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 Dylan at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Robert Allen Zimmerman |
| Also known as | Elston Gunn, Blind Boy Grunt, Lucky Wilbury/Boo Wilbury, Elmer Johnson, Sergei Petrov, Jack Frost, Jack Fate, Willow Scarlet, Robert Milkwood Thomas. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a large political rally that took place in Washington D Traveling Wilburys was a supergroup consisting of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. |
| Born | May 24, 1941 Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Genre(s) | Folk, rock, Country, Blues |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, author, poet, screenwriter, disc jockey |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards |
| Years active | 1959–present |
| Label(s) | Columbia, Asylum |
| Associated acts | The Band, Traveling Wilburys |
| Influences | Hank Williams, Rev. Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson |
| Website | www.BobDylan.com |
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and a poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Duluth is a Port City in the US state of Minnesota and the County seat of St The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous Rock music is a genre of Popular music often though not necessarily employing Electric guitar, Bass guitar, and Drums. In Political geography and International politics, a country is a Political division of a geographical entity The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression Singer-songwriter is a term that refers to Performers who write, compose and sing their own material including Lyrics An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, which is often contrasted with Speech. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles A harmonica is a free reed Wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes (reed chambers or A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Columbia Records is an American Record label founded in 1888 Columbia is the oldest surviving Brand name in pre-recorded sound being the first record company Asylum Records is an American Record label, owned by Warner Music Group, founded by agent-managers David Geffen and Elliot Roberts in 1971 The Band was a rock group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999 Traveling Wilburys was a supergroup consisting of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. Hank Williams ( September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American Singer-songwriter and Musician who has Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, ( April 30, 1896 &ndash May 5, 1972) was a Blues and gospel singer Dave Van Ronk ( June 30 1936 – February 10 2002) was a Folk singer born in Rev Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5 1932 better known by the Stage name Little Richard, is an American Singer, Songwriter Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14 1912–October 3 1967 was an American Singer-songwriter and Folk musician Guthrie's musical legacy Huddie William Ledbetter, (January 1888 – December 6 1949 was an American folk and Blues Musician, notable for his clear and forceful singing "Blind" Lemon Jefferson ( September 24, 1893 or October 26, 1894 or July 1897 &ndash December 1929 was an influential Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Singer-songwriter is a term that refers to Performers who write, compose and sing their own material including Lyrics An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal chronicler and a reluctant figurehead of American unrest. In politics a figurehead, by Metaphor with the carved figurehead at the prow of a sailing ship is a person who holds an important title or office yet executes little A number of his songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'",[1] became anthems of the anti-war and civil rights movements. " Blowin' in the Wind " is a Song written by Bob Dylan and released on his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. " The Times They Are a-Changin' " is a Song written by Bob Dylan and released on his 1964 album of the same name. The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music (in Music theory and religious contexts or more generally a song (or composition of The term anti-war usually refers to the opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968 refers to the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African His most recent studio album, Modern Times, released on August 29, 2006, entered the U.S. album chart at number one, and that same year was named Album of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine. Modern Times is Bob Dylan 's 32nd Studio album, released on August 29, 2006 by Sony BMG. Events 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708) Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published [2]
Dylan's early lyrics incorporated politics, social commentary, philosophy and literary influences, defying existing pop music conventions and appealing widely to the counterculture. Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions Social commentary is the act of rebelling against a government by means of rhetorical propaganda Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Literature is the Art of written works Literally translated the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter Pop music as a genre features a noticeable rhythmic element catchy melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and conventional structure Counterculture (also " counter-culture " is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a Cultural group, or While expanding and personalizing musical styles, he has shown steadfast devotion to many traditions of American song, from folk and country/blues to gospel, rock and roll and rockabilly, to English, Scottish and Irish folk music, and even jazz and swing. Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression Gospel music is Music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life as well as (in terms of the varying music styles to Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of Rock and roll music and emerged in the early 1950s England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of Jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United [3][4]
Dylan performs with the guitar, keyboard and harmonica. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is a type of Keyboard instrument. A harmonica is a free reed Wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes (reed chambers or Backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the "Never Ending Tour". The Never Ending Tour is a popular term for Bob Dylan's seemingly incessant performing schedule since June 7, 1988. Although his accomplishments as performer and recording artist have been central to his career, his songwriting is generally regarded as his greatest contribution. [5]
Over many years, Dylan has been recognized and honored for his songwriting, performing, and recording. His records have earned Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Awards, and he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a Museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland Ohio, United States The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame was established by the Nashville Songwriters Foundation Inc The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. In 1999, Dylan was included in TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century, and in 2004, he was ranked number two in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "Greatest Artists of All Time", second only to The Beatles. The Time 100 The Most Important People of the Century is a compilation of the 20th century's most influential politicians artists innovators scientists and cultural icons Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 [6] In January 1990, Dylan was made a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres by French Minister of Culture Jack Lang; in 2000, he was awarded the Polar Music Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music;[7] and in 2007, Dylan was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award in Arts in Spain by the Fundación Príncipe de Asturias. The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Literature is an Order of France, established on May 2, 1957 by the Minister Jack Mathieu Émile Lang (born 2 September 1939 is a French Politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. The Polar Music Prize is an international music prize and awarded to individuals groups or institutions in recognition of exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music The Royal Swedish Academy of Music or Kungl Musikaliska Akademien, founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in The Prince of Asturias Awards ( Spanish: Premios Príncipe de Asturias, Asturian: Premios Príncipe d'Asturies) is a series of prestigious annual He has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred [8][9][10]
In 2008, Dylan was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power. The Pulitzer Prize jury has the option of awarding special citations where they consider necessary "[11] Previous recipients of this award include Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. Thelonious Sphere Monk ( October 10, 1917 - February 17, 1982) was an American Jazz Pianist and Composer. [12]
Life and career
Origins and musical beginnings
Robert Allen Zimmerman (Hebrew name Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham)[13][14][15] was born on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota,[16] and raised there and in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Iron Range west of Lake Superior. Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Duluth is a Port City in the US state of Minnesota and the County seat of St Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers Hibbing is a city in St Louis County, Minnesota, USA. The population was 17071 at the 2000 census. The Mesabi Iron Range is a vast deposit of Iron ore and the largest of four major iron ranges in the region collectively known as the Iron Range of Minnesota Lake Superior is the largest of the five Great Lakes of North America. Research by Dylan’s biographers has shown that his paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa in Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the United States after the antisemitic pogroms of 1905. ODESSA which stands for the German phrase O rganisation d er e hemaligen SS - A ngehörigen which in turn translates The Russian Empire ( Pre-reform Russian: Pоссійская Имперія Modern Russian: Российская Империя translit: Rossiyskaya Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility A pogrom is a form of Riot directed against a particular group whether ethnic religious or other and characterized by destruction of their Homes Businesses [17] Dylan himself has written (in his 2004 autobiography, Chronicles) that his paternal grandmother's maiden name was Kyrgyz and her family originated from Istanbul, although she grew up in the Kağızman district of Kars in Eastern Turkey. Chronicles Volume One 0-7432-2815-4 is the first part of Bob Dylan 's planned 3-volume memoir The Kyrgyz (also spelled Kirgiz, Kirghiz) are a Turkic Ethnic group found primarily in Kyrgyzstan. Istanbul (historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see the other Names of Istanbul) is the largest city of Turkey Kağızman ( Armenian: Կագհզւան ( Latin transliteration: Kaghzuan) is a town and a district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia Kars may refer to Kars Turkey Kars Province, Turkey Kars Oblast, Russian Empire Kars Province Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches He also wrote that his paternal grandfather was from Trabzon on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. Trabzon ( Greek: Τραπεζούντα, Trapezounta) is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of The Black Sea is an inland Sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolian peninsula ( Turkey Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches [18] His mother’s grandparents, Benjamin and Lybba Edelstein, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in America in 1902. Lithuanian Jews (known in Yiddish and Yeshivish as Litvish (adjective or Litvaks (noun are Ashkenazi Jews with roots in the [17]
His parents, Abram Zimmerman and Beatrice "Beatty" Stone, were part of the area's small but close-knit Jewish community. Zimmerman lived in Duluth until age seven. When his father was stricken with polio, the family returned to nearby Hibbing, where Zimmerman spent the rest of his childhood. Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral Infectious disease spread from person to person primarily via Hibbing is a city in St Louis County, Minnesota, USA. The population was 17071 at the 2000 census. [19] Abram was recalled by one of Bob's childhood friends as strict and unwelcoming, whereas his mother was remembered as warm and friendly. [20]
Zimmerman spent much of his youth listening to the radio — first to the powerful blues and country stations broadcasting from Shreveport, Louisiana and, later, to early rock and roll. The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. Shreveport is the third-largest city and the principal city of the third largest Metropolitan area in the U Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African [21] He formed several bands in high school: the first, The Shadow Blasters, was short-lived; but his next band, The Golden Chords, lasted longer playing covers of popular songs. In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released Their performance of Danny and the Juniors' "Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay" at their high school talent show was so loud that the principal cut the microphone off. Danny & The Juniors were a Philadelphia based Quartet comprising of Danny Rapp, Dave White, Frank Maffei and [22][23] In his 1959 school year book, Robert Zimmerman listed as his ambition "To join Little Richard. Rev Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5 1932 better known by the Stage name Little Richard, is an American Singer, Songwriter "[24] The same year, using the name Elston Gunnn,[25] he performed two dates with Bobby Vee, playing piano and providing handclaps. For the R&B singer see Bobby Valentino. For another 1960s singer see Bobby Vinton. [26]
Zimmerman enrolled at the University of Minnesota in September 1959, moving to Minneapolis. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities ( U of M or The U) is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system. His early focus on rock and roll gave way to an interest in American folk music, typically performed with an acoustic guitar. He has recalled, "The first thing that turned me onto folk singing was Odetta. Odetta (born December 31, 1930) is an African-American singer actress guitarist songwriter and a human rights activist often referred to as "The I heard a record of hers in a record store. Right then and there, I went out and traded my electric guitar and amplifier for an acoustical guitar, a flat-top Gibson. "[27] In the sleeve notes to his album Biograph, Dylan explained the attraction folk music exerted: "The thing about rock'n'roll is that for me anyway it wasn't enough. Biograph is a 53-track compilation spanning the career of Bob Dylan, from his 1962 debut album to the 1981 LP Shot . . There were great catch-phrases and driving pulse rhythms. . . but the songs weren't serious or didn't reflect life in a realistic way. I knew that when I got into folk music, it was more of a serious type of thing. The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings. "[28] He soon began to perform at the 10 O'clock Scholar, a coffee house a few blocks from campus, and became actively involved in the local Dinkytown folk music circuit, fraternizing with local folk enthusiasts and occasionally "borrowing" many of their albums. Dinkytown USA (commonly Dinkytown) is an area within the Marcy Holmes neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous [29][30]
During his Dinkytown days, Zimmerman began introducing himself as "Bob Dylan". In his autobiography, Chronicles (2004), he wrote, "What I was going to do as soon as I left home was just call myself Robert Allen. . . . It sounded like a Scottish king and I liked it. " However, by reading Down Beat magazine, he discovered that there was already a saxophonist called David Allyn. Down Beat is an American Magazine devoted to "jazz blues and beyond" to indicate its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively Dylan adds, "I'd seen some poems by Dylan Thomas. Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953 was a Welsh poet who wrote exclusively in English Dylan and Allyn sounded similar. Robert Dylan. Robert Allyn. The letter D came on stronger. "[31]
Relocation to New York and record deal
Dylan dropped out of college at the end of his freshman year. He stayed in Minneapolis, working the folk circuit there with temporary journeys to Denver, Colorado; Madison, Wisconsin; and Chicago, Illinois. The City and County of Denver (pronounced /ˈdɛnvɚ/ is the Capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the United States Madison is the capital of the US state of Wisconsin and the County seat of Dane County. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. In January 1961, he moved to New York City, to perform there and to visit his ailing musical idol Woody Guthrie, who was then dying in a New Jersey hospital. The City of New York Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14 1912–October 3 1967 was an American Singer-songwriter and Folk musician Guthrie's musical legacy Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital (also known as Greystone Psychiatric Park, Greystone Psychiatric Hospital, or simply Greystone) refers to both the former Guthrie had been a revelation to Dylan and was the biggest influence on his early performances. Dylan would later say of Guthrie's work, "You could listen to his songs and actually learn how to live. "[30] In the hospital room, Dylan met Woody's old road-buddy Ramblin' Jack Elliott, who was visiting Guthrie the day after returning from his own trip to Europe. Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz, August 1, 1931) is an American folk performer Dylan and Elliott became friends, and much of Guthrie's repertoire was actually channeled through Elliott. Dylan paid tribute to Elliott in Chronicles (2004). Chronicles Volume One 0-7432-2815-4 is the first part of Bob Dylan 's planned 3-volume memoir [32]
From April to September 1961, he played at various clubs around Greenwich Village[33] and on July 29, 1961 he was broadcast on the WRVR radio programme "Saturday Of Folk Music" playing Eric von Schmidt's "Acne" in duet with Ramblin' Jack Elliott,[34] duetting with Danny Kalb on "Mean Old Southern Man," and covering three traditional folk songs ("Handsome Molly," "Omie Wise," and "Poor Lazarus"). Greenwich Village (ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern Manhattan Eric Von Schmidt ( May 28 1931 — February 2 2007) was an American Singer-songwriter associated with the Folk/blues Danny Kalb (born September 9, 1942, Mt Vernon, New York) is a blues guitarist and former founder of the 1960's group Blues Project Omie Wise or Naomi Wise (1789-1808 was an American Murder victim who is remembered by a popular Murder ballad about her death [35] Dylan gained some public recognition after a positive review[36] in The New York Times by critic Robert Shelton of a show he played at Gerde's Folk City in September. Robert Shelton ( June 28, 1926, Chicago Illinois, United States &ndash December 11, 1995, Brighton England Gerde's Folk City was a legendary venue in the West Village. Opened by owner Mike Porco as a coffeehouse in 1952 it was located at 11 West 4th Street (the building Also in September, Dylan was invited to play harmonica by folk singer Carolyn Hester on her third album, entitled Carolyn Hester. Carolyn Hester (b 1937 Waco Texas was an important figure of the early '60s folk revival singing traditional material in the manner similar to that of later chanteuses such as This brought Dylan's talents to the attention of John Hammond, who was producing Hester's album[37] for Columbia Records. John Henry Hammond II ( December 15, 1910 – July 10, 1987) was a Record producer, musician and music critic from the 1930s to the Columbia Records is an American Record label founded in 1888 Columbia is the oldest surviving Brand name in pre-recorded sound being the first record company Hammond signed Dylan to Columbia that October. The performances on his first Columbia album Bob Dylan (1962), consisted of familiar folk, blues and gospel material combined with two of his own songs. Bob Dylan is the Eponymous debut album from American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Gospel music is Music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life as well as (in terms of the varying music styles to Dylan's first album made little impact, selling only 5,000 copies in its first year, just enough to break even. Within Columbia Records some referred to the singer as 'Hammond's Folly' and suggested dropping his contract. Columbia Records is an American Record label founded in 1888 Columbia is the oldest surviving Brand name in pre-recorded sound being the first record company Hammond defended Dylan vigorously, and Johnny Cash was also a powerful ally of Dylan at Columbia. Johnny Cash (born J R Cash; February 26 1932 - September 12 2003 was a Grammy Award -winning American country Singer-songwriter. [38] While Dylan continued to work for Columbia, he also recorded more than a dozen songs, under the pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt, for Broadside Magazine, a folk music magazine and record label. Broadside Magazine was a small mimeographed publication founded in 1962 by Agnes "Sis" Cunningham and her husband Gordon Friesen.
Dylan made two important career moves in August 1962. He went to the Supreme Court building in New York and changed his name to Robert Dylan. The Supreme Court of the State of New York is New York State 's Trial court, and is of General jurisdiction. In the same month, he also signed a management contract with Albert Grossman. Albert Bernard Grossman ( May 21, 1926 - January 25, 1986) was an entrepreneur and manager in the American Folk music scene Grossman remained Dylan's manager until 1970, and was notable both for his sometimes confrontational personality, and for the fiercely protective loyalty he displayed towards his principal client. [39] In the documentary No Direction Home, Dylan described Grossman thus: "He was kind of like a Colonel Tom Parker figure. No Direction Home is a Documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on 20th century American "Colonel" Tom Parker (born Andreas Cornelis (Dries van Kuijk on June 26, 1909 &ndash January 21, 1997) was . . you could smell him coming. " Tensions between Grossman and John Hammond led to Hammond being replaced as the producer of Dylan's second album by the young African American jazz producer Tom Wilson. John Henry Hammond II ( December 15, 1910 – July 10, 1987) was a Record producer, musician and music critic from the 1930s to the African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr ( March 25, 1931 – September 6, 1978) was an American Record producer best known for his work in the [40]
By the time Dylan's second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, was released in May 1963, he had begun making his name as both a singer and a songwriter. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's second Studio album, released in May 1963 by Columbia Records. Many of the songs on this album were labelled protest songs, inspired partly by Guthrie and influenced by Pete Seeger's passion for topical songs. A protest song is a Song which Protests against perceived problems in Society. Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3 1919 is an American folk singer political Activist, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American [41] "Oxford Town", for example, was a sardonic account of James Meredith's ordeal as the first black student to risk enrollment at the University of Mississippi. James H Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights movement figure The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational Research University located in Oxford [42]
His most famous song of the time, "Blowin' in the Wind", partially derived its melody from the traditional slave song "No More Auction Block", while its lyrics questioned the social and political status quo. " Blowin' in the Wind " is a Song written by Bob Dylan and released on his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. As a social-economic system slavery is a legal institution under which a Person (called "a slave" is compelled to work for another The song was widely recorded and became an international hit for Peter, Paul and Mary, setting a precedent for many other artists who would have hits with Dylan's songs. Peter Paul and Mary (often called PP&M) are a musical group from the United States who were one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the While Dylan's topical songs solidified his early reputation, Freewheelin' also included a mixture of love songs and jokey, surreal talking blues. Humor was a large part of Dylan's persona,[43] and the range of material on the album impressed many listeners, including The Beatles. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 George Harrison said, "We just played it, just wore it out. George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001 was an English rock Guitarist Singer - Songwriter, Author The content of the song lyrics and just the attitude — it was incredibly original and wonderful. "[44]
The Freewheelin' song "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", built melodically from a loose adaptation of the folk ballad "Lord Randall", with its veiled references to nuclear apocalypse, gained even more resonance as the Cuban missile crisis developed only a few weeks after Dylan began performing it. Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York) an American Folk singer and Songwriter known Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D " A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall " is a song written by Bob Dylan in the summer of 1962 A ballad is a Poem usually set to Music; thus it often is a story told in a Song. "Lord Randall" ( Roud 10 Child 12) is a traditional Ballad consisting of dialogue The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba during the Cold War. [45] Like "Blowin' in the Wind", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" marked an important new direction in modern songwriting, blending a stream-of-consciousness, imagist lyrical attack with traditional folk progressions. Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of Imagery, and clear sharp language [46]
The Freewheelin album presented Dylan as a singer accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. But other tracks recorded at these sessions, with a backing band, showed a willingness to experiment with a rockabilly sound. Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of Rock and roll music and emerged in the early 1950s 'Mixed Up Confusion' was released as a single and then quickly withdrawn. Cameron Crowe described it as "a fascinating look at a folk artist with his mind wandering towards Elvis Presley and Sun Records". Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an Academy Award -winning American Writer and Film director. Sun Records was a Record label based in Memphis, Tennessee, starting operations on March 27 1952. [47]
Soon after the release of Freewheelin, Dylan emerged as a dominant figure of the so-called "new folk movement" centered in Greenwich Village. Greenwich Village (ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern Manhattan Dylan's singing voice was untrained and had an unusual edge to it, yet it was suited to the interpretation of traditional songs. Robert Shelton described Dylan's vocal style as "a rusty voice suggesting Guthrie's old performances, etched in gravel like Dave Van Ronk's"[48] Many of his most famous early songs first reached the public through other performers' versions that were more immediately palatable. Dave Van Ronk ( June 30 1936 – February 10 2002) was a Folk singer born in Joan Baez became Dylan's advocate, as well as his lover. Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York) an American Folk singer and Songwriter known Baez was influential in bringing Dylan to national and international prominence, jumpstarting his performance career by inviting him onstage during her own concerts, and recording several of his early songs. [49]
Others who recorded and had hits with Dylan's songs in the early and mid-1960s included The Byrds, Sonny and Cher, The Hollies, Peter, Paul and Mary, Manfred Mann, and The Turtles. The Byrds were a popular American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964 Sonny & Cher were an American Pop music duo made up of husband and wife team Sonny Bono and Cher in the 1960s and 1970s The Hollies are an English Rock and roll band formed in the early 1960s. Peter Paul and Mary (often called PP&M) are a musical group from the United States who were one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the This article is about Manfred Mann the band For Manfred Mann the man see Manfred Mann (musician. The Turtles are an American pop and Folk rock band which produced at least a dozen memorable radio-friendly chart singles but remain best known for Most attempted to impart a pop feel and rhythm to the songs, while Dylan and Baez performed them mostly as sparse folk pieces, keying rhythmically off the vocals. The covers became so ubiquitous that CBS started to promote him with the tag "Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan". CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network.
