > C > Cabot, Sebastian > Discography

Sebastian Cabot
Sebastian Cabot, Actor/Bob Dylan, Poet
Release Date: 1967
Label: Rev-Ola Records
Rating:

Cult records rarely come any better than Sebastian Cabot's 1967 classic, Sebastian Cabot, Actor/Bob Dylan, Poet, an album where the actor -- best known for playing Mr. French on the television series Family Affair -- speaks the lyrics to us, mama, as he goes through a selection of 11 early classics from the Bard. As befitting Bob's reputation as a seer, there's a fair selection of protest tunes -- "Who Killed Davey Moore," "Blowin' in the Wind," "The Times They Are A-Changin'," but strangely no "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" -- but they're outweighed by romantic tunes and epics like "Boots of Spanish Leather," "Seven Curses," and "Like a Rolling Stone" that fall somewhere in between. Those are the songs that trip off an actor's tongue like poetry, so of course Cabot gravitates toward those, relishing the turns of phrase but not quite with any sense of the meaning of the words. Naturally, this disconnect, combined with the florid symphonic support, is what launched Sebastian Cabot, Actor/Bob Dylan, Poet into the cult record stratosphere, rivaling if not quite surpassing William Shatner's glorious odd The Transformed Man, the 1968 LP where Captain Kirk performed "Mr. Tambourine Man" as if he was in the throes of a horrifying acid trip. Cabot isn't frenzied, he's warm, even cuddly, a trait that strikes an odd note on "Who Killed Davey Moore," and that strangeness is the very reason that Sebastian Cabot, Actor/Bob Dylan, Poet is worth hearing decades later, but this is also a superb cultural artifact, capturing how the middle-brow mainstream viewed Dylan in 1967. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Who Killed Davey Moore	Dylan	2:39
2	It Ain't Me Babe	Dylan	1:56
3	Boots of Spanish Leather	Dylan	2:02
4	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right	Dylan	2:07
5	Tomorrow's a Long Time	Dylan	2:01
6	Blowin' in the Wind	Dylan	1:41
7	Seven Curses	Dylan	2:30
8	All I Really Want to Do	Dylan	2:11
9	Times They Are A-Changin'	Dylan	2:11
10	Quit Your Lowdown Ways	Dylan	1:51
11	Like a Rolling Stone	Dylan	2:52
12	And Mostly They Sing	Stallman, Hirsch	3:06

Browse More Music:
# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Starpulse.com

Your Entertainment Destination

Sebastian Cabot:

Follow Starpulse