Having previously recorded mostly acoustic music, Dylan used rock musicians as his backing band on every track of the album, except for the closing track, the 11-minute ballad "Desolation Row".
The first half of the album features electric songs, followed by mainly acoustic songs in the second half. The album abandons the protest music of Dylan's previous records in favor of more surreal, complex lyrics.
The first ever release of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan as it was originally conceived, including four tracks that were withdrawn before the album came out
7" of the first recording of Bob Dylan's "Masters of War", recorded in Alan Lomax's apartment in 1962. The B Side is a conversation that Alan and Bob had after the recording.