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| Bob Dylan |
|
| Background information |
| Birth name |
Robert Allen Zimmerman |
| Also known as |
Elston Gunn,[1] Tedham Porterhouse, Blind Boy Grunt, Lucky Wilbury/Boo Wilbury, Elmer Johnson, Sergei Petrov, Jack Frost, Jack Fate, Robert Milkwood Thomas |
| Born |
May 24, 1941 (1941-05-24) (age 68)
Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Genres |
Rock, folk, blues, country, gospel |
| Occupations |
Singer-songwriter, musician, painter, poet |
| Instruments |
Vocals, guitar, bass, harmonica, keyboard, piano |
| Years active |
1961 – present |
| Labels |
Columbia, Asylum |
| Associated acts |
The Band, Traveling Wilburys, Grateful Dead, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers |
| Website |
bobdylan.com |
.^ Bob Dylan, whose real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman was born on May 24, 1941.- Bob Dylan Ringtones For Download : Classic Rock Ringtones From Real Rock News 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.realrocknews.com [Source type: General]
^ Robert Allen Zimmerman legally becomes Bob Dylan, having signed a music publishing deal with Witmark Music on 12 July, engineered by Albert Grossman.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes Blogcritics.org, May 19, 2009 ...active in the 21st century ?- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
He has been a major figure in
popular music for five decades.
[2] .^ Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest.
^ Dylan's musical career spans five decades, with much of his most celebrated work coming in the 1960s.- Bob Dylan Ringtones For Download : Classic Rock Ringtones From Real Rock News 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.realrocknews.com [Source type: General]
^ Read More Chronicles By Bob Dylan The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
.^ As Bob Dylan says "the times they are a-changin"...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ Dylan's third album, The Times They Are a-Changin' , reflected a more politicized and cynical Dylan.
^ The before mentioned opening montage with Bob Dylan ’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’” was cool but from there it goes downhill fast to the point where it’s not bad enough to have Tears...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Dylan's early lyrics incorporated political , social and philosophical , as well as literary , influences.
.^ They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture .
^ They duet each night but, musically, do not co-exist naturally.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ While expanding and personalizing genres , he has explored many traditions of American song, from folk , blues and country to gospel , rock and roll and rockabilly to English , Scottish and Irish folk music , and even jazz and swing .
^ His early focus on rock and roll gave way to an interest in American folk music.
^ Rock , folk , folk rock , blues , country .
[5]
.^ Dylan performs with guitar , piano and harmonica .
^ Dylan : Do you play them on piano or guitar?- Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.interferenza.net [Source type: Original source]
^ By contrast, the B side of the album consisted of four long songs on which Dylan accompanied himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica.
.^ After 10 minutes, I gave up, and turned back toward the tree-line.
^ It's the first Never Ending Tour show in over 600 to be televised.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ The Montreux show is his 1000th on the Never-Ending Tour, 10 years after it all began.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but his greatest contribution is generally considered to be his songwriting.
^ Bob Dylan is one of the most lauded and greatest loved songwriters and performers of all time.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
[2]
.^ Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame 1982.- Bob Dylan Discography at Discogs 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.discogs.com [Source type: General]
^ He has received numerous awards over the years including Grammy , Golden Globe and Academy Awards ; he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame .
^ Dylan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in January 1988.
.^ The president has also met Bob Dylan , the singer, and David Lynch and Woody Allen, the film directors, and has had dinner with Michel Houellebecq, whose...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ The before mentioned opening montage with Bob Dylan ’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’” was cool but from there it goes downhill fast to the point where it’s not bad enough to have Tears...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ Read More Chronicles By Bob Dylan The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
[6] The
Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a
special citation for what they called his profound impact on popular music and American culture, "marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."
[7]
Life and career
Origins and musical beginnings
Robert Allen Zimmerman (
Hebrew name Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham)
[8][9] was born in St. Mary's Hospital on May 24, 1941, in
Duluth, Minnesota,
[10][11] and raised in
Hibbing, Minnesota, on the
Mesabi Iron Range west of
Lake Superior.
.^ In his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One , Dylan acknowledged that he was familiar with the poetry of Dylan Thomas .
^ In October 2004, Dylan published the first part of his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One .
^ Research by Dylan’s biographers has shown that his paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine ) to the United States following the antisemitic pogroms of 1905.
[13].^ Growing up in Hibbing, Dylan and his parents were part of the area's small but close-knit Jewish community, and in May 1954 Dylan had his Bar Mitzvah .
^ Dylan’s parents, Abram Zimmerman and Beatrice "Beatty" Stone, were part of the area's small but close-knit Jewish community.
^ He began performing in coffeehouses and clubs in the Greenwich Village area and managed to generate a small following in the Greenwich Village folk community.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
.^ Robert Zimmerman lived in Duluth until age six, when his father was stricken with polio and the family returned to his mother's home town, Hibbing , where Zimmerman spent the rest of his childhood.
^ Dylan ends the year with another 17 North American shows, starting again in Canada and including one in the town of his birth, Duluth, Minnesota, which he left aged 6.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Robert Zimmerman spent much of his youth listening to the radio—first to blues and country stations broadcasting from Shreveport, Louisiana and, later, to early rock and roll .
.^ Real Name: Robert Allen Zimmerman Profile: Born: May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, USA Folk rock icon.- Bob Dylan Discography at Discogs 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.discogs.com [Source type: General]
^ Rolling Stone magazine reports that the world's first rock bootleg album, Great White Wonder, is on sale in Los Angeles and it's a double album at that.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Queenan spent much of his youth trying to find a way to escape from his father and his fathers world.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
[14] .^ He formed several bands in high school: The Shadow Blasters was short lived, but his next, The Golden Chords, 19 lasted longer and played covers of popular songs.
^ Though the Wilburys never perform live, Dylan has played at least one Wilbury song in concert - but rarely.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Dylan turned to his band and said "Play it fucking loud!", 90 and they launched into the final song of the night with gusto—"Like a Rolling Stone".
.^ 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.
^ Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 (Performer).- Bob Dylan Discography at Discogs 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.discogs.com [Source type: General]
[16] In 1959 he saw
Buddy Holly in the Winter Dance Party tour and later recalled how he made eye contact with him. In his 1959 school yearbook, Robert Zimmerman listed as his ambition "To follow
Little Richard."
[17] The same year, using the name Elston Gunnn (sic), he performed two dates with
Bobby Vee, playing piano and providing handclaps.
[1][18][19]
.^ Zimmerman moved to Minneapolis in September 1959 and enrolled at the University of Minnesota .
^ He enrols at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, but attends few formal classes.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ His early focus on rock and roll gave way to an interest in American folk music.
^ The music critics, so-called “rock and roll writers?” DYLAN: Well I try to keep up.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1985 Dylan explained the attraction that folk music had exerted on him: "The thing about rock'n'roll is that for me anyway it wasn't enough ...
.^ I wasn't even thinking about him."- A Little Poetry: Dear Bob Dylan, A Collection of Letters by Lisa Zaran 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.alittlepoetry.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In 1985 Dylan explained the attraction that folk music had exerted on him: "The thing about rock'n'roll is that for me anyway it wasn't enough ...
^ Dylan is still the Grandaddy of Rock 'n Roll folks!- Perez Hilton: Bob Dylan Commits Plaigarism 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC perezhilton.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ 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.
^ In 1985 Dylan explained the attraction that folk music had exerted on him: "The thing about rock'n'roll is that for me anyway it wasn't enough ...
^ Today we get more specific, delving into books on rock, pop, hip-hop, classical music and more.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
.^ The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings."
^ I took it off a song called 'No More Auction Block'—that's a spiritual and 'Blowin' In The Wind follows the same feeling.
^ But there is so much more going on in this song; there is actually a chorus!
