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Another Side of Bob Dylan Album All I Really Want to Do Black Crow Blues Spanish Harlem Incident Chimes of Freedom I Shall Be Free No.10 To Ramona Motorpsycho Nightmare My Back Pages Ballad in Plain D	Before the Flood Album Up on Cripple Creek Endless Highway The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Stage Fright When You Awake The Weight I Shall Be Released Lay, Lady, Lay All Along the Watchtower Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Just Like a Woman Like a Rolling Stone Ballad of a Thin Man Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde on Blonde Album Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Pledging My Time Visions of Johanna One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) I Want You Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Just Like a Woman Temporary Like Achilles Absolutely Sweet Marie 4th Time Around Obviously Five Believers Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands	Blood on the Tracks Album Tangled Up in Blue Simple Twist of Fate Idiot Wind Meet Me in the Morning Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts If You See Her, Say Hello Shelter from the Storm Buckets of Rain
Bob Dylan Album Talking New York Man of Constant Sorrow Pretty Peggy-O Highway 51 Blues Gospel Plow Baby, Let Me Follow You Down House of the Rising Sun Freight Train Blues Song to Woody See That My Grave is Kept Clean	Bob Dylan Live 1961-2000 Album Born In Time (Live Version) Cold Irons Bound (Live Version) Country Pie Dead Man, Dead Man Dignity Grand Coulee Dam Handsome Molly Shelter from the Storm Slow Train Somebody Touched Me Things Have Changed To Ramona Wade In The Water
Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3: Rare & Unreleased, 1961-1991 Album Angelina Blind Willie McTell Call Letter Blues Catfish Eternal Circle Every Grain of Sand Farewell Angelina Foot of Pride Golden Loom Hard Times in New York Town He Was a Friend of Mine House Carpenter Idiot Wind If Not for You If You Gotta Go, Go Now If You See Her, Say Hello It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry I Shall Be Released Kingsport Town Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie Let Me Die in My Footsteps Like a Rolling Stone Lord Protect My Child Mama, You Been on My Mind Man on the Street Moonshiner Need a Woman No More Auction Block Only a Hobo Paths of Victory Quit Your Low Down Ways Rambling, Gambling Willie Santa Fe Series of Dreams Seven Curses Seven Days Sitting on a Barbed-Wire Fence Subterranean Homesick Blues Suze (The Cough Song) Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues Talkin Hava Negeilah Blues Tangled Up in Blue Tell Me Wallflower Walls of Red Wing When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky When the Ship Comes In Who Killed Davey Moore? Worried Blues Ye Shall Be Changed You Changed My Life	Bringing It All Back Home Album Subterranean Homesick Blues She Belongs to Me Love Minus Zero/No Limit Outlaw Blues On the Road Again Mr. Tambourine Man Gates of Eden
Desire Album Hurricane Isis Mozambique One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) Oh, Sister Joey Romance in Durango Black Diamond Bay Sara	Down in the Groove Album When Did You Leave Heaven? Sally Sue Brown Death is Not the End Had a Dream About You, Baby Ugliest Girl in the World Silvio Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street) Shenandoah Rank Strangers to Me
Dylan Album Lily of the West Sarah Jane Mr. Bojangles The Ballad of Ira Hayes Mary Ann Big Yellow Taxi A Fool Such as I Spanish is the Loving Tongue	Empire Burlesque Album Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love) Seeing the Real You at Last Clean-Cut Kid Never Gonna Be the Same Again Trust Yourself Emotionally Yours When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky Dark Eyes
Good as I Been to You Album Frankie & Albert Jim Jones Blackjack Davey Canadee-i-o Little Maggie Hard Times Step It Up And Go Tomorrow Night Arthur McBride Diamond Joe	Highway 61 Revisited Album Like a Rolling Stone Tombstone Blues It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry From a Buick 6 Ballad of a Thin Man Queen Jane Approximately Highway 61 Revisited Desolation Row
