Bob Dylan is America’s greatest songwriter. He broke in the early sixties and is considered the chronicler of those times. He became known for his Anti-War and Pro-Civil Rights sentiments. He defined the period. However, Dylan was more than the folk counterculture poet laureate. He expanded his music and even committed the cardinal sin by plugging in. Some folk music fans refused to forgive this sacrilege.
Dylan refused to be pigeonholed and typecast as a folk artist. On “Maggie’s Farm”, he declared his independence from the folk community. Dylan has done Country, Gospel, Jazz, and just released a Christmas Album. Bob Dylan has released 33 albums, won a gazillion awards, and even got the Beatles to expand their music and awareness.
Rock n Roll Moment: Dylan plugged in at the Newport Folk Festival. He was booed and left the stage. The Folk Music Community went nuts. One fellow tried to cut the cords running to the amps.
Essential Dylan:
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)
Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
Bring it all Back Home (1965)
Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
Blonde on Blonde (1966)
John Wesley Harding (1967)
Nashville Skyline (1969)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Blood on the Tracks (1975)
The Basement Tapes (1975)
Modern Times (2006)
Dylan’s Top 10:
Blowin’ in the Wind
Maggie’s Farm
The Times They Are a-Changin’
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Like a Rolling Stone
Positively 4th Street
Lay Lady Lay
Rainy Day Women #12 and #35
Just Like a Woman
Tangled Up in Blue
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