Bob Dylan's third solo album starts off with the title track, "The Times They Are A-Changin'", still one of his most popular songs ever. The album definitely sounds like a traditional folk album, with mostly just vocals, acoustic guitar and the occasional harmonica. Bob Dylan writes all the songs, and keeps much of the lyrics timeless but also topical, with a few songs memorializing black persons killed and a few anti-war songs. Some of the songs like "North Country Blues" and "Boots Of Spanish Leather" seem to speak of the working man in America. It's 10 songs of Bob's classic songwriting, typical vocal wail, and beautiful instrumentation. In the next year or so, Bob Dylan started leaving traditional folk and incorporating more rock 'n' roll, so this album is a good snapshot of his early work.

Release Year: 1964
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