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
Bob Dylan of Izzy Young's production for WRVR of a live twelve-hour Hootenanny on July 29, 1961: "Among the newer promising talents deserving mention are a 20-year-old latter-day Guthrie disciple named Bob Dylan, with a curiously arresting mumbling, country-steeped manner". This was Dylan's first radio performance. In September, Shelton boosted Dylan's career with an enthusiastic review of his performance at Gerde's Folk City. That month, Dylan played harmonica on folk singer Carolyn Hester's third album. This brought him to the attention of the album's producer, John Hammond, who signed Dylan to Columbia Records. Dylan's first Columbia album, "Bob Dylan", released March 19,