Additional Show For Bob Dylan's AmericanaramA Tour Announced
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Bob Dylan, Wilco, and My Morning Jacket* with Richard Thompson Electric Trio# with Ryan Bingham Additional Show For
Bob Dylan's AmericanaramA Tour Announced ...
[ read more ]Bob Dylan Will Play Tuscaloosa, AL With My Morning Jacket and Wilco Too
... The AmericanaramA tour has added another date. On July 3, the multi-band tour will roll into Tuscaloosa, AL's Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre. As of press time, this stop on the extended tour will feature
Bob Dylan, My Morning Jacket, Wilco and Richard Thompson Electric Trio. Ticket information is available on Dylan's homepage. The tour will kick off in West Palm Beach, FL on June 26.
Bob Dylan Will Play Tuscaloosa, AL With My Morning Jacket and Wilco Too ...
[ read more ]Bob Dylan Honored by Academy of Arts and Letters
... member because the Academy couldn't decide which category - art, literature or music - he best fit into. Dylan was unable to attend the ceremony, which took place in Manhattan, but he did issue a statement. "I feel extremely honored and very lucky to be included in this pantheon of great individual artists who comprise the Academy of Arts and Letters," he said