Year/Genre: 1967, Folk Rock
Matrix #: CS 9604
Condition: VG, some loud pops but no skips, light marks

Cultural Facts:

1. Released in 1967, this album reflects Dylan’s hard pivot away from the loud, public electric controversy into something quieter and more private—part retreat, part reset after being treated like a generational spokesperson.

2. Its “old weird America” imagery (outlaws, parables, moral riddles) helped lay groundwork for what later got framed as Americana: U.S. folk tradition filtered through modern songwriting and a post-psychedelic mood.

3. Coming out the same year as peak counterculture records, John Wesley Harding felt almost anti-psychedelic—showing how some artists responded to the ’60s by simplifying, tightening, and turning inward rather than escalating.

Price Suggestions:
NM: $28–36
VG+: $20–26
VG: $12–18
G+: $7–10

6/3/25 KG 9/13/2025 CC1/3/26 CC