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Dylan, Bob

(Encyclopedia) Dylan, BobDylan, Bobdĭlˈən [key], 1941–, American singer and composer, b. Duluth, Minn., as Robert Zimmerman. Dylan learned guitar at the age of 10 and autoharp and harmonica at 15.…

Bob Dylan

The Bootleg Series — Volume 4 — Live 1966Columbia Indeed, Bob Dylan makes his own rules and always seems to have the last laugh. Take for instance his latest release, the two-CD, half-…

Bob Dylan

Love and TheftColumbia Four years after the release of the acclaimed, if frankly overrated Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan has returned with a far better album. Tracing the roots of American folk…

Bob Dylan

Name at birth: Robert Allen ZimmermanBob Dylan is a towering figure of late 20th century pop music, known for such songs as "All Along The Watchtower" (made into a hit by Jimi Hendrix), "Like a…

Hibbing

(Encyclopedia) Hibbing, city (2020 pop. 16,214), St. Louis co., NE Minn., on the Mesabi iron range 90 mi (145 km) from the Canadian border; inc. 1893.…

Bob Dylan Biography

Bob Dylan(Robert Allen Zimmerman)singer, songwriterBorn: 5/24/1941Birthplace: Duluth, Minnesota Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his angry folkrock protest…

Charters, Samuel Barclay

(Encyclopedia) Charters, Samuel Barclay, 1929–2015, American musical historian and author, b. Pittsburgh. In the 1950s he studied jazz and blues in New Orleans and traveled through the South, where…

Waters, Muddy

(Encyclopedia) Waters, Muddy, 1915–83, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. Rolling Fork, Miss., as McKinley Morganfield. As a teenager he began singing and playing traditional country…

Scorsese, Martin

(Encyclopedia) Scorsese, Martin Scorsese, Martin skôrsāˈzē, –sĕzˈē [key], 1942–,…

Johnson, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Johnson, Robert, 1911–38, African-American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, b. Hazelhurst, Miss. A sharecropper's son, he grew up absorbing the music of Delta bluesmen,…