I'm the father mentioned in this - which is something my son Samuel Cardwell posted on his Facebook recently after a short discussion we'd just had. ~ DC Cardwell

This morning my father and I were talking about how rubbish it would have been if people had kept calling albums things like 'With the Beatles' and 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan,' and I got to wondering what it would have been like if Bob had kept using 'The +Adjective+ Bob Dylan' formula throughout his long career. I think it would have gone something like this:

The Hillbilly Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan)

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

The Political Bob Dylan (The Times They Are A Changin')

The Sarcastic Bob Dylan (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

The Dreamin’ Bob Dylan (Bringing It All Back Home)

The Growlin’ Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)

The Surreal Bob Dylan (Blonde on Blonde)

The Garagey Bob Dylan (The Basement Tapes)

The Countrified Bob Dylan (John Wesley Harding)

The Weird-Voiced Bob Dylan (Nashville Skyline)

The Desultory Bob Dylan (Self Portrait)

The Optimistic Bob Dylan (New Morning)

The Cinematic Bob Dylan (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)

The Desultory Bob Dylan Vol. 2 (Dylan)

The Married Bob Dylan (Planet Waves)

The Divorced Bob Dylan (Blood on the Tracks)

The Collaboratin’ Bob Dylan (Desire)

The Shrill Bob Dylan (Street Legal)

The Evangelical Bob Dylan (Slow Train Coming)

The Devotional Bob Dylan (Saved)

The Hymnal Bob Dylan (Shot of Love)

The Reggae Bob Dylan (Infidels)

The Downhill Bob Dylan (Empire Burlesque)

The Regrettable Bob Dylan (Knocked Out Loaded)

The Forgettable Bob Dylan (Down In The Groove)

The Revitalised Bob Dylan (Oh Mercy)

The Giddy Bob Dylan (Under the Red Sky)

The Musicological Bob Dylan (Good As I Been To You)

The Musicological Bob Dylan Vol. 2 (World Gone Wrong)

The Bleak Bob Dylan (Time Out Of Mind)

The Pre-War Bob Dylan ("Love and Theft")

The Languid Bob Dylan (Modern Times)

The Cajun Bob Dylan (Together Through Life)

The Joyeux Bob Dylan (Christmas in the Heart)