Links to Song: The Times They Are A-Changin’
What you should know about this song: This is quite possibly one Dylan’s most famous “protest” songs, as they have been dubbed. It is because of songs like this one that Bob Dylan was often referred to as the “spokesman of a generation.” The song was released just a few months after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, which only spurred the song to even more popularity. I like how Rolling Stone Magazine describes it: “A masterpiece of political songwriting, it addresses no specific issue and prescribes no concrete action, but simply observes a world in violent upheaval” (Issue 1131).
“Nobody could have spoken better for our generation than ‘The Times They Are A-Changin.’ I was already comfortable with protest songs. But with Dylan’s songs it was ‘Aha!’. Because they’re so good. He’s influenced every songwriter in rock and roll, and folk.” – Joan Baez*
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