Infidels Album Jokerman Sweetheart Like You Neighborhood Bully License to Kill Man of Peace Union Sundown I and I	John Wesley Harding Album John Wesley Harding As I Went Out One Morning I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine All Along the Watchtower The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest Dear Landlord I Am a Lonesome Hobo I Pity the Poor Immigrant The Wicked Messenger Down Along the Cove
Knocked Out Loaded Album You Wanna Ramble They Killed Him Precious Memories Maybe Someday Brownsville Girl Got My Mind Made Up Under Your Spell	Live 1966-Bootleg Series Vol. 4 Album 4th Time Around Baby, Let Me Follow You Down Ballad of a Thin Man Desolation Row Just Like a Woman Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Like a Rolling Stone Mr. Tambourine Man One Too Many Mornings She Belongs to Me Tell Me, Momma Visions of Johanna
Love and Theft Album Tweedle Dee And Tweedle Dum Mississippi Summer Days Bye And Bye Lonesome Day Blues Floater (Too Much To Ask) Highwater (For Charlie Patton) Moonlight Honest With Me Cry Awhile Sugar Baby	Nashville Skyline Album Nashville Skyline Rag To Be Alone with You I Threw It All Away Peggy Day Lay, Lady, Lay One More Night Country Pie Girl of the North Country
New Morning Album If Not for You Day of the Locusts Time Passes Slowly Went to See the Gypsy Winterlude If Dogs Run Free New Morning Sign on the Window One More Weekend The Man in Me Three Angels Father of Night	Oh Mercy Album Political World Where Teardrops Fall Everything is Broken Ring Them Bells Man in the Long Black Coat Most of the Time What Good Am I? Disease of Conceit What Was It You Wanted? Shooting Star
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid [Soundtrack] Album Billy (Main Title Theme) Billy 1 Bunkhouse Theme River Theme Turkey Chase Final Theme Billy 4 Billy 7	Planet Waves Album On a Night Like This Going, Going, Gone Tough Mama Hazel Something There is About You Forever Young Dirge You Angel You Never Say Goodbye Wedding Song
Saved Album A Satisfied Mind Saved Covenant Woman What Can I Do For You? Solid Rock Pressing On In the Garden Saving Grace Are You Ready?	Self Portrait Album All the Tired Horses Alberta #1 Days of 49 In Search of Little Sadie Let It Be Me Little Sadie Woogie Boogie Belle Isle Living the Blues Copper Kettle Gotta Travel On Blue Moon The Boxer Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) Take Me as I Am Take a Message to Mary It Hurts Me Too Minstrel Boy Wigwam Alberta #2 Like a Rolling Stone She Belongs to Me
Shot of Love Album Shot of Love Heart of Mine Property of Jesus Lenny Bruce Watered Down Love Dead Man, Dead Man In the Summertime Trouble Every Grain of Sand	Slow Train Coming Album Gotta Serve Somebody Precious Angel I Believe in You Slow Train Gonna Change My Way of Thinking Do Right to Me Baby When You Gonna Wake Up? Man Gave Names to All the Animals When He Returns
Street-Legal Album Changing of the Guards New Pony No Time to Think Baby, Stop Crying Is Your Love in Vain? Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) True Love Tends to Forget We Better Talk This Over Where Are You Tonight?	The Basement Tapes Album Odds and Ends Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast) Million Dollar Bash Yazoo Street Scandal Lo and Behold! Bessie Smith Clothes Line Apple Suckling Tree Please, Mrs. Henry Tears of Rage Too Much of Nothing Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread Ruben Remus Tiny Montgomery Nothing was Delivered Open the Door, Homer Long-Distance Operator Down in the Flood
Time Out of Mind Album Love Sick Dirt Road Blues Standing In The Doorway Million Miles Til I Fell In Love With You Not Dark Yet Cold Irons Bound Make You Feel My Love Highlands	Under the Red Sky Album Wiggle Wiggle Under the Red Sky Unbelievable Born in Time 10,000 Men 2 x 2 God Knows Handy Dandy
World Gone Wrong Album World Gone Wrong Love Henry Ragged & Dirty Blood in My Eyes Broke Down Engine Delia Stack A Lee Two Soldiers Jack-A-Roe Lone Pilgrim

Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-conscious narratives. As a vocalist, he broke down the notions that in order to perform, a singer had to have a conventionally good voice, thereby redefining the role of vocalist in popular music. As a musician, he sparked several genres of pop music, including electrified folk-rock and country-rock. And that just touches on the tip of his achievements. Dylan's force was evident during his height of popularity in the '60s â€” the Beatles' shift toward introspective songwriting in the mid-'60s never would have happened without him â€” but his influence echoed throughout several subsequent generations.

Many of his songs became popular standards, and his best albums were undisputed classics of the rock & roll canon. Dylan's influence throughout folk music was equally powerful, and he marks a pivotal turning point in its 20th-century evolution, signifying when the genre moved away from traditional songs and toward personal songwriting. Even when his sales declined in the '80s and '90s, Dylan's presence was calculable.

For a figure of such substantial influence, Dylan came from humble beginnings. Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Bob Dylan (b. Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) was raised in Hibbing, Minnesota from the age of six. As a child he learned how to play guitar and harmonica, forming a rock & roll band called the Golden Chords when he was in high school. Following his graduation in 1959, he began studying art at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. While at college, he began performing folk songs at coffeehouses under the name Bob Dylan, taking his last name from the poet Dylan Thomas. Already inspired by Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie, Dylan began listening to blues while at college, and the genre weaved its way into his music.

Dylan spent the summer of 1960 in Denver, where he met bluesman Jesse Fuller, the inspiration behind the songwriter's signature harmonica rack and guitar. By the time he returned to Minneapolis in the fall, he had grown substantially as a performer and was determined to become a professional musician.

Dylan made his way to New York City in January of 1961, immediately making a substantial impression on the folk community of Greenwich Village. He began visiting his idol Guthrie in the hospital, where he was slowly dying from Huntington's chorea. Dylan also began performing in coffeehouses, and his rough charisma won him a significant following. In April, he opened for John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City. Five months later, Dylan performed another concert at the venue, which was reviewed positively by Robert Shelton in the New York Times. Columbia A&R man John Hammond sought out Dylan on the strength of the review, and signed the songwriter in the fall of 1961. Hammond produced Dylan's eponymous debut album (released in March 1962), a collection of folk and blues standards that boasted only two original songs.

Over the course of 1962, Dylan began to write a large batch of original songs, many of which were political protest songs in the vein of his Greenwich contemporaries. These songs were showcased on his second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Before its release, Freewheelin' went through several incarnations. Dylan had recorded a rock & roll single, "Mixed Up Confusion," at the end of 1962, but his manager Albert Grossman made sure the record was deleted because he wanted to present Dylan as an acoustic folkie. Similarly, several tracks with a full backing band that were recorded for Freewheelin' were scrapped before the album's release. Furthermore, several tracks recorded for the album â€” including "Talking John Birch Society Blues" â€” were eliminated from the album before its release.

Comprised entirely of original songs, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan made a huge impact in the US folk community, and many performers began covering songs from the album. Of these, the most significant were Peter, Paul & Mary, who made "Blowin' in the Wind" into a huge pop hit in the summer of 1963 and thereby made Bob Dylan into a recognizable household name. On the strength of Peter, Paul & Mary's cover and his opening gigs for popular folkie Joan Baez, Freewheelin' became a hit in the fall of 1963, climbing to number 23 on the charts. By that point, Baez and Dylan had become romantically involved, and she was beginning to record his songs frequently. Dylan was writing just as fast, and was performing hundreds of concerts a year.

By the time The Times They Are A-Changin' was released in early 1964, Dylan's songwriting had developed far beyond that of his New York peers. Heavily inspired by poets like Arthur Rimbaud and John Keats, his writing took on a more literate and evocative quality. Around the same time, he began to expand his musical boundaries, adding more blues and R&B influences to his songs. Released in the fall of 1964, Another Side of Bob Dylan made these changes evident. However, Dylan was moving faster than his records could indicate. By the end of 1965, he had ended his romantic relationship with Baez and had begun dating a former model named Sara Lowndes. Simultaneously, he gave the Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man" to record for their debut album.

The Byrds gave the song a ringing, electric arrangement, but by the time the single became a hit, Dylan was already exploring his own brand of folk-rock. Inspired by the British Invasion, particularly the Animals' version of "House of the Rising Sun," Dylan recorded a set of original songs backed by a loud rock & roll band for his next album. While Bringing It All Back Home (March 1965) still had a side of acoustic material, it made clear that Dylan had turned his back on folk music. For the folk audience, the true breaking point arrived a few months after the album's release, when he played the Newport Folk Festival supported by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

The audience greeted him with vicious derision, but he had already been accepted by the growing rock & roll community, as well as the mainstream press, who were fascinated by his witty, surreal and caustic press confences. Dylan's spring tour of Britain was the basis for D.A. Pennebaker's documentary Don't Look Back, a film that captures the songwriter's edgy charisma and charm.