[20] .^ 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.
^ With its veiled references to nuclear apocalypse , it gained even more resonance when the Cuban missile crisis developed only a few weeks after Dylan began performing it.
^ Under the name Bob Dylan, he starts performing as a folk-singer at the Ten O'Clock Scholar, a coffee-house popular with young people, delivering traditional folk and blues material in a sweet sounding voice.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
[21][22]
.^ During his Dinkytown days, Zimmerman began introducing himself as "Bob Dylan."
^ Robert Allen Zimmerman legally becomes Bob Dylan, having signed a music publishing deal with Witmark Music on 12 July, engineered by Albert Grossman.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Read More The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966 By Bob Dylan The Bob Dylan Scrapbook is the highly collectable illustrated biography of Dylan's life during the 1950s and 60s.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
[15] .^ In a 2004 interview, Dylan explained: "You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents.
^ You're completely biased and Im confident that if Lady Gaga was given the opportunity to have been in this video with Bob Dylan, you would be praising it for being 'nonsensical' and 'brilliant.'- Perez Hilton: Bob Dylan Meets Santa! 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC perezhilton.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ When you can name five poets without including Bob Dylan , when you exceed your quota and don't even notice, close this manual...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
I mean, that happens.
.^ You call yourself what you want to call yourself.
^ Look at Jim Morrison , if you want to call him a poet.- Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.interferenza.net [Source type: Original source]
This is the land of the free."
[23] He further elaborated that he had never viewed himself as "a Robert Zimmerman."
[23]
1960s
Relocation to New York and record deal
.^ Dylan dropped out of college at the end of his freshman year.
^ Dylan dropped out of university and moved to New York City in the winter of 1961.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ Dylan ends the year with another 17 North American shows, starting again in Canada and including one in the town of his birth, Duluth, Minnesota, which he left aged 6.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ In January 1961, he moved to New York City, hoping to perform there and visit his musical idol Woody Guthrie , who was seriously ill with Huntington's Disease in Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital .
^ At Dylan's insistence, Robertson and Kooper came down from New York City to play on the sessions.
^ Robert Shelton, New York Times , 1961-09-21, "Bob Dylan: A Distinctive Stylist" reproduced online: Robert Shelton (1961-09-21).
[24] .^ Guthrie had been a revelation to Dylan and was the biggest influence on his early performances.
^ Give me a BREAK! Bob Dylan defined a generation and helped influenced some of the biggest movements in history.- Perez Hilton: Bob Dylan Commits Plaigarism 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC perezhilton.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Even Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen join in, performing the songs of folk icon Woody Guthrie.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
.^ In 1976, Dylan also wrote and duetted on the song "Sign Language" for Eric Clapton 's No Reason To Cry 142 .
^ Describing the impact that Dylan had on her and her husband, Joyce Carol Oates wrote: "When we first heard this raw, very young, and seemingly untrained voice, frankly nasal, as if sandpaper could sing, the effect was dramatic and electrifying."
^ Even Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen join in, performing the songs of folk icon Woody Guthrie.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
[He] was the true voice of the American spirit. I said to myself I was going to be Guthrie's greatest disciple."
.^ DYLAN: Well, I didn’t do anything on that album.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ While their self titled album leaves you beaten and bruised, “Get Color” serenades you to your feet just in time to take another wallop of destruction.
^ Even Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen join in, performing the songs of folk icon Woody Guthrie.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
Much of Guthrie's repertoire was actually channeled through Elliott, and Dylan paid tribute to Elliott in
Chronicles (2004).
[26]
.^ From February 1961, Dylan played at various clubs around Greenwich Village .
^ He began performing in coffeehouses and clubs in the Greenwich Village area and managed to generate a small following in the Greenwich Village folk community.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ In a Greenwich Village hangout, Dylan writes a two-verse version of his first famous song in a few minutes, later adding a third verse.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ In September, he eventually gained public recognition when Robert Shelton wrote a positive review in The New York Times of a show at Gerde's Folk City .
^ Robert Shelton, in the New York Times, writes a glowing review of Dylan's support slot at Gerde's Folk City, calling him "One of the most distinctive stylists to play Manhattan in months".- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ By 1981, while Dylan's Christian faith was obvious, Stephen Holden wrote in the New York Times that "neither age (he's now 40) nor his much-publicized conversion to born-again Christianity has altered his essentially iconoclastic temperament."
[27] .^ On the same day Dylan plays harmonica at a recording session produced by John Hammond.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ The same month Dylan played harmonica on folk singer Carolyn Hester 's eponymous third album, which brought his talents to the attention of the album's producer John Hammond .
^ Robert Shelton, in the New York Times, writes a glowing review of Dylan's support slot at Gerde's Folk City, calling him "One of the most distinctive stylists to play Manhattan in months".- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
[28] .^ Hammond signed Dylan to Columbia Records in October.
^ 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.
^ I seem to have signed off on Bob Dylan (whose records I’d been buying since the ’60s) with Love and Theft , a CD on which I found not one stand-out song.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
.^ The performances on his first Columbia album, Bob Dylan (1962), consisted of familiar folk, blues and gospel material combined with two original compositions.
^ For his debut album, see Bob Dylan (album) .
^ Under the name Bob Dylan, he starts performing as a folk-singer at the Ten O'Clock Scholar, a coffee-house popular with young people, delivering traditional folk and blues material in a sweet sounding voice.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ The album made little impact, selling only 5,000 copies in its first year, just enough to break even.
^ Produced, like Oh Mercy, by Daniel Lanois, it is Dylan's first all-original album for seven years.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ More Jan 6, 3:00pm Hidden Track This year at Hidden Track, we concocted a little experiment for our year-end Best Albums of 2009 list.- Bob Dylan > Elbows Music Blog Aggregator 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC elbo.ws [Source type: General]
[29] .^ Dylan is called "Hammond's Folly" within Columbia Records.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Within Columbia Records, some referred to the singer as "Hammond's Folly" and suggested dropping his contract.
^ After rejections from smaller labels, Columbia Records' John Hammond offers Dylan a five-year contract.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ Hammond defended Dylan vigorously, and Johnny Cash was also a powerful ally of Dylan.
^ Bob Dylan Meets George Harrison & Johnny Cash (1969 & 70) .- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ Dylan records three songs for The Johnny Cash Show, one a duet with Cash.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
[29] .^ While working for Columbia, Dylan also recorded several songs under the pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt, for Broadside Magazine , a folk music magazine and record label.
^ Dylan in Barcelona, Spain , 1984 Photo: F. Antolín Hernandez In the fall of 1980 Dylan briefly resumed touring for a series of concerts billed as "A Musical Retrospective", where he restored several of his popular 1960s songs to the repertoire.
^ At the end of the play, Dylan performed Blowin' in the Wind , one of the first major public performances of the song 39 While in London, Dylan performed at several London folk clubs, including Les Cousins , The Pinder Of Wakefield , 40 and Bunjies .
[30]
.^ With Joan Baez during the civil rights "March on Washington" , 28 August 1963 Dylan made two important career moves in August 1962.
^ Dylan goes on to sign a management deal with Grossman on 30 August 1962.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ He legally changed his name to Robert Dylan, and signed a management contract with Albert Grossman .
.^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Dylan goes on to sign a management deal with Grossman on 30 August 1962.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
[31] .^ With qualifications like that, I would be exactly the kind of...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ Dylan would subsequently describe Grossman thus: "He was kind of like a Colonel Tom Parker figure ...
^ Dylan : Somebody else would have done it in some other kind of way.- Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.interferenza.net [Source type: Original source]
you could smell him coming."
[22] .^ 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 .
