Thread · 13 songs
America
The country as he sang it: its history, its myths, its outlaws.
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1964Greenwich Village
1 of 13North Country Blues
The Times They Are a-Changin'
A portrait of a Minnesota iron-range town emptied when the mines close.
↓ 1 year later
1965Going Electric
2 of 13Desolation Row
Highway 61 Revisited
At over eleven minutes, it is the album's only acoustic track and its closer.
↓ the same year
1965Going Electric
3 of 13Highway 61 Revisited
Highway 61 Revisited
Named after the highway that runs from Minnesota down to New Orleans, it features a police siren whistle.
↓ the same year
1965Going Electric
4 of 13It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Bringing It All Back Home
Running about seven and a half minutes, it is the longest song on the album.
↓ the same year
1965Going Electric
5 of 13Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bringing It All Back Home
It became his first Top 40 hit in the US, and its cue-card promo clip opens Dont Look Back.
↓ the same year
1965Going Electric
6 of 13Tombstone Blues
Highway 61 Revisited
A fast electric blues featuring Mike Bloomfield on lead guitar.
↓ 2 years later
1967Basement and Country
7 of 13As I Went Out One Morning
John Wesley Harding
Like most of the album, it was cut in Nashville in late 1967 with just bass, drums and Dylan's guitar and harmonica.
↓ the same year
1967Basement and Country
8 of 13John Wesley Harding
John Wesley Harding
The title track is loosely based on the Texas outlaw John Wesley Hardin, with an extra letter added to the name.
↓ 3 years later
1970Basement and Country
9 of 13Days of 49
Self Portrait
An old ballad of the California Gold Rush and the men it drew west.
↓ 3 years later
1973Blood on the Tracks
10 of 13The Ballad of Ira Hayes
Dylan
The true story of a Marine in the famous Iwo Jima flag-raising and what became of him back home.
↓ 6 years later
1979Gospel
11 of 13Slow Train
Slow Train Coming
The album takes its name from this song.
↓ the same year
1979Gospel
12 of 13When You Gonna Wake Up
Slow Train Coming
He performed it on Saturday Night Live in October 1979.
↓ 4 years later
1983The '80s
13 of 13Union Sundown
Infidels
It targets the shift of American manufacturing to cheap labor overseas.