Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Volume IIIby Bob Dylan

This is an excellent album. Especially if you're not completely a fan of his earliest music or his most recent music. This catches him in the middle of his career from the mid 1970's through the mid 1990's. Given that he just won the Nobel prize for literature, most everyone knows Bob Dylan is probably one of the best American song writers of all time. And that is really featured well on this album. "Brownsville Girl" comes in at over 11 minutes, but the whole song is one continuous story of people and places in southern Texas and the Mexican border, you feel like you went on an epic journey with him by the end of the song. "Tangled Up in Blue" has to be another of Dylan's best story-telling songs, where it features him traveling about, every region of the United States, meeting new characters, but always keeping this certain one romantic relationship alive in the back of his mind, as the years pass and people come and go in his life. "Dignity" is an excellent song that came out new when this album was released, showing that Bob was still a great song writer in the mid 90's. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," of course, is another of Dylan's all-time most classic songs. "Hurricane" is about the famous boxer story of Rueben "Hurricane Carter" who was wrongly sent to prison and served many years (see biographical movie of same name, starring Denzel Washington), this song is also a story-board of the events of Carter's wrongful incrimination, a beautiful protest song written while Carter was still in prison. "Jokerman," "Under the Red Sky," and "Changing of the Guard" are all beautiful, each in their own way, with unique tempo. This album is a great mix of music of various styles, sure to be enjoyed by die-hard Dylan fans and new listeners, alike.