Dylan made his breakthrough to the pop audience in the summer of 1965, when "Like a Rolling Stone" became a number two hit. Driven by a circular organ riff and a steady beat, the six-minute single broke the barrier of the three-minute pop single. Dylan became the subject of innumerable articles, and his lyrics became the subject of literay analyzations across the US and UK. Well over 100 artists covered his songs between 1964 and 1966; the Byrds and the Turtles, in particular, had big hits with his compositions. Highway 61 Revisited, his first full-fledged rock & roll album, became a Top Ten hit upon its fall 1965 release. "Positively 4th Street" and "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" became Top Ten hits in the fall of 1965 and spring of 1966, respectively. Following the May 1966 release of the double-album Blonde on Blonde, he had sold over 10 million records around the world.

During the fall of 1965, Dylan hired the Hawks, formerly Ronnie Hawkins' backing group, as his touring band. The Hawks, who changed their name to the Band in 1968, would become Dylan's most famous backing band, primarily because of their intuitive chemistry and "wild, thin mercury sound," but also because of their British tour in the spring of 1966, The tour was the first time Britain had heard the electric Dylan, and their reaction was disagreeable and violent. At the tour's penultimate date â€” usually referred to as the Royal Albert Hall concert, but generally acknowledged to have occurred in Manchester â€” an audience member called Dylan "Judas," inspiring a positively vicious version of "Like a Rolling Stone" from the Band.

The performance was immortalized on countless bootleg albums (an official release finally surfaced in 1998), and it indicates the intensity of Dylan in the middle of 1966. He had assumed control of Pennebaker's second Dylan documentary, Eat the Document, and was under deadline to complete his book Tarantula, as well as record a new record. Following the British tour, he returned to America.

On July 29, 1966, he was injured in a motorcycle accident outside of his home in Woodstock, New York home, suffering injuries to his neck vertebrae and a concussion. Details of the accident remain elusive â€” he was reportedly in critical condition for a week and had amnesia â€” and some biographers have questioned its severity, but the event was a pivotal turning point in his career. After the accident, Dylan became a recluse, disappearing into his home in Woodstock and raising his family with his wife, Sara. After a few months, he retreated with the Band to a rented house, subsequently dubbed Big Pink, in Bearsville to record a number of demos.

For several months, Dylan and the Band recorded an enormous amount of material, ranging from old folk, country and blues songs to newly-written originals. The songs indicated that Dylan's songwriting had undergone a metamorphosis, becoming streamlined and more direct. Similarly, his music had changed, owing less to traditional rock & roll, and demonstrating heavy country, blues and traditional folk influences. None of the Big Pink recordings were intended to be released, but tapes from the sessions were circulated by Dylan's music publisher with the intent of generating cover versions. Copies of these tapes, as well as other songs, were available on illegal bootleg albums by the end of the '60s; it was the first time that bootleg copies of unreleased recordings became widely circulated. Portions of the tapes were officially released in 1975 as the double-album The Basement Tapes.

While Dylan was in seclusion, rock & roll had become heavier and artier in the wake of the psychedelic revolution. When Dylan returned with John Wesley Harding in December of 1967, its quiet, country ambience was a surprise to the general public, but it was a significant hit, peaking at number two in the US and number one in the UK. Furthermore, the record arguably became the first significant country-rock record to be released, setting the stage for efforts by the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers later in 1968. Dylan followed his country inclinations on his next album, 1969's Nashville Skyline, which was recorded in Nashville with several of the country industry's top session men.

While the album was a hit, spawning the Top 10 single "Lay Lady Lay," it was criticized in some quarters for uneven material. The mixed reception was the beginning of a full-blown backlash that arrived with the double-album, Self Portrait. Released early in 1970, the album was a hodge-podge of covers, live tracks, re-interpretations and new songs greeted with vicious reviews from all quarters of the press. Dylan followed the album quickly with New Morning, which was hailed as a comeback.

Following the release of New Morning, Dylan began to wander restlessly. In 1971, he moved back to Greenwich Village, published Tarantula for the first time, and performed at the Concert for Bangladesh; it would be his only live performance in the first half of the decade. During 1972, he began his acting career by playing Alias in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, which was released in 1973. He also wrote the soundtrack for the film, which featured "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," his biggest hit since "Lay Lady Lay." The Pat Garrett soundtrack was the final record released under his Columbia contract before he moved to David Geffen's fledgling Asylum Records.