Protest and Another Side
By 1963, Dylan and Baez were both prominent in the civil rights movement, singing together at rallies including the March on Washington where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a large political rally that took place in Washington D Martin Luther King Jr ( January 15, 1929 April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, Activist and prominent leader " I Have A Dream " is the popular name given to the historic public speech by Martin Luther King Jr [50] In January, Dylan appeared on British television in the BBC play Madhouse on Castle Street, playing the part of a "hobo guitar-player". The Madhouse on Castle Street was a British television play broadcast by BBC Television on the evening of January 13 1963, as part [51] On May 12, 1963, Dylan experienced conflict with the media when he walked off The Ed Sullivan Show. The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television Variety show that ran from June 20, 1948 to June 6, Dylan had chosen to perform "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" but was informed by the 'head of program practices' at CBS Television that this song was potentially libellous to the John Birch Society. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. The John Birch Society is a political education and action organization founded by Robert W Rather than comply with TV censorship, Dylan refused to appear. [52] His next album, The Times They Are a-Changin', reflected a more sophisticated, politicized and cynical Dylan. The Times They Are a-Changin is Bob Dylan 's third album released in 1964 by Columbia Records. This bleak material, addressing such subjects as the murder of civil rights worker Medgar Evers and the despair engendered by the breakdown of farming and mining communities ("Ballad of Hollis Brown", "North Country Blues"), was accompanied by two love songs, "Boots of Spanish Leather" and "One Too Many Mornings", and the renunciation of "Restless Farewell". Medgar Willy Evers ( July 2, 1925 June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi " North Country Blues " is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his 3rd Studio album The Times They Are a-Changin' in 1964 The Brechtian "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" describes the true story of a young socialite's (William Zantzinger) killing of a hotel maid (Hattie Carroll). (born; 10 February 1898&ndash14 August 1956 was a German Poet, Playwright, and Theatre director. " The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll " is a Topical song by Bob Dylan. Though never explicitly mentioning their respective races, the song leaves no doubt that the killer is white and the victim is black. [53]
By the end of 1963, Dylan felt both manipulated and constrained by the folk and protest movements. Accepting the "Tom Paine Award" from the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee at a ceremony shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a drunken, rambling Dylan questioned the role of the committee, insulted its members as old and balding, and claimed to see something of himself (and of every man) in Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Thomas Paine (January 29 1737 &ndash June 8 1809 was an English Pamphleteer, Revolutionary, radical, Inventor, and Intellectual In 1951 the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee was formed to defend political activists (some Communists, some not whom the ACLU and other Civil rights John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29 1917&ndashNovember 22 1963 often referred to by his initials JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18 1939 &ndash November 24 1963 was according to three United States government investigations the assassin of U [54]
His next album, Another Side of Bob Dylan, recorded on a single June evening in 1964, had a lighter mood than its predecessor. Another Side of Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan 's fourth studio album released in 1964 by Columbia Records. The surreal Dylan reemerged on "I Shall Be Free #10" and "Motorpsycho Nightmare", accompanied by a sense of humor that has often reappeared over the years. "Spanish Harlem Incident" and "To Ramona" are romantic and passionate love songs, while "Black Crow Blues" and "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" suggest the rock and roll soon to dominate Dylan's music. " Spanish Harlem Incident " is a song written by Bob Dylan, released on his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan. " To Ramona " is a Folk Waltz written by Bob Dylan for his fourth studio album Another Side of Bob Dylan. " Black Crow Blues " is a song written by Bob Dylan, released on his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met is a 1964 song by Bob Dylan, from his fourth studio album Another Side of Bob Dylan "It Ain't Me Babe", on the surface a song about spurned love, has been described as a thinly disguised rejection of the role his reputation had thrust at him. His newest direction was signaled by two lengthy songs: the impressionistic "Chimes of Freedom", which sets elements of social commentary against a denser metaphorical landscape in a style later characterized by Allen Ginsberg as "chains of flashing images"; and "My Back Pages", which attacks the simplistic and arch seriousness of his own earlier topical songs and seems to predict the backlash he was about to encounter from his former champions as he took a new direction. Impressionism was a 19th-century Art movement that began as a loose association of Paris -based Artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s " Chimes of Freedom " is a song by Bob Dylan. It has been covered many times by various artists including Joan Baez, The Byrds, Roger McGuinn Irwin Allen Ginsberg (ˈgɪnzbɝg (June 3 1926 &ndash April 5 1997 was an American Poet. " My Back Pages " is a Bob Dylan song from the album Another Side of Bob Dylan ( 1964) [55]
The times were changing faster than even Dylan could have foreseen. In 1964 and 1965, British groups such as The Beatles, The Animals, and The Rolling Stones took their own interpretation of Rock and Roll and R&B to the top of the American charts - the so-called British Invasion. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 The Animals were an English music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African The British Invasion was the term applied by the news media — and subsequently by consumers — to the influx of Rock and roll, beat and pop performers During the week of April 4, 1964, The Beatles held the top five positions on Billboard's singles chart. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry Dylan heard The Beatles' music all over U. S. radio stations as he drove from state to state, going to and from concerts he gave in the spring of 1964 (he later marvelled to biographer Anthony Scaduto about the outrageous circumstance of The Beatles having eight of the top ten songs "in Colorado!") Dylan was intrigued by their success, enjoyed their music, and expressed an interest in meeting them (The Beatles, in turn, had heard and loved Dylan's first two albums prior to their February, 1964, U. S. debut on The Ed Sullivan Show). The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television Variety show that ran from June 20, 1948 to June 6, The historic meeting between Dylan and The Beatles took place on August 28, 1964, in The Beatles' New York hotel, during their first full-scale U. S. tour. According to journalist Al Aronowitz, who ushered Dylan into The Beatles' presence, the five musicians bonded via port wine and a bag of pot. Alfred Gilbert Aronowitz ( May 20, 1928 &ndash August 1, 2005) was an American rock journalist best known for introducing Bob Dylan Cannabis, also known as marijuana or marihuana, or ganja (from Hindi / Sanskrit: गांजा gānjā hemp) is a [56]
Even more pertinent to Dylan's career, the Newcastle-based group The Animals had taken a track from Dylan's eponymous first album - the song "The House of the Rising Sun" - and set it to a surging guitar and organ-driven backing. Newcastle upon Tyne ( (often shortened to Newcastle) is a city and Metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, England The Animals were an English music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Bob Dylan is the Eponymous debut album from American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. " The House of the Rising Sun " is a folk song from the United States. The Animals' recording reached Number One on the Billboard charts in the week of September 5, 1964. See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry Tom Wilson, Dylan's producer at CBS, was so impressed by The Animals' recording that he went into the studio and tried dubbing a rock and roll backing onto Dylan's 1961 recording. Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr ( March 25, 1931 – September 6, 1978) was an American Record producer best known for his work in the Wilson recalled: " We tried overdubbing a Fats Domino early rock & roll thing on top of what Dylan had done, but it never quite worked out to our satisfaction. Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928 in New Orleans Louisiana) is a classic R&B and Rock and roll "[57]
In the latter half of 1964 and 1965, Dylan’s appearance and musical style changed rapidly, as he made his move from leading contemporary song-writer of the folk scene to Folk-Rock pop-music star. Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of Folk music and rock music. His scruffy jeans and work shirts were replaced by a Carnaby Street wardrobe, sunglasses day or night, and pointy 'Beatle boots'. Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in London, United Kingdom, located in the area of 'Carnaby' in the district of Soho His naturally-curly hair grew longer and somewhat unruly (and by 1966 would fully evolve into another Dylan trademark: the so-called "Dylan 'Fro"). A London reporter wrote: “Hair that would set the teeth of a comb on edge. A loud shirt that would dim the neon lights of Leicester Square. He looks like an undernourished cockatoo. ”[58] Dylan also began to play with frequently hapless interviewers in increasingly cruel and surreal ways. Appearing on the Les Crane TV show and asked about a movie he was planning to make, he told Crane it would be a cowboy horror movie. Les Crane December 3, 1933 – July 13, 2008) was a radio announcer and Television Talk show host a pioneer in interactive Asked if he played the cowboy, Dylan replied. “No, I play my mother. ”[59]
"Going electric"
His March 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home was yet another stylistic leap. The electric Dylan controversy was the incident at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday July 25, 1965, where folk singer Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home is Bob Dylan 's fifth studio album released in 1965 by Columbia Records. [60] The album featured his first recordings made with electric instruments. The first single, "Subterranean Homesick Blues", owed much to Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business" and was provided with an early music video courtesy of D. A. Pennebaker's cinéma vérité presentation of Dylan's 1965 tour of England, Dont Look Back. " Subterranean Homesick Blues " is a Song by Bob Dylan, originally released on the album Bringing It All Back Home in March 1965 Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18 1926 in St A music video is a Short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music most commonly a Song with lyrics Donn Alan "D A" Pennebaker (born July 15, 1925) is an American Documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema Cinéma Vérité is the first Album by an Alternative rock group Dramarama, released in November 1985 Dont Look Back is a 1967 Documentary film by DA Pennebaker that principally covers Bob Dylan 's 1965 concert tour of the [61] Its free association lyrics both harked back to the manic energy of Beat poetry and were a forerunner of rap and hip-hop. [62] In 1969, the militant Weatherman group took their name from a line in "Subterranean Homesick Blues. Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was an American Radical left organization " ("You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. ")
The B side of the album was a different matter. A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch Vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s It included four lengthy acoustic songs whose undogmatic political, social, and personal concerns are illuminated with the semi-mystical imagery that became another Dylan trademark. One of these tracks, "Mr. Tambourine Man", which would become one of his best known songs, had already been a hit for The Byrds; while "Gates of Eden", "It's All Over Now Baby Blue", and "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" have been fixtures in Dylan's live performances for most of his career. For The Byrds ' album of the same name see Mr Tambourine Man (album. " It's All Over Now Baby Blue " is a song by Bob Dylan. " It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding " is a song by Bob Dylan. During April - May, Dylan made a very successful tour in England (see Bob Dylan UK Tour 1965). Bob Dylan UK Tour 1965 was a famous tour that Bob Dylan made in the UK during April and May 1965
That summer Dylan made history by performing his first electric set (since his high school days) with a pickup group drawn mostly from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, featuring Mike Bloomfield (guitar), Sam Lay (drums), Jerome Arnold (bass), plus Al Kooper (organ) and Barry Goldberg (piano), while headlining at the Newport Folk Festival (see The electric Dylan controversy). A pickup group (also called a pickup band, pickup orchestra, or jobbing band) is a term used to describe a group of Musicians that are hired to Paul Butterfield ( December 17 1942 – May 4 1987) was an American Blues Harmonica player and Singer For the astronaut see Michael J Bloomfield. Michael Bernard Bloomfield ( July 28 1943, Chicago, Illinois Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt, February 5 1944, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Songwriter, Barry Goldberg (born 1941 Chicago, Illinois) is a Blues and rock Keyboardist, Songwriter and Record producer The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk -oriented Music festival in Newport Rhode Island, which began in 1959 The electric Dylan controversy was the incident at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday July 25, 1965, where folk singer Bob Dylan [63] Dylan had appeared at Newport twice before, in 1963 and 1964, and two wildly divergent accounts of the crowd's response in 1965 emerged. The settled fact is that Dylan, met with a mix of cheering and booing, left the stage after only three songs. As one version of the legend has it, the boos were from the outraged folk fans whom Dylan had alienated by appearing, unexpectedly, with an electric guitar. An alternative account claims audience members were merely upset by poor sound quality and a surprisingly short set. Whatever sparked the crowd's disfavor, Dylan soon reemerged and sang two much better received solo acoustic numbers, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and "Mr. Tambourine Man. " His choice of the former has often been described as a carefully selected death knell for the kind of consciously sociopolitical, purely acoustic music that the cat-callers were demanding of him, with "New Folk" in the role of "Baby Blue".
Dylan's 1965 Newport performance provoked an outraged response from the folk music establishment. [64] Ewan MacColl wrote in Sing Out!, "Our traditional songs and ballads are the creations of extraordinarily talented artists working inside traditions formulated over time. Ewan MacColl ( 25 January, 1915 - 22 October, 1989) was a British Folk singer, Songwriter, Socialist Sing Out! is a quarterly journal of Folk music and Folk songs that has been published since May 1950 . . But what of Bobby Dylan?. . . Only a non-critical audience, nourished on the watery pap of pop music could have fallen for such tenth-rate drivel. " On July 29, just four days after his controversial performance at Newport, Dylan was back into the studio in New York and recorded "Positively 4th Street. Events 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat " The song teemed with images of paranoia and revenge. ("I know the reason/That you talk behind my back/I used to be among the crowd/You're in with. ") It was widely interpreted as Dylan's put-down of former friends from the folk community — friends he had known in the clubs along West 4th Street. [65]
Many in the folk revival had embraced the idea that life equaled art, that a certain kind of life defined by suffering and social exclusion in fact replaced art. [66] Folksong collectors and singers often presented folk music as an innocent characteristic of lives lived without reflection or the 'false consciousness of capitalism'. [67] This philosophy, both genteel and paternalistic, was ultimately what Dylan had run afoul of by 1965. But at an Austin press conference in September of that year, on the day of his first performance with Levon and the Hawks, he described his music not as a pop charts-bound break with the past, but as “historical-traditional music. The Band was a rock group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999 ”[68] Dylan later told interviewer Nat Hentoff: “What folk music is. Nat Hentoff (born June 10, 1925) is an American Historian, Novelist, Jazz Critic, and Columnist for . . is based on myths and the Bible and plague and famine and all kinds of things like that which are nothing but mystery and you can see it in all the songs…. All these songs about roses growing out of people’s brains and lovers who are really geese and swans that turn into angels…and seven years of this and eight years of that and it’s all really something that nobody can touch. . . . (the songs) are not going to die. ”[69] It was this mystical, living tradition of songs that served as the palette for Bringing It All Back Home, but in a nod to the future first openly displayed at Newport, electrically amplified instruments would now become part of the mix.
Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde
In July 1965, Dylan released the single "Like a Rolling Stone", which peaked at #2 in the U. " Like a Rolling Stone " is a song by American songwriter Bob Dylan. S. and at #4 in the UK charts. At over six minutes in length, this song has been widely credited with altering attitudes about what a pop single could convey. Bruce Springsteen said that on first hearing this single, “that snare shot sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind… I knew that I was listening to the toughest voice that I had ever heard. “[70] In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine listed it at number one on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published [71] Its signature sound — with a full, jangling band and an organ riff — also characterized his next album, Highway 61 Revisited, titled after the road that led from Dylan's native Minnesota to the musical hotbed of New Orleans. Highway 61 Revisited is Bob Dylan 's sixth studio album released in 1965 by Columbia Records. New Orleans (nʲuːˈɔrliənz nʲuːˈɔrlənz French: La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana The songs passed stylistically through the birthplace of blues, the Mississippi Delta, and referenced a number of blues songs, including Mississippi Fred McDowell's "61 Highway". The Mississippi Delta is the distinct northwest section of the state of Mississippi that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers Technically The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression Fred McDowell ( January 12 1904 - July 3 1972) often known as Mississippi Fred McDowell, was a blues Singer and Guitar The songs were in the same vein as the hit single, with surreal litanies of the grotesque flavored by Mike Bloomfield's blues guitar, a rhythm section, and Dylan's obvious enjoyment of the sessions. For the astronaut see Michael J Bloomfield. Michael Bernard Bloomfield ( July 28 1943, Chicago, Illinois The closing song, "Desolation Row", is an apocalyptic vision with references to many figures of Western culture. " Desolation Row " is the closing track of Bob Dylan 's sixth studio album Highway 61 Revisited. Western culture (sometimes equated with Western Civilization) are terms which are used to refer to Cultures of European origin
In support of the record, Dylan was booked for two U. S. concerts and set about assembling a band. Mike Bloomfield was unwilling to leave the Butterfield Band, so Dylan mixed Al Kooper and Harvey Brooks from his studio crew with bar-band stalwarts Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm, best known at the time for backing Ronnie Hawkins. For the astronaut see Michael J Bloomfield. Michael Bernard Bloomfield ( July 28 1943, Chicago, Illinois Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt, February 5 1944, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Songwriter, Harvey Brooks (born July 4 1944 New York City as Harvey Goldstein is an American Bassist. Robbie Robertson (born Jaime Robert Klegerman, 5 July 1943 at Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Songwriter, Mark Lavon Helm (born May 26, 1940) better known as Levon Helm, is an American rock Musician and actor most famous as Ronald "Ronnie" Hawkins (born 10 January 1935, Huntsville, Arkansas, United States) is a pioneering Rock and roll On August 28 at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, the group was heckled by an audience who, Newport notwithstanding, still demanded the acoustic troubadour of previous years. The band's reception on September 3 at the Hollywood Bowl was more uniformly favorable. Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius The Hollywood Bowl is a famous modern Amphitheatre in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles California, USA, that is used primarily for music Performances [73]
Neither Kooper nor Brooks wanted to tour with Dylan, and he was unable to lure his preferred band, a crew of west coast musicians best known for backing Johnny Rivers, featuring guitarist James Burton and drummer Mickey Jones, away from their regular commitments. Johnny Rivers (born John Henry Ramistella, 7 November 1942, in New York) is an American Rock and roll Singer James Burton (born August 21, 1939, in Minden Louisiana) is an American Guitarist. Mickey Jones (born June 10, 1941 in Houston Texas) is an American Musician and Actor. So Dylan then hired Robertson and Helm's full band, The Hawks, as his tour group, and began a string of studio sessions with them in an effort to record the follow-up to Highway 61 Revisited. The Band was a rock group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999
While Dylan and the Hawks met increasingly receptive audiences on tour, their studio efforts floundered. Producer Bob Johnston had been trying to persuade Dylan to record in Nashville for some time. See also Bob Johnson, Robert Johnston Donald William 'Bob' Johnston (born 14 May 1932, Hillsboro Texas) is a noted American In February 1966 Dylan agreed and Johnston surrounded him with a cadre of top-notch session men. At Dylan's insistence, Robertson and Kooper came down from New York City to play on the sessions. The City of New York [74] The Nashville sessions produced the album Blonde on Blonde (1966), featuring what Dylan later called "that thin wild mercury sound. Blonde on Blonde is Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's seventh Studio album, released in 1966 by Columbia Records. " Al Kooper said the record was a masterpiece because it was "taking two cultures and smashing them together with a huge explosion": the musical world of Nashville and the world of the "quintessential New York hipster" Bob Dylan. Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt, February 5 1944, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Songwriter, [75]
For many critics, Dylan's mid-'60s trilogy of albums — Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde — represents one of the great cultural achievements of the 20th century. In Mike Marqusee's words: "Between late 1964 and the summer of 1966, Dylan created a body of work that remains unique. Drawing on folk, blues, country, R&B, rock'n'roll, gospel, British beat, symbolist, modernist and Beat poetry, surrealism and Dada, advertising jargon and social commentary, Fellini and Mad magazine, he forged a coherent and original artistic voice and vision. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members For other meanings see Dada (disambiguation DaDa is a Concept album by Alice Cooper, released Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( January 20 1920 &ndash October 31 1993) was an Italian Film Mad is a monthly American Humor Magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952 The beauty of these albums retains the power to shock and console. "[76]
On November 22, 1965, Bob Dylan married Sara Lownds. Some of Dylan’s friends (including Ramblin' Jack Elliott) claim that, in conversation immediately after the event, Dylan denied that he was married. Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz, August 1, 1931) is an American folk performer [77] Journalist Nora Ephron first made the news public in the New York Post in February 1966 with the headline “Hush! Bob Dylan is wed. Nora Ephron (born May 19 1941) is an American Film director, producer, Screenwriter, Novelist, and The New York Post is the 13th-oldest Newspaper published in the United States and generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continually ”[78]
Dylan undertook a "world tour" (see also Bob Dylan World Tour 1966) of Australia and Europe in the spring of 1966. The Bob Dylan World Tour 1966 was a series of concerts that American musician Bob Dylan gave during the period of February through May 1966 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Each show was split into two parts. Dylan performed solo during the first half, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica. A steel-string acoustic guitar, is a modern form of Guitar descended from the Classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter louder sound A harmonica is a free reed Wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes (reed chambers or In the second half, backed by the Hawks, he played high voltage electric music. The Band was a rock group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999 This contrast provoked many fans, who jeered and slowly handclapped.
