For 48 years, however, a library in Ohio was more concerned with where.
Then a man living in San Francisco mailed back a copy of the widely misunderstood record, nearly half a century after it was supposed to be returned.
Howard Simon sent the album along with a letter to Heights Libraries apologizing for his tardiness, according to a news release from the library system outside Cleveland.
Simon checked out the album in 1973, when he was an eighth-grader at a University Heights middle school. He says he found the double vinyl record between two other Dylan albums in his personal collection.
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) After nearly five decades of blowin' in the wind, a double Bob Dylan album finally has a direction home: A man living in San Francisco has mailed the vinyl back to an Ohio library 48 years after it was supposed to be returned.
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University Heights Branch Manager Sara Phillips holds a copy of Bob Dylan s Self Portrait that was returned this week after being checked out in 1973. (Heights Libraries)
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH In the halcyon days of 1973, a teenage music aficionado wandered into the Heights Libraries and checked out a three-year-old album by Bob Dylan called Self Portrait.
Rolling Stone magazine would later call the album Dylan s weirdest record, but added the music is great. Many of the songs are covers, live recordings, or re-releases of older Dylan hits. It was a departure for the Nobel Prize winner, but it is now remembered for its gleefully indulgent eccentricities.
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