Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (/ˈdɪlən/; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest, although Dylan repudiated suggestions from journalists that he was a spokesman for his generation. Nevertheless, early songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. After he left his initial base in the American folk music revival, his six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" altered the range of popular music in 1965. His mid-1960s recordings, backed by rock musicians, reached the top end of the United States music charts while also attracting denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.

Dylan's lyrics have incorporated various political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the performances of Little Richard, and the songwriting of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Dylan has amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning 50 years, has explored the traditions in American song—from folk, blues, and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and the Great American Songbook. Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica. Backed by a changing line-up of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but songwriting is considered his greatest contribution.

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Testimony review: Life with The Band and Bob Dylan

The Irish Times 26 Nov 2016

The albums Music From Big Pink and The Band, along with Dylan’s John Wesley Harding and the Byrds’ Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, offered a reassuringly old wisdom amid the political hectoring and psychedelic posturing of late 1960s rock ... When the drummer briefly leaves during their 1966 world tour with Bob Dylan, Robertson declares ... Dylan evidently preferred a typewriter ... At Big Pink we had a new realisation about Bob....

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Dylan to release 36-CD set of electric tour

Daily Star Lebanon 27 Sep 2016

Bob Dylan is releasing a 36-CD box-set of his 1966 world tour, a landmark yet controversial series of concerts that followed the folk great's shock decision to go electric ... ....

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The Band tribute group to perform at Kallet Theater in Pulaski

Syracuse 12 Aug 2016

-- The THE BAND Band will pay tribute to Bob Dylan and The Band on Friday, Sept ... For this show, they will honor Bob Dylan (now 75) and the historic relationship between Dylan and The Band by performing Bob Dylan classics and selections from The Basement Tapes collection ... They first gained notoriety as Bob Dylan's backup band when he "went electric" on his 1966 world tour....

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Frozen in time: Bob Dylan at home with his son, June 1968

The Guardian 15 May 2016

In a year of major social conflicts, Bob Dylan retreats from fame to become a stay-at-home dad in bucolic Woodstock ... For Bob Dylan, 1968 was a year of withdrawal and rural domesticity. After the gruelling world tour of 1966 and his motorcycle accident, the singer had gone to ground at Hi Lo Ha, the rambling home he had bought in 1965 in rural upstate New York....

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