Outlaw Blues (song)
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| Song by Bob Dylan | |||||
| Album | Bringing It All Back Home | ||||
| Released | March 22, 1965 | ||||
| Genre | Blues rock | ||||
| Length | 3:05 | ||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||
| Writer | Bob Dylan | ||||
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"Outlaw Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan. It was originally released in 1965 on Dylan's fifth studio album, Bringing It All Back Home.
The song describes how Dylan wishes to leave behind the pieties of political folk and explore a bohemian, "outlaw" lifestyle. Straining at his identity as a protest singer, Dylan knows he "might look like Robert Ford" (the outlaw who shot and killed Jesse James), but he feels "just like a Jesse James."
An alternate version of the song was released as part of the "Three Song Sampler - EP", which contained outtakes from the soundtrack of the Martin Scorsese Dylan biopic, No Direction Home.
On September 20, 2007, Dylan played this song live in concert for the first time ever during a show in Nashville. He was joined onstage for the performance by Jack White of The White Stripes.[1]
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