Bob Dylan's second album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan debuts on three charts in the U.K. this week following the wide release of A Complete Unknown.

The first sounds you hear when you drop the needle — or click the digital file — on Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks are guitars ringing and chiming, almost like bells. They serve as a kind of preface or overture or opening statement or call to prayer for what the listener is about to hear: 56 minutes of a journey through dark heat into the heart and soul of an artist at the depths of sadness driving him to the heights of creative achievement.

The singer-songwriter revisited his folk-music roots on this classic album, bringing an acoustic sound to mysterious, poetic tales of longing and lost love.