Bob Dylan

2022 - 5 - 24

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Bob Dylan turns 81 today. A look at his life and a ranking of his 25 ... (Buffalo News)

It's Bob Dylan's 81st birthday today. A look back at the life, career and best albums of the legendary singer-songwriter.

In theory, the more charts that an album has appeared on and the higher its rank score, the better it will be. The 38,000 charts referenced are a blend of publications' charts (e.g. Rolling Stone, New Music Express, Stereogum, The Quietus) and people's personal charts. Armed with an intensely deep knowledge of American music, he first emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene as the voice of dissent against various institutions of oppression.

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Question of the Day: Covering Bob Dylan | WFUV (WFUV News)

Good morning! Benham Jones in for Corny O'Connell and I'm celebrating Bob Dylan's 81st birthday today on WFUV. For this morning's Question of the Day, ...

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81 Bob Dylan Comic Book References (CBR)

We pay tribute to Bob Dylan's 81st birthday by spotlighting 81 times that comic books have referenced Bob Dylan over the years.

From Wonder Wart-Hog #2 (by Gilbert Shelton), a reference to the Bob Dylan song, "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream." From Ectokid #8 (by Lana Wachowski, Steve Skroce and Bob Dvorak), a reference to the Bob Dylan album, Highway 61 Revisited (also a song, but I'm assuming it's a reference to the album). From the 2005 The Maze Agency #1 (by Mike W. Barr, Ariell Padilla and Ernest Jocson), a reference to the Bob Dylan song "The Times They Are A-Changin'." From Critters #29 (by J. Holland and Ron Wilber), a reference to the Bob Dylan song, "Stuck Inside of Mobile (With the Memphis Blues Again)." From Outlaw Nation #5 (by Jamie Delano, Goran Sudzuka and Sebastijan Camagajevac), a reference to a lyric ("Need to Be Nervous") from the Dylan song "Tombstone Blues".... From Outlaw Nation #3 (by Jamie Delano and Goran Sudzuka), a reference to a lyric ("Too Much Force") from the Dylan song "Tangled Up in Blue"... From Swamp Thing #72 (by RIck Veitch and Alfredo Alcala), a reference to a lyric ("gargles in the rat race choir") from Dylan's song "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"... From Uncanny X-Men #397 (by Joe Casey, Sean Phillips, Mel Rubi and Danny Miki), a reference to a lyric ("A Complete Unknown") from Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone"...... From Catwoman Volume 1 #49 (by Doug Moench, Jim Balent and Bob McLeod), a reference to a lyric from Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone"... From The Mighty #10 (by Peter Tomasi, Keith Champagne and Chris Samnee), a reference to the Dylan song "Gates of Eden"... From The Mighty #3 (by Peter Tomasi, Kieth Champagne and Peter Snejbjerg), a reference to the Dylan song "Dirge" (I count this as a Dylan reference since writer Peter Tomasi frequently cites Dylan references, including the next two story titles for The Mighty)... From Watchmen #10 (by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons), a reference to Dylan's song "All Along the Watchtower" to kick the issue off..

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Bob Dylan Birthday Bash held at Ijams Nature Center (WATE 6 On Your Side)

To celebrate the birthday of iconic musician Bob Dylan, Ijam Nature Center will throw a celebration that will include live music and delicious food.

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Bob Dylan's Life in Photos (PEOPLE.com)

Recognized as a legacy writer, a folk protest hero, and a voice of a generation, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has solidified his status as a cultural and ...

Throughout Dylan's career, he has received a number of awards and accolades. Bruce Springsteen inducted Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in January 1988. Spanning six decades, Dylan's career continues to thrive throughout the 21st century. Clocking in at over six minutes long, "Like a Rolling Stone" is the lead-off song of Dylan's 1965 Highway 61 Revisited album. Throughout his career, Dylan has been awarded 10 Grammy wins out of his 38 nominations. In 1978, he took off on a year-long world tour alongside an eight-piece band and three backing singers. His harmonica playing eventually caught the attention of producer John Hammond (pictured with Dylan), who signed him to Columbia Records in 1962. He showed us that just because music was innately physical did not mean that it was anti-intellectual," Springsteen said. Throughout the 1970s, Dylan toured the world. In celebration of his 81st birthday, take a look back at the talent's illustrious career spanning six decades They performed two songs, but were allegedly booed off stage by the traditionalist, folk-minded crowd when they began "Like a Rolling Stone." He not only relocated to perform, but to visit his musical idol Woodie Guthrie.

