Bob Dylan came out of the gate writing with certainty and fervor about the issues of the day. The authority that he wielded in his songs caused his diehard fans to start hanging on his every word.

"I was so much older then / I'm younger than that now," Bob Dylan once announced in his song "My Back Pages." He was describing his own mid-twenties transition from earnest protest singer to rock poet ...

They were not empty words merely blowin' in the wind. When Bob Dylan penned "My Back Pages" he was ready for a change. He had been taking himself much too seriously and he had tired of being the ...