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
Infidels (Bob Dylan album) A number of critics have called "Jokerman" a sly political protest, addressed to an antichrist-like figure, a ""manipulator of crowds … a dream twister."" The second track, "Sweetheart Like You", is sung to a fictitious woman. Oliver Trager's book, "Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia", mentions that some have criticized this song as sexist. Indeed, music critic Tim Riley makes that accusation in his book, "Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary", singling out lyrics like ""a woman like you should be at home/That's where you belong/Taking care of somebody nice/Who don't know how to do you wrong."" However,