Bob Dylan | A Greatest Singer
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist who has been a major figure in popular culture for six decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1963) and “The Times They Are a-Changin'” (1964) became anthems for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement. His lyrics during this period incorporated a wide range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defied pop-music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture,More info:wiki
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#10 Bob Dylan Removes Nobel Prize from His Online Resumé,More info:time
#9 Bob Dylan, Kesha Rework Classics Into LGBTQ Anthems on ‘Universal Love’,More info:billboard
Bob Dylan, Kesha and St. Vincent have reimagined popular love songs to honor the LGBTQ community, and the singers are doing it by switching pronouns.
The six-song album, “Universal Love,” was released digitally Thursday and includes Benjamin Gibbard of alternative band Death Cab for Cutie, singer-songwriter Valerie June and Kele Okereke of the indie rock group Bloc Party.
Dylan re-worked “She’s Funny That Way” into “He’s Funny That Way,” singing lines like “I got a man crazy for me.” Others have changed the pronoun of the classic song in the past, but they were mainly women, including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Liza Minnelli, Etta James and Diana Ross.
#8 Patti Smith stands in for no-show Bob Dylan at Nobel ceremony,More info:edition.cnn
(CNN) Bob Dylan was notably absent Saturday to accept his Nobel Prize for literature, but his words and music still rang out with a passionate performance by Patti Smith in his stead.
#7 Exclusive: Bob Dylan Like You’ve Never Heard Him,More info:thedailybeast
Bob Dylan has always been one of the most bootlegged performers from the golden age of rock ’n’ roll. The Great White Wonder LP, which offered the world its first taste of Dylan’s fabled Basement Tapes with The Band, was arguably the first such underground release, and was certainly the first to find a wide audience. So it came as no surprise that back in the ’90s, when bootleg CDs hit the mass market, brick and mortar record shops were filled with a steady stream of albums full of Dylan’s castoffs.
While bootlegs from other artists were more often than not a disappointment, Dylan’s were always a revelation. Occasionally, there were never-before-heard gems. But, more often, you’d find yourself faced with a familiar song in an altogether different guise. One day, while methodically flipping through the racks of one of my favorite Greenwich Village haunts, I came across a disc entitled Thin Wild Mercury Music. The title said it all.
#6 Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years Illuminated In Latest “Bootleg Series”,More info:grammy
#5 It Took Bob Dylan Less Than 30 Seconds to Teach a Remarkable Lesson in Emotional Intelligence,More info:inc
#4 Bob Dylan Is a Genius of Almost Unparalleled Influence, but He Shouldn’t Have Gotten the Nobel,More info:slate
“Bob Dylan is a fire burning in an otherwise lukewarm, middlebrow, environment,” the fantastical guitar player John Fahey once said, “An inextinguishable conflagration. Bob Dylan is a life. A presence. A radiation point. A sun.” We live in Dylan’s world, now, in a mainstream in which the singer as poet, as auteur, as someone with something to say is taken for granted. It was Dylan, more than anyone, who took Truth from out of the Victorian attic and put it into rock ’n’ roll; put it on the AM radio. More than any individual, I think, he pulled the American mainstream away from its near absolute commitment to a style of middlebrow-po-faced-imperial-parochialrighteousness that helped drag us, among other places, into Vietnam.
How did he do this? I don’t think it was the lyrics. A friend of mine who died, almost literally, of melancholy once turned to me and apropos of nothing said, “When you hear the young Dylan play acoustic guitar, and harmonica, and sing, something inside you collapses like a house of cards.”
#3 Bob Dylan to release new three-disc collection of standards,More info:ew
Bob Dylan is showing no signs of slowing down.
Fresh off the news that he’ll be headlining the Firefly Music Festival this summer, Dylan announced a new three-disc studio album, Triplicate, that will feature 30 covers of classic American tunes.
The set, which will be released March 31 on CD and vinyl, will mark the Grammy winner’s third album of standards, following 2016’s Fallen Angels and 2015’s Shadows in the Night. This go-round will feature hand-picked songs from Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (“Once Upon a Time”), Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler (“Stormy Weather”), Harold Hupfield (“As Time Goes By”), and Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh (“The Best is Yet to Come”).
See the full list of songs below, plus Dylan’s version of Frank Sinatra’s “I Could Have Told You.”
#2 Bob Dylan’s ‘Hurricane:’ The Story Behind the Song,More info:liveabout
Ask any Bob Dylan fan to name his or her top five Dylan songs, and chances are “Hurricane” (purchase/download) will hover somewhere around the top of the list. Recorded in October of 1975, and released as the opening track of the 1976 album Desire, “Hurricane” is Dylan’s riveting blow-by-blow account of the plight of middleweight boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, who was convicted for a 1966 “race killing” during the peak of racial tensions in North America.
#1 100 Songs by Bob Dylan – review,More info:standard
Dylan himself began his Nobel Lecture by wondering how his songs related to literature and ended it — after paying tribute to the Odyssey, Moby Dick and All Quiet on the Western Front in terms that had him accused of plagiarising readers’ notes for students — by stating quite firmly that songs are unlike literature. “Lyrics in songs are meant to be sung, not read on a page”.
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