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PDF generated at: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:21:01 UTC Contents Articles Overview 1 Bob Dylan 1 Studio Albums 31 Bob Dylan 31 The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 36 The Times They Are a-Changin' 51 Another Side of Bob Dylan 58 Bringing It All Back Home 64 Highway 61 Revisited 74 Blonde on Blonde 85 John Wesley Harding 101 Nashville Skyline 108 Self Portrait 114 New Morning 120 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 126 Dylan 130 Planet Waves 131 Blood on the Tracks 138 The Basement Tapes 143 Desire 156 Street-Legal 164 Slow Train Coming 169 Saved 176 Shot of Love 178 Infidels 184 Empire Burlesque 191 Knocked Out Loaded 199 Down in the Groove 203 Oh Mercy 206 Under the Red Sky 210 Good as I Been to You 213 World Gone Wrong 217 Time Out of Mind 220 Love and Theft 228 Modern Times 232 Together Through Life 239 Christmas in the Heart 244 Tempest 248 Live Albums 254 Before the Flood 254 Hard Rain 258 Bob Dylan at Budokan 260 Real Live 263 Dylan & the Dead 265 The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration 268 MTV Unplugged 271 Live 1961–2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances 274 Live at the Gaslight 1962 275 Live at Carnegie Hall 1963 278 The Bootleg Series 279 The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 279 The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert 283 The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue 287 The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall 289 The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack 292 The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 – Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006 295 The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 298 References Article Sources and Contributors 304 Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 310 Article Licenses License 311 1 Overview Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Dylan onstage at Azkena Rock Festival, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, June 26, 2010 Background information Birth name Robert Allen Zimmerman Also known as Elston Gunnn, Blind Boy Grunt, Bob Landy, Robert Milkwood Thomas, Tedham Porterhouse, Lucky/Boo Wilbury, Jack Frost, Sergei Petrov Born May 24, 1941 Duluth, Minnesota, United States Origin Hibbing, Minnesota, U.S. Genres Rock, folk, blues, country, gospel Occupations Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, artist, writer Instruments Vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica Years active 1961–present Labels Columbia, Asylum Associated acts Joan Baez, The Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Grateful Dead, Traveling Wilburys, Mark Knopfler [1] Website bobdylan.com Bob Dylan (/ˈdɪlən/; born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, artist, and writer. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving behind his initial base in the culture of the folk music revival, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" radically altered the Bob Dylan 2 parameters of popular music in 1965. His recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement. Dylan's lyrics have incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the performance style of Little Richard, and the songwriting of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored many of the traditions in American song—from folk, blues, and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing. Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica. Backed by a changing line-up of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but his greatest contribution is generally considered his songwriting. Since 1994, Dylan has published three books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a songwriter and musician, Dylan has sold more than 100 million records worldwide and 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, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." In May 2012, Dylan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. Life and career Origins and musical beginnings שבתאי זיסל בן אברהם Hebrew name ,רוברט אלן צימרמאן :Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman (Hebrew [Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham])[2][3] in St. Mary's Hospital on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota,[4] and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Iron Range west of Lake Superior. His paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the United States following the anti-Semitic pogroms of 1905.[5] His maternal grandparents, Benjamin and Lybba Edelstein, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in the United States in 1902. In his autobiography Chronicles: Volume One, Dylan writes that his paternal grandmother's maiden name was Kirghiz and her family originated from Kağızman in north eastern Turkey.[6] Dylan's parents, Abram Zimmerman and Beatrice "Beatty" Stone, were part of the area's small but close-knit Jewish community. 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. Robert Zimmerman spent his early years listening to the radio—first to blues and country stations broadcasting from Shreveport, Louisiana, and, as a teen, to early rock and roll.[7] Zimmerman formed several bands while attending Hibbing High School. In the Golden Chords, he performed covers of songs by Little Richard and Elvis Presley.[8] 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.[9] In 1959, his high school yearbook carried the caption: "Robert Zimmerman: to join 'Little Richard'."[10] The same year, using the name Elston Gunnn [sic], he performed two dates with Bobby Vee, playing piano and providing handclaps.[11][12][13] Zimmerman moved to Minneapolis in September 1959, where he enrolled at the University of Minnesota. His early focus on rock and roll gave way to an interest in American folk music; 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 ... There were great catch-phrases and driving pulse rhythms ... but the songs weren't serious or didn't reflect life in a realistic way. I knew that when I got into folk music, it was more of a serious type of thing. The songs are filled with more despair, more Bob Dylan 3 sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings. He soon began to perform at the Ten O'Clock Scholar, a coffeehouse a few blocks from campus, and became actively involved in the local Dinkytown folk music circuit.[14][15] During his Dinkytown days, Zimmerman began introducing himself as "Bob Dylan".[16] In his autobiography, Dylan acknowledged that he had been influenced by the poetry of Dylan Thomas.[17][18] Explaining his change of name in a 2004 interview, Dylan remarked: "You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free." 1960s Relocation to New York and record deal Dylan dropped out of college at the end of his first year (May 1960). In January 1961, he traveled to New York City, hoping to perform there and visit his musical idol Woody Guthrie,[19] who was seriously ill with Huntington's Disease in Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital.[20] Guthrie had been a revelation to Dylan and was the biggest influence on his early performances. Describing Guthrie's impact on him, Dylan later wrote: "The songs themselves had the infinite sweep of humanity in them ... [He] was the true voice of the American spirit. I said to myself I was going to be Guthrie's greatest disciple."[21] As well as visiting Guthrie in the hospital, Dylan befriended Guthrie's acolyte Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Much of Guthrie's repertoire was actually channeled through Elliott, and Dylan paid tribute to Elliott in Chronicles (2004).[22] From February 1961, Dylan played at various clubs around Greenwich Village. He befriended and picked up material from many folk singers in the Village scene, including Dave Van Ronk, Fred Neil, Odetta, the New Lost City Ramblers, and Irish musicians Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers.[23] In September, Dylan gained some public recognition when Robert Shelton wrote a positive review in The New York Times of a show at Gerde's Folk City.[24] 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.