son of Abraham (a hardware store owner) and Betty Zimmerman married Sara Lowndes, Novemchildren: five. Name originally Robert Allen Zimmerman born May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minn. The trio of Peter, Paul & Mary recorded a version of вЂњBlowin вЂ™ For the Record вЂ¦ Protest tunes like вЂњA Hard Rain вЂ™s a-Gonna Fall, вЂќ вЂњMasters of War, вЂќ and вЂњDon вЂ™t Think Twice, It вЂ™s Alright вЂќ were making listeners more conscious and aware both politically and personally. вЂќ Within a year his second LP, The Freewheelin вЂ™ Bob Dylan -containing self-penned compositions only -was released. Recorded for a mere $402, the album featured acoustic reinterpretations of old folk songs, but also included two Dylan originals, вЂњSong for Woody вЂќ and вЂњTalking New York. His debut LP, Bob Dylan, was released in March 1962. With the folk scene booming, Columbia executive and talent scout John Hammond had just signed Pete Seeger Dylan followed soon after.

вЂќ Obviously in little need of self-confidence, by April 1961 he was gigging at Gerde вЂ™s Folk City in New York вЂ™s Greenwich Village. вЂњGuthrie was my last idol, вЂќ Dylan said in Rock 100. Just one year into college, Dylan dropped out after hearing Woody Guthrie and hitchhiked to New York to meet the legendary singer who was in an East Coast hospital suffering from Huntingtons disease. It was at college that he changed his name to Dylan (probably after the poet Dylan Thomas) and began creating his own mythological background, which made him out to be everything from an Indian to a hobo to Bobby Vee! After hearing the Kingston Trio and Odetta he began to explore folk music, learning older tunes and sitting in at local coffeehouses around campus. He played in a variety of bands during high school, including the Golden Chords, before enrolling at the University of Minnesota in 1959. His earliest musical influences, Hank Williams, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Howlin вЂ™ Wolf and John Lee Hooker, were brought to him via the airwaves of a Shreveport, Louisiana, radio station. Throughout a career that has seen the better part of three decades, Dylan has been pop music вЂ™s master poet and an ever-changing performer.Д«orn Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, Dylan was raised in the northern mining town of Hibbing from the age of six.

As the 1980s came around Dylan was undergoing a spiritual rebirth and his writing reflected a religious conviction that was truly heartfelt. He proved to be equally superior in that field also and by 1968 he was trying his hand at folk-rock, creating an impact that touched even the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. At the 1965 Newport Folk Festival Dylan shocked his following by going electric and venturing into rock and roll. And for the rest of our three weeks in Paris, we didnвЂ™t stop playing it.In the early 1960s Bob Dylan was heralded as the spokesman for his generation, writing and singing folk songs that were as deep and moving as those of any artist since his idol, Woody Guthrie. As John Lennon once said in discussing The FreewheelinвЂ™ Bob Dylan, whichВ reached the Beatles in their Paris hotel fully a year after its release, 'I think it was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. By writing nearly all of his own material, and writing it from a distinctly personal point of view, Dylan created a template that would alter the course of many careers other than his. But the impact of the best-known songs on The FreewheelinвЂ™ Bob Dylan-вЂќBlowinвЂ™ In The Wind,вЂќ вЂњDonвЂ™t Think Twice, ItвЂ™s All Right,вЂќ вЂњA Hard RainвЂ™s a-Gonna FallвЂќ-was not nearly as great as the impact of DylanвЂ™s fundamental approach to music. вЂњBlowinвЂ™ In The WindвЂќ gave most future Bob Dylan fans their first exposure to his songwriting talents, and soon his work had found its way into nearly every genre of popular music via cover versions by artists like Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash and the Byrds.

In the summer of 1963, Peter, Paul and Mary turned the opening track of The FreewheelinвЂ™ Bob Dylan into an international pop hit.

Bob dylan discography with pictures