Bob Dylan is the most influential musician/singer-songwriter of our time.
Dylan has been inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, as well as the music and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored numerous distinct 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.
Youth
Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman. He was born on the 24 of Maj in 1941 in Duluth in United States. When Bob Dylan was seven years old his family moved to Hibbing. In Hibbing Bob Dylan spent rest of his juvenile years. Bob Dylans parents are Abraham Zimmerman and Beatrice Stone. In August 1959 Bob Dylan moved to Minneapolis and began studying at Minnesota university. At the same time he began to grow fond of folkmusic.
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 sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings." He also got positive publicity with a review of a critic Robert Shelton, which got published in New York Times.
Producer John Hammond gave him an album contract with Columbia Records. Bob Dylans first record was named Bob Dylan. The most important record of Dylans folkmusicera is considered to be The Frewheeling Bob Dylan in 1963. The record included the folkmusic classic Blowing in the Wind. Bob Dylan made two other acustic records, The Times They Are a-Changin' and Another Side of Bob Dylan.
Towards rockmusic
In 1965 Bob Dylan began to make concerts with rockband. Under 1960s Bob Dylan made several records, for example Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. These records and his folkrecords are considered to be his artistically best work.
1970s and 1980s:
Under 1970s Dylans records were of uneven quality. The best records are considered to be Blood on the Tracks in 1975 and Desire in 1976. In 1979 Bob Dylan said that he has become Christian and made a gospelrecord Slow Train Coming. He made two other gospel records, named Saved and Shot of Love. Under 1980s Dylans records were of uneven quality. His best records are considered to be Infidels in 1983 and Oh Mercy in 1988.
1990s och 2000s:
In 1990s Dylan made record Good As I Been to You in 1992 and in 1993 World Gone Wrong. 2000s Dylan made record Modern Times in 2006. Bob Dylan continues to make music och turnes.
Dylan´s records:
Bob Dylan 1962
The Freewheeling Bob Dylan 1963
Bringing It All Back Home 1965
Highway 61 Revisited 1965
Blonde on Blonde 1966
Blood on the Tracks 1975
Slow Train Coming 1979
Shot of Love 1981
Infidels 1983
Knocked Out Loaded 1986
Oh Mercy 1989
World Gone Wrong 1993
Time Out of Mind 1997
Love and Theft 2001
Modern times 2006
Together Through Life 2009