The Times They Are A-Changin', released in January 1964 on Columbia Records, is Bob Dylan's most programmatic album and one of the signal documents of the folk revival's political peak. Its songs address labor, civil rights, generational conflict, and historical change with a directness that the folk tradition had always accommodated and that Dylan wielded with unusual force. For the bluegrass world, the album's importance is partly indirect: it represents the moment when a generation of musicians understood that acoustic music could carry contemporary urgency. The title track became a generational anthem, and the album remains one of the clearest statements of what the early-1960s folk movement believed it was doing.
Tracklist
- 1 The Times They Are A-Changin’ alt version 3:17
- 2 Ballad of Hollis Brown 5:07
- 3 With God on Our Side 7:10
- 4 One Too Many Mornings 2:42
- 5 North Country Blues alt version 4:36
- 6 Only a Pawn in Their Game 3:33
- 7 Boots of Spanish Leather alt version 4:40
- 8 When the Ship Comes In 3:18
- 9 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 5:49
- 10 Restless Farewell 5:33