The tour culminated in a famously raucous confrontation between Dylan and his audience at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in England (officially released on CD in 1998 as The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert). The Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, was for many years a focal point for public debate and cultural activity in the city England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Bootleg Series Vol 4 Bob Dylan Live 1966 The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert is a live recording from Bob Dylan 's legendary "world tour" At the climax of the concert, one fan, angry with Dylan's electric sound, shouted: "Judas!" to which Dylan responded, "I don't believe you. The electric Dylan controversy was the incident at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday July 25, 1965, where folk singer Bob Dylan Judas Iscariot, יהודה איש־קריות Yəhûḏāh ʾΚ-qəriyyôṯ was according to the New Testament, one of the twelve original apostles . . You're a liar!". However, there was also some conversation in the audience to which this may have been aimed. He then turned to the band and, just within earshot of the microphone, said "Play it fucking loud!"[79] They then launched into the last song of the night with gusto — "Like a Rolling Stone. "
After the crash: the Woodstock years and reclusion
After his European tour, Dylan returned to New York, but the pressures on him continued to increase. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous ABC Television had paid an advance for a TV show they could screen. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. [80] His publisher, Macmillan, was demanding a finished manuscript of the poem/novel Tarantula. Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately-held International Publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Tarantula is an experimental Novel by Bob Dylan, written between 1965 and 1966 Manager Albert Grossman had already scheduled an extensive concert tour for that summer and fall. Albert Bernard Grossman ( May 21, 1926 - January 25, 1986) was an entrepreneur and manager in the American Folk music scene On July 29, 1966, while Dylan rode his Triumph 500 motorcycle in Woodstock, New York, its brakes locked, throwing him to the ground. Events 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Triumph Motorcycles is a British Motorcycle manufacturer originally based in Coventry. MotorCycle is the title of a 1993 album by Rock band Daniel Amos, released on BAI Records. Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. Though the extent of his injuries was never fully disclosed, Dylan said that he broke several vertebrae in his neck. [81] In commenting on the significance of the crash, Dylan made it plain that he had felt exploited at that time: “When I had that motorcycle accident . . . I woke up and caught my senses, I realized that I was just workin' for all these leeches. And I didn't want to do that. Plus, I had a family and I just wanted to see my kids. "[82]
A sense of mystery still surrounds the circumstances of the accident. [83] Howard Sounes's biography, Down the Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, points out that no ambulance was called to the scene of the accident, and that Dylan was not taken to a hospital. Howard Sounes (b 1965 Welling, South East London, England) is a British Author, Journalist and Biographer. [84] Sounes concludes that the crash offered Dylan the much-needed chance to escape from the pressures that had built up around him, and that it initiated a period of withdrawal from the public gaze lasting for 18 months.
Once Dylan was well enough to resume creative work, he began editing film footage of his 1966 tour for Eat the Document, a rarely exhibited follow-up to Dont Look Back. Eat the Document is a rarely exhibited documentary of Bob Dylan 's 1966 tour of the United Kingdom with the Hawks. Dont Look Back is a 1967 Documentary film by DA Pennebaker that principally covers Bob Dylan 's 1965 concert tour of the A rough-cut was shown to ABC Television and was promptly rejected as incomprehensible to a mainstream audience. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. [85] In 1967 he began recording music with the Hawks at his home and in the basement of the Hawks' nearby house, called "Big Pink". The relaxed atmosphere yielded renditions of many of Dylan's favored old and new songs and some newly written pieces. [86] These songs, initially compiled as demos for other artists to record, provided hit singles for Julie Driscoll ("This Wheel's on Fire"), The Byrds ("You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", "Nothing Was Delivered"), and Manfred Mann ("Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)"). Julie Tippetts (born Julie Driscoll 8 June 1947, London, England) is an English singer and actress known for her 1960s versions of Bob " This Wheel's on Fire " is a song written by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko. The Byrds were a popular American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964 This article is about Manfred Mann the band For Manfred Mann the man see Manfred Mann (musician. " Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn " is a 1967 Folk-rock song written and first recorded by Bob Dylan during The Basement Tapes sessions Columbia belatedly released selections from them in 1975 as The Basement Tapes. The Basement Tapes is a Studio album by Bob Dylan and The Band, released in 1975 by Columbia Records. Over the years, more and more of the songs recorded by Dylan and his band in 1967 appeared on various bootleg recordings, culminating in a five-CD bootleg set titled The Genuine Basement Tapes, containing 107 songs and alternate takes. A bootleg recording is an audio and/or Video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority [87] Later in 1967, the Hawks re-named themselves The Band, and independently recorded the album Music from Big Pink, thus beginning a long and successful recording and performing career of their own. The Band was a rock group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999 Music from Big Pink is the 1968 debut album by rock band The Band.
In 1997, the critic Greil Marcus published an influential study of The Basement Tapes, entitled Invisible Republic. Greil Marcus (born 1945 is an American Author, music Journalist and cultural Critic. The Basement Tapes is a Studio album by Bob Dylan and The Band, released in 1975 by Columbia Records. Invisible Republic Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, by Greil Marcus, is a book about the creation and cultural importance of The Basement Tapes, Marcus quoted Robbie Robertson’s memories of recording the songs: “(Dylan) would pull these songs out of nowhere. Robbie Robertson (born Jaime Robert Klegerman, 5 July 1943 at Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Songwriter, We didn’t know if he wrote them or if he remembered them. When he sang them, you couldn’t tell. ”[88] Marcus called these songs “palavers with a community of ghosts”[89] He suggests that “these ghosts were not abstractions. As native sons and daughters they were a community. And they were once gathered in a single place: on the Anthology of American Folk Music, a work produced by a twenty-nine year old of no fixed address named Harry Smith. The Anthology of American Folk Music is a 1952 six-album compilation of eighty-four American folk recordings from 1927 to 1932 Harry Everett Smith ( 29 May 1923, Portland Oregon &ndash 27 November 1991, New York City ”[90] Marcus argued Dylan’s basement songs were a resurrection of the spirit of Smith’s Anthology, originally published by Folkways Records in 1952, a collection of blues and country songs recorded in the 1920s and 1930s, which proved very influential in the folk music revival of the 1950s and the 1960s. Folkways Records is a Record label that documents folk and world music (The book was re-published in 2001 under the title The Old, Weird America. )
In October and November 1967, Dylan returned to Nashville. Back in the recording studio after a 19 months break, he was accompanied only by Charlie McCoy on bass, Kenny Buttrey on drums, and Pete Drake on steel guitar. Charlie McCoy (born March 28, 1941 in Oak Hill West Virginia) is an American musician noted for his Harmonica playing Aaron Kenneth Buttrey ( April 1 1945 - September 12, 2004) was an American Drummer and Arranger. Pete Drake ( 8 October 1932 – 29 July 1988) born Roddis Franklin Drake, was a major Nashville, Tennessee -based [91] At the end of the year, Dylan released John Wesley Harding, his first album since the motorcycle crash. John Wesley Harding is Bob Dylan 's 8th Studio album, released by Columbia Records in 1967. It was a quiet, contemplative record of shorter songs, set in a landscape that drew on both the American West and the Bible. The Western United States &mdashcommonly referred to as the American West or simply the West &mdashtraditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin The sparse structure and instrumentation, coupled with lyrics that took the Judeo-Christian tradition seriously, marked a departure not only from Dylan's own work but from the escalating psychedelic fervor of the 1960s musical culture. [92] It included "All Along the Watchtower", with lyrics derived from the Book of Isaiah (21:5–9). " All Along the Watchtower " is a folk song written and recorded by Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The Book of Isaiah ( Hebrew: Sefer Y'sha'yah ספר ישעיה is a book of the Bible traditionally attributed to the Prophet Isaiah, who lived The song was later recorded by Jimi Hendrix, whose celebrated version Dylan himself acknowledged as definitive in the liner notes to Biograph. James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix) (November 27 1942 – September 18 1970 was an American Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter Biograph is a 53-track compilation spanning the career of Bob Dylan, from his 1962 debut album to the 1981 LP Shot As proof, since 1974 Dylan and his bands have performed arrangements much closer to Hendrix's than to the John Wesley Harding version. [28]
Woody Guthrie died on October 3, 1967, and Dylan made his first live appearance in twenty months at a Guthrie memorial concert held at Carnegie Hall on January 20, 1968. Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14 1912–October 3 1967 was an American Singer-songwriter and Folk musician Guthrie's musical legacy Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Carnegie Hall (generally ˌkɑrnɨgi ˈhɔːl is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Dylan's next release, Nashville Skyline (1969), was virtually a mainstream country record featuring instrumental backing by Nashville musicians, a mellow-voiced, contented Dylan, a duet with Johnny Cash, and the hit single "Lay Lady Lay", which had been originally written for the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack, but was not submitted in time to make the final cut. Nashville Skyline is Bob Dylan 's 9th proper studio album, released by Columbia Records in 1969 Johnny Cash (born J R Cash; February 26 1932 - September 12 2003 was a Grammy Award -winning American country Singer-songwriter. " Lay Lady Lay " is a Song written by Bob Dylan and originally released in 1969 on his Nashville Skyline album Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 Drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. [93] It was during these sessions that Dylan met Carl Perkins, and co-wrote the song "Champaign, Illinois" with him, which would appear on Perkin's album "On Top" released the following year. Carl Lee Perkins ( April 9, 1932 &ndash January 19, 1998) was an American pioneer of Rockabilly music a mix of Rhythm Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, in the United States. [94][95] In May 1969, Dylan appeared on the first episode of Johnny Cash's new television show, duetting with Cash on "Girl from the North Country", "It Ain't Me Babe" and "Living the Blues". Johnny Cash (born J R Cash; February 26 1932 - September 12 2003 was a Grammy Award -winning American country Singer-songwriter. " Girl from the North Country " (also known as "Girl of the North Country" is a Song written by Bob Dylan. " It Ain't Me Babe " is the title of a 1964 song by Bob Dylan, first included on his album Another Side of Bob Dylan. Dylan next traveled to England to top the bill at the Isle of Wight rock festival on August 31, 1969, after rejecting overtures to appear at the Woodstock Festival far closer to his home. The Isle of Wight is an English Island and county in the English Channel between three and five miles (8 km from the south coast of the Events 1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill dying suddenly a few days later without children to succeed the Throne Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [96]
In the early 1970s critics charged Dylan's output was of varied and unpredictable quality. Rolling Stone magazine writer and Dylan loyalist Greil Marcus notoriously asked "What is this shit?" upon first listening to 1970's Self Portrait. Greil Marcus (born 1945 is an American Author, music Journalist and cultural Critic. Self Portrait is Bob Dylan 's 10th studio album released by Columbia Records in 1970 In general, Self Portrait, a double LP including few original songs, was poorly received. Later that year, Dylan released New Morning, which some considered a return to form. New Morning is the 11th studio Album by Bob Dylan, released by Columbia Records in 1970 In the same year Dylan co-wrote "I'd Have You Anytime" with George Harrison, which appeared as the opening track on the ex-Beatle's album All Things Must Pass (which also included a cover of Dylan's "If Not For You"). George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001 was an English rock Guitarist Singer - Songwriter, Author All Things Must Pass is a Triple album by George Harrison recorded and released after the break-up of The Beatles. His unannounced appearance at Harrison's 1971 Concert for Bangladesh was widely praised, particularly a snarling version of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall". George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001 was an English rock Guitarist Singer - Songwriter, Author The Concert For Bangladesh was the event title for two Benefit concerts organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, held at noon and at 700 p However, reports of a new album, a television special, and a return to touring came to nothing. Dylan's only other studio activity in 1970 consisted of two songs ("East Virginia Blues" and "Nashville Skyline Rag") recorded in December with banjo-player Earl Scruggs and his sons Randy and Gary, which would eventually appear on Scruggs' 1971 album Earl Scruggs Performing With His Family And Friends. Earl Eugene Scruggs (born January 6, 1924) is a musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger style (now called Scruggs style) on the 5-string Randy Scruggs is a music producer songwriter and guitarist He had his first recording at the age of 13 [97]
Between March 16 and 19, 1971, Dylan reserved three days at Blue Rock Studios, a small studio in New York's Greenwich Village . Greenwich Village (ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern Manhattan These sessions resulted in one single "Watching The River Flow," and a new recording of "When I Paint My Masterpiece" (which The Band was about to release on their album Cahoots), but no album. The Band was a rock group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999 Cahoots is the fourth LP by Canadian - American rock group The Band, and their last all-original studio album for four years [98] The only long-player released by Dylan in either '71 or '72 was his second greatest hits compilation, "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II", which included a number of re-workings of as-then unreleased Basement Tapes tracks, such as "I Shall Be Released" and "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere'" with Happy Traum on backup. Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol II (1971 also known as More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits, was the second compilation album released by Bob Dylan The Basement Tapes is a Studio album by Bob Dylan and The Band, released in 1975 by Columbia Records. Happy Traum (b Harry Peter Traum May 9 1938 The Bronx, New York City) is an American folk musician who started playing music in the Fifties On November 4, 1971 Dylan recorded the single "George Jackson" which would be released a week later. Events 1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani "George Jackson" is a song by Bob Dylan, written in 1971 in tribute to the Black Panther leader George Jackson, who had been recently [99] He then returned to the studio in mid-November for a series of as-yet-unreleased sessions with Beat poet Allen Ginsberg at the Record Plant in New York, intended for Ginsberg's "Holy Soul Jelly Roll" album. Irwin Allen Ginsberg (ˈgɪnzbɝg (June 3 1926 &ndash April 5 1997 was an American Poet. Record Plant Studios (also known as just " The Record Plant " were three famous Recording studios which were started and run by Gary Kellgren (who New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The sessions resulted in tracks such as the Dylan/Ginsberg compositions "Vomit Express", "September On Jessore Road" and "Jimmy Berman", as well as a number of Ginsberg originals and William Blake poems set to music. William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 was an English poet, painter, and Printmaker. Ginsberg sang lead on most songs, with Dylan playing guitar and harmonica and providing backing vocals. [100][101] It is unknown at this time if the sessions will ever be released officially, however there are a number of bootlegs in circulation.
In May 1971, Time magazine questioned Dylan about the rumour that he had donated money to Rabbi Kahane's Jewish Defense League. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and Rabbi Meir David Kahane (מאיר דוד כהנא also known by the Pseudonyms Michael King and David Sinai, 1 August 1932 – The Jewish Defense League (JDL is a militant Jewish organization whose stated goal is to protect Jews from Antisemitism. Dylan denied giving any funds to the JDL, but said of Kahane, "He's a really sincere guy; he's really put it all together. "[102] Rabbi Kahane claimed that Dylan attended several meetings of the Jewish Defense League in order to find out "what we're all about,"[103]
In 1972 Dylan signed onto Sam Peckinpah's film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, providing the songs (see Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) and taking a role as "Alias", a minor member of Billy's gang. The Jewish Defense League (JDL is a militant Jewish organization whose stated goal is to protect Jews from Antisemitism. David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah (February 21 1925 &ndash December 28 1984 was an American Film director who achieved iconic status following the release Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a 1973 Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is a soundtrack album released by Bob Dylan in 1973 for the Sam Peckinpah film of the same name. Despite the film's failure at the box office, the song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" has proven its durability, having been covered by over 150 recording artists. " Knockin' on Heaven's Door " is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan for the Soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the [104]
"On the Road Again"
Dylan started 1973 by contributing his own composition, "Wallflower", to Doug Sahm's "Doug Sahm and Band" album released on Atlantic Records, as well as sharing lead vocal and playing guitar on the track. " Wallflower " is a song written and recorded in 1971 by Bob Dylan. Douglas Wayne Sahm ( November 6, 1941 – November 18, 1999) was a Musician from Texas. Atlantic Records ( Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American Record label best known for its many recordings of Rhythm & blues, Rock (Dylan's own version of the song would later be released on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3. The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased 1961–1991 is a compilation box set by Bob Dylan. ) Dylan also signed with David Geffen's new Asylum label when his contract with Columbia Records expired in 1973, and he recorded Planet Waves with The Band while rehearsing for a major tour. David Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American Record executive, Film producer, Theatrical producer and philanthropist Asylum Records is an American Record label, owned by Warner Music Group, founded by agent-managers David Geffen and Elliot Roberts in 1971 Columbia Records is an American Record label founded in 1888 Columbia is the oldest surviving Brand name in pre-recorded sound being the first record company Planet Waves is Bob Dylan 's 14th Studio album, released by Asylum Records ( Island Records in the UK) The Band was a rock group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999 The album included two versions of "Forever Young". Christopher Ricks has connected the chorus of this song with John Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn,[105] ("For ever panting, and for ever young"), and Dylan has recalled writing the song for one of his own children: “I wrote it thinking about one of my boys and not wanting to be too sentimental”. Christopher Ricks (born 1933 is a British Literary critic and scholar " Ode on a Grecian Urn " is a Poem by John Keats, written in 1819 and first published in January 1820 [106] It has remained one of the most frequently performed of his songs,[107] and one critic described it as “something hymnal and heartfelt that spoke of the father in Dylan. ”[108] Columbia Records simultaneously released Dylan, a haphazard collection of studio outtakes (almost exclusively cover songs), which was widely interpreted as a churlish response to Dylan's signing with a rival record label. Dylan is rock musician Bob Dylan 's 13th Studio album, released by Columbia Records in 1973 [109] In January 1974 Dylan and The Band embarked on their high-profile, coast-to-coast Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Tour of North America; promoter Bill Graham claimed he received more ticket purchase requests than for any prior tour by any artist. The Band was a rock group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999 The Bob Dylan the The Band 1974 Tour was a two-month Concert tour in early 1974 that featured Bob Dylan, in his first real tour in eight years performing with Bill Graham ( January 8, 1931 &ndash October 25, 1991) was an American Impresario and rock Concert promoter A live double album of the tour, Before the Flood which included Dylan with The Band, was released on Asylum Records. Before the Flood is a 1974 Live album by Bob Dylan and The Band, documenting the Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Tour. The Band was a rock group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999 Asylum Records is an American Record label, owned by Warner Music Group, founded by agent-managers David Geffen and Elliot Roberts in 1971 Later in the mid 70s Before the Flood was released by Columbia records. Before the Flood is a 1974 Live album by Bob Dylan and The Band, documenting the Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Tour.
