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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.