Maggie's Farm 2005 Martin Scorsese documentary "No Direction Home" and released on its accompanying album, "". Media reviews of the soundtrack were overwhelmingly positive towards the "Maggie's Farm" performance, yielding such descriptions as "blistering" and "remarkably tight, and downright spine-tingling. You can sense Dylan and the band feeding off their collective nervous energy." The Newport performance was also included in Murray Lerner's film "The Other Side of the Mirror". "Maggie's Farm," like many Dylan songs, has been widely covered. One of the first versions was by Solomon Burke, "one of the first black singers to record a Bob Dylan song", who released
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,