75th Birthday Mid-Week Songs

Bob Dylan, circa 1966

America's great poet/songwriter Bob Dylan was born 75 years ago yesterday in Duluth, Minnesota as Robert Zimmerman. Growing up in the mining town of Hibbing, on the edge of Minnesota's iron ore-rich Mesabi Range, Dylan absorbed the music of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson and others that he heard on the radio, and became the most renowned folk artist of the 20th century and an iconic figure in America's folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. He was also one of the artists to dedicate themselves to the civil rights movement of the early '60s. To the disapproval of folk purists, he also was a seminal figure in the new genre of folk rock.  Rolling Stone has 100 of his greatest songs here to choose from. Some of the greats compositions that he or others made famous include "Blowing In The Wind," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Like A Rolling Stone," "Knocking On Heaven's Door," "All Along The Watchtower," and "Lay Lady Lay." The body of his work reflects not only his personal journey, but our common one over the past half-century.



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