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"Blowin' in the Wind" was different: for the first time, Dylan discovered the effectiveness of moving from the particular to the general. Whereas "The Ballad of Donald White" would become completely redundant as soon as the eponymous criminal was executed, a song as vague as "Blowin' in the Wind" could be applied to just about any freedom issue.
Blowin' in the Wind: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right [60] Mr. Tambourine Man: Tomorrow Is a Long Time [61] Greg Brown: Pledging My Time [48] Jackson Browne: Love Minus Zero/No Limit [3] The Browns: Blowin' in the Wind [62] Ray Bryant: Blowin' in the Wind [63] Wendy Bucklew: Buckets of Rain [37] Jeff Buckley: Farewell, Angelina: I Shall Be ...
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" was one of three Dylan songs Peter, Paul and Mary picked up that way for their third album In the Wind, "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Quit Your Lowdown Ways" being the others. [6] Released as a single, it reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on its Easy Listening charts.
[7] [8] His most notable musical credit, however, was his association with Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind". He was both the first person to perform the song – at Gerde's on April 16, 1962, the night Dylan completed it – and with The New World Singers, the first to record it. [2] [9] [10] Turner wrote more than 100 songs.
His songs "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and "The Times They Are a-Changin' " (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements. In 1965 and 1966, Dylan drew controversy among folk purists when he adopted electrically amplified rock instrumentation, recording the rock albums Bringing It All Back Home , Highway 61 Revisited (both ...
Harrison's notes for a possible set list include the song, along with "Watching the River Flow" and "Blowin' in the Wind", [75] although only the last of these was performed by Dylan at the two benefit concerts that day. [76] A portion of their rehearsal of "If Not for You" appeared early in the 1972 documentary film The Concert for Bangladesh ...
In his review for AllMusic, critic Richie Unterberger wrote of the album, "other than an obscure 1964 album by Linda Mason, it was the very first album of Dylan covers. And in part it was because, unlike most of the artists who would take a swing at the concept, Odetta was actually a major folk musician, one who had done much to inspire Dylan himself.
"It Ain't Me Babe" is a song by Bob Dylan that originally appeared on his fourth album Another Side of Bob Dylan, which was released in 1964 by Columbia Records.