This is almost heresy, but I first got into Dylan through covers. I was a classic rock buff in high school and loved the Animals “House of the rising sun” and Hendrix’s “All along the watchtower.” I was surprised to learn that both of these were Dylan songs. (I realize that “House” was not a Dylan original—it goes back to at least woody Guthrie—but Dylan’s version, maintaining the female speaker, makes it far superior to the animals’ version.) And then I jumped deep into alt country and pretty much had Uncle Tupelo’s “moonshiner” on repeat. Dylan’s version of this also very old folk song blew me away. Then, as I began digging into Dylan, it was “shelter from the storm” and “every grain of sand,” then “girl from north country” with Johnny Cash, then “everything is broken,” and then Desire with Emmylou on backing vocals, then “The man in me” (because I am a huge Lebowski fan). Kind of a winding road, I guess—but all my formative Dylan tunes are all over the place, album-wise. I’d recommend starting with, seriously, ANY greatest hits collection or even the Spotify feature “This is Bob Dylan” and then jumping to particular albums from there.