Bob Dylan Fan Dog Breed: German Shorthaired Pointer Yorkie Poodle Like to travel (with my son) anywhere. My new pet is a Yorkie Ben. Drive a Ford pick up. Liked the most the old Ford Bronco. Not looking for anyone just nice friends. Like the Mountains to live & town for shopping. Bob Dylan is tops. One night, my son Curtis and I were building a music library for my personal use. Earlier in the week I had listened to some of the songs that were posted in his library. A few songs stood out from the rest of them. Curtis happened to play this song that caught my attention. I asked him who was it. He told me it was Bob Dylan. The song was "Blowing In The Wind". A few weeks earlier I had just seen Bob Dylan on an ABC News TV interview " Bob Dylan 1985, which happened to be his first and only network news interview. The combination of his music, raw talent, his writing, personality, looks, and inside his mind drew me in like a magnet. That evening while Curtis was uploading music into my library he told me that Bob Dylan was considered one of the legends of rock and roll. From this point on I began listening to his work and built up a collection of his CD’s and DVD’s While other musicians have trouble crossing over to a different musical genre, Bob Dylan has helped define numerous musical styles that have drawn crowds on tour dates spanning half a century. During the early 60s, Dylan pioneered folk music that would smirk in the face of establishment and become the voice of a generation. In the latter half of the 60s,At the time of this writing, Bob Dylan has been with Columbia Records for 50 years. He has written about 600 songs, played more than 3,000 concerts in almost all parts of the world, and is keeping up a busy tour schedule of approximately 100 concerts per year - at the age of 70. Talk about artistic energy.BOB DYLAN Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine 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-consciousness narratives. As a vocalist, he broke down the notion that a singer must have a conventionally good voice in order to perform, thereby redefining the vocalist's role 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 — the Beatles' shift toward introspective songwriting in the mid-'60s never would have happened without him — but his influence echoed throughout several subsequent generations, as many of his songs became popular standards and his best albums became 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 rarely lagged, and his commercial revival in the 2000s proved his staying power. For a figure of such substantial influence, Dylan came from humble beginnings. Born in Duluth, MN, Bob Dylan (b. Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) was raised in Hibbing, MN, 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. He 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 t