Outlaw Blues (Bob Dylan song) Outlaw Blues (Bob Dylan song) "Outlaw Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan, recorded on January 14, 1965. It was originally released on Dylan's fifth studio album, "Bringing It All Back Home". An acoustic version of the song, recorded the day before the album track, was released in 2005 as part of the "Three Song Sampler" EP, which contained outtakes from the soundtrack of the Martin Scorsese Dylan biopic, "No Direction Home". An unusual aspect of this song is the fact that Dylan overdubbed his harmonica part over his lead vocals, rather than alternate between voice and harmonica. On September
When the Ship Comes In When the Ship Comes In "When the Ship Comes In" is a folk music song by Bob Dylan, released on his third album, "The Times They Are a-Changin'", in 1964. Joan Baez states in the documentary film "No Direction Home" that the song was, more or less, inspired by a hotel clerk who refused to allow Dylan a room due to his "unwashed" appearance (he was not famous outside of the folk movement at this time). The song then grew into a sprawling epic allegory about vanquishing the oppressive "powers that be". Another inspiration was the Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill song,