^ A short list of the artists he produced include Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan , Willie Nelson, Wilson Pickett, Dusty Springfield, Big Joe Turner, Dr. John and Allen Toussaint.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ The album produced from it, MTV Unplugged , included "John Brown", an unreleased 1963 song detailing the ravages of both war and jingoism .
[32]
.^ Invited to perform in a BBC TV play, The Madhouse on Castle Street, Dylan spends a month in London, playing clubs, hanging out with English folk luminaries such as Martin Carthy and helping some fellow Americans who are recording in town.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Dylan makes his first trip to the segregated South for a voter registration rally.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ In September, Dylan returns to the very studio in which he recorded his first six albums, doing some songs again in Minneapolis in December.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
[34] .^ At the end of the play, Dylan performed Blowin' in the Wind , one of the first major public performances of the song 39 While in London, Dylan performed at several London folk clubs, including Les Cousins , The Pinder Of Wakefield , 40 and Bunjies .
^ The tour was a varied evening of entertainment featuring about one hundred performers and supporters 131 drawn from the resurgent Greenwich Village folk scene, including T-Bone Burnett , Ramblin' Jack Elliott , Joni Mitchell .
^ Despite the film's failure at the box office, the song " Knockin' on Heaven's Door " has proven its durability as one of Dylan's most extensively covered songs.
[33] .^ He also learnt new songs from several UK performers, including Martin Carthy .
^ At the end of the play, Dylan performed Blowin' in the Wind , one of the first major public performances of the song 39 While in London, Dylan performed at several London folk clubs, including Les Cousins , The Pinder Of Wakefield , 40 and Bunjies .
^ The album contained several apparently simple songs, including "Under the Red Sky" and "Wiggle Wiggle".
[33]
.^ Dylan's second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan , was released in May of 1963.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ Under the name Bob Dylan, he starts performing as a folk-singer at the Ten O'Clock Scholar, a coffee-house popular with young people, delivering traditional folk and blues material in a sweet sounding voice.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Theme Time Radio Hour with your host Bob Dylan - Box 2 (cd 11-20) .- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
.^ Many of the songs on this album were labeled protest songs , inspired partly by Guthrie and influenced by Pete Seeger 's passion for topical songs.
^ Recorded in a single six-hour session, Dylan's fourth album marks a shift from literal protest songs to more personal writing.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Discography · Albums · Songs · List of artists who have covered Bob Dylan songs · Related topics · Traveling Wilburys · Theme Time Radio Hour · Awards .
[37] .^ "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 .
[38]
Bob Dylan in November 1963
.^ His most famous song at this 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.
^ I took it off a song called 'No More Auction Block'—that's a spiritual and 'Blowin' In The Wind follows the same feeling.
^ Blowin' in the Wind " has a really strong melody.
[39] .^ 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.
^ So, if I was to stop writing songs, I would stop recording.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ Blonderthenyou says – reply to this 46 Bob Dylan is a genius and anyone who says different has never listened to the words of his songs…he is one of the worlds best poets and he speaks for many generations…I love BOB DYLAN! GO HIPPIES .- Perez Hilton: Bob Dylan Commits Plaigarism 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC perezhilton.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Even Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen join in, performing the songs of folk icon Woody Guthrie.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ Dylan attends the Mariposa Folk Festival in Canada but does not perform.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Am I hung-up?” DYLAN: Well, not any more than anybody else is who performs in public.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
[40] .^ 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 a traditional folk form.
^ A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall " was based on the tune of the folk ballad " Lord Randall ".
^ These indispensable new books of Bob Dylan criticism carry on important critical traditions.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
[41]
.^ While Dylan's topical songs solidified his early reputation, Freewheelin' also included a mixture of love songs and jokey, surreal talking blues.
^ With its bitter assessment of love and morbid ruminations, Dylan's first collection of original songs in seven years was highly acclaimed.
^ 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 .
.^ Humor was a large part of Dylan's persona, 47 and the range of material on the album impressed many listeners, including The Beatles .
^ The performances on his first Columbia album, Bob Dylan (1962), consisted of familiar folk, blues and gospel material combined with two original compositions.
^ Of his new album of original material Dylan says, "The songs are variations on the 12-bar theme and blues-based melodies".- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
George Harrison said, "We just played it, just wore it out.
.^ The content of the song lyrics and just the attitude—it was incredibly original and wonderful."
^ He is certainly a poet that has created music of an astounding lyrical content, originality and beauty.- Bob Dylan Discography at Discogs 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.discogs.com [Source type: General]
[44]
.^ The rough edge of Dylan's singing was unsettling to some early listeners but an attraction to others.
^ Some fans fume while others empathise with the put-upon Dylan.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
Describing the impact that Dylan had on her and her husband,
Joyce Carol Oates wrote: "When we first heard this raw, very young, and seemingly untrained voice, frankly nasal, as if sandpaper could sing, the effect was dramatic and electrifying."
[45] Many of his most famous early songs first reached the public through more immediately palatable versions by other performers, such as
Joan Baez, who became Dylan's advocate, as well as his lover.
[15] .^ Baez was influential in bringing Dylan to national and international prominence by recording several of his early songs and inviting him onstage during her own concerts.
^ Dylan in Barcelona, Spain , 1984 Photo: F. Antolín Hernandez In the fall of 1980 Dylan briefly resumed touring for a series of concerts billed as "A Musical Retrospective", where he restored several of his popular 1960s songs to the repertoire.
^ Dylan performs at a 1996 concert in Stockholm With a collection of songs reportedly written while snowed-in on his Minnesota ranch, 182 Dylan booked recording time with Daniel Lanois at Miami 's Criteria Studios in January 1997.
[46]
.^ 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 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.
^ Tambourine Man " had already been a hit for The Byrds , and would become one of his best known songs; while " It's All Over Now Baby Blue " and " It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) " would be acclaimed as two of Dylan's most important compositions.
.^ It consisted of 13 acoustic folk songs, mostly Dylan originals.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ Most attempted to impart a pop feel and rhythm to the songs, while Dylan and Baez performed them mostly as sparse folk pieces.
^ At the end of the play, Dylan performed Blowin' in the Wind , one of the first major public performances of the song 39 While in London, Dylan performed at several London folk clubs, including Les Cousins , The Pinder Of Wakefield , 40 and Bunjies .
The cover versions became so ubiquitous that
CBS started to promote him with the tag "Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan."
[47]
.^ "Mixed Up Confusion", recorded during the Freewheelin' sessions with a backing band, was released as a single and then quickly withdrawn.
^ Recorded during the European tour, Dylan's fourth live album in 10 years offers a largely dismal selection from a mixed tour.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ At last, some of the much-bootlegged tracks from Dylan's 1967 sessions with The Band are officially released.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ In contrast to the mostly solo acoustic performances on the album, the single showed a willingness to experiment with a rockabilly sound.
^ By contrast, the B side of the album consisted of four long songs on which Dylan accompanied himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica.
^ Watching The River Flow, his most rocking performance for some time, becomes his next single and When I Paint My Masterpiece is included on The Band's next album.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
Cameron Crowe described it as "a fascinating look at a folk artist with his mind wandering towards
Elvis Presley and
Sun Records."
[48]
Protest and Another Side
.^ In May 1963, Dylan's political profile was raised when he walked out of The Ed Sullivan Show .
^ Dylan Interview with Karen Hughes, ( The Dominion , Wellington, New Zealand), May 21, 1980; reprinted in Cott (ed.
^ Do such Bob Dylan lines as "Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night," "I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways" or "the cracked bells and...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
.^ During rehearsals, Dylan had been informed by CBS Television 's "head of program practices" that the song he was planning to perform, "Talkin' John Birch Society Blues", was potentially libelous to the John Birch Society .
^ Even Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen join in, performing the songs of folk icon Woody Guthrie.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ Dylan performs three London shows in three days at three different venues, doing 37 different songs overall, to great acclaim.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ Rather than comply with the censorship , Dylan refused to appear on the program.
