name on the Dylan album, "In My Time of Dyin'". According to the album liner notes: Dylan had never sung "In My Time of Dyin'" prior to this recording...

album's chosen tracks were actually cut in single takes ("Baby Let Me Follow You Down", "In My Time of Dyin'", "Gospel Plow", "Highway 51 Blues", and...

narrator questions why, and in the second verse, responds immaturely as he relates that he "gallantly handed her/My very last piece of gum". Critic Michael Gray...

"My Back Pages" is a song written by Bob Dylan and included on his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan. It is stylistically similar to his earlier folk...

debut album, Bob Dylan, in 1962. The song conveys Dylan's appreciation of American folk legend Woody Guthrie. The song is one of two original compositions...

convicted of both charges and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Time magazine covered the sentencing: In June, after Zantzinger's phalanx of five topflight...

Flanagan, Bill (1990). Written In My Soul. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-2224-1. Gill, Andy (1998). Classic Bob Dylan: My Back Pages. Carlton. ISBN 1-85868-599-0...

he sings in the first verse, and given Dylan's prolific writing at the time, that's not hard to believe. In the last verse, he sings, 'I try my best/To...

it in my name but I'm not really accepting it in my name and I'm not accepting it in any kind of group's name, any Negro group or any other kind of group...

It was voted number 133 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000). A complete take of "Mama, You Been on My Mind" was recorded for...

as an in-studio jam with his band in Nashville in May 1971, but it remained unreleased until the 1995 release of the box set Walk a Mile in My Shoes:...

mention of an absence that was troubling him: the sojourn of Suze Rotolo in Perugia: "My baby took my heart from me/ She packed it all up in a suitcase/...

by Joan Baez in the early years of her career. Baez's version appeared on her 1964 album Joan Baez/5, which also included "Go 'Way from My Window". Additionally...

"Masters of War" is a song by Bob Dylan, written over the winter of 1962–63 and released on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in the spring of 1963. The...

Numerous artists have recorded it since, including Bob Dylan as "In My Time of Dyin'" with the writing credit listed as "traditional". The lyrics were...

song during his debut at The Town Hall in New York City on April 12, 1963. The lyrics address the tendency of Americans (or many societies) to believe...

Homesick Blues" is ranked 187th on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. In its contemporary review, Cash Box described it as a "rockin’-country...

Forgotten History of Civil Rights. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-24058-0. "White Supremacist Indicted for Third Time in Shooting Death of Medgar Evers"...

got to do this kind of thing, you got to put somebody in their place... So this is my response to something that happened over in England. I think it...

around in my head for a long time and I remember that when I was writing it, I'd remembered a Gene Vincent song. It had always been one of my favorites...

'What am I supposed to do? One of my songs is ten minutes long.'" Dylan featured the song regularly in concerts in the years since he premiered it,...

had to sing it, my whole concert takes off from there. I know I had no understanding of anything. Something had just gone haywire in the country and they...

leaving about the same time that he arrived in Italy. It was there that he finished the song, ostensibly inspired by the apparent end of his relationship with...

Lady Lay', in my brother's bedroom in the basement of our house," she recalled. "I'd lie on the bed and play that song and cry all the time. I was going...

and number seven in the UK. Following the good-time fun of "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", the Chicago blues-influenced "Pledging My Time" sets the album's...

was first discussed with Dylan in 1965 by Johnny Cash, who expressed interest in producing such an album. "I've got my own ideas about that Nashville...

"Pledging My Time" as its first two tracks. The album track has a duration of 4 minutes and 36 seconds. The song has been included on several of Dylan's...

meaning with its use in the album title. "The singer realises that his times are also changing: "Oh a false clock tries to tick out my time/ To disgrace, distract...

song and poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom. The refrain "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" has been described...

Hall of Fame in 1988 and also assessed the long-term significance of "Like a Rolling Stone": The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother...