Bob+Dylan

Bob Dylan __** By: **Hannah** __ Bob Dylan __ Bob Dylan, folk vocalist/songwriter marvel, was born Robert Zimmerman on May 24, 1941. He spent his childhood in Duluth, Minnesota, where he was born, with his middle-class family in a comfortable Jewish suburb. He learned guitar at 10 and auto-harp and harmonica at 15. He was discovered when he was 20 years old going to meet his idol Woody Guthrie, in New York City. He ended up singing in a hazy coffeehouse in Greenwich Village NY. A record producer spotted him and his adoring crowd. A few months later he decided he should be singing his individual music. His inspirations were Leadbelly, Bo Diddly, Muddy Waters, Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, and essentially Woody Guthrie. But this wasn’t the earliest time he was lead singer and lead guitarist. He also was in a band in high school, named the Golden Chords. __ His work __ His song lyrics were about protest and sounded like poetry. Lots of people agreed with his protest songs and started protesting too. He really played folk-blues and that’s why people were stunned when he started playing Rock’n’roll. In the 1965 Newport Folk Music Festival, Dylan had electric guitars instead of acoustic guitars, which made his folk-blues music sound like rock. It was an accident but he was booed off stage. A few years later he came back performed with electric back-up guitar, not accidental, and he was cheered for. __ Special Bob Dylan Dates __ __ His Most Popular Songs __ As mentioned previously __Blowin’ in the Wind__ is the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. His another popular anti-war song of his is __The Times They Are A-Changin’__. His popular-not-so-protest songs include __Hurricane__, __Tangled up in Blue__, __Like a Rolling Stone__, __Maggie’s Farm__, and __Mr. Tambourine Man__ __.__
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 * Sep. 1961 Bob Dylan amazes audiences in Greenwich Village, New York.
 * June 1966 Bob Dylan shocked a crowd in London by performing with the electric guitar.
 * He was silent for a year after a motorcycle accident.
 * By 1970 the protest movement was being highly influenced by music and Bob Dylan began writing anti-war songs, such as __Blowin’ in the Wind__ (the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement).

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