After the tour, Dylan and his wife became publicly estranged. He filled a small red notebook with songs about his marital problems, and quickly recorded a new album entitled Blood on the Tracks in September 1974. Blood on the Tracks is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 15th studio album released in 1975 by Columbia Records, which marked Dylan's return to Columbia [110] Word of Dylan's efforts soon leaked out, and expectations were high. But Dylan delayed the album's release, and then, by years end he had re-recorded half of the songs at Sound 80 Studios in Minneapolis with production assistance from his brother David Zimmerman. Sound 80 was a Recording studio in Minneapolis Minnesota, United States founded by Tom Jung and Herb Pilhofer in 1969. David Benjamin Zimmerman (Born February 1946 in Duluth Minnesota) is a Minneapolis Minnesota record producer During this time, Dylan returned to Columbia Records which eventually reissued his Asylum albums.
Released in early 1975, Blood on the Tracks received mixed reviews. Blood on the Tracks is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 15th studio album released in 1975 by Columbia Records, which marked Dylan's return to Columbia In the NME, Nick Kent described "the accompaniments [as] often so trashy they sound like mere practise takes. The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music Magazine in the United Kingdom which has been Nick Kent (born 24 December 1951) is a British Rock critic and Musician. " In Rolling Stone, reviewer Jon Landau wrote that "the record has been made with typical shoddiness". Jon Landau (born 1947 is an American Music critic, Manager, and Record producer, most known for his association in all three capacities with However, over the years critics have come to see it as one of Dylan's greatest achievements, perhaps the only serious rival to his great mid 60s trilogy of albums. In Salon.com, Bill Wyman wrote: "Blood on the Tracks is his only flawless album and his best produced; the songs, each of them, are constructed in disciplined fashion. Saloncom, part of Salon Media Group ( often just called Salon, is an online It is his kindest album and most dismayed, and seems in hindsight to have achieved a sublime balance between the logorrhea-plagued excesses of his mid-'60s output and the self-consciously simple compositions of his post-accident years. "[111] The songs have been described as Dylan's most intimate and direct. [112][113] A year later, Dylan recorded a duet of the song "Buckets of Rain" with Bette Midler on her Songs for the New Depression album. Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is anAmerican Singer, Actress and Comedian, also known (as her informal stage name as Songs for the New Depression is the third studio album by American female vocalist Bette Midler, released in early 1976 on the Atlantic Records label [4] When Dylan was initially approached to do a duet with Midler, he wanted to record a version of "Friends. " While they rehearsed this song, it was the "Blood on the Tracks" closer which was eventually released. [5]
That summer Dylan wrote his first successful "protest" song in twelve years, championing the cause of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter whom he believed had been wrongfully imprisoned for a triple murder in Paterson, New Jersey. For the football player of the same name see Rubin Carter (football player. After visiting Carter in jail, Dylan wrote "Hurricane", presenting the case for Carter's innocence. Hurricane is a Protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy, about the imprisonment of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. Despite its 8:32 minute length, the song was released as a single, peaking at #33 on the U. S. Billboard Chart, and performed at every 1975 date of Dylan's next tour, the Rolling Thunder Revue. The Rolling Thunder Revue was a famed Concert tour comprised of a traveling caravan of musicians headed by Bob Dylan, that took [114] The tour was a varied evening of entertainment featuring many performers drawn mostly from the resurgent Greenwich Village folk scene, including T-Bone Burnett; Allen Ginsberg; Ramblin' Jack Elliott; Steven Soles; David Mansfield; former Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn; British guitarist Mick Ronson; Scarlet Rivera, a violin player Dylan discovered while she was walking down the street to a rehearsal, her violin case hanging on her back;[115] and Joan Baez (the tour marked Baez and Dylan's first joint performance in more than a decade). T-Bone Burnett is an American songwriter musician and producer Irwin Allen Ginsberg (ˈgɪnzbɝg (June 3 1926 &ndash April 5 1997 was an American Poet. Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz, August 1, 1931) is an American folk performer Steven Soles is an American Singer-songwriter, Record producer, and Guitarist Known also as J David Mansfield (born September 13 1956 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American Violinist, Mandolin player Guitarist The Byrds were a popular American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964 James Roger McGuinn (known professionally as Roger McGuinn, previously as Jim McGuinn, and born James Joseph McGuinn III on July 13, Mick Ronson (26 May 1946 &ndash 29 April 1993 was an English Guitarist, Composer, Multi-instrumentalist, Arranger and producer Scarlet Rivera is an American violinist She is best known for her work with Bob Dylan, in particular on his album Desire and as part of the The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York) an American Folk singer and Songwriter known Joni Mitchell added herself to the Revue in November, and poet Allen Ginsberg accompanied the troupe, staging scenes for the film Dylan was simultaneously shooting. Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7 1943) is a Canadian Musician, Songwriter, and Irwin Allen Ginsberg (ˈgɪnzbɝg (June 3 1926 &ndash April 5 1997 was an American Poet. Sam Shepard was initially hired as the writer for this film, but ended up accompanying the tour as informal chronicler. Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American artist who worked as an award-winning Playwright, Writer and Actor. [116]
Running through late 1975 and again through early 1976, the tour encompassed the release of the album Desire (1976), with many of Dylan's new songs featuring an almost travelogue-like narrative style, showing the influence of his new collaborator, playwright Jacques Levy. Desire is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 17th studio album released by Columbia Records in 1976 Travel literature is Travel writing considered to have value as Literature. Jacques Levy ( 29 July 1935 &ndash 30 September 2004) was a Jewish American Songwriter, Theatre director [117][118] The spring 1976 half of the tour was documented by a TV concert special, Hard Rain, and the LP Hard Rain; no concert album from the better-received and better-known opening half of the tour was released until 2002, when Live 1975 appeared as the fifth volume in Dylan's official Bootleg Series. Hard Rain is a Live album by American musician Bob Dylan, captured during the second leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue. The Bootleg Series Vol 5 Bob Dylan Live 1975 The Rolling Thunder Revue is a Live album by Bob Dylan released by Columbia Records in 2002 The single "Rita May", an outtake from the Desire sessions, backed with the Hard Rain version of "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" was also released in promotion of both releases. [119]
The fall 1975 tour with the Revue also provided the backdrop to Dylan's nearly four-hour film Renaldo and Clara, a sprawling and improvised narrative mixed with concert footage and reminiscences. Renaldo and Clara is a Surrealist movie directed by and starring Bob Dylan. Released in 1978, the movie received generally poor, sometimes scathing, reviews[120][121] and had a very brief theatrical run. Later in that year, Dylan allowed a two-hour edit, dominated by the concert performances, to be more widely released.
In November 1976 Dylan appeared at The Band's "farewell" concert, along with other guests including Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison and Neil Young. Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7 1943) is a Canadian Musician, Songwriter, and For the album by Redman, see Muddy Waters (album. For the college football coach see Muddy Waters (football coach. George Ivan Morrison OBE (generally known as Van Morrison) (born 31 August 1945 is a Grammy Award -winning Northern Irish Singer, Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter, Musician Martin Scorsese's acclaimed[122] cinematic chronicle of this show, The Last Waltz, was released in 1978 and included about half of Dylan's set. The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on Thanksgiving Day, November 25 1976 at Winterland Ballroom In this year Dylan also wrote and duetted on the song "Sign Language" for Eric Clapton's "No Reason To Cry" album - no other versions of the song apart from the one which appears on this album have ever been released. Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945 is an English Blues-rock Guitarist, singer Songwriter and Composer No Reason to Cry is an album by Eric Clapton, released in 1976. In 1977 he also contributed backing vocals to Leonard Cohen's Phil Spector-produced album "Death of a Ladies' Man". Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (born September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Quebec) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter Harvey Philip Spector (born December 26 1940) is an American Record producer and Songwriter. Death of a Ladies' Man is the fifth of Leonard Cohen 's albums
Dylan's 1978 album Street Legal was lyrically one of his more complex and cohesive;[123] it suffered, however, from a poor sound mix (attributed to his studio recording practices),[124] submerging much of its instrumentation in the sonic equivalent of cotton wadding until its remastered CD release nearly a quarter century later. Street-Legal is Bob Dylan 's 18th studio album released in 1978 by Columbia Records.
Born Again
- Further information: Slow Train Coming
In the late 1970s, Dylan became a born-again Christian. Slow Train Coming is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 19th Studio album, released in 1979 by Columbia Records. [125][126][127] From January to April 1979, Dylan participated in Bible study classes at the Vineyard School of Discipleship in Reseda, Southern California. The Association of Vineyard Churches, also known as the Vineyard Movement, is a Christian organization of over 1500 churches worldwide Pastor Kenn Gulliksen has recalled: “Larry Myers and Paul Emond went over to Bob’s house and ministered to him. He responded by saying, Yes he did in fact want Christ in His life. And he prayed that day and received the Lord. ”[128][129][130] Dylan released two albums of Christian gospel music. Slow Train Coming (1979) is generally regarded as the more accomplished of these albums, winning him the Grammy Award as "Best Male Vocalist" for the song "Gotta Serve Somebody". Slow Train Coming is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 19th Studio album, released in 1979 by Columbia Records. The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Released in 1979 on Bob Dylan 's 19th studio album Slow Train Coming, " Gotta Serve Somebody " became his first hit in three years The second evangelical album, Saved (1980), received mixed reviews, although Kurt Loder in Rolling Stone declared the album was far superior, musically, to its predecessor. Saved is Bob Dylan 's 20th Studio album, released by Columbia Records in 1980. Kurt Loder (born May 5 1945 is an American Film critic, Author, and Television personality. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published [131] When touring from the fall of 1979 through the spring of 1980, Dylan would not play any of his older, secular works, and he delivered declarations of his faith from the stage, such as:
Years ago they. . . said I was a prophet. I used to say, "No I'm not a prophet" they say "Yes you are, you're a prophet. " I said, "No it's not me. " They used to say "You sure are a prophet. " They used to convince me I was a prophet. Now I come out and say Jesus Christ is the answer. They say, "Bob Dylan's no prophet. " They just can't handle it. [132]
Robert Hilburn interviewed Dylan about the new direction in his music for the Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed Hilburn’s article, published November 23, 1980, began:
Bob Dylan has finally confirmed in an interview what he’s been saying in his music for 18 months: He’s a born-again Christian. Events 800 - Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Dylan said he accepted Jesus Christ in his heart in 1978 after “a vision and feeling” during which the room moved: “There was a presence in the room that couldn’t have been anybody but Jesus. ”[133]
Dylan's embrace of Christianity was unpopular with some of his fans and fellow musicians. Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings [134] Shortly before his December 1980 shooting, John Lennon recorded "Serve Yourself" in response to Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody". John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born [135] By 1981, while Dylan's Christian faith was obvious, his "iconoclastic temperament" had not changed, as Stephen Holden wrote in the New York Times:
Mr. Dylan showed that neither age (he's now 40) nor his much-publicized conversion to born-again Christianity has altered his essentially iconoclastic temperament. [136]
Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner, writing in his review for Slow Train Coming, commented:
Slow Train Coming is pure, true Dylan, probably the purest and truest Dylan ever. Jann Simon Wenner (born January 7, 1946, in New York City) is the co-founder and publisher of the music and politics biweekly Rolling Stone Slow Train Coming is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 19th Studio album, released in 1979 by Columbia Records. The religious symbolism is a logical progression of Dylan's Manichaean vision of life and his pain-filled struggle with good and evil. Manichaeism (in Modern Persian fa-Arab آیین مانی Āyin e Māni; Chinese zh 摩尼教 was one of the major Gnostic Religions originating . . since politics, economics and war have failed to make us feel any better – as individuals or as a nation – and we look back at long years of disrepair, then maybe the time for religion has come again, and rather too suddenly – "like a thief in the night. "[137]
Since the early 1980s Dylan's personal religious beliefs have been the subject of debate[138] among fans and critics. Since his trilogy of Christian albums, Dylan has been described as a supporter of the Chabad Lubavitch movement[139] and has publicly and privately participated in Jewish religious events, including the bar mitzvahs of his sons. A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth Chabad-Lubavitch is one of the largest Hasidic movements in Orthodox Judaism, and is based in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn In Judaism, Bar Mitzvah ( Hebrew: בר מצוה "one (m to whom the commandments apply" Bat Mitzvah (בת מצוה "one (f More recently, it has been reported that Dylan has "shown up" a few times at various High Holiday services at various Chabad synagogues. He attended a Woodbury, New York synagogue in 2005,[140] and attended Congregation Beth Tefillah, in Atlanta, Georgia on September 22, 2007 (Yom Kippur), where he was called to the Torah for the sixth aliyah. Events 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 - The Lithuanians Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Yom Kippur (יוֹם כִּפּוּר ˈjɔm kiˈpur also known in English as the Day of Atonement, is the most solemn and important of the Jewish holidays Its term " Torah " ( Hebrew: תּוֹרָה "teaching" or "instruction" sometimes translated as "Law" most commonly refers to Aliyah ( refers to Jewish Immigration to the Land of Israel (and since its establishment in 1948 the State of Israel) [141]
In 1997 he told David Gates of Newsweek:
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. David Gates (born January 8 1947 is an American Journalist and Novelist. Newsweek is an American weekly Newsmagazine published in New York City. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Songs like "Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain" or "I Saw the Light" – that's my religion. "I Saw the Light" is a 1948 Gospel song written and first performed by Hank Williams, not to be confused with the hit song by Todd Rundgren I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. I've learned more from the songs than I've learned from any of this kind of entity. The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. "[142]
In an interview published in The New York Times on September 28, 1997, journalist Jon Pareles reported that "Dylan says he now subscribes to no organized religion. Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Jon Pareles is an American Journalist who is chief music critic at the arts section of the New York Times. "[143]
1980s: Trust Yourself
In the fall of 1980 Dylan briefly resumed touring, restoring several of his most popular 1960s songs to his repertoire, for a series of concerts billed as "A Musical Retrospective". Shot of Love, recorded the next spring, featured Dylan's first secular compositions in more than two years, mixed with explicitly Christian songs. Shot of Love is Bob Dylan 's 21st Studio album, released by Columbia Records in 1981. The haunting "Every Grain of Sand" reminded some critics of William Blake’s verses. For the Tribute album by Barb Jungr, of a similar name see " Every Grain of Sand Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan " William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 was an English poet, painter, and Printmaker. [144]
In the 1980s the quality of Dylan's recorded work varied, from the well-regarded Infidels in 1983 to the panned Down in the Groove in 1988. Infidels is Bob Dylan 's 22nd Studio album, released in 1983 by Columbia Records. Down in the Groove is Bob Dylan 's 25th Studio album, released in 1988 by Columbia Records. Critics such as Michael Gray condemned Dylan's 1980s albums both for showing an extraordinary carelessness in the studio and for failing to release his best songs. Michael Gray (born Bromborough, Wirral, 25 August 1946 is a British author who has written extensively about Popular music. [145]
The Infidels recording sessions produced several notable outtakes, and many have questioned Dylan's judgment in leaving them off the album. Most well-regarded of these were "Blind Willie McTell" (which was both a tribute to the dead blues singer and an extraordinary evocation of African American history reaching back to "the ghosts of slavery ships"[146]), "Foot of Pride" and "Lord Protect My Child";[147] these songs were later released on the boxed set The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991. " Blind Willie McTell " is a song by Bob Dylan, titled after the Blues singer Blind Willie McTell. The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased 1961–1991 is a compilation box set by Bob Dylan. An earlier version of Infidels, prepared by producer/guitarist Mark Knopfler, contained different arrangements and song selections than what appeared on the final product. Mark Knopfler OBE (born August 12 1949 Glasgow, Scotland) is a British Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter,
Dylan contributed vocals to USA for Africa's famine relief fundraising single "We Are the World". USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa was the name under which forty-five predominantly U A Famine is a phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population of a region or country are so undernourished that death by Starvation becomes increasingly common " We Are the World " is a 1985 song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, produced and conducted by Quincy Jones and recorded On 13 July 1985, he climaxed at the Live Aid concert at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia. Events 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Live Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on. The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia John F Kennedy Stadium (or JFK Stadium) was an open-air stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that stood from 1925 to 1992 Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə Backed by Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, Dylan performed a ragged version of "Hollis Brown", his ballad of rural poverty, and then said to a worldwide audience exceeding one billion people: "I hope that some of the money . Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943 is an English Guitarist, Songwriter, Singer, producer and a founding member of The Rolling Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born 1 June 1947 in Hillingdon London) is an English rock Guitarist and Bassist best known . . maybe they can just take a little bit of it, maybe . . . one or two million, maybe . . . and use it to pay the mortgages on some of the farms and, the farmers here, owe to the banks. " His remarks were widely criticised as inappropriate, but they did inspire Willie Nelson to organise a series of events, Farm Aid, to benefit debt-ridden American farmers. Willie Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country Singer-songwriter and Actor. Farm Aid started as a Benefit concert on September 22, 1985, in Champaign Illinois, held to raise money for Family farmers in the [148]
In 1986 Dylan made a foray into the world of rap music, appearing on Kurtis Blow's Kingdom Blow album. Hip hop music, also referred to as rap music, is a Music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rap which is accompanied with Curtis Walker (born 9 August 1959) better known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is one of the first commercially successful rappers and In an arrangement set up, in part, by Debra Byrd (one of Dylan's back-up singers) and Wayne K. Debra Byrd (born 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American vocalist who has worked with Barry Manilow and Bob Dylan, appeared Garfield (an associate of Blow's), Dylan contributed vocals to the track "Street Rock. "[149] In his memoir, Chronicles, Dylan writes, "Blow familiarized me with that stuff, Ice-T, Public Enemy, N.W.A., Run-D.M.C.. Chronicles Volume One 0-7432-2815-4 is the first part of Bob Dylan 's planned 3-volume memoir Public Enemy, also known as PE, is an influential hip hop group from Long Island New York, known for its politically charged Lyrics, criticism NWA (also known as Niggaz with Attitudes) was a Compton, California -based hip hop group widely considered one of the seminal acts of the Run-DMC was a pioneering hip hop group during the 1980s founded by Joseph "[The Reverend] Run" Simmons, Darryl "D These guys definitely weren't standing around bullshitting. They were all poets and knew what was going on. "[150] Dylan's opening rap for "Street Rock" goes, "I've indulged in higher knowledge through scan of encyclopedia / keep in constant research of our report and news media / kids starve in Ethiopia and we are getting greedier / the rich are getting richer and the needy's getting needier. "
In July 1986 Dylan released Knocked Out Loaded, an album which consisted of three cover songs (by Little Junior Parker, Kris Kristofferson and the traditional gospel hymn "Precious Memories"), three collaborations with other songwriters (Tom Petty, Sam Shepard and Carole Bayer Sager), and two solo compositions by Dylan himself. Knocked Out Loaded is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 24th Studio album, released by Columbia Records in 1986. Junior Parker, also known as Little Junior Parker or "Mr Blues" ( May 27, 1932 &ndash November 18, 1971) was This article refers to the gospel hymn For the Johnny Cash album see Sings Precious Memories. Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20 1950 is an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American artist who worked as an award-winning Playwright, Writer and Actor. Carole Bayer Sager (born March 8 1947) is an American Lyricist, Songwriter and Singer. The album received mainly negative reviews; Rolling Stone called it "a depressing affair",[151] and it was the first Dylan album since Freewheelin' (1963) to fail to make the Top 50. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's second Studio album, released in May 1963 by Columbia Records. [152] Since then, some critics have called the eleven minute epic that Dylan co-wrote with Sam Shepard, 'Brownsville Girl', a work of genius,[153] and some websites have even tried to claim that the entire album has been vastly underrated. " Brownsville Girl " is a song from Bob Dylan's 1986 album Knocked Out Loaded. [154]
In 1986 and 1987, Dylan toured extensively with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers on True confessions tour, sharing vocals with Petty on several songs each night. Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20 1950 is an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist The tour was filmed for the documentary Hard to Handle,[155] directed by Gillian Armstrong. Gillian Armstrong (born 18 December 1950 is an award-winning Australian director of feature films and documentaries Dylan also toured with The Grateful Dead in 1987, resulting in a live album Dylan & The Dead. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dylan & the Dead is a collaborative Live album by Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, released in 1989 by Columbia Records. This album received some negative reviews. [156] After performing with these different musical permutations, Dylan initiated what came to be called The Never Ending Tour on June 7, 1988, performing with a tight back-up band featuring guitarist G. E. Smith. The Never Ending Tour is a popular term for Bob Dylan's seemingly incessant performing schedule since June 7, 1988. George Edward "GE" Smith (b January 27, 1952 in Stroudsburg Pennsylvania) is an American guitarist Dylan would keep on touring with this small but constantly evolving band for the next 20 years.
