Critics have received the song positively, praising its humor and noting that it contrasts with the serious track "Chimes of Freedom" that precedes it on the album.
[3] They were finished during a week-long stay in the Greek village of Vernilya (possibly Vouliagmeni),later that month, after Dylan had travelled across Europe with friends and Nico.
[17] Early recorded variations include "You Shall" (1927) by Frank Stokes and Dan Sane (performing as the Beale Street Sheikhs), and "What a Time" (1928) by Jim Jackson.
[1] Literature scholar Timothy Hampton wrote that by referring to the critical recognition with "doggerel verse", Dylan "both acknowledges his genius and undercuts his claim to serious purpose at the same time.
"[1] Hampton argued that "Nowhere is Dylan's status as artist, media figure, pop hero, and political spokesperson evoked with more self-awareness or complexity than in these lines.
"[22] Craig McGregor of The Sydney Morning Herald interpreted Another Side of Bob Dylan as a set of parodies of targets including the Beatles and Alfred Hitchcock movies.
10" to be a parody of the "throw-away lines and slightly folksy flavour of Woody Guthrie, Jack Elliott and half a dozen other talking blues experts.
10": to world heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay, conservative Senator Barry Goldwater, and the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
[24] The reviewer for the Herald Express considered that the album established Dylan as the most important folk singer" since Woody Guthrie, and included "I Shall Be Free No.
[25] In a generally negative review of Another Side of Bob Dylan, Grover Lewis of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram was positive about only two tracks; "I Shall Be Free No.
10" was described as "a zany surrealist-flavored improvisation", and highlighted, along with "Motorpsycho Nitemare", as tracks that "shows flashes of the same rocking drive and ambition that sparked [Dylan's] initial recordings".