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10 Songs That Define Bob Dylan's Career - American Songwriter (American Songwriter)

Perhaps no other songwriter has had the level of a career that the legendary lyricist and musician Bob Dylan has enjoyed. Conventionally known as likely the ...

Dylan’s career took a bit of a turn in the 1980s and his star fell a bit in the eyes of popular music fans. Yet, the artist made a bit of a comeback with his album Time Out Of Mind, which dropped in 1997. With it, this song was unleashed into the world and was Dylan’s biggest hit in years. One of the greatest breakup songs of all time, this song marks another hit for the writer in his later stages. The next song to cement Dylan as a person to reckon with on the music scene, this track showcased how he was a timeless artist. Dylan captures it impressively here and has led some of us (ahem) to listen to it over and over when in need. To distract himself was, in reality, the point. As Dylan (famously) broke away from the acoustic songwriting that he’d become known for, he tried out many different sounds and genres. Another one of Dylan’s greatest songs, this one makes the list not just for its stellar writing and catchy refrain but for its association with the Queen of Folk music at the time, Joan Baez, with whom Dylan sings the break-up song on stage in 1964. He’s now a hardened adult as he’s beginning to make his way as one of the most famous artists in America. It made him one of the most famous acoustic-driven “protest singers” in the world in the tumultuous 1960s. Essentially, this song was the only original track from Dylan’s self-titled 1962 debut album. The song was an homage to Dylan’s hero, Woody Guthrie (more on him below). And while Dylan’s debut featured a number of traditional songs and covers, this original helped to put him on the map for more.

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81 reasons why Bob Dylan is the greatest artist in human history (Far Out Magazine)

For a prolific 1960s spell: During which Dylan recorded nine masterful official studio albums, countless songs, and even tracks for his compatriots. For ' ...

For his performative vocals: Dylan wasn’t blessed with the greatest natural voice, but he even made that into a world-changing asset by asserting that it is more about how you use it. You don’t get that with Dylan and songs like ‘I Was Young When I Left Home’ which remains timeless but paradoxically feels like it could’ve been written for Fyodor Dostoyevsky or Franz Kafka and all the other dying dreamers of Desolation Row a couple of eclipses ago. For ‘The Man in Me’: When Dylan disavowed his early ‘Voice of a Generation’ tag and decided to write songs completely free of any political connotations, he proved he could’ve been a master Motown melody writer with this beauteous hit. Yet it is still as fresh and influential as ever with no sign of eroding, proving a level of crystalised endurance that it is hard to match. For leaving stories untold: The line “I saw a white ladder all covered with water,” in a song that seems relatively straightforward to follow is an oddity. Even this lay-off has proved influential, as Fontaines D.C.’s Conor Deegan recently wrote: “A boy of only 23-years-old was to be saddled with the weight of the world, the civil rights movement in America, and to be expected to live up to the seriousness of this. For the greatest album trilogy in history: Bring It All Back Home (1965), Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Blonde on Blonde (1966) – With this trilogy, Dylan quite literally changed the world, and he did it in a 14-month spell, which represents a purple patch of brilliance so prolific that even to Dylan himself it conjures up a notion of divine intervention. The masterful postmodern production of Blonde on Blonde: Dylan once said: “The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the Blonde on Blonde album. For getting out of the rat race: Dylan was at the peak of his powers when he took his hiatus. However, in a break from the bleeding obvious, he might have been a benefactor of auspicious timing, but he has been the orchestrator of his own fate thereafter, and the world has had the pleasure of basking in the munificent harvest of his honest toil and the boon of his singular artistry ever since. In a spiritual sense, loneliness versus the fear of taking the first steps against it is a battle that resonates with a far greater universality. It helped to defy the notion that virtuosity defines the artist and it celebrated individualism and the profound punk proclamation that art is for everyone who has something to express.

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