In 1987 Dylan starred in Richard Marquand's movie Hearts of Fire, in which he played a washed-up-rock-star-turned-chicken farmer called "Billy Parker", whose teenage lover (Fiona) leaves him for a jaded English synth-pop sensation (Rupert Everett). Richard Marquand ( 22 September, 1937 – 4 September, 1987) was a Welsh Film director best known for directing the blockbuster Hearts of Fire was a 1987 film starring Bob Dylan, Fiona Flanagan (billed only as "Fiona" and Rupert Everett. For other people with the name Fiona see Fiona (disambiguation. Rupert James Hector Everett (born May 29, 1959) is a two-time Golden Globe -nominated English film Actor and ex- Singer Dylan also contributed two original songs to the soundtrack - "Night After Night", and 'I Had a Dream About You, Baby" - as well as a cover of John Hiatt's "The Usual". John Hiatt (born August 20, 1952 in Indianapolis, Indiana, US The film was a critical and commercial flop. [157]
Dylan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in January 1988. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a Museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland Ohio, United States Bruce Springsteen made the induction speech, declaring: "Bob freed your mind the way Elvis freed your body. He showed us that just because music was innately physical did not mean that it was anti-intellectual. "[158] Later that spring, Dylan joined Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, and George Harrison to create a lighthearted, well-selling album as the Traveling Wilburys. Roy Kelton Orbison ( April 23 1936 &ndash December 6 1988) nicknamed "The Big O" was an influential Grammy Award -winning Jeffrey Lynne (born 30 December 1947 in Shard End, Birmingham) is a Grammy Award -winning English rock Songwriter Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20 1950 is an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001 was an English rock Guitarist Singer - Songwriter, Author Traveling Wilburys Vol 1 is the debut album by the supergroup Traveling Wilburys and was recorded and released in 1988 to enormous commercial Traveling Wilburys was a supergroup consisting of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. Despite Orbison's death in December 1988, the remaining four recorded a second album in May 1990, which they released with the unexpected title Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3. Traveling Wilburys Vol 3 is the 1990 follow-up album by the supergroup Traveling Wilburys to their 1988 debut Traveling Wilburys Vol
Dylan finished the decade on a critical high note with the Daniel Lanois-produced Oh Mercy (1989). Daniel Lanois (born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian Record producer and Singer-songwriter Oh Mercy is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 26th Studio album, released in 1989 by Columbia Records. [159] Lanois's influence is audible throughout Oh Mercy. [160][161] The track "Most of the Time", a lost love composition, was later prominently featured in the film High Fidelity, while "What Was It You Wanted?" has been interpreted both as a catechism and a wry comment on the expectations of critics and fans. High Fidelity is a 2000 film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack. [162] The dense religious imagery of 'Ring Them Bells' struck some critics as a re-affirmation of faith. Scott Marshall wrote: "When Dylan sings that 'The sun is going down upon the sacred cow', it's safe to assume that the sacred cow here is the biblical metaphor for all false gods. For Dylan, the world will eventually know that there is only one God. "[163] Dylan also made a number of music videos during this period, but only "Political World" found any regular airtime on MTV. MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City.
1990s: Not Dark Yet
Dylan's 1990s began with Under the Red Sky (1990), an about-face from the serious Oh Mercy. Under the Red Sky is Bob Dylan 's 27th Studio album, released by Columbia Records in 1990. The album was dedicated to "Gabby Goo Goo", and contained several apparently simple songs, including "Under the Red Sky" and "Wiggle Wiggle". The "Gabby Goo Goo" dedication was later explained as a nickname for Dylan's four-year-old daughter. [164] Sidemen on the album included George Harrison, Slash from Guns N' Roses, David Crosby, Bruce Hornsby, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Elton John. George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001 was an English rock Guitarist Singer - Songwriter, Author Saul Hudson (born 23 July 1965 more widely known by his stage name Slash, is an English - African American Guitarist best known as the former Guns N' Roses is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985 David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American Guitarist, Singer, and Songwriter. Bruce Randall Hornsby (born November 23 1954 in Williamsburg Virginia) is an American singer Pianist, Accordion player and songwriter Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan ( October 3, 1954 August 27, 1990) was an American Blues-rock Guitarist Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947 is an English pop / rock Singer, Composer Despite the stellar line-up, the record received bad reviews and sold poorly. Dylan would not make another studio album of new songs for seven years. [165]
In 1991 Bob Dylan was inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame and in 1992 Dylan performed a brief tour with Santana. The Minnesota Music Hall of Fame is located at First North Street and Broadway in New Ulm, Minnesota, USA, in the former Public library. Santana is a flexible number of musicians accompanying Carlos Santana since the late 1960s [166]
The next few years saw Dylan returning to his roots with two albums covering old folk and blues numbers: Good as I Been to You (1992) and World Gone Wrong (1993), featuring interpretations and acoustic guitar work. Good as I Been to You is Bob Dylan 's 28th Studio album, released by Columbia Records in 1992. World Gone Wrong is Bob Dylan 's 29th Studio album, released in 1993 by Columbia Records. Many critics and fans commented on the quiet beauty of the song "Lone Pilgrim",[167] penned by a 19th century teacher and sung by Dylan with a haunting reverence. An exception to this rootsy mood came in Dylan's 1991 songwriting collaboration with Michael Bolton; the resulting song "Steel Bars", was released on Bolton's album Time, Love & Tenderness. Michael Bolton (born Michael Bolotin on February 26, 1953) is an American Singer-songwriter, best known for his Soft rock Time Love & Tenderness is an album by Michael Bolton. It was produced by Walter Afanasieff and Michael Bolton Twenty-five years after famously failing to perform at the Woodstock Festival, Dylan appeared at the commemorative event entitled Woodstock 94. Woodstock '94 was a Music festival organized in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival of 1969. [168] In November 1994 Dylan recorded two live shows for MTV Unplugged. MTV Unplugged is a series showcasing popular musical artists playing Acoustic instruments It was produced by Viacom and was directed by Beth He claimed his wish to perform a set of traditional songs for the show was overruled by Sony executives who insisted on a greatest hits package. is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with [169] The album produced from it, MTV Unplugged, included "John Brown", an unreleased 1963 song detailing the ravages of both war and jingoism. MTV Unplugged is a Live album by Bob Dylan, released in 1995 by Columbia Records was reissued in 2007 by Sony Jingoism is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "extreme Patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy" The same year Dylan provided vocals and guitar on Mike Seeger's cover of "The Ballad of Hollis Brown" on Seeger's Rounder Records album Third Annual Farewell Reunion. Mike Seeger (b August 15 1933 in New York New York) is an American folk musician and folklorist [34]
With a collection of songs reportedly written while snowed-in on his Minnesota ranch,[170] Dylan booked recording time with Daniel Lanois at Miami's Criteria Studios in January 1997. Daniel Lanois (born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian Record producer and Singer-songwriter Criteria Studios is a music studio in Miami Florida started in 1958 by Mack Emerman. The subsequent recording sessions were, by some accounts, fraught with musical tension. [171] Late that spring, before the album's release, Dylan was hospitalized with a life-threatening heart infection, pericarditis, brought on by histoplasmosis. Pericarditis is an Inflammation ( -itis) of the Pericardium (the fibrous sac surrounding the heart Histoplasmosis, also known as Darling's disease, is a Disease caused by the Fungus Histoplasma capsulatum which was discovered in His scheduled European tour was cancelled, but Dylan made a speedy recovery and left the hospital saying, "I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon. "[172] He was back on the road by midsummer, and in early fall performed before Pope John Paul II at the World Eucharistic Conference in Bologna, Italy. Pope Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The Pope treated the audience of 200,000 people to a sermon based on Dylan's lyric "Blowin' in the Wind". " Blowin' in the Wind " is a Song written by Bob Dylan and released on his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. [173]
September saw the release of the new Lanois-produced album, Time Out of Mind. Time Out of Mind is Bob Dylan 's 30th Studio album, released in 1997 by Columbia Records. With its bitter assessment of love and morbid ruminations, Dylan's first collection of original songs in seven years became highly acclaimed. It also achieved an unforeseen popularity among young listeners, particularly the opening song, "Love Sick". [174] This collection of complex songs won him his first solo "Album of the Year" Grammy Award (he was one of numerous performers on The Concert for Bangladesh, the 1972 winner). The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences The Concert For Bangladesh was the event title for two Benefit concerts organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, held at noon and at 700 p The love song "Make You Feel My Love" has been covered by Garth Brooks, Billy Joel and, more recently, British singer Adele. " Make You Feel My Love " also known as " To Make You Feel My Love " is a song by Bob Dylan. Troyal Garth Brooks, known professionally as Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American Country music Singer-songwriter. William Martin Joel (born May 9 1949 is an American Pianist and Singer-songwriter. Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988 in Enfield, North London) known professionally as Adele, is an English - Welsh
In December 1997 U. S. President Bill Clinton presented Dylan with a Kennedy Center Honor in the East Room of the White House, paying this tribute: "He probably had more impact on people of my generation than any other creative artist. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States See also Executive Office of the President of the United States The White House, formerly known as the Executive Mansion, is the Official residence His voice and lyrics haven't always been easy on the ear, but throughout his career Bob Dylan has never aimed to please. He's disturbed the peace and discomforted the powerful. "[175]
In 1998 Dylan appeared on Ralph Stanley's album Clinch Mountain Country, duetting with the bluegrass legend on "The Lonesome River. Ralph Stanley (born February 25, 1927) also known as Dr Ralph Stanley is a legendary American bluegrass artist known for his distinctive Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of Country music. " [6]. Between June and September, 1999, Dylan toured with Paul Simon. Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13 1941 is an American Songwriter, Musician, and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They performed a couple of songs together at each show, including "I Walk the Line" and "Blue Moon Of Kentucky". For the 1964 album see I Walk the Line (album. For the 1970 soundtrack album see I Walk the Line (soundtrack album. " Blue Moon of Kentucky " is a Waltz written in 1947 by bluegrass musician Bill Monroe and recorded by his band The Blue Grass Boys (Simon & Garfunkel had recorded "The Times They Are a-Changin'" on their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3AM, and Dylan had covered "The Boxer" on his Self Portrait album. Simon & Garfunkel are an American Singer-songwriter duo of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. " The Times They Are a-Changin' " is a Song written by Bob Dylan and released on his 1964 album of the same name. " The Boxer " is a Folk ballad written by Paul Simon in 1968 and first recorded by Simon and Garfunkel. Self Portrait is Bob Dylan 's 10th studio album released by Columbia Records in 1970 ) Dylan ended the nineties by returning to the big screen after a break of ten years in the role of Alfred the Chaffeur alongside Ben Gazzara and Karen Black in Robert Clapsaddle's Paradise Cove. Biagio Anthony “Ben” Gazzara (born August 28, 1930) is an American Actor in Television and Motion pictures. Karen Black (born July 1, 1939) is an American actress, Screenwriter, Singer and Songwriter. [176]
2000 and beyond: Things Have Changed
2000–2003
In 2000 his song "Things Have Changed", penned for the film Wonder Boys, won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and an Academy Award for Best Song. "Things Have Changed" is a song from the film Wonder Boys, written and performed by Bob Dylan. Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song was awarded by first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture For reasons unknown, the Oscar (by some reports a facsimile) tours with him, presiding over shows perched atop an amplifier. [177]
"Love and Theft" was released on September 11, 2001. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Dylan produced the album himself under the pseudonym Jack Frost,[178] and its distinctive sound owes much to the accompanists. A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) The album was critically well-received[179] and nominated for several Grammy awards. Critics noted that at this late stage in his career, Dylan was deliberately widening his musical palette. The styles referenced in this album included rockabilly, Western swing, jazz, and even lounge ballads. Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of Rock and roll music and emerged in the early 1950s [180][181] "Love and Theft" generated controversy when some similarities between the lyrics of the album to Japanese writer Junichi Saga's book Confessions of a Yakuza were pointed out. is a book by Japanese doctor and author Junichi Saga (1991 It recounts a series of stories from the life of Eiji Ijichi a former Yakuza boss as told to [182] It is unclear if Dylan intentionally lifted any material. Dylan's publicist had no comment.
Between "Love and Theft" and Dylan's next studio album (to be released five years later) he recorded songs—both originals and covers—for a number of different projects. "I Can't Get You Off of My Mind", Dylan's contribution to the Hank Williams tribute album "Timeless" was released in September 2001. Hank Williams ( September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American Singer-songwriter and Musician who has 2002 saw the release of Dylan's version of "Train Of Love" on a similar Johnny Cash tribute album called Kindred Spirits. Johnny Cash (born J R Cash; February 26 1932 - September 12 2003 was a Grammy Award -winning American country Singer-songwriter. Kindred Spirits A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash is a Tribute album to country singer Johnny Cash, released on Sony Records (Dylan had recorded the song for a Johnny Cash TV tribute, broadcast in April 1999. In his spoken introduction, Dylan thanked Cash "for standing up for me way back when. ") In 2002 Solomon Burke recorded a version of the rare Dylan composition "Stepchild" for his Don't Give Up on Me album. Solomon Burke (born March 21 1940) is an American Grammy Award -winning Singer / Songwriter. Don't Give Up on Me is a Studio album by R&B / Soul singer Solomon Burke, recorded and released in 2002 on Fat Possum While the song has never surfaced as a studio recording, there are a number of bootlegs in circulation of Dylan playing the track at soundchecks in the late 70's. [183] In February 2003, the 8-minute long epic ballad "Cross The Green Mountain", written and recorded by Dylan, was released as the closing song on the soundtrack to the Civil War movie Gods and Generals, and later appeared as one of the 42 rare tracks on the iTunes Music Store release of Bob Dylan: The Collection. Gods and Generals is a Novel which serves as a Prequel to Michael Shaara 's 1974 Pulitzer Prize -winning work about the A music video for the song was also produced in promotion of the motion picture.
2003 also saw the release of the film Masked & Anonymous, a creative collaboration with television producer Larry Charles, featuring many well-known actors. Masked and Anonymous is a 2003 film written and directed by Seinfeld writer Larry Charles. Larry Charles ( February 20, 1956) is an American Emmy Award -winning writer director and producer Dylan and Charles cowrote the film under the pseudonyms Rene Fontaine and Sergei Petrov. [184] As difficult to decipher as some of his songs, Masked & Anonymous had a limited run in theaters, and was panned by many major critics. [185] A few treasured it as Dylan's bringing a dark and mysterious vision of the USA as a war-torn banana republic to the screen. [186][187]
2004–2006
On 23 June 2004, Dylan was awarded an honorary degree by the University of St. Andrews and made a "Doctor of Music. Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The University of St Andrews is the oldest University in Scotland and third oldest in the English-speaking world, having been founded between "[188] Professor Neil Corcoran, of the university's school of English department, and author of the collection of academic essays on Dylan entitled Do You Mr Jones: Bob Dylan with the Poets and the Professors, declared in his presentation speech that "For many of us, Bob Dylan has been an extension of our consciousness and part of our growing up. " This is only the second time that Dylan has accepted an honorary degree, the other being an honorary doctorate in music conferred on him by Princeton University in 1970. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. [189]
After a lengthy delay, October 2004 saw the publishing of Dylan's autobiography Chronicles: Volume One, with which he once again confounded expectations. Chronicles Volume One 0-7432-2815-4 is the first part of Bob Dylan 's planned 3-volume memoir [190] Dylan wrote three chapters about the year between his arrival in New York City in 1961 and recording his first album. The City of New York Dylan focused on the brief period before he was a household name, while virtually ignoring the mid-1960s when his fame was at its height. He also devoted chapters to two lesser-known albums, New Morning (1970) and Oh Mercy (1989), which contained insights into his collaborations with poet Archibald MacLeish and producer Daniel Lanois. New Morning is the 11th studio Album by Bob Dylan, released by Columbia Records in 1970 Oh Mercy is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 26th Studio album, released in 1989 by Columbia Records. Archibald MacLeish ( May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American Poet, Writer and the Librarian Daniel Lanois (born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian Record producer and Singer-songwriter In the New Morning chapter, Dylan expresses distaste for the "spokesman of a generation" label bestowed upon him, and evinces disgust with his more fanatical followers. New Morning is the 11th studio Album by Bob Dylan, released by Columbia Records in 1970
Despite the opacity of some passages, there is an overall clarity in voice that is generally missing in Dylan's earlier prose writings,[190] and a noticeable generosity towards friends and lovers of his early years. An opaque context is a linguistic context in which it is not possible to substitute co-referential terms while guaranteeing the preservation of semantic values [191] At the end of the book, Dylan describes with great passion the moment when he listened to the Brecht/Weill song "Pirate Jenny", and the moment when he first heard Robert Johnson’s recordings. (born; 10 February 1898&ndash14 August 1956 was a German Poet, Playwright, and Theatre director. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> Kurt Julian Weill ( March 2, 1900 &ndash April 3, The Threepenny Opera ( Die Dreigroschenoper) is a revolutionary work of Musical theatre, by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8 1911 – August 16 1938 is among the most famous of Delta blues musicians In these passages, Dylan suggested the process which ignited his own song writing.
