Bob Dylan
Biography
Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-consciousness narratives. As a vocalist, he broke down the notion that a singer must have a conventionally good voice in order to perform, thereby redefining the vocalist's role in popular music. As a musician, he sparked several genres of pop music, including electrified folk-rock and country-rock. And that just touches on the tip of his achievements. Dylan's force was evident during his height of popularity in the '60s — the Beatles' shift toward introspective songwriting in the mid-'60s never would have happened without him — but his influence echoed throughout several subsequent generations, as many of his songs became popular standards and his best albums became undisputed classics of the rock & roll canon. Dylan's influence throughout folk music was equally powerful, and he marks a pivotal turning point in its 20th century evolution, signifying when the genre moved away from traditional songs and toward personal songwriting. Even when his sales declined in the '80s and '90s, Dylan's presence rarely lagged, and his commercial revival in the 2000s proved his staying power.. For a figure of such substantial influence, Dylan came from humble beginnings. Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Bob Dylan (b. Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) was raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, from the age of six. As a child he learned how to play guitar and harmonica, forming a rock & roll band called the Golden Chords when he was in high school. Following his graduation in 1959, he began studying art at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. While at college, he began performing folk songs at coffeehouses under the name Bob Dylan, taking his last name from the poet Dylan Thomas. Already inspired by Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie, Dylan began listening to blues while at college, and the genre wove its way into his music. He spent the summer of 1960 in Denver, where he met bluesman Jesse Fuller, the inspiration behind the songwriter's signature harmonica rack and guitar. By the time he returned to Minneapolis in the fall, he had grown substantially as a performer and was determined to become a professional musician.
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1. | Shelter from the Storm | Blood On the Tracks | 5:00 | $1.29 | |
2. | Knockin' On Heaven's Door | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hi.. | 2:30 | $1.29 | |
3. | Like a Rolling Stone | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hi.. | 6:07 | $1.29 | |
4. | Forever Young | Planet Waves | 2:48 | $1.29 | |
5. | Blowin' In the Wind | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hi.. | 2:47 | $1.29 | |
6. | Girl from the North Country | Silver Linings Playbook (Or.. | 3:40 | $1.29 | |
7. | Girl from the North Country | Essential Johnny Cash | 3:42 | $0.99 | |
8. | Tangled Up In Blue | Blood On the Tracks | 5:40 | $0.99 | |
9. | Times They Are A-Changin' | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hi.. | 3:13 | $1.29 | |
10. | Hurricane | Desire | 8:32 | $0.99 | |
11. | Mr. Tambourine Man | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hi.. | 5:26 | $0.99 | |
12. | Make You Feel My Love | Time Out of Mind | 3:32 | $0.99 | |
13. | Like a Rolling Stone | Highway 61 Revisited | 6:11 | $1.29 | |
14. | Lay Lady Lay | Nashville Skyline | 3:17 | $1.29 | |
15. | Don't Think Twice, It's All .. | Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 3:40 | $0.99 | |
16. | Positively 4th Street | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hi.. | 3:53 | $1.29 | |
17. | I'm Not There | Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: Th.. | 5:12 | $1.29 | |
18. | Tomorrow Is a Long Time | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hi.. | 3:01 | $0.99 | |
19. | Lay, Lady, Lay | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hi.. | 3:16 | $1.29 | |
20. | It Ain't Me, Babe | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hi.. | 3:34 | $1.29 | |
21. | Don't Think Twice, It's All .. | Bob Dylan's Greatest Hi.. | 3:37 | $1.29 | |
22. | Folsom Prison Blues | Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: Th.. | 2:46 | $1.29 | |
23. | Man In Me | New Morning | 3:06 | $0.99 | |
24. | Boots of Spanish Leather | Times They Are A-Changin.. | 4:37 | $0.99 | |
25. | One Too Many Mornings | Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: Th.. | 3:23 | $1.29 | |
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