Joan Baez helps establish Bob Dylan as the leading folk song artist, he performs as guest or "surprise" artist at a number of her concerts. The second important album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is at last completed and released. Dylan continues his almost frantic song writing, this year sees no less than 34 new songs and also a number of poems. The third album gets recorded rather quickly and is completed by the end of October. It is released in January 1964.

2 Year At a glance

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3 CALENDAR

1, 2, 3 January	Dylan is interviewed for the English "performing arts" magazine "Scene".
2, 3 January	Dylan visits Rory McEwen and meets up with Eric von Schmidt, Richard Farina and Ethan Signer. McEwen also takes Dylan to meet Robert Graves.
2, 3 January	Possible appearance at the Surbiton and Kingston Folk Club, Surbiton, Surrey.
4 January	Second and last day of recording "Madhouse on Castle Street".
5 January	Flies to Rome to join Odetta and to try and locate Suze Rotolo. She has however just returned to the US. He performs at a folk club in Rome and writes both Girl From The North Country and Boots Of Spanish Leather.
12 January	Back in London Dylan, von Schmidt and Farina join Martin Carthy on stage at The Troubador.
13 January	BBC broadcasts "Madhouse on Castle Street".
14-15 January	Dylan appear as Blind Boy Grunt on some six tracks during the recording of the album Dick Farina and Eric von Schmidt.
16 January	Dylan flies back to New York.
January	Dylan writes a poem called Go Away Bomb for Izzy Young who is compiling a book on "the bomb". The project is never finished.
19 January	A couple of new songs are recorded at the Broadside office.
21 January	A new song based on the old English tune Nottamun Town is performed at Gerde's Folk City. It is called Masters Of War.
24 January	Some more new songs are recorded at the Broadside office.
February	Dylan appears on Skip Weshner's radio show.
February/March	Nat Hentoff interviews Dylan for the liner notes to the new album. Parts of the interview later appear in the June 1963 Playboy magazine.
8 February	Recording of the so called "Banjo Tape" in the basement of Gerde's Folk City.
March	Dylan is surprise guest at Oscar Brand's "World of Folk Music". He performs two new songs Girl From The North Country and Only A Hobo.
April	Release of the promotional edition of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
12 April	Town Hall concert. The concert programme features a new Dylan poem My Life In A Stolen Moment. This is the first concert in which Dylan performs his own songs only. The concert is recorded by CBS for a possible live album.
24 April	What is scheduled as the first recording session for The Times They Are A-Changin' turns out to be the last Freewheelin' session.
25 April	Dylan plays at The Bear in Chicago.
26 April	Studs Terkel show on Chicago WFMT radio. Dylan performs seven songs, including four new: Farewell, Bob Dylan's Dream, Who Killed Davey Moore and Boots Of Spanish Leather.
12 May	The "Ed Sullivan Show" incident. Dylan refuses to appear when he is instructed not to play Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues.
18 May	Monterey Folk Festival. Duet with Joan Baez on With God On Our Side.
27 May	Release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
May/June	Stays with Joan Baez in Carmel, California.
May/June	Returns to Minneapolis and is as usual recorded by Tony Glover.
6 July	Dylan attends a "Voters' registration rally" in Greenwood, Mississippi, performing yet another new song Only A Pawn In Their Game. Part of this performance is filmed and included in the film Don't Look Back.
26-28 July	Newport Folk Festival. The festival programme contains a Dylan poem called For Dave Glover.
30 July	Dylan records two songs for the TV-program "Songs Of Freedom", broadcast on WNEW.
Summer	Dylan is surprise guest on NBC's "Tonight" program.
August	Release of the single Blowin' In The Wind/Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
	Dylan is interviewed by Jack Smith from the radical newspaper "The National Guardian". The interview is later reprinted in Broadside.
3 August	Dylan is guest performer at Joan Baez' concert at the Camden Music Fair in New Jersey.
6, 7 August	1^st and 2^nd recording sessions for The Times They Are A-Changin'
10 August	Dylan is guest performer at Joan Baez' concert in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
12 August	3^rd recording session for The Times They Are A-Changin'
13, 16	Dylan is guest performer at Joan Baez' concerts in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
17 August	Dylan is guest performer at Joan Baez' concert at the Forest Hills Stadium.
Late August	Sidney Fields from New York Mirror interviews Dylan.
28 August	Dylan performs at the Washington Civil Rights March.
9 October	Dylan is guest performer at Joan Baez' concert at the Hollywood Bowl.
Mid October	Michael Iachetta from the New York Daily News interviews Dylan.
19 October	Dylan returns to solo concerts, this day at Ann Arbour Hill Auditorium.
23, 24 October	4^th and 5^th recording sessions for The Times They Are A-Changin'
23, 24 October	Andrea Svedburg from Newsweek interviews Dylan.
25 October	Solo concert at Philadelphia Town Hall.
26 October	Solo concert at Carnegie Hall, New York. Audience includes Dylan's parents. This show is also recorded by CBS for a possible live album.
31 October	6^th and last recording session for The Times They Are A-Changin'
2 November	Solo concert at Boston Jordan Hall.
3 November	Solo concert at Syracuse University Regent Theatre.
23 November	Dylan gives a reluctant concert somewhere in New York State, the day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
30 November	Solo concert at Newark Mosque Theatre.
13 December	Dylan receives the Tom Paine award at a Bill of Rights dinner held by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee at the Grand ballroom of the hotel Americana in New York. In a very uptight acceptance speech Dylan questions the validity of what his wealthy and liberal audience believe they are fighting. He even says that he can understand Kennedy's murderer. A few days later he sends a poem called A Message from Bob Dylan to the Committee in which he is offering to make up for any losses in donations that may be the result of this unfortunate speech.
27 December	Chicago Orchestra Hall. Set includes the new song Restless Farewell.