[49]
.^ Dylan's third album, The Times They Are a-Changin' , reflected a more politicized and cynical Dylan.
^ The civil rights movement and the folk music movement were pretty close and allied together at that time."
^ With Joan Baez during the civil rights "March on Washington" , 28 August 1963 Dylan made two important career moves in August 1962.
[51] .^ The songs often took as their subject matter contemporary, real life stories, with "Only A Pawn In Their Game" addressing the murder of civil rights worker Medgar Evers ; and the Brechtian " The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll " the death of black hotel barmaid Hattie Carroll, at the hands of young white socialite William Zantzinger .
^ Dylan's third album, entirely self-composed, cements his reputation as a protest singer with songs like the title track and The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, though it also includes personal songs such as Boots of Spanish Leather and One Too Many Mornings.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Metal is often associated with death, but the “Blue Album” is life its self, a blue flower blossoming in your ears, and then unexpectantly gashing your ear drums with their savage thorns.
[52] .^ On a more general theme, " Ballad of Hollis Brown " and " North Country Blues " address the despair engendered by the breakdown of farming and mining communities.
^ I got a chance to do ballads, like “Girl From the North Country.” It’s just because it had more variety.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ North Country Blues .- Bob Dylan Ringtones For Download : Classic Rock Ringtones From Real Rock News 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.realrocknews.com [Source type: General]
This political material was accompanied by two personal love songs, "Boots of Spanish Leather" and "One Too Many Mornings".
[53]
.^ By the end of 1963, Dylan felt both manipulated and constrained by the folk and protest movements.
^ Dylan, at the end of a month-long US tour, performs Cry a While at the event and comes away with the Best Contemporary Folk Album award, a slight consolation.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ By this time, Dylan and Baez were both prominent in the civil rights movement , singing together at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.
[54] .^ Dylan can express every emotion known to man, and is simply the greatest lyricist of all time...and it's unlikely he will ever be touched.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ Dylan's first big show, supporting blues legend John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City, earns him $90 a week.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Wearing a tuxedo and watched by his proud mother, Dylan receives the Kennedy Center Award from President Clinton, attending a White House reception the day after.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
[55]
.^ Bobby Dylan, as the college yearbook lists him: St. Lawrence University , upstate New York, November 1963 Another Side of Bob Dylan , recorded on a single June evening in 1964, 19 had a lighter mood than its predecessor.
^ Bob Dylan's 1967 recording sessions ".
^ Producer Bob Johnston persuaded Dylan to record in Nashville in February 1966, and surrounded him with a cadre of top-notch session men.
.^ You are like a song of particular longing.- A Little Poetry: Dear Bob Dylan, A Collection of Letters by Lisa Zaran 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.alittlepoetry.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I don't know what it is like where you are.- A Little Poetry: Dear Bob Dylan, A Collection of Letters by Lisa Zaran 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.alittlepoetry.com [Source type: Original source]
^ 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.
.^ It Ain't Me Babe ", on the surface a song about spurned love, has been described as a rejection of the role his reputation had thrust at him.
^ Biographer Howard Sounes noted that Jakob Dylan believed the song was about him.
^ Dylan has passed beyond the Woody Guthrie influence with songs like It Ain't Me Babe.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
[56] .^ 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," 61 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.
^ Gill, My Back Pages , pp.
^ My Back Pages [live] .- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
[58]
.^ In the latter half of 1964 and 1965, Dylan’s appearance and musical style changed rapidly, as he made his move from leading contemporary songwriter of the folk scene to Folk-Rock pop-music star.
^ Similarly, Australian critic Jack Marx credited Dylan with changing the persona of the rock star: "What cannot be disputed is that Dylan invented the arrogant, faux-cerebral posturing that has been the dominant style in rock since, with everyone from Mick Jagger to Eminem educating themselves from the Dylan handbook."
^ The initial offerings run toward classic rock and pop, with offerings from the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam, Norah Jones, Jay-Z...
.^ His scruffy jeans and work shirts were replaced by a Carnaby Street wardrobe, sunglasses day or night, and pointy " Beatle boots ".
^ A London reporter wrote: "Hair that would set the teeth of a comb on edge.
^ If I kiss your chest one thousand times, if I stalk your streets both night and day for the rest of my life, will you open yourself up to me?- A Little Poetry: Dear Bob Dylan, A Collection of Letters by Lisa Zaran 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.alittlepoetry.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ A loud shirt that would dim the neon lights of Leicester Square .
He looks like an undernourished
cockatoo."
[59] Dylan also began to spar in increasingly surreal ways with his interviewers.
.^ 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.
^ Like an authoritative dick, I asked him to go to his desk and told him we could talk about it after class.
.^ Asked if he played the cowboy, Dylan replied, "No, I play my mother."
^ I scanned some commercial art from an old Bob Dylan album and asked my father and stepmother (the best photographer I knew at the time) to take a picture of me playing guitar in front of...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ I ran down the hallway to ask my husband what song it was and he told me, Lovesick by Bob Dylan.- A Little Poetry: Dear Bob Dylan, A Collection of Letters by Lisa Zaran 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.alittlepoetry.com [Source type: Original source]
[60]
Going electric
.^ WENNER: At the time when “Highway 61” and “Bringing It All Back Home” were coming out...- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ Main article: Electric Dylan controversy Dylan's March 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home was yet another stylistic leap, 65 featuring his first recordings made with electric instruments.
^ Highway 61 Video of the recording of "Highway 61" from the new album "Dylan Different" of...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Dylan makes his first music video since Subterranean Homesick Blues in 1965.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Following a three-week break from touring and two warm-up shows in Pennsylvania, Dylan starts four nights of shows at Radio City Music Hall.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Lola666 says – reply to this 62 Perez you better take back those words, BOB DYLAN is the GREATEST and he is going to be the GREATEST FOR EVER, look the dude is like 100 years old and he is still rockin'….- Perez Hilton: Bob Dylan Commits Plaigarism 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC perezhilton.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[63] .^ Its free association lyrics both harked back to the manic energy of Beat poetry and were a forerunner of rap and hip-hop .
[64]
.^ Dylan contributes harmonica on the recording of Keith Green's song Pledge My Head To Heaven , later released on the album So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt ...- 1980 The Same Man 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.bjorner.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Dylan does Boots of Spanish Leather and two cover versions (Answer Me and Across the Borderline) to great effect, on acoustic guitar with help from Richard Thompson.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Dylan closes the two-city show with a shambolic three-song set accompanied by Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
[65] "
Mr. Tambourine Man" quickly became one of Dylan's best known songs when
The Byrds recorded an electric guitar version which reached number one in both the U.S. and the U.K. charts.
[66][67] .^ The performances on his first Columbia album, Bob Dylan (1962), consisted of familiar folk, blues and gospel material combined with two original compositions.
^ If I had to name my two biggest inspirations for being a writer, it would be Bob Dylan and Joe Strummer.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ Dylan is probably laughing his ass off right now at comments like yours because it's most likely what he expected to happen and wanted to happen.- Perez Hilton: Bob Dylan Meets Santa! 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC perezhilton.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[65][68]
.^ Dylan performs with guitar , piano and harmonica .
^ Dylan attends the Mariposa Folk Festival in Canada but does not perform.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Dylan's 1965 Newport performance provoked an outraged response from the folk music establishment.
[69] .^ Dylan had appeared at Newport in 1963 and 1964, but in 1965 Dylan, met with a mix of cheering and booing, left the stage after only three songs.
^ Dylan performs three London shows in three days at three different venues, doing 37 different songs overall, to great acclaim.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Dylan closes the two-city show with a shambolic three-song set accompanied by Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ The blonde had flings with folk legend Dylan and...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ 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.
