895 Bob Dylan “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” 1966

“In his live shows from that era…Dylan was challenging his audience rightly to get on board or get out of the way. Even in these shows, however, it wasn’t like he was unleashing an hour’s worth of feedback on the audience. In fact, the No Direction Home documentary features footage of disgruntled fans at his 1966 British concerts complaining that the music was too commercial. These British fans had already been introduced to blues-based rock, so what Dylan was doing seemed to them more of a capitulation than a revolution. If anything, the alteration in the subject matter and lyrics from his acoustic period to his electric period was far more game-changing…Dylan’s words were leaps and bounds ahead of anything else that was being released at the time” (Jim Beviglia, Counting Down Bob Dylan, 2013).

Bob Dylan “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”