Chronicles: Volume One reached number two on The New York Times' Hardcover Non-Fiction best seller list in December 2004 and was nominated for a National Book Award. The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Simultaneously, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble reported the book as their number two best-seller among all categories. Amazoncom Inc ( is an American electronic commerce ( E-commerce) company in Seattle Washington. Barnes & Noble Inc is the largest book retailer in the United States, operating mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of Bookstores [192]
Martin Scorsese's film biography No Direction Home was shown on September 26 and September 27, 2005 on BBC Two in the United Kingdom and PBS in the United States. No Direction Home is a Documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on 20th century American Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the [193] The documentary concentrates on the years between Dylan's arrival in New York in 1961 and the 1966 motorbike crash. It features interviews with many who knew him in those years, including Suze Rotolo, Liam Clancy, Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, Dave Van Ronk, Pete Seeger, Mavis Staples, Bob Johnston, and with Bob Dylan himself. Susan Elizabeth Rotolo (born November 20 1943) nicknamed Suze Rotolo (pronounced Soo-zee is an artist who specializes in Artist's books William 'Liam' Clancy (born on September 2, 1935) ( Irish; Liam Mac Fhlannchadha) is an Irish Folk singer. Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York) an American Folk singer and Songwriter known Irwin Allen Ginsberg (ˈgɪnzbɝg (June 3 1926 &ndash April 5 1997 was an American Poet. Dave Van Ronk ( June 30 1936 – February 10 2002) was a Folk singer born in Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3 1919 is an American folk singer political Activist, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939 in Chicago Illinois) is an American Rhythm and blues and Gospel singer and Civil rights See also Bob Johnson, Robert Johnston Donald William 'Bob' Johnston (born 14 May 1932, Hillsboro Texas) is a noted American The film received a Peabody Award in April 2006, and a Columbia-duPont Award in January 2007. The George Foster Peabody Awards, better known as simply the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards for excellence in Radio and Television broadcasting [194] An accompanying soundtrack was released in August 2005, which contained much previously unavailable early Dylan material. The Bootleg Series Vol 7 No Direction Home The Soundtrack is the second most recent installment in the Bob Dylan "Bootleg Series" of rare and/or officially
Dylan himself returned to the recording studio at some point in 2005, where he recorded "Tell Ol' Bill" for the motion picture North Country. This article refers to the 2005 film For other meanings see North Country. The song is an original composition, not a cover of the similarly titled traditional folk song. The melody is based on "I Never Loved But One" by the Carter Family. The Carter Family was a Country music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956
In February 2006, Dylan recorded tracks in New York City that were to result in the album Modern Times, released on August 29, 2006. Modern Times is Bob Dylan 's 32nd Studio album, released on August 29, 2006 by Sony BMG. Events 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708) Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. In a well-publicized interview to promote the album, Dylan criticised the quality of modern sound recordings and claimed that his new songs "probably sounded ten times better in the studio when we recorded 'em". [195]
Despite some coarsening of Dylan’s voice (The Guardian critic characterised his singing on the album as “a catarrhal death rattle”[196]) most reviewers gave the album high marks and many described it as the final installment of a successful trilogy, embracing Time Out of Mind and "Love and Theft". The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. [197] Among the tracks most frequently singled out for praise were "Workingman's Blues #2" (the title was a nod to Merle Haggard's song of that name), and the final song “Ain’t Talkin’”, a nine minute talking blues in which Dylan appeared to be walking “through all-enveloping darkness, before finally disappearing into the murk”. Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American Country music Singer, Guitarist and Songwriter. [198] Modern Times made news by entering the U. S. charts at #1, making it Dylan's first album to reach that position since 1976's Desire, 30 years prior. At 65, Dylan became the oldest living musician to top the Billboard albums chart. See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry The record also reached number one in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland.
Nominated for three Grammy Awards, Modern Times won Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album and Bob Dylan also won Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for "Someday Baby. The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album was first awarded in 1987 The Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance Solo was presented in 1988 1992 1994 and 2005 through 2007 " Modern Times was ranked as the Album of the Year, 2006, by Rolling Stone magazine,[199] and by Uncut in the UK. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published Uncut magazine trademarked as UNCUT, is a popular monthly publication based in London. [200]
On the same day that "Modern Times" was released the iTunes Music Store released Bob Dylan: The Collection, a digital box set containing all of his studio and live albums (773 tracks in total), along with 42 rare & unreleased tracks and a 100 page booklet. The iTunes Store is a software-based online Digital media store operated by Apple Inc Bob Dylan the Collection is the third iTunes complete digital album following The Complete U2 and The Complete Stevie Wonder. To promote the digital box set and the new album (on iTunes), Apple released a 30 second TV spot featuring Dylan, in full country & western regalia, lip-synching to "Someday Baby" against a striking white background.
In September 2006 Scott Warmuth, an Albuquerque, N. M. -based disc jockey, noted similarities between Dylan's lyrics in the album, Modern Times and the poetry of Henry Timrod, the 'Poet Laureate of the Confederacy'. Henry Timrod (December 8 1828 - October 7 1867 was an American poet who is often called The Poet Laureate of the Confederacy. A wider debate developed in The New York Times and other journals about the nature of "borrowing" within the folk process and in literature. [201][202][203][204]
May 3, 2006, was the premiere of Dylan's DJ career, hosting a weekly radio program, Theme Time Radio Hour, for XM Satellite Radio. Events 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of João Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Theme Time Radio Hour ( TTRH) is a one-hour long Radio show hosted by Bob Dylan. [205][206] Each one hour show revolved around a theme such as 'Flowers' 'Tears', 'The Bible', 'Rich man/Poor man'; the'Baseball'-themed show was even selected for inclusion in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in June 2006. [207] Among the classic and obscure records played on his show from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, Dylan has also played tracks by Blur, Prince, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mary Gauthier and even L.L. Cool J and The Streets. Blur are an English Alternative rock band that formed in London in 1989 Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American musician Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957 in Essex, England) better known as Billy Bragg, is an English musician who Wilco is an American rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of Alternative country group Mary Gauthier (ˈgouʃeɪ GO-shay; born March 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American folk Singer-songwriter. James Todd Smith (born January 14 1968 better known as LL Cool J, is an American Rapper and actor Mike Skinner (born 27 November 1978) more commonly known by his stage name The Streets, is a Rapper from Birmingham, England Each show was introduced with a few sentences spoken in a sultry voice by the actress Ellen Barkin. Ellen Rona Barkin (born April 16, 1954) is an Emmy Award -winning and Golden Globe Award -nominated American Actress. [208] BBC Radio 2 commenced transmission of Dylan's radio show in the UK on December 23, 2006, and BBC 6 Music started carrying it in January 2007. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The show won praise from fans and critics for the way that Dylan conveyed his eclectic musical taste with panache and eccentric humor. [209][210] Music author Peter Guralnick commented: "With this show, Dylan is tapping into his deep love – and I would say his belief in – a musical world without borders. Peter Guralnick (born December 15, 1943, in Boston Massachusetts) is an American music critic, writer on music and historian of I feel like the commentary often reflects the same surrealistic appreciation for the human comedy that suffuses his music. "[211] After 50 successful shows, a second season of Theme Time Radio Hour was commissioned to begin in September 2007. Theme Time Radio Hour ( TTRH) is a one-hour long Radio show hosted by Bob Dylan. [212][213]
2007–present
2007 saw the release of a new original Dylan song, "Huck's Tune", written and recorded for the soundtrack to the film Lucky You on April 24. Lucky You is a 2007 drama directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, and Robert Duvall. Events 1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to
August 2007 saw the unveiling[214] of the award-winning[215] film I'm Not There, written and directed by Todd Haynes, bearing the tagline "inspired by the music and many lives of Bob Dylan". I'm Not There is a 2007 biographical Film directed by Todd Haynes and is inspired by the life of iconic Singer-songwriter Todd Haynes (born January 2, 1961, in Encino, California) is an award-winning American Film director. [216] The movie uses six distinct characters to represent different aspects of Dylan's life, played by six different actors:[217] Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw. Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974 is a British Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (born 14 May 1969 is an Academy Award -winning Australian Actress and Stage director. Marcus Carl Franklin (born February 24, 1993) is an American Actor. Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is a Golden Globe - and Screen Actors Guild Award -winning American Actor. Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008 was an Australian television and film actor Benedict Whishaw more commonly known as Ben Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor who trained at RADA. [218] (A seventh character, a Charlie Chaplin-like incarnation of Dylan, was present in the script but was dropped before filming began. [219]) The title of the film was taken from a particularly mysterious song from the The Basement Tapes sessions[220] which had hitherto not been officially released. The Basement Tapes is a Studio album by Bob Dylan and The Band, released in 1975 by Columbia Records. Dylan's 1967 recording was included on the film's original soundtrack; all other tracks on this album are covers of Dylan songs, specially recorded for the movie by a wide variety of artists, including Stephen Malkmus, Jeff Tweedy, Willie Nelson, Cat Power, and Tom Verlaine. I'm Not There is a 2007 biographical Film directed by Todd Haynes and is inspired by the life of iconic Singer-songwriter Stephen Joseph Malkmus (born May 30, 1966, Santa Monica California) is an Indie rock musician and a former member of the band Pavement Jeffrey Scott Tweedy (born August 25 1967 in Belleville Illinois, United States is an American songwriter Musician, poet and leader of the band Wilco Willie Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country Singer-songwriter and Actor. Cat Power is the stage name of American Singer/songwriter Charlyn "Chan" Marshall (born Charlyn Marie Marshall on 21 January Tom Verlaine (born Thomas Miller, December 13 1949, in Morristown New Jersey) is a Singer, Songwriter and Guitarist [221]
In a comment on Dylan's identity, and why six actors were employed to portray different facets of Dylan's personality, Haynes wrote:
The minute you try to grab hold of Dylan, he's no longer where he was. He's like a flame: If you try to hold him in your hand you'll surely get burned. Dylan's life of change and constant disappearances and constant transformations makes you yearn to hold him, and to nail him down. And that's why his fan base is so obsessive, so desirous of finding the truth and the absolutes and the answers to him - things that Dylan will never provide and will only frustrate. . . . Dylan is difficult and mysterious and evasive and frustrating, and it only makes you identify with him all the more as he skirts identity. [222]
On October 1, Columbia Records released a triple CD retrospective album entitled Dylan, anthologising his entire career. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Columbia Records is an American Record label founded in 1888 Columbia is the oldest surviving Brand name in pre-recorded sound being the first record company [223] As part of the marketing campaign for this album, using the Dylan 07 logo, British record producer Mark Ronson was asked to produce a re-mix of "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)", originally released on Blonde on Blonde in 1966. Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975 is an English Brit Award and three-times Grammy award -winning Music producer, artist and co-founder of Blonde on Blonde is Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's seventh Studio album, released in 1966 by Columbia Records. This was the first time Dylan had sanctioned a re-mix of one of his classic recordings. [224] Ronson's re-mix was released as a maxi-single in October but not included in the Dylan triple album.
The sophistication of the Dylan 07 marketing campaign was a reminder that Dylan’s commercial profile was far higher in the first decade of the new millennium than it had been in the 1990s. In 2004, much publicity surrounded Dylan’s agreeing to appear in a TV advertisement for Victoria’s Secret lingerie. For the Sonata Arctica single see Victoria's Secret (song Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of women's wear Lingerie and beauty [225] In October 2007, Dylan appeared in a multi-media campaign to promote the 2008 Cadillac Escalade. The Cadillac Escalade is a Full-size luxury Sport utility vehicle (SUV sold by the General Motors luxury brand Cadillac [226] He also devoted an hour of his Theme Time Radio Hour to the theme of the Cadillac. Theme Time Radio Hour ( TTRH) is a one-hour long Radio show hosted by Bob Dylan. [227]
Also released in October, the DVD The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 featured previously unseen footage, chronicling the changes in Dylan’s style when he appeared at Newport in three successive years. The Other Side of the Mirror Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival is a 2007 Documentary film about Bob Dylan 's appearances at the Newport This film was broadcast by BBC Four on October 14, 2007. BBC Four is a BBC Television channel available to digital television ( Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable) viewers in the Director Murray Lerner commented: “Over the course of three Newport gigs, Dylan becomes more conscious of his power. Murray Lerner is an American documentary and experimental Film director and producer. His charisma is startling. With electricity and radio, he did what Yeats, Lorca, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound never achieved. Federico García Lorca' ( 5 June 1898 &ndash 19 August 1936) was a Spanish Poet and dramatist also remembered as Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( Hailey, Idaho Territory, United States October 30 1885 – Venice, Italy November 1 1972 was an American Expatriate He reached a mass audience with poetry. "[228]
Random House had published a book of Dylan's drawings and paintings, Drawn Blank, in 1994. Random House Inc is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher German art gallery director Ingrid Mössinger approached Dylan to suggest an exhibition of his work. The result was the October 2007 opening[229] of the first public exhibition of Dylan's paintings, The Drawn Blank Series at the Kunstsammlungen in Chemnitz, Germany, showcasing 170 watercolours and gouaches. Chemnitz (1953–1990 Karl-Marx-Stadt ( Sorbian:Kamjenica is a City in Eastern Germany. Gouache, Pronounced "Gouash" (from the Italian guazzo, "water paint splash" or bodycolor (the term preferred by art historians [230][231] The publisher, Prestel Verlag, simultaneously published a catalog of the exhibition. [232]
At the end of 2007, Dylan recorded a new version of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" exclusively for Expo Zaragoza 2008 world fair, scheduled to open on June 14, 2008, to highlight the Expo theme of "water and sustainable development". " A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall " is a song written by Bob Dylan in the summer of 1962 Zaragoza, also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza province and of the autonomous community and former As well as choosing local-band Amaral to record a version of the song in Spanish, Dylan's new version ended with a few spoken words about his "being proud to be a part of the mission to make water safe and clean for every human being living in this world". Amaral is a music group from Zaragoza, Spain. The band consists of Eva Amaral ( Vocalist) and Juan Aguirre ( Guitarist [233][234]
In February 2008, Dylan released a personal selection of music in the 'Artist's Choice' series on the Starbucks Entertainment record label. Starbucks Corporation ( is an international Coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle Washington. The sixteen tracks included such well-known artists as Billie Holliday and Flaco Jimenez, old Dylan favourites including the Stanley Brothers and Junior Wells, and lesser known performers such as Pee Wee Crayton and Ethiopian singer Gétatchéw Kassa. Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7 1915 – July 17 1959 was an American Jazz singer and songwriter Flaco Jiménez (born March 11, 1939) is a Tejano music legend from San Antonio Texas. The Stanley Brothers ( Carter Stanley, August 27, 1925 - December 1, 1966, Junior Wells ( December 9, 1934 – January 15, 1998) born Amos Blakemore, was a blues Vocalist and Harmonica Connie Curtis Crayton ( 18 December 1914, Rockdale, Texas — 25 June, 1985, Los Angeles, California [235] Dylan also contributed liner notes on the historical significance of each artist.
Also released in February by Ace Records was a double CD, Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan. Ace Records Ltd was started in 1981 as a separate company from Swift Records Ltd The record contained fifty songs that had been featured on Dylan's radio show, ranging from Billie Holiday and George Jones, through Aretha Franklin to The Clash and the White Stripes. Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7 1915 – July 17 1959 was an American Jazz singer and songwriter George Glenn Jones (born September 12, 1931 in Saratoga Texas) is an award-winning American Country music singer known for his long list of Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25 1942 Franklin has had a total of twenty number-one singles on the Billboard R&B Singles Chart, two of which became #1 hits on the For the debut album by The Clash see The Clash (album The Clash were The White Stripes is an American Garage rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. Released with Dylan's blessing,[236] the tracks were selected by the producer of Dylan's radio show, Eddie Gorodetsky, and by Roger Armstrong from Ace Records.
Dylan is currently curating a project to set some of Hank Williams's "lost" lyrics to music, similar to the one undertaken by Billy Bragg and Wilco with Woody Guthrie's unaccompanied lyrics on "Mermaid Avenue". Hank Williams ( September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American Singer-songwriter and Musician who has Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957 in Essex, England) better known as Billy Bragg, is an English musician who Wilco is an American rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of Alternative country group Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14 1912–October 3 1967 was an American Singer-songwriter and Folk musician Guthrie's musical legacy Mermaid Avenue is a 1998 Album of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written Dylan is overseeing contributions by Jack White, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Alan Jackson and Norah Jones, who will put the lyrics to music. Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis on July 9 1975 is an American musician Record producer, and occasional actor best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist Willie Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country Singer-songwriter and Actor. Lucinda Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American rock, folk, and Country music singer and songwriter Alan Eugene Jackson (born 17 October 1958 in Newnan, Georgia) is an American country Singer-songwriter who has sold over Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30 1979) is an American Singer-songwriter, Pianist, Keyboardist [237][238] The project started when Dylan acquired the lyrics that were in Wiliams's briefcase on the night he died. [239]
In April 2008, it was confirmed by Simon & Schuster that Dylan is working on the next volume of his planned three part autobiography, the follow up to Chronicles: Volume One. Simon & Schuster Inc, a division of CBS Corporation, is a Publisher founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L Chronicles Volume One 0-7432-2815-4 is the first part of Bob Dylan 's planned 3-volume memoir It may be released by the end of 2008. [240]
On June 8, 2008 Bob hinted in an article that sometime later this year, a new bootleg will be released. This time having outtakes and alternate versions of songs from 1989 - 2006. That includes every studio release from Oh Mercy to Modern Times. Oh Mercy is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 26th Studio album, released in 1989 by Columbia Records.