^ At the climax of the evening, one fan , angry with Dylan's electric sound, shouted: " Judas !"
.^ An alternative account claims audience members were merely upset by poor sound quality and a surprisingly short set.
^ In a Rolling Stone interview, Dylan criticized the quality of modern sound recordings and claimed that his new songs "probably sounded ten times better in the studio when we recorded 'em."
[70] .^ He's only been recording for 50 years..and been through multiple genre changes and STILL have people go to his concerts buy his music and has respect musically world wide.- Perez Hilton: Bob Dylan Meets Santa! 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC perezhilton.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ A two-time winner of the Governor General's Award, one for fiction and...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ Top 100 Singers Of All Time I'm Just Sharing, January 31, 2009 ...singers, there’s so many more who were not only more important, but better singers.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
[71]
.^ Even Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen join in, performing the songs of folk icon Woody Guthrie.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ Dylan attends the Mariposa Folk Festival in Canada but does not perform.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Dylan, at the end of a month-long US tour, performs Cry a While at the event and comes away with the Best Contemporary Folk Album award, a slight consolation.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
[72] Ewan MacColl wrote in
Sing Out!, "Our traditional songs and ballads are the creations of extraordinarily talented artists working inside traditions formulated over time ... But what of Bobby Dylan? ... a youth of mediocre talent.
.^ Only a non-critical audience, nourished on the watery pap of pop music could have fallen for such tenth-rate drivel."
[73] .^ Dylan records two songs with Russell's band at a small New York studio.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ New York City '74 .- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ On July 29, just four days after his controversial performance at Newport, Dylan was back in the studio in New York, recording " Positively 4th Street ".
[75]
Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde
.^ He includes the just-released Like a Rolling Stone, which becomes his highest-charting single.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ In July 1965, Dylan released the single " Like a Rolling Stone ", which peaked at #2 in the U.S. and at #4 in the UK charts.
^ Like a Rolling Stone 1966 .- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ At over six minutes in length, the song has been widely credited with altering attitudes about what a pop single could convey.
^ Recorded in a single six-hour session, Dylan's fourth album marks a shift from literal protest songs to more personal writing.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ 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 .
.^ Highway 61 Revisited (CD, Album, Dig) .- Bob Dylan Discography at Discogs 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.discogs.com [Source type: General]
^ Highway 61 Revisited (CD, Album, RM) .- Bob Dylan Discography at Discogs 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.discogs.com [Source type: General]
^ In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine listed it at #1 on its list of "The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
[78] .^ The songs were in the same vein as the hit single, flavored by Mike Bloomfield 's blues guitar and Al Kooper 's organ riffs.
^ In the summer of 1965, as the headliner at the Newport Folk Festival , Dylan performed 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) and Jerome Arnold (bass), plus Al Kooper (organ) and Barry Goldberg (piano).
^ Lo-tech recording in his home studio produces this solo album (just voice, guitar and harmonica) of traditional or traditional-sounding folk and blues songs.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ Desolation Row " offers the sole acoustic exception, with Dylan making surreal allusions to a variety of figures in Western culture during this long song.
^ By contrast, the B side of the album consisted of four long songs on which Dylan accompanied himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica.
^ Baez was influential in bringing Dylan to national and international prominence by recording several of his early songs and inviting him onstage during her own concerts.
Andy Gill wrote, "'Desolation Row' is an 11-minute epic of entropy which takes the form of a Fellini-esque parade of grotesques and oddities featuring a huge cast of iconic characters, some historical (
Einstein,
Nero), some biblical (Noah, Cain and Abel), some fictional (Ophelia, Romeo, Cinderella), some literary (
T.S. Eliot and
Ezra Pound), and some who fit into none of the above categories, notably Dr. Filth and his dubious nurse."
[79]
.^ Dylan records two songs with Russell's band at a small New York studio.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ After trying a couple of half-acoustic/half-electric concerts, Dylan starts touring with The Hawks, recruited from Ronnie Hawkins' bar band.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Dylan closes the two-city show with a shambolic three-song set accompanied by Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ 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 being part of Ronnie Hawkins 's backing band The Hawks .
^ DYLAN: Well, Michael Bloomfield, he was touring with Paul Butterfield at that time...- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ DYLAN: Well I was on tour part of that time...- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
[80] .^ On August 28 at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, the group was heckled by an audience still annoyed by Dylan's electric sound.
^ At the climax of the evening, one fan , angry with Dylan's electric sound, shouted: " Judas !"
^ Three months after this show in Austin, Dylan is still praising Texan crowds but audiences elsewhere are polarised.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ The band's reception on September 3 at the Hollywood Bowl was more favorable.
[81]
.^ After trying a couple of half-acoustic/half-electric concerts, Dylan starts touring with The Hawks, recruited from Ronnie Hawkins' bar band.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Faced with sceptical audiences, Dylan and band had performed fiery versions of these songs in concert (reminiscent of 1966, perhaps) but they fail to deliver in the studio.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ After so many shows in the previous year, even by his standards, Dylan then takes a break from touring but does some studio work .- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ Whoever told Bob Dylan he could sing LIED to HIM!!- Perez Hilton: Bob Dylan Commits Plaigarism 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC perezhilton.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Read More The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966 By Bob Dylan The Bob Dylan Scrapbook is the highly collectable illustrated biography of Dylan's life during the 1950s and 60s.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ On the same day Dylan plays harmonica at a recording session produced by John Hammond.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ At Dylan's insistence, Robertson and Kooper came down from New York City to play on the sessions.
^ New York City '94 .- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ New York City '74 .- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
[82] .^ It's that thin, that wild mercury sound.
^ Bob Dylan: Live 1966 ".
^ Bob Dylan talks about the new album with Bill Flanagan ".
[84]
.^ Dylan married Sara Lownds on November 22, 1965; their first child, Jesse Byron Dylan, was born on January 6, 1966.
^ On November 22, 1965, Dylan secretly married 25-year-old former model Sara Lownds .
^ Dylan also adopted Sara's daughter from a prior marriage, Maria Lownds (later Dylan), (born October 21, 1961 now married to musician Peter Himmelman ).
[15][85] .^ Some of Dylan’s friends (including Ramblin' Jack Elliott ) claim that, in conversation immediately after the event, Dylan denied that he was married.
^ The tour was a varied evening of entertainment featuring about one hundred performers and supporters 131 drawn from the resurgent Greenwich Village folk scene, including T-Bone Burnett , Ramblin' Jack Elliott , Joni Mitchell .
^ Kicking off in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Dylan headlines a high-energy, multi-artist show that includes Joan Baez and Jack Elliott.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
[85] .^ Journalist Nora Ephron first made the news public in the New York Post in February 1966 with the headline “Hush!
^ Dylan also contributes a painting for the cover, the first public evidence of his new interest.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ In September, he eventually gained public recognition when Robert Shelton wrote a positive review in The New York Times of a show at Gerde's Folk City .
.^ Bob Dylan is wed.” 87 .
[86]
.^ Dylan undertook a world tour of Australia and Europe in the spring of 1966.
^ Dylan tours Europe again, starting in Switzerland.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Two shows in Australia are filmed by HBO. .- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ Dylan performs with guitar , piano and harmonica .
^ Dylan performed solo during the first half, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica .
^ By contrast, the B side of the album consisted of four long songs on which Dylan accompanied himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica.
.^ In the second half, backed by the Hawks , he played high voltage electric music.
^ After trying a couple of half-acoustic/half-electric concerts, Dylan starts touring with The Hawks, recruited from Ronnie Hawkins' bar band.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ In 1965, Dylan turned his back on folk music and in the process made history when he plugged in and went electric.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
.^ This contrast provoked many fans, who jeered and slow handclapped .
