Bob Dylan Jam

 

Bob Dylan Jam

Bob Dylan

(born May 24, 1941, Duluth Minnesoda.
American folksinger who moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s,
infusing the lyrics of rock and roll,therefore concerned mostly with boy-girl romantic innuendo,with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry.
Hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation,

Dylan sold tens of millions of albums,
wrote more than 500 songs recorded by more than 2,000 artists,
performed all over the world, and set the standard for lyric writing.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.

He grew up in the northeastern Minnesota mining town of Hibbing,
where his father co-owned Zimmerman Furniture and Appliance Co.
Taken with the music of Hank Williams, 
Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Ray,
he acquired his first guitar in 1955 at age 14 and later,
as a high school student, played in a series of rock and roll bands.
In 1959, just before enrolling at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis,
he served a brief stint playing piano for rising pop star Bobby Vee.
While attending college,
he discovered the bohemian section of Minneapolis known as Dinkytown.
Fascinated by Beat poetry and folksinger Woody Guthrie,he began performing folk music in coffeehouses, adopting the last name Dylan
(after the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas).
Restless and determined to meet Guthrie—
who was confined to a hospital in New Jersey—he relocated to the East Coast.

Arriving in late January 1961,

Dylan was greeted by a typically merciless New York City winter.
A survivor at heart, he relied on the generosity of various benefactors who,
charmed by his performances at Gerde’s Folk City in Greenwich Village,
provided meals and shelter.
He quickly built a cult following and within four months was hired to play harmonica for a Harry Belafonte recording session.
Responding to Robert Shelton’s laudatory New York Times review of one of Dylan’s live shows in September 1961,
talent scout–producer John Hammond investigated and signed him to Columbia Records. There Dylan’s unkempt appearance and roots-oriented song material earned him the whispered nickname “Hammond’s Folly.”

Dylan’s eponmous first album was released in March 1962 to mixed reviews. His singing voice—a cowboy lament laced with Midwestern patois, with an obvious nod to Guthrie—confounded many critics. It was a sound that took some getting used to. By comparison, Dylan’s second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (released in May 1963), sounded a clarion call. Young ears everywhere quickly assimilated his quirky voice, which divided parents and children and established him as part of the burgeoning counterculture, “a rebel with a cause.” Moreover, his first major composition, “Blowin’ in the Wind,” served notice that this was no cookie-cutter recording artist. About this time, Dylan signed a seven-year management contract with Albert Grossman, who soon replaced Hammond with another Columbia producer, Tom Wilson.

Bob Dylan & Joan Baez

In April 1963 Dylan played his first major New York City concert,
at Town Hall. In May, when he was forbidden to perform
“Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” on Ed Sullivan’s popular television program,
he literally walked out on a golden opportunity.
That summer,championed by folk music’s doyenne, 
Joan Baez, Dylan made his first appearance at the Newport Folk Festival and was virtually crowned the king of folk music.

The prophetic title song of his next album, 

The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1964), provided an instant anthem.

Release:  20-2-2014           Buy Album  Køb album (digitalt)

 

 

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