Recent live performances and the Never Ending Tour
Dylan has played roughly 100 dates a year for the entirety of the 1990s and the 2000s, a heavier schedule than most performers who started out in the 1960s. [241][242] The "Never Ending Tour" continues, anchored by longtime bassist Tony Garnier and filled out with talented musicians better known to their peers than to their audiences. The Never Ending Tour is a popular term for Bob Dylan's seemingly incessant performing schedule since June 7, 1988. To the dismay of some fans,[243] Dylan refuses to be a nostalgia act; his reworked arrangements, evolving bands and experimental vocal approaches keep the music unpredictable night after night. Some fans have complained that, as Dylan's vocal range has diminished, he has resorted to a technique they have labelled "upsinging". One critic described the technique as Dylan's "dismantling melodies by delivering phrases in a monotone and ending them an octave higher". [244]
For a two and a half year period, between 2003 and 2006, Dylan ceased playing guitar, and stuck to the keyboard during concerts. Various rumors circulated as to why Dylan gave up guitar during this period, none very reliable. According to David Gates, a Newsweek reporter who interviewed Dylan in 2004, ". Newsweek is an American weekly Newsmagazine published in New York City. . . basically it has to do with his guitar not giving him quite the fullness of sound he was wanting at the bottom. He's thought of hiring a keyboard player so he doesn't have to do it himself, but hasn't been able to figure out who. Most keyboard players, he says, like to be soloists, and he wants a very basic sound. "[245] Dylan's touring band has two guitarists along with a multi-instrumentalist who plays steel guitar, mandolin, banjo and fiddle. From 2002 to 2005, Dylan's keyboard had a piano sound. In 2006, this was changed to an organ sound. At the start of his Spring 2007 tour in Europe, Dylan played the first half of the set on electric guitar and switched to keyboard for the second half. [246] The 2008 installment of Dylan's "Never Ending Tour" commenced with performances in Texas, Mexico, and South America in February and March. The Never Ending Tour is a popular term for Bob Dylan's seemingly incessant performing schedule since June 7, 1988. In May, the next swing of his tour, began in Massachusetts, Maine and Eastern Canada, going on to perform in Iceland, Russia and Europe in May, June and July. [247]
Personal life
Dylan married Sara Lownds on November 22, 1965; their first child, Jesse Byron Dylan, was born on January 6, 1966. Sara Dylan (born October 28, 1939 in Wilmington Delaware) born as Shirley Marlin Noznisky and later known as Sara Lownds, was the Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Events 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Dylan and Lownds had four children: Jesse Byron, Anna Lea, Samuel Isaac Abraham, and Jakob Luke (born December 9, 1969). Jesse Byron Dylan (born January 6 1966, New York City) is the eldest son of musician Bob Dylan and his first wife Sara Dylan. Jakob Luke Dylan, born December 9, 1969 in New York City, is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the famous Rock band The Wallflowers Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dylan also adopted Sara Lownds' daughter from a prior marriage, Maria Lownds (later Dylan), (born October 21, 1961 now married to musician Peter Himmelman). Events 1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Peter Himmelman, formerly of the band Sussman Lawrence, is a singer/songwriter from Minnesota. In the 1990s the youngest of his children, Jakob Dylan, became well known as the lead singer of the band The Wallflowers. Jakob Luke Dylan, born December 9, 1969 in New York City, is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the famous Rock band The Wallflowers The Wallflowers are a Grammy Award -winning rock band from Los Angeles California. Jesse Dylan is a film director and a successful businessman. Jesse Byron Dylan (born January 6 1966, New York City) is the eldest son of musician Bob Dylan and his first wife Sara Dylan. Bob and Sara Dylan were divorced on June 29, 1977. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays [248]
In June 1986, Dylan married his longtime backup singer Carolyn Dennis (often professionally known as Carol Dennis). [249] Their daughter, Desiree Gabrielle Dennis-Dylan, was born on January 31, 1986. Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) The couple divorced in October 1992. Their marriage and child remained a closely guarded secret until the publication of Howard Sounes' Dylan biography, Down the Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan in 2001. Howard Sounes (b 1965 Welling, South East London, England) is a British Author, Journalist and Biographer. [250]
Support of Barack Obama
On June 5, 2008, Dylan in an apparent break from the singer-songwriter's lifelong policy of refusing to make political endorsements, told The Times:
| “ | Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval. The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. Poverty is demoralizing. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up Barack Obama. He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to. [251] | ” |
Chris Francescani of ABC News states that such a statement is "significant" from a cultural and possibly political standpoint, because of the fact that at the height of his fame in the 1960's, when mass movements like the civil rights brigades and the anti-war establishment literally begged Dylan to lead them, the artist recoiled from taking sides. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 The American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968 refers to the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African Opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam War is significant because domestic protest in the U
Fan base
Bob Dylan's large and vocal fan base writes books, essays, 'zines, etc. A zine (an abbreviation of the word Fanzine, or magazine ziːn "zeen" is most commonly a small circulation non-commercial Publication at a furious rate. They also maintain a massive Internet presence with daily Dylan news: a site which documents every song he has ever played in concert; one that documents bootlegs that have been released; and one where visitors bet on what songs he will play on upcoming tours;[252] along with hundreds of other Dylan-themed sites. Within minutes of the end of concerts, set lists and reviews are posted by his loyal following. [253] [254]
The Dylan Pool, created in 2001 has been featured on CNN, CBC, BBC, and the Associated Press. The Associated Press reported: "The pool reflects both the obsessive interest Dylan still draws 45 years into his career and the way this road warrior has structured his career. "[252] It allows interaction between fans while adding a level of competition through the unique online Bob Dylan fantasy game. In the summer of 2007 the Dylan Pool went offline but some fans, having anticipated this eventuality, launched a new website: The neverending pool.
The poet laureate of England, Andrew Motion, is a vocal supporter of Dylan's work,[187] as is literary critic Christopher Ricks,[255][256] academic Professor Neil Corcoran,[257] and musicians Lou Reed, Jimi Hendrix, Bono,[258] Neil Young,[259] Bruce Springsteen,[260] Tom Petty, The Go-Betweens, David Bowie,[261] Bryan Ferry,[262] Mike Watt,[263] Roger Waters, Ian Hunter, Paul Simon, David Gilmour, Nick Cave,[264] Keith Richards, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Jack White, Ronnie Wood, Billy Joel, Glen Hansard, Robyn Hitchcock and Tom Waits. A Poet Laureate is a Poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Andrew Motion, FRSL, (born 26 October 1952) is an English Poet, Novelist and Biographer, who is the Christopher Ricks (born 1933 is a British Literary critic and scholar Lewis Allan Reed (born March 2 1942 is an American rock Singer-songwriter and Guitarist. James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix) (November 27 1942 – September 18 1970 was an American Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter, Musician Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20 1950 is an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist The Go-Betweens were an internationally influential Indie rock band from Australia, formed by guitarists Robert Forster and Grant McLennan in David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger. Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945 in Washington, Sunderland) is an English Singer, Musician, Songwriter and occasional Michael David Watt (born December 20, 1957 in Portsmouth Virginia) is an American Bass guitarist singer and Songwriter. George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey) is an English rock musician Ian Hunter (born Ian Hunter Patterson 3 June 1939 Oswestry, Shropshire) is an English Singer-songwriter. Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13 1941 is an American Songwriter, Musician, and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. David Jon Gilmour CBE (born 6 March 1946 is an English Musician, best known as the Lead guitarist one of the lead Singers Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957 in Warracknabeal, Victoria) is an Australian Musician, Songwriter, Author Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943 is an English Guitarist, Songwriter, Singer, producer and a founding member of The Rolling Patricia Lee Smith ( born December 30 1946 is an American Singer-songwriter and poet James Newell Osterberg Jr (born April 21, 1947) better known by his Stage name Iggy Pop, is an American rock singer Songwriter Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis on July 9 1975 is an American musician Record producer, and occasional actor best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born 1 June 1947 in Hillingdon London) is an English rock Guitarist and Bassist best known William Martin Joel (born May 9 1949 is an American Pianist and Singer-songwriter. Glen Hansard (born 21 April, 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Academy-Award winning Songwriter, Actor, and Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born March 3, 1953) is an English Singer-songwriter and guitarist Thomas Alan Waits (born 7 December 1949) is an American Singer-songwriter, Composer, and Actor. [265]
ISIS Magazine was founded in 1985 and is the longest running publication about Bob Dylan. Edited since its inception by Derek Barker, the magazine, which is published bimonthly, has subscribers in 32 countries.
Discography
- Further information: Bob Dylan discography
See also
- Lithuanian Jews
- Suze Rotolo
- Best selling music artists
- Sara Dylan
- Jesse Dylan
- Jakob Dylan (and his band The Wallflowers)
- Carolyn Dennis
- Woodstock '94
- Protest song
Notes
- ^ "Dylan 'reveals origin of anthem'", BBC news, 2004-04-11. This is a discography for American Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Lithuanian Jews (known in Yiddish and Yeshivish as Litvish (adjective or Litvaks (noun are Ashkenazi Jews with roots in the Susan Elizabeth Rotolo (born November 20 1943) nicknamed Suze Rotolo (pronounced Soo-zee is an artist who specializes in Artist's books When adding to this page please ensure that your claims are sourced Sara Dylan (born October 28, 1939 in Wilmington Delaware) born as Shirley Marlin Noznisky and later known as Sara Lownds, was the Jesse Byron Dylan (born January 6 1966, New York City) is the eldest son of musician Bob Dylan and his first wife Sara Dylan. Jakob Luke Dylan, born December 9, 1969 in New York City, is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the famous Rock band The Wallflowers The Wallflowers are a Grammy Award -winning rock band from Los Angeles California. Woodstock '94 was a Music festival organized in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival of 1969. A protest song is a Song which Protests against perceived problems in Society. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ "The Top 50 Albums of The Year", Rolling Stone, 2006-12-11. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 359 - Honoratus, the first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office Retrieved on 2007-09-13. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September
- ^ "Love and Theft". Entertainment Weekly (2001-10-01). Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
- ^ "Intelligence Data: Bob Dylan's Love & Theft", The Village Voice, 2001-10-01. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
- ^ "Bob Dylan by Jay Cocks", Time magazine, 1999-06-04. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Events 781 BC - The first historic Solar eclipse is recorded in China. Retrieved on 2006-08-10. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire
- ^ Bob Dylan. Robbie Robertson. Rolling Stone Issue 946. Rolling Stone.
- ^ Polar Music Prize, 2000. Polar Music Prize (2000-05-01). 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.
- ^ "Dylan Formally Launched as Candidate for Nobel Prize", Expecting Rain, 1996-10-01. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Retrieved on 2006-10-17. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost
- ^ Dylan and the Nobel by Gordon Ball. Journal of Oral Tradition (2007-03-07). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus Retrieved on 2007-07-22. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of
- ^ "Dylan's Words Strike Nobel Debate", CBS News, 2004-10-06. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus Retrieved on 2006-10-17. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost
- ^ The Pulitzer Prize Winners: Special Citation. Pulitzer. org (2008-04-07). 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor
- ^ "Bob Dylan wins Pulitzer prize". news. com. au (2008-04-07). 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, p. 14, quotes the birth certificate and gives his Hebrew name as Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham; other sources include the matronym v'Rachel Riva
- ^ Dylan & the Jews: Hibbing Photo Album[1]
- ^ A Chabad news service gives the variant Zushe ben Avraham, which may be a Yiddish variant: Singer/Songwriter Bob Dylan Joins Yom Kippur Services in Atlanta. Chabad-Lubavitch is one of the largest Hasidic movements in Orthodox Judaism, and is based in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn Yiddish (yi [[wiktייִדיש ייִדיש]] yidish or yi [[wiktאידיש אידיש]] idish, literally "Jewish" is a nonterritorial High chabad. Retrieved on 2007-11-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite the oldest Meteorite with a known date of impact strikes the Earth around noon in a Wheat
- ^ Bob Dylan. Retrieved on 2007-07-17. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians
- ^ a b Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, p. 12-13
- ^ Dylan, Bob (2004). "Chronicles, Volume One". Simon & Schuster, 92–93. Simon & Schuster Inc, a division of CBS Corporation, is a Publisher founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L ISBN 0306812312.
- ^ Shelton, No Direction Home, 25–33
- ^ Gill (with Kevin Odegard), Andy (2004). Andy Gill (born 1 January 1956) is a founding member and guitarist for the English rock group Gang of Four, considered among the most "A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks". Da Capo, 99. Da Capo is a musical term in Italian, meaning from the beginning (literally to the head) ISBN 0743230760.
- ^ Shelton, No Direction Home, 38–39.
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 29–37
- ^ "Early Zimmerman bands in 1950s including 1957 photo", Expecting Rain, 2007-04-01. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Retrieved on 2007-03-01. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant
- ^ Shelton, No Direction Home, 39–43.
- ^ "Gunnn, Elston", Expecting Rain, 2007-04-01. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Retrieved on 2007-03-21. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem.
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 26–27.
- ^ Playboy interview with Bob Dylan, March 1978
- ^ a b Biograph (album), 1985, Liner notes & text by Cameron Crowe. Biograph is a 53-track compilation spanning the career of Bob Dylan, from his 1962 debut album to the 1981 LP Shot Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an Academy Award -winning American Writer and Film director.
- ^ Shelton, No Direction Home, 65–82
- ^ a b No Direction Home. No Direction Home is a Documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on 20th century American Paramount Pictures. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Released July 21, 2005. Events 356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
- ^ Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1, 78–79.
- ^ Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1, 250–252.
- ^ American Masters (2006 Season) — "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan" Timeline. Thirteen WNET New York. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ a b Bob Dylan's Duets. Flying Pig. Retrieved on 2007-01-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.
- ^ TRANSCRIPTION OF RIVERSIDE CHURCH FOLK MUSIC HOOTENANNY, WRVR-FM, NEW YORK, NY, Jul 29, 1961. bobdylanroots. com.
- ^ Shelton, Robert. "BOB DYLAN: A DISTINCTIVE STYLIST", The New York Times, 1961-09-29. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Unterberger, Richie. [2], "allmusic". Accessed June 30, 2007. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
- ^ Scaduto, Bob Dylan, 110
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 283–4
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 115-116. Anthony Scaduto is a Journalist and Biographer of Rock musicians His most famous work is Dylan, a biography of Bob Dylan, first published
- ^ Shelton, No Direction Home, 138–142
- ^ Shelton, No Direction Home, 156
- ^ Scaduto, Bob Dylan, 35
- ^ Mojo magazine, December 1993
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 101–103
- ^ Ricks, Dylan's Visions of Sin, 329–44. Anthony Scaduto is a Journalist and Biographer of Rock musicians His most famous work is Dylan, a biography of Bob Dylan, first published
- ^ Biograph (album), 1985, Liner notes & text by Cameron Crowe. Biograph is a 53-track compilation spanning the career of Bob Dylan, from his 1962 debut album to the 1981 LP Shot Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an Academy Award -winning American Writer and Film director. Musicians on 'Mixed Up Confusion': George Barnes & Bruce Langhorne (guitars); Dick Wellstood (piano); Gene Ramey (bass); Herb Lovelle (drums)
- ^ Shelton, No Direction Home, 108–111
- ^ Joan Baez entry, Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 28–31
- ^ Dylan performed Only a Pawn in Their Game and When the Ship Comes In
- ^ "Dylan in the Madhouse". Bruce Langhorne (born c 1940 is an American Folk musician He was active in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s primarily as a session Dick Wellstood (November 25 1927 Greenwich Connecticut - July 24 1987 Palo Alto California) was an American Jazz pianist Gene Ramey ( April 4 1913 - December 8 1984) was an American Jazz Double bassist Ramey was born in Austin Texas Herbie or Herb Lovelle (born 1 June 1924) is an American Jazz Drummer and Session musician. " Only a Pawn in Their Game " is a song written by Bob Dylan about the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in June of 1963. " When the Ship Comes In " is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his 3rd Studio album The Times They Are a-Changin' in 1964 Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Dylan had recorded the song for his Freewheelin' album, but the song was replaced by later compositions, including "Masters of War". The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's second Studio album, released in May 1963 by Columbia Records. "Masters of War" is a song by Bob Dylan, written in 1963 and released on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. see Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 114–115
- ^ Ricks, Dylan's Visions of Sin, 221–233
- ^ Shelton, No Direction Home, 200–205
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 160–161 Ramblin' Jack Elliott sang harmony on the Another Side of Bob Dylan version of Mr. Tambourine Man. Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz, August 1, 1931) is an American folk performer Another Side of Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan 's fourth studio album released in 1964 by Columbia Records. For The Byrds ' album of the same name see Mr Tambourine Man (album.
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 172–173.
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 173.
- ^ Shelton, No Direction Home, 267–271, 288–291
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 178–181
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 181–182
- ^ Gill, My Back Pages, 68–69
- ^ Marqusee, Wicked Messenger, 144
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 208–216
- ^ Shelton, No Direction Home, 305–314
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 186
- ^ Georgina Boyes: The Imagined Village: Culture, ideology and the English Folk Revival
- ^ Greil Marcus: The Old, Weird America, 28
- ^ Alan Jacobs: “The Songs Are My Lexicon” http://www.bobdylan.com/etc/ajacobs.html
- ^ Nat Hentoff, quoted in The Playboy Interview, March 1966; quoted in the Ralph J. Gleason interview, Ramparts, March 1966
- ^ Springsteen’s speech on Dylan’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, January 20, 1988. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a Museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland Ohio, United States Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Quoted in Wanted Man, edited John Bauldie, p. 191
- ^ "Like a Rolling Stone", Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Gill, My Back Pages, 93–95
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 189–90
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 238–243
- ^ Gill, My Back Pages, 95
- ^ Marqusee, Wicked Messenger, 139
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, p. 393
- ^ Shelton, No Direction Home, p. 325
- ^ Dylan's dialogue with the Manchester audience is recorded (with subtitles) in Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home. No Direction Home is a Documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on 20th century American
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, p. 215
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, p. 219
- ^ Cott (ed. ), Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews, p. 300, reprinted from Rolling Stone, June 21, 1984.
- ^ "The Bob Dylan Motorcycle-Crash Mystery". American Heritage (2006-07-29). American Heritage is a monthly magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States for a mainstream readership Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, p. 218
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, p. 216
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 222–5
- ^ Marcus, The Old, Weird America, 236-265
- ^ Marcus, The Old, Weird America, xvi
- ^ Marcus, The Old, Weird America, 86
- ^ Marcus, The Old, Weird America, 87
- ^ Bob Dylan's 1967 recording sessions. Bjorner's Still On the Road. Retrieved on 2007-12-09. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 282–288
- ^ Trager, Oliver. Keys to the Rain, the Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. Billboard Books, 2004. (ISBN 0-8230-7974-0)
- ^ RAB Hall of Fame: Carl Perkins. Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2007-01-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 350 - Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor
- ^ On Top - Carl Perkins. AOL Music. Retrieved on 2007-01-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 350 - Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 248–253
- ^ Earl Scruggs (and Lester Flatt). bobdylanroots. com.
- ^ http://www.bjorner.com/DSN01885%201971.htm#DSN01960 |the Bob Dylan Recording Sessions 1971
- ^ http://www.bjorner.com/DSN01885%201971.htm#DSN01960 |the Bob Dylan Recording Sessions 1971
- ^ The Ginsberg/Dylan sessions. University of Oslo. Retrieved on 2007-06-16. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses.
- ^ Vomit Express. Dylanchords. Retrieved on 2007-06-16. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses.
- ^ "Time magazine, May 31, 1971", Time magazine, 1971-05-31. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Events 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great (19th dynasty becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
- ^ "The Wandering Kind by Douglas Wolk", Nextbook, a new read on Jewish culture, 2007-11-21. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem.
- ^ "Bob Dylan cover versions", Bjorner. com, 2002-04-16. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1178 BC - A Solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom Retrieved on 2006-09-01. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
- ^ Ricks, Dylan's Visions of Sin, 453
- ^ Dylan's comment in booklet notes to Biograph. Biograph is a 53-track compilation spanning the career of Bob Dylan, from his 1962 debut album to the 1981 LP Shot
- ^ Log of performances of Forever Young. Bjorner's Still on the Road (August 20, 2006). Events 636 - Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on 2006-08-22. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 354.
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 358
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 368–383
- ^ "Bob Dylan", Salon. com, May 5, 2001. Events 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins 1215 - Rebel Barons renounce their allegiance to King John Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on 2006-08-21. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the De facto ruler of Japan.
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 368–387
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 59–61
- ^ "Log of every performance of Hurricane", Bjorner's Still on the Road, August 20, 2006. Events 636 - Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on 2006-08-22. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 579
- ^ Shepard, Rolling Thunder Logbook, 2–49
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 386–401
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 408
- ^ Mr D's Apocrypha. Flying Pig. Retrieved on 2007-01-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.
- ^ Maslin, Janet. "Renaldo and Clara Film by Bob Dylan", The New York Times, January 22, 1978. Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Retrieved on 2006-08-05. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 642 - Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia.