[87] .^ The tour culminated in a famously raucous confrontation between Dylan and his audience at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in England.
^ While Dylan and the Hawks met increasingly receptive audiences on tour, their studio efforts floundered.
^ Dylan's dialogue with the Manchester audience is recorded (with subtitles) in Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home ^ Sounes, Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan , p.
[88] (A recording of this concert,
Bob Dylan Live 1966, was finally released in 1998.) At the climax of the evening, a member of the audience,
John Cordwell, who was angry with Dylan's electric sound, shouted: "
Judas!" to which Dylan responded, "I don't believe you ...
.^ You're a liar!- Bob Dylan - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
- Bob Dylan - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ If Dylan's sat nav gives us the wrong direction, will it be programmed to recognise a shout of "I don't believe you...you're a liar!"?- Bob Dylan's satnav would take us to Desolation Row | Mark Beaumont | Music | guardian.co.uk 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ You're a liar!".- Bob Dylan - Listen and download free on YouScrobble. 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.youscrobble.com [Source type: General]
- Bob Dylan Gossip 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.celebnextdoor.com [Source type: General]
". Dylan turned to his band and said "
.^ Play it fucking loud!- Bob Dylan - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
- Bob Dylan - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Dylan turned to his band and said "Play it fucking loud!", 90 and they launched into the final song of the night with gusto—"Like a Rolling Stone".
^ Dylan turned to his band and said "Play it fucking loud!", and they launched into the final song of the night with gusto—"Like a Rolling Stone".- Bob Dylan - Listen and download free on YouScrobble. 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.youscrobble.com [Source type: General]
",
[89] and they launched into the final song of the night with gusto—"Like a Rolling Stone".
Motorcycle accident and reclusion
.^ Robert Shelton, in the New York Times, writes a glowing review of Dylan's support slot at Gerde's Folk City, calling him "One of the most distinctive stylists to play Manhattan in months".- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Dylan records two songs with Russell's band at a small New York studio.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Dylan starts a European tour in Norway, ending in Sicily a month later, as Mount Etna fumes.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ That was the ABC-TV show?- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
[90] .^ His publisher, Macmillan , was demanding a finished manuscript of the poem/novel Tarantula .
^ Manager Albert Grossman had already scheduled an extensive concert tour for that summer and fall.
^ Robert Allen Zimmerman legally becomes Bob Dylan, having signed a music publishing deal with Witmark Music on 12 July, engineered by Albert Grossman.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ On July 29, 1966, Dylan was severely injured in a motorcycle accident.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ On July 29, 1966, Dylan crashed his 500cc Triumph Tiger 100 motorcycle on a road near his home in Woodstock, New York , throwing him to the ground.
^ Producer Bob Johnston persuaded Dylan to record in Nashville in February 1966, and surrounded him with a cadre of top-notch session men.
.^ Though the extent of his injuries were never fully disclosed, Dylan said that he broke several vertebrae in his neck.
^ Though the Wilburys never perform live, Dylan has played at least one Wilbury song in concert - but rarely.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
[91] .^ Mystery still surrounds the circumstances of the accident 94 since no ambulance was called to the scene and Dylan was not hospitalized.
^ For his first public appearance since his accident, Dylan plays the two Carnegie Hall concerts in memory of his idol.- BBC - BBC Four - Bob Dylan Timeline | HTML Version 15 September 2009 5:38 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Since then, some critics have called the eleven-minute epic that Dylan co-wrote with Sam Shepard, ' Brownsville Girl ', a work of genius.
[91] .^ Dylan later expressed concern about where his career and private life were headed up until the point of the crash: "When I had that motorcycle accident ...
^ According to interviews conducted years later, Dylan had "been up for three days" preceding the accident.
^ 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.
.^ I woke up feeling sore, especially my foot.
^ Sometimes it’s really annoying to me, when I listen to all these dubs; I listen to one, and then I put on another one, and the one I heard before is still on my mind.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ Is this the guy who tears up all my songs?- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
And I didn't want to do that.
.^ Plus, I had a family and I just wanted to see my kids."
^ I can just see me now, yanking the coat of my own stupidity closed, to cover what?- A Little Poetry: Dear Bob Dylan, A Collection of Letters by Lisa Zaran 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.alittlepoetry.com [Source type: Original source]
[93] .^ Many biographers believe that the crash offered Dylan the much-needed chance to escape from the pressures that had built up around him.
^ Dylan later expressed concern about where his career and private life were headed up until the point of the crash: "When I had that motorcycle accident ...
^ Biographer Howard Sounes noted that Jakob Dylan believed the song was about him.
[91][94] .^ DYLAN: Well, we did quite a few.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ As we did earlier this year for Bob Dylan and Wilco , we're marking the occasion with a complete Harry Potter Takeover of PasteMagazine.com.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
[92]
.^ 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 .
^ DYLAN: Well I was on tour part of that time...- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ The first single, " Subterranean Homesick Blues ", owed much to Chuck Berry 's " Too Much Monkey Business " 66 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 .
.^ A rough-cut was shown to ABC Television and was promptly rejected as incomprehensible to a mainstream audience.
[95] .^ In 1967 he began recording music with the Hawks at his home and in the basement of the Hawks' nearby house, called "Big Pink".
^ 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 .
^ Can you believe this band is on Frenchkiss Records, home of Les Savy Fav, Plastic Constellations, and the Fatal Flying Guilloteens?
.^ Columbia belatedly released selections from them in 1975 as The Basement Tapes .
.^ The song was recorded 11 years before Dylan's poem!- Perez Hilton: Bob Dylan Commits Plaigarism 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC perezhilton.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ DYLAN: There were some more songs out of that same session...- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ DYLAN: I’ve got one that contained that song where he was born in a tent by the river–(hums and sings) “A Change Is Gonna Come.” Yeah, I like that one.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
[97] .^ In 1967 he began recording music with the Hawks at his home and in the basement of the Hawks' nearby house, called "Big Pink".
^ In the coming months, the Hawks recorded the album Music from Big Pink using songs they first worked on in their basement in Woodstock, and renamed themselves The Band , 100 thus beginning a long and successful recording and performing career of their own.
^ Sure, this song has sentimental value for me, reminding me of my road trip this past summer where Paul and I listened to this at the beginning of our trip and later saw the band perform in Boise, Idaho.
.^ In October and November 1967, Dylan returned to Nashville .
[99] .^ Back in the recording studio after a 19-month break, he was accompanied only by Charlie McCoy on bass, 102 Kenny Buttrey on drums, 103 and Pete Drake on steel guitar.
^ Her heart is exposed for all to see, hidden only by the uncoiling back-bone of orchestra and clicking drum sticks, always on the verge of breaking yet somehow staying steady throughout.
^ DYLAN: I heard the sound that Gordon Lightfoot was getting, with Charlie McCoy and Kenny Buttrey.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
[102] .^ The result was John Wesley Harding , a quiet, contemplative record of shorter songs, set in a landscape that drew on both the American West and the Bible .
^ Like songs left over from recording “John Wesley Harding” or “Blonde On Blonde”?- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ After this he took a break and didn't release another album until John Wesley Harding in 1967.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
.^ 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.
^ Dylan in Barcelona, Spain , 1984 Photo: F. Antolín Hernandez In the fall of 1980 Dylan briefly resumed touring for a series of concerts billed as "A Musical Retrospective", where he restored several of his popular 1960s songs to the repertoire.
^ Dylan's musical career spans five decades, with much of his most celebrated work coming in the 1960s.- Bob Dylan Ringtones For Download : Classic Rock Ringtones From Real Rock News 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.realrocknews.com [Source type: General]
[103] .^ This song is larger than life with lyrics to match (I included them all; they’re that damn good): .
^ It included " All Along the Watchtower ", with lyrics derived from the Book of Isaiah (21:5–9).
