Outlaw Blues (Bob Dylan song) Dylan Honoring 50 Years Of Amnesty International". 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
Bob Dylan complex composition "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", alongside several other enduring songs of the era. For many of these songs he adapted the tunes and sometimes phraseology of older folk songs. Dylan went on to release the politically charged "The Times They Are a-Changin'" and the more lyrically abstract and introspective "Another Side of Bob Dylan" in 1964. In 1965 and 1966, Dylan encountered controversy when he adopted the use of electrically amplified rock instrumentation and in the space of 15 months recorded three of the most important and influential rock albums of the 1960s, "Bringing It All Back Home",