At that time, Dylan and Baez were both prominent in the civil rights movement, singing together in March in Washington August 28, 1963. The third album of Dylan, The Times They-Changin ', reflected the more political and cynical Dylan. The songs often take as their contemporary object, true stories, with "only a pawn in their game" against the murder of civil rights worker Medgar Evers, and Brechtian "Death of Hattie Carroll lonely" hotel Hattie Carroll died black bartender in the hands of a young socialite William White Zantzinger. On a more general theme, "The Ballad of Hollis Brown" and "North Country Blues" address the despair caused by the collapse of agriculture and the mining community. This material also comes with two love songs personal policy "Boots of Spanish Leather" and "One morning too."
At the end of 1963, Dylan felt both manipulated and constrained by popular movements and demonstrations. Tensions in public display when, accepting "Tom Paine Award from the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee shortly after the murder of F. ofJohn Kennedy, a drunken Dylan brashly questioned the role of committee members characterized as old and bald, and asked to see something of himself (and everyone) in Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Another Side of Bob Dylan, recorded on a single June evening in 1964, has a lighter mood than its predecessor. The surreal Dylan funny reappears on "I Shall Be Free # 10" and "Motorpsycho Nightmare". "Spanish Harlem Incident" and "To Ramona" is a love song, romantic and passionate, while "Black Crow Blues" and "I Do not Believe You (She acts like we never met)" suggest rock Dylan soon dominate and roll music. "This is not me Babe", on the surface of a song about love denied, has been described as a rejection of the role his reputation had thrust at him. His newest direction was marked by two long: This impressionistic "Chimes of Freedom", which defines the elements of social commentary against denser metaphorical landscape in a style later characterized by Allen Ginsberg as "chains of flashing images , "and" My Back Pages, "the attack is the simple gravity and arch of her own songs before and it seems timely to predict the reaction he would face former champion as he took a new direction.