^ I saw something he wrote about “All Along the Watchtower,” and boy, let me tell you, this boy’s off.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
.^ The song was later recorded by Jimi Hendrix , whose version Dylan himself would later acknowledge as definitive.
^ So, if I was to stop writing songs, I would stop recording.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ It was later revealed that the poem, titled Little Buddy - which references a family dog, was a revised version of song by late country singer Hank Snow.- Perez Hilton: Bob Dylan Commits Plaigarism 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC perezhilton.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[20] .^ 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.
^ Live at Carnegie Hall 1963 .- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ Unravelled Tales - Carnegie Hall Concert, New York, NY., October 26th., 1963 .- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
.^ Lay Lady Lay ," on the country album Nashville Skyline , has been one of Dylan's biggest hits, reaching #7 in the U.S.A. 107 .
^ Dylan's next release, Nashville Skyline (1969), was virtually a mainstream country record featuring instrumental backing by Nashville musicians, a mellow-voiced 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.
^ Bob Dylan , 'Nashville Skyline' ($1.19): Dylan goes country with a little help from Johnny Cash.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
[105] .^ 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 ", "I Threw It All Away" and "Living the Blues".
^ Dylan next travelled 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.
^ WENNER: I’ve gone through all the collected articles that have appeared, all the early ones and Columbia records’ biographies, that’s got the story about running away from home at 11 and 12 and 13-one-half...- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
[106]
1970s
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.
[107][108] .^ In general, Self Portrait , a double LP including few original songs, was poorly received.
[15] .^ Later that year, Dylan released New Morning , which some considered a return to form.
^ On stage in Canada After his European tour, Dylan returned to New York, but the pressures on him continued to increase.
^ Dylan did not make another studio album of new songs for seven years.
[109] .^ DYLAN: You mean when am I going to put out an album?- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ All those things that the Motown records are doing now?- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ Ben Sidran Bearly Rambling, January 1, 2010 ...truly is a must have album for any Ben Sidran fan, any Jazz fan, any Rock fan, any Bob Dylan fan.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Dylan's surprise appearance at Harrison's 1971 Concert for Bangladesh attracted much media coverage, reflecting that Dylan's live appearances had become rare.
^ 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.
^ (A recording of this concert, Bob Dylan Live 1966 , was finally released in 1998.
[111].^ Between March 16 and 19, 1971, Dylan reserved three days at Blue Rock Studios, a small studio in New York's Greenwich Village .
^ On stage in Canada After his European tour, Dylan returned to New York, but the pressures on him continued to increase.
^ DYLAN: Well, because we’re nearer New York now.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
.^ On November 4, 1971 Dylan recorded " George Jackson " which he released a week later.
^ Bob Dylan's 1967 recording sessions ".
^ These sessions resulted in one single, "Watching The River Flow", and a new recording of "When I Paint My Masterpiece".
[53] .^ For many, the single was a surprising return to protest material, mourning the killing of Black Panther George Jackson in San Quentin Prison that summer.
[112]
.^ In 1972 Dylan signed onto Sam Peckinpah 's film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid , providing songs and backing music for the movie, and playing the role of "Alias", a member of Billy's gang who had some basis in history.
^ In 1976, Dylan also wrote and duetted on the song "Sign Language" for Eric Clapton 's No Reason To Cry 142 .
^ DYLAN: Well, I’ve got songs with Leeds Music.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
[113] .^ Despite the film's failure at the box office, the song " Knockin' on Heaven's Door " has proven its durability as one of Dylan's most extensively covered songs.
^ Tambourine Man " had already been a hit for The Byrds , and would become one of his best known songs; while " It's All Over Now Baby Blue " and " It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) " would be acclaimed as two of Dylan's most important compositions.
^ Dylan has continued to perform songs from his gospel albums in concert, occasionally covering traditional religious songs.
[114][115]
Return to touring
Bob Dylan and
The Band touring in Chicago, 1974
.^ Hammond signed Dylan to Columbia Records in October.
^ Bob Dylan and The Band touring in Chicago, 1974 Dylan began 1973 by signing with a new record label, David Geffen 's Asylum Records , when his contract with Columbia Records expired.
^ USEquityNews.com News Update: SMWF, VLCO, OCFN, and NTRZ Financial News USA, February 21, 2009 ...Bowie and Eric Clapton, as well as Frank Sinatra and Elton John signed recording contracts and memorabilia from Bob Dylan .- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
.^ On his next album, Planet Waves , he used The Band as backing group, while rehearsing for a major tour.
^ While with Asylum, Dylan released his first number one album, Planet Waves , and a live album from the accompanying tour called Before the Flood .- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
.^ The album included two versions of "Forever Young", which became one of his most popular songs.
^ Despite the film's failure at the box office, the song " Knockin' on Heaven's Door " has proven its durability as one of Dylan's most extensively covered songs.
^ Tambourine Man " had already been a hit for The Byrds , and would become one of his best known songs; while " It's All Over Now Baby Blue " and " It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) " would be acclaimed as two of Dylan's most important compositions.
[116] Christopher Ricks has connected the chorus of this song with
John Keats's "
Ode on a Grecian Urn", which contains the line "For ever panting, and for ever young."
[117] As one critic described it, the song projected "something hymnal and heartfelt that spoke of the father in Dylan",
[118] and Dylan himself commented: "I wrote it thinking about one of my boys and not wanting to be too sentimental."
[119] Biographer
Howard Sounes noted that
Jakob Dylan believed the song was about him.
[116]
.^ 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.
^ Hammond signed Dylan to Columbia Records in October.
^ In 1976, Dylan also wrote and duetted on the song "Sign Language" for Eric Clapton 's No Reason To Cry 142 .
[120] In January 1974 Dylan and
The Band embarked on their high-profile, coast-to-coast
North American tour.
.^ A live double album of the tour, Before the Flood , was released on Asylum Records .
^ Late that spring, before the album's release, Dylan was hospitalized with a life-threatening heart infection, pericarditis , brought on by histoplasmosis .
^ During this time, Dylan returned to Columbia Records which eventually reissued his Asylum albums.
.^ After the tour, Dylan and his wife became publicly estranged.
.^ Dylan did not make another studio album of new songs for seven years.
^ Bob Dylan talks about the new album with Bill Flanagan ".
^ He filled a small red notebook with songs about relationships and ruptures, and quickly recorded a new album entitled Blood on the Tracks in September 1974.
[122] .^ During this time, Dylan returned to Columbia Records which eventually reissued his Asylum albums.
^ The performances on his first Columbia album, Bob Dylan (1962), consisted of familiar folk, blues and gospel material combined with two original compositions.
^ In 2001, Dylan followed up Time Out of Mind with another critically acclaimed album, "Love and Theft" .- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
.^ Released in early 1975, Blood on the Tracks received mixed reviews.
^ Released in 1978, the movie received generally poor, sometimes scathing, reviews and had a very brief theatrical run.
^ 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.
In the
NME,
Nick Kent described "the accompaniments [as] often so trashy they sound like mere practise takes."
[123] In
Rolling Stone, reviewer
Jon Landau wrote that "the record has been made with typical shoddiness."
[124] However, over the years critics have come to see it as one of Dylan's greatest achievements, perhaps the only serious rival to his 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.
^ The album produced from it, MTV Unplugged , included "John Brown", an unreleased 1963 song detailing the ravages of both war and jingoism .
^ The only difference between Dylan’s Christmas album and a Bing Crosby Christmas is the voice singing the songs.
.^ 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."
^ So while it may not contain too many landmark tracks, it's one of the most naturally enjoyable albums you'll hear all year."
^ In this case, it’s not an insult to say that it is their most accessible album because to an outsider, “Merriweater Post Pavilion” would still seem pretty alien.
