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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.