Outlaw Blues (Bob Dylan song)

1965 song by Bob Dylan
"Outlaw Blues"
Song by Bob Dylan
from the album Bringing It All Back Home
ReleasedMarch 22, 1965 (1965-03-22)
RecordedJanuary 14, 1965
StudioColumbia Recording, New York City
Genre
  • Folk rock
  • electric blues
Length3:05
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Bob Dylan

"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.

Recording

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 contains outtakes from the soundtrack of the Martin Scorsese Dylan biographical film No Direction Home, and was eventually released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966.[1]

An unusual aspect of this song is that Dylan overdubbed his harmonica part over his lead vocals, rather than alternate between voice and harmonica.[2]

Live performance

On September 20, 2007, Dylan played this song live in concert for the first time during a show in Nashville. He was joined onstage for the performance by Jack White of The White Stripes.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "K-O". www.searchingforagem.com. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  2. ^ Margotin, Philippe; Guesdon, Jean-Michel. Bob Dylan : all the songs : the story behind every track (First ed.). New York. ISBN 1-57912-985-4. OCLC 869908038.
  3. ^ Bob Dylan - Bob Links - Nashville, Tennessee - set list - 09/20/07
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