As retaliation, Columbia assembled Dylan, a collection of Self Portrait outtakes, for release at the end of 1973. Dylan only recorded one album, 1974's Planet Waves â€” coincidentally his first number one album â€” before he moved back to Columbia. The Band supported Dylan on Planet Waves and its accompanying tour, which became the most successful tour in rock & roll history; it was captured on 1974's double-live album, Before the Flood.

Dylan's 1974 tour was the beginning of a comeback culminated by 1975's Blood on the Tracks. Largely inspired by the disintegration of his marriage, Blood on the Tracks was hailed as a return to form by critics and it became his second number one album. After jamming with folkies in Greenwich Village, Dylan decided to launch a gigantic tour, loosely based on travelling medicine shows. Lining up an extensive list of supporting musicians â€” including Joan Baez, Jonie Mitchell, Rambling Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Mick Ronson, Roger McGuinn, and poet Allen Ginsberg â€” Dylan dubbed the tour the Rolling Thunder Revue and set out on the road in the fall of 1975.

For the next year, the Rolling Thunder Revue toured on and off, with Dylan filming many of the concerts for a future film. During the tour, Desire was released to considerable acclaim and success, spending five weeks on the top of the charts. Throughout the Rolling Thunder Revue, Dylan showcased "Hurricane," a protest song he had written about boxer Rubin Carter, who had been unjustly imprisoned for murder. The live album Hard Rain was released at the end of the tour. Dylan released Renaldo and Clara, a four-hour film based on the Rolling Thunder tour, to poor reviews in early 1978.

Early in 1978, Dylan set out on another extensive tour, this time backed by a band that resembled a Las Vegas lounge band. The group was featured on the 1978 album Street Legal and the 1979 live album, At Budokan. At the conclusion of the tour in 1979, Dylan announced that he was a born-again Christain, and he launched a series of Christian albums that fall with Slow Train Coming. Though the reviews were mixed, the album was a success, peaking at number three and going platinum. His supporting tour for Slow Train Coming featured only his new religious material, much to the bafflement of his long-term fans.

Two other religious albums â€” Saved (1980) and Shot of Love (1981) â€” followed, both to poor reviews. In 1982, Dylan traveled to Israel, sparking rumors that his conversion to Christianity was short-lived. He returned to secular recording with 1983's Infidels, which was greeted with favorable reviews.

Dylan returned to performing in 1984, releasing the live album Real Live at the end of the year. Empire Burlesque followed in 1985, but its odd mix of dance tracks and rock & roll won few fans. However, the five-album/triple-disc retrospective box set Biograph appeared that same year to great acclaim. In 1986, Dylan hit the road with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers for a successful and acclaimed tour, but his album that year, Knocked Out Loaded, was received poorly. The following year, he toured with the Grateful Dead as his backing band; two years later, the souvenier album Dylan & the Dead appeared.

In 1988, Dylan embarked on what became known as "The Never-Ending Tour" â€” a constant stream of shows that ran on and off into the late '90s. That same year, he released Down in the Groove, an album largely comprised of covers. The Never-Ending Tour received far stronger reviews than Down in the Groove, but 1989's Oh Mercy was his most acclaimed album since 1974's Blood on the Tracks. However, his 1990 follow-up, Under the Red Sky, was received poorly, especially when compared to the enthusiastic reception for the 1991 box set The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased), a collection of previously unreleased outtakes and rarities.

For the remainder of the'90s, Dylan divided his time between live concerts and painting. In 1992, he returned to recording with Good as I Been to You, an acoustic collection of traditional folk songs. It was followed in 1993 by another folk album, World Gone Wrong, which won the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album. After the release of World Gone Wrong, Dylan released a greatest-hits album and a live record.

Dylan released Time Out of Mind, his first album of original material in seven years, in the fall of 1997. Time Out of Mind received his strongest reviews in years and unexpectedly debuted in the Top 10. Its success sparked a revival of interest in Dylan â€” he appeared on the cover of Newsweek to promote the album and his concerts became sell-outs. Early in 1998, Time Out of Mind received three Grammy Awards â€” Album of the Year, Best Contemporary Folk Album and Best Male Rock Vocal. â€” Stephen Thomas Erlewine