[125] Novelist
Rick Moody called it "the truest, most honest account of a love affair from tip to stern ever put down on magnetic tape."
[126]
.^ Bob Dylan photographed by Elsa Dorfman with Allen Ginsberg , on the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975 That summer Dylan wrote his first successful "protest" song in 12 years, championing the cause of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter , who had been imprisoned for a triple murder in Paterson, New Jersey .
^ In 1976, Dylan also wrote and duetted on the song "Sign Language" for Eric Clapton 's No Reason To Cry 142 .
^ With its bitter assessment of love and morbid ruminations, Dylan's first collection of original songs in seven years was highly acclaimed.
.^ After visiting Carter in jail, Dylan wrote " Hurricane ", presenting the case for Carter's innocence.
^ The inside of the case was inscribed by the singer, who wrote: ''To Bob, Good Luck, Bob Dylan, 1974.''
.^ Songs of the Underground: a collector’s guide to the Rolling Thunder Revue 1975-1976 " .
^ Bob Dylan current tour dates ".
^ In July 1965, Dylan released the single " Like a Rolling Stone ", which peaked at #2 in the U.S. and at #4 in the UK charts.
[127] .^ The tour was a varied evening of entertainment featuring about one hundred performers and supporters 131 drawn from the resurgent Greenwich Village folk scene, including T-Bone Burnett , Ramblin' Jack Elliott , Joni Mitchell .
^ The book is mainly about the folk music scene in Greenwich Village during the 1960s.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ At the end of the play, Dylan performed Blowin' in the Wind , one of the first major public performances of the song 39 While in London, Dylan performed at several London folk clubs, including Les Cousins , The Pinder Of Wakefield , 40 and Bunjies .
[128][129] .^ David Mansfield , Roger McGuinn , Mick Ronson , Joan Baez , and violinist Scarlet Rivera , whom Dylan discovered while she was walking down the street, her violin case hanging on her back.
^ Pete Seeger, Win Stracke, playing along with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan … all this really...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ Upper image shows Joan Baez and Bob Dylan , the lower Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña .- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
[130] .^ Allen Ginsberg accompanied the troupe, staging scenes for the film Dylan was simultaneously shooting.
^ The president has also met Bob Dylan , the singer, and David Lynch and Woody Allen, the film directors, and has had dinner with Michel Houellebecq, whose...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Sam Shepard was initially hired to write the film's screenplay, but ended up accompanying the tour as informal chronicler.
^ After performing with these 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 .
^ Backed by a changing line-up of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour .
[131]
.^ The accompanying soundtrack featured unreleased songs from Dylan's early career.
^ Running through late 1975 and again through early 1976, the tour encompassed the release of the album Desire , with many of Dylan's new songs featuring an almost travelogue -like narrative style, showing the influence of his new collaborator, playwright Jacques Levy .
^ In 1976, Dylan also wrote and duetted on the song "Sign Language" for Eric Clapton 's No Reason To Cry 142 .
[132][133] .^ 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's Live 1975 .
^ Running through late 1975 and again through early 1976, the tour encompassed the release of the album Desire , with many of Dylan's new songs featuring an almost travelogue -like narrative style, showing the influence of his new collaborator, playwright Jacques Levy .
^ After this he took a break and didn't release another album until John Wesley Harding in 1967.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
[134]
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.
.^ Released in 1978, the movie received generally poor, sometimes scathing, reviews and had a very brief theatrical run.
^ This album received some very negative reviews: Allmusic said, "Quite possibly the worst album by either Bob Dylan or the Grateful Dead."
^ Released in early 1975, Blood on the Tracks received mixed reviews.
[135][136] .^ Later in that year, Dylan allowed a two-hour edit, dominated by the concert performances, to be more widely released.
^ With its veiled references to nuclear apocalypse , it gained even more resonance when the Cuban missile crisis developed only a few weeks after Dylan began performing it.
^ The performances on his first Columbia album, Bob Dylan (1962), consisted of familiar folk, blues and gospel material combined with two original compositions.
[137].^ 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 .
^ Man in Black therollerblog.com, March 18, 2009 ...program was essentially a variety show including members of his own band, as well as guests such as Bob Dylan , Neil Young, Merle Haggard and Joni Mitchell.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ Bob Dylan , Joni Mitchell, David Gray, Radiohead, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen and others are writing about issues that any Christian must confront...- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Martin Scorsese 's acclaimed cinematic chronicle of this show, The Last Waltz , was released in 1978 and included about half of Dylan's set.
^ Critical opinion about Dylan’s shows remains divided.
^ Performing in Bologna , November 2005 Martin Scorsese 's acclaimed 200 film biography No Direction Home was broadcast in September 2005.
[138] .^ I seem to have signed off on Bob Dylan (whose records I’d been buying since the ’60s) with Love and Theft , a CD on which I found not one stand-out song.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ Bob Dylan wrote, 'But I'll know my song well before I start singing.'- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ DYLAN: Well, now, that’s difficult to answer because my songs are divided up into three, no, four companies.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
.^ Dylan's 1978 album Street-Legal , recorded with a large, pop-rock band, complete with female backing vocalists, was lyrically one of his more complex and cohesive.
^ Following the release of Street-Legal , Dylan entered one of his most controversial periods when he declared himself a born again Christian and subsequently released a trilogy of Christian albums; Slow Train Coming in 1979, Saved in 1980 and Shot of Love in 1981.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ The initial offerings run toward classic rock and pop, with offerings from the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam, Norah Jones, Jay-Z...
[140] .^ It suffered, however, from a poor sound mix (attributed to his studio recording practices), 144 submerging much of its instrumentation until its remastered CD release nearly a quarter century later.
^ Dylan took a break from recording after his 1990 release Under the Red Sky and didn't record another studio album until Good as I Been to You in late 1992.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ Dylan delayed the album's release, however, and re-recorded half of the songs at Sound 80 Studios in Minneapolis with production assistance from his brother David Zimmerman .
Born-again period
.^ In the late 1970s, Dylan became a born-again Christian 145 146 147 and released two albums of Christian gospel music.
^ Following the release of Street-Legal , Dylan entered one of his most controversial periods when he declared himself a born again Christian and subsequently released a trilogy of Christian albums; Slow Train Coming in 1979, Saved in 1980 and Shot of Love in 1981.- Films and Music by Bob Dylan - Rate Your Music 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC rateyourmusic.com [Source type: General]
^ The performances on his first Columbia album, Bob Dylan (1962), consisted of familiar folk, blues and gospel material combined with two original compositions.
.^ Further information: Slow Train Coming .
^ Slow Train Coming (1979) featured the guitar accompaniment of Mark Knopfler (of Dire Straits ) and was produced by veteran R&B producer, Jerry Wexler .
^ His subsequent album Slow Train Coming reached #3 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and included this Grammy -winning song.
.^ I mean, you’re bound to get a record.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ For Easter You may not be aware that Bob Dylan has written and performed many beautiful songs about God and salvation that are highly regarded today, years after he wrote them.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
^ Read More The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966 By Bob Dylan The Bob Dylan Scrapbook is the highly collectable illustrated biography of Dylan's life during the 1950s and 60s.- Bob Dylan – Author Profile and Information & Video at Simon & Schuster 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC authors.simonandschuster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Let's just make an album."
^ You’re trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ DYLAN: Well, let’s put it this way: making a record isn’t any more than just recording a song, for me.- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
[145] .^ 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.
^ DYLAN: The best rock and roll songs...- Jann S. Wenner | Archives | The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan 19 January 2010 9:48 UTC www.jannswenner.com [Source type: General]
^ The album won Dylan a Grammy Award as "Best Male Vocalist" for the song " Gotta Serve Somebody ".
[146] 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:
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