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 313
- ^ Last Waltz, The (re-release). MetaCritic. com. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 643
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 480–1
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 323–337, Interview with Assistant Pastor Bill Dwyer, Vineyard Church
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 490–526, Interview with Pastor Kenn Gulliksen, Vineyard Church
- ^ "Karen Hughes interview with Bob Dylan, May 1980", The Dominion (NZ), 2 August 1980. Events 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar)
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 494
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 76–80
- ^ "Extract from interview with Pastor Larry Myers", Interview from On The Tracks, Issue No. 4, Fall 1994. Retrieved on 2007-04-23. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at
- ^ Bob Dylan's Saved. Rolling Stone (1980-09-18). Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated
- ^ Still On The Road, 1980 Second Gospel Tour (January 25, 1980). Events 41 - After a night of negotiation Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Cott (ed. ), Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews, 279–285
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 334–6
- ^ "'Serve Yourself' - Reply song to Bob Dylan", John Lennon Museum.
- ^ Stephen, Holden. "Rock: Dylan, in Jersey, Revises Old Standbys", The New York Times, 1981-10-29, p. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Events 437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II c19.
- ^ "Slow Train Coming", Rolling Stone, 1979-09-20. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Retrieved on 2006-09-11. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul
- ^ Kawowski, Arthur (2001-09-01). Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Bob Dylan's Dilemma: Which blonde. Retrieved on 2007-06-21. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
- ^ Fishkoff, The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch, 167
- ^ Shmais, News Service. "Bob Dylan @ Yom Kippur davening with Chabad in Long Island", Shmais News Service, 2005-10-13. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees
- ^ Sheva, Arutz. "Day of Atonement Draws Dylan to the Torah", Arutz Sheva -- Israel National News, 2007-09-24. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
- ^ Newsweek magazine, October 6, 1997
- ^ Pareles, Jon. Events 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar "A Wiser Voice Blowin' In the Autumn Wind", The New York Times, 1997-09-28. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 215–221
- ^ Gray, Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan, 11–14
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 56–59
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 354–6
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 365–7
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 63
- ^ Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1, 219
- ^ Knocked Out Loaded review. Rolling Stone (1986-11-09). Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 595–595.
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 95-100
- ^ Knocked Out Loaded analysis. Weebly. com.
- ^ Hard To Handle. IMDb. com.
- ^ Dylan & The Dead. All Music Guide.
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 599–604
- ^ Bruce Springsteen on Bob Dylan. The Columbia World of Quotations. Bartleby. com.
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 387–8
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 515
- ^ Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1, 145–221
- ^ Ricks, Dylan's Visions of Sin, 413–20
- ^ Marshall, Restless Pilgrim, 103
- ^ "Biography of Carolyn Dennis", IMDb. com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 391
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- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 423
- ^ Dylan performance, Woodstock '94, August 14, 1994. Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Bjorner's Still on the Road (1994-08-14). Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 408–9
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, 693
- ^ How Dylan's Time Out of Mind Survived Stormy Studio Sessions. www. gibson. com (2008-01-02). 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers invading the Roman Empire.
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 420
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 426
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 426–9
- ^ "Remarks by the President at Kennedy Center Honors Reception", Clinton White House, 1997-12-7. Retrieved on 2006-08-23. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring on the feast day of Vulcan the Roman god of fire
- ^ Paradise Cove (1999). IMDb. Retrieved on 2007-06-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians
- ^ "Dylan Tours Australia with Oscar", Undercover, Australia, 2007-08-20. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 636 - Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 556–7
- ^ "Love and Theft". MetaCritic. com. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ ""Love and Theft"", Entertainment Weekly, 2001-10-01. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Retrieved on 2006-09-05. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- ^ "Intelligence Data: Bob Dylan's Love & Theft", The Village Voice, 2001-10-01. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Retrieved on 2006-09-05. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- ^ "Did Bob Dylan Lift Lines From Dr Saga?", Wall Street Journal, 2003-07-08. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 Retrieved on 2006-09-22. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 - The Lithuanians
- ^ Björner, Olof. Bob Dylan live bootlegs. Expecting Rain. Retrieved on 2007-11-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies Donnchad, the
- ^ Full Cast and Crew for Masked and Anonymous. IMDB. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Masked & Anonymous. Metacritic. com. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Masked & Anonymous. The New Yorker (2003-07-24). Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Retrieved on 2007-02-01. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen
- ^ a b Motion, Andrew. Masked and Anonymous. Sony Classics. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ "Dylan receives honorary degree", BBC News, 2004-06-23. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish Retrieved on 2007-07-13. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to
- ^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades The Biography, 208.
- ^ a b Maslin, Janet (2004-10-05). "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 869 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople So You Thought You Knew Dylan? Hah! 2. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Taylor, Charles (2004-10-08). "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 314 - Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses Chronicles, Volume 1 3. Salon. com. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 136–8
- ^ No Direction Home: Bob Dylan A Martin Scorsese Picture. PBS. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Columbia-duPont Award Winners, 2007. The Journalism School, Columbia University. Retrieved on 2007-01-30. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain
- ^ "The Genius of Bob Dylan", Rolling Stone, 2006-08-21. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the De facto ruler of Japan. Retrieved on 2006-09-11. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul
- ^ "Bob Dylan's "Modern Times"", The Guardian, 2006-08-28. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 475 - The Roman General Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his Capital Retrieved on 2006-09-05. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- ^ ""Modern Times"", Metacritic. Retrieved on 2006-09-05. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- ^ John Harris, Mojo magazine, October 2006, p 94
- ^ "Modern Times, Album of the Year, 2006", Rolling Stone, 2006-12-16. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion
- ^ "Modern Times, Album of the Year, 2006", Uncut, 2006-12-16. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion
- ^ ""Who’s This Guy Dylan Who’s Borrowing Lines From Henry Timrod?"", The New York Times, 2006-09-14. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 81 - Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. Retrieved on 2006-09-19. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
- ^ ""The Ballad of Henry Timrod", The New York Times, 2006-09-17. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec Retrieved on 2006-09-20. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France.
- ^ ""The Answer, My Friend, Is Borrowin’ ... (3 Letters)", The New York Times, 2006-09-20. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Retrieved on 2006-09-20. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France.
- ^ "Bob Dylan: Henry Timrod Revisited", The Poetry Foundation, 2006-10-10. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated Retrieved on 2006-10-11. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed
- ^ "XM Theme Time Radio Hour", XM Satellite Radio. Retrieved on 2007-01-21. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
- ^ "Theme Time Radio playlists", Not Dark Yet. Retrieved on 2006-10-18. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid
- ^ "Bob Dylan in Baseball Hall of Fame", Washington Post, 2006-06-28. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
- ^ "The Joys of Dylan the DJ", The Telegraph, Nashua NH, 2007-11-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare
- ^ "The Great Sound of Radio Bob", The Observer, 2006-12-31. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia. Retrieved on 2007-01-21. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
- ^ "Dylan Spinnin' Those Coool Records", New Critics, 2007-02-16. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols Retrieved on 2007-02-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 3102 BC - Epoch (origin of the Kali Yuga. 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II Holy
- ^ "The Joys of Dylan the DJ", The Telegraph, Nashua NH, 2007-11-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Retrieved on 2007-11-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare
- ^ "Season Two of Dylan's Award Winning Radio Show", P R Newswire, 2007-04-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1025 - Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland. Retrieved on 2007-04-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich London. 1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer
- ^ "TTRH Playlists as per Year of Release", Expecting Rain, 2007-04-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1025 - Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland. Retrieved on 2007-04-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich London. 1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer
- ^ "Haynes' Dylan Stories Stir Telluride", Indie Wire, 2006-09-01. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
- ^ "Blanchett wins top Venice award", BBC news, 2007-09-09. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian
- ^ "I'm Not There", Variety, 2007-09-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself
- ^ "The Lives of Others: Haynes' anti-biopic is about "Bob Dylan", not Bob Dylan", Film Society of Lincoln Centre, 2007-09-05. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- ^ I'm Not There (2007). IMDb. Retrieved on 2007-06-16. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses.
- ^ Dylan Director Comes Clean. Mojo. Retrieved on 2006-12-06. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev
- ^ Marcus, The Old, Weird America, 198-204, Marcus writes: "There is nothing like ‘I’m Not There’ in the rest of the basement recordings, or anywhere else in Bob Dylan’s career. Very quickly the listener is drawn into the sickly embrace of the music, its wash of half-heard, half-formed words and the increasing bitterness and despair behind them. Words are floated together in a dyslexia that is music itself – a dyslexia that seems to prove the claims of music over words, to see just how little words can achieve. "
- ^ "Dylan covered by... very long list.", Uncut, 2007-10-01. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
- ^ Haynes in Weinstein Company press notes for "I'm Not There", quoted in Footnote fetishism & "I'm Not There" by Jim Emerson. Jim Emerson's scanners::blog (2007-10-10). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated
- ^ "Dylan 07", Sony BMG Music Entertainment, 2007-08-01. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Retrieved on 2007-08-17. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 986 - A Byzantine army was destroyed in the pass of Trajan's Gate by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli
- ^ "A Zombie on Halloween", The Scotsman, 2007-09-08. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz
- ^ What's Bob Dylan Doing In A Victoria's Secret Ad?. Slate (2004-04-12). "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- ^ Dylan, Cadillac. XM Radio (2007-10-22). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus
- ^ Dylan had first sung about this car in his 1963 nuclear war fantasy, “Talkin’ World War III Blues”, when he described it as a “good car to drive – after a war”.
- ^ "Dylan projects are blowin’ in", USA Today, 2007-09-06. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started
- ^ "Dylan's drawings to go on display - alongside Picasso's", The Independent, 2007-08-10. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire
- ^ "Bob Dylan and Chemnitz", Chemnitz, 2007-10-01. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
- ^ "Dylan Goes On Show", Sky News, 2007-10-22. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus
- ^ The Drawn Blank Series. Prestel Verlag (2007-10-31). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse
- ^ "Dylan reworks "Hard Rain's" for Spanish expo", Reuters. Retrieved on 2007-11-24. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal
- ^ Expo Zaragoza 2008. Expo web site. Retrieved on 2007-12-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire
- ^ Dylan's Annotated Starbucks CD. All Along the Watchtower. Retrieved on 2008-02-21. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland
- ^ Richard Williams. Ace Records. The Guardian.
- ^ Jack White, Bob Dylan Rework Hank Williams Lyrics. Retrieved on 2007-11-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land
- ^ Dylan gets Jack White to bring Hank Williams to life. guardian News and Media Ltd. .
- ^ Dylan, Jack White, others finish Hank songs. Retrieved on 2007-11-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land
- ^ Bob Dylan Begins 'Chronicles: Volume 2'
- ^ Muir, Razor's Edge, 7–10
- ^ "Log of every Dylan performance, 1958 to Today", Bjorner's Still on the Road, 2006-08-20. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 636 - Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine Retrieved on 2006-08-22. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
- ^ Mark Ellen argues with Andy Kershaw about the merits of Dylan's current live performances on BBC Radio FourThat Dylan Argument In Full. The Word. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ ""Dylan and fans ageing gracefully" by Mike Doherty", National Post, 2006-11-08. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great a Celebration Retrieved on 2007-09-05. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- ^ ""Another Look at Bob Dylan" by David Gates", Newsweek, 2004-10-29. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II Retrieved on 2006-09-06. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started
- ^ "March 27, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden", Bob Links. Events 196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. 1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Retrieved on 2007-03-30. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
- ^ 2008 Tour Guide. Bob Links. com (2008-04-07). 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor
- ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 198–200
- ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, 372–3
- ^ "Dylan's Secret Marriage Uncovered", BBC news, 2001-04-12. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Retrieved on 2007-06-20. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 451 - Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius ' defeats Attila the Hun.
- ^ "Has Bob Dylan Endorsed Obama?" by Chris Francescani, ABC News, June 6 2008
- ^ a b Bauder, David. "Game Plays on Dylan's Unpredictability", Associated Press. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Muir, Razor's Edge, 22–25
- ^ Pagel, Bill. Bob Links. boblinks. com. Retrieved on 2008-05-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
- ^ Author of Dylan's Visions of Sin, Viking Books, 2003
- ^ Christopher Ricks: Someone's gotta hold of his art
- ^ Corcoran is a recognised authority on modern American poetry
- ^ Bono Interviews Bob Dylan, July 8, 1984. 'Hot Press' Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-10-26. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 740 - An Earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death
- ^ Bob Dylan & Neil Young. Thrasher's Wheat - A Neil Young Archive. Retrieved on 2007-09-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
- ^ Bruce Springsteen on Bob Dylan. The Columbia World of Quotations. Bartleby. com. Retrieved on 2006-08-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- ^ Song for Bob Dylan on the album Hunky Dory, David Bowie, 1971
- ^ In 2007, Ferry released an album of his versions of Dylan songs, Dylanesque
- ^ "Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs" on The Minutemen's What Makes A Man Start Fires?, SST Records, 1982
- ^ Nick Cave and Bob Dylan. " Song for Bob Dylan " is a song written by David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory. Hunky Dory is the fourth album by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1971 (see 1971 in music) Dylanesque is a 2007 album by Bryan Ferry, frontman of Roxy Music. What Makes a Man Start Fires? is the second full-length album and fifth release overall by influential punk / alternative Power trio Minutemen Maurice Maes. Retrieved on 2007-10-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule
- ^ Tom Waits on his cherished albums of all time. Observer Music Monthly. Retrieved on 2007-01-08. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army
References
- Bjorner, Olof (2002). Olof's Files: A Bob Dylan Performance Guide (Bob Dylan all alone on a shelf). Hardinge Simpole. ISBN 184382020X.
- Bauldie (ed. ), John (1992). Wanted Man: In Search of Bob Dylan. Penguin Books. ISBN 0140153616.
- Cott (ed. ), Jonathan (2006). Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0340923121.
- Dylan, Bob (2004). Chronicles: Volume One. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-2815-4.
- Fishkoff, Sue (2003). The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch. Schocken Books. ISBN 0805211381.
- Gill, Andy (1999). Classic Bob Dylan: My Back Pages. Carlton. ISBN 1-85868-599-0.
- Gray, Michael (2000). Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan. Continuum International. ISBN 0-8264-5150-0.
- Gray, Michael (2006). The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. Continuum International. ISBN 0-8264-6933-7.
- Harvey, Todd (2001). The Formative Dylan: Transmission & Stylistic Influences, 1961–1963. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-4115-0.
- Heylin, Clinton (2003). Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited. Perennial Currents. ISBN 0-06-052569-X.
- Marcus, Greil (2001). The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes. Picador. ISBN 0-312-42043-9.
- Marqusee, Mike (2005). Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1-58322-686-9.
- Marshall, Scott (2002). Restless Pilgrim: The Spiritual Journey of Bob Dylan. Relevant Books. ISBN 0-9714576-2-X.
- Muir, Andrew (2001). Razor's Edge: Bob Dylan & the Never Ending Tour. Helter Skelter. ISBN 1-900924-13-7.
- Ricks, Christopher (2003). Dylan's Visions of Sin. Penguin/Viking. ISBN 0-670-80133-X.
- Scaduto, Anthony. Bob Dylan. Helter Skelter, 2001 reprint of 1972 original. ISBN 1-900924-23-4.
- Robert Shelton, No Direction Home, Da Capo Press, 2003 reprint of 1986 original, 576 pages. Robert Shelton ( June 28, 1926, Chicago Illinois, United States &ndash December 11, 1995, Brighton England ISBN 0-306-81287-8
- Sam Shepard, Rolling Thunder Logbook, Da Capo, 2004 reissue, 176 pages. Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American artist who worked as an award-winning Playwright, Writer and Actor. ISBN 0-306-81371-8
- Sounes, Howard (2001). Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan. Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-1686-8.
- Bob Dylan. Robbie Robertson. Rolling Stone Issue 946. Rolling Stone.
- The Immortals: The First Fifty. Rolling Stone Issue 946. Rolling Stone.
Further reading
- Gilmore, Michael T. Tangled Up in the Bible: Bob Dylan and Scripture, Continuum, 2004, 160 pages. ISBN 0-8264-1602-0
- Hajdu, David Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001, 328 pages. ISBN 0-374-28199-8
- Heylin Clinton, Bob Dylan: A Life In Stolen Moments, Schirmer Books, 1986, 403 pages. ISBN 0-8256-7156-6. Also known as Bob Dylan: Day By Day
- Heylin, Clinton, Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions, 1960-1994. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995.
- Hinchey John, Like a Complete Unknown: The Poetry of Bob Dylan’s Songs, 1961–1966. Stealing Home Press, 2002. 277 pages. ISBN 0-9723592-0-6
- Greil Marcus, Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, PublicAffairs, 2005. Greil Marcus (born 1945 is an American Author, music Journalist and cultural Critic. ISBN 1-58648-254-8
- Mellers Wilfrid, A Darker Shade Of Pale: A Backdrop To Bob Dylan Oxford University Press, 1985, 255 pages. ISBN 0-19-503622-0
- Porter, Carl and Peter Vernezze (editors), Bob Dylan and Philosophy, Open Court Books, 2005, 225 pages. ISBN 0-8126-9592-5
- Riley, Tim Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary, Vintage, 1992, 356 pages. ISBN 0-679-74527-0
- Varesi Anthony, The Bob Dylan Albums, Guernica Editions, 2002, 264 pages. ISBN 1-55071-139-3
- Webb, Stephen H. "Dylan Redeemed: From Highway 61 to Saved. " Continuum Publishers. 2006
- Williams, Paul, Bob Dylan, Performing Artist: The Early Years, 1960–1973. New York Omnibus Press, 1990.
- Williams, Paul, Bob Dylan, Performing Artist: The Middle Years, 1974–1986. New York: Omnibus Press, 1992.
- Williams, Paul, Bob Dylan, Performing Artist: Mind Out of Time, 1986 to 1990 and Beyond. New York: Omnibus Press, 2004.
External links
- BobDylan.com — Official web site, including lyrics
- Expecting Rain — Dylan news and events, updated daily
- BobLinks — Comprehensive log of concerts & set lists with categorized link collection
- Still on the Road — Information on all known recording sessions by Bob Dylan
- Bob Dylan at the Internet Movie Database
- Bob Dylan: Tangled up in Jews — Information on Bob Dylan's evolving Jewish identity, by Larry Yudelson. Larry Yudelson, also known by his pen name Reb Yudel, is editorial director and owner of Ben Yehuda Press a specialty publisher of Jewish religious texts
- Bob Dylan Collection — Hibbing, MN public library collection of Bob Dylan memorabilia
- RightWingBob.com — General commentary on the political and moral themes in Dylan's work, by Sean Curnyn
- Come Writers And Critics — A list of books, magazines, fanzines, and songbooks published in the world about Bob Dylan
- Songs that Inspired Bob Dylan — A two-hour internet-radio show playing old songs Bob Dylan has used to base his own compositions
- "Bob Dylan’s American Journey, 1956-1966" - traveling museum exhibition at Morgan Library, from Experience Music Project, Seattle.
- The Bob Dylan Ticket Stub & Concert Poster Archive — Scans and photos of thousands of ticket stubs and concert posters
- The Jewish Bob Dylan — Bernard Timberg analyzes the songs of Bob Dylan looking for Jewish themes and imagery, 1972
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dylan, Bob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zimmerman, Robert Allen (birth name) |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Rock and folk musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duluth, Minnesota |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
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