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4 RECORDINGS

4 January	Madhouse On Castle Street sessions
14,15 January	Dobell's Jazz Record Shop
19 January	Broadside Office
24 January	Broadside Office
February	Broadside Office
8 February	The Basement of Gerde's Folk City
February	Skip Weshner Show
Winter	Witmark Studio
March	Broadside Office
March	Oscar Brand Show
March	Witmark Studio
March	Folk songs and more folk songs
April	Second McKenzie's Tape
April	Witmark Studio
12 April	Town Hall, New York City, New York
24 April	The 8^th and last Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan session
25 April	The Bear, Chicago, Illinois
26 April	Studs Terkel Wax Museum
May	Witmark Studio
May-June	The Home Of Tony Glover
6 July	Greenwood Mississippi Rally
17 July	The Home Of Dave Whitaker
Summer	Unidentified Recording Studio, New York City, New York
26 July	Newport Folk Festival. Afternoon workshop
26 July	Newport Folk Festival. Evening
26 July	Newport Folk Festival. Evening finale
27 July	Newport Folk Festival. Afternoon workshop
28 July	Newport Folk Festival. During Joan Baez' set
30 July	Songs Of Freedom
6 August	1^st The Times They Are A-Changin’ session
7 August	2^nd The Times They Are A-Changin’ session
12 August	3^rd The Times They Are A-Changin’ session
August	Witmark Studio
17 August	Guest appearance at a Joan Baez concert
28 August	March On Washington (Washington Rights March)
October	Witmark Studio
23 October	4^th The Times They Are A-Changin’ session
24 October	5^th The Times They Are A-Changin’ session
26 October	Carnegie Hall
31 October	6^th and last The Times They Are A-Changin’ session
December	Witmark Studio

For details about these tapes please refer to the corresponding session pages in Still On The Road.

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5 THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN

This album was recorded during no less than eight different sessions from 24 April 1962 to 24 April 1963! Here's a summary of these sessions:

		# of	take released on
Date	Song	takes	PTFBD[1]	TFBD[2]	BIOG[3]	BOOT[4]
24 April '62	Going To New Orleans	2
	Sally Gal	3
	Rambling, Gambling Willie	4	4			4
	Corrina Corrina	2
	The Death Of Emmett Till	1
	Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues	3	3
	(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle	2
25 April '62	Rocks And Gravel	3
	Let Me Die In My Footsteps	1	1			1
	Talking Hava Negiliah Blues	1				1
	Sally Gal	2
	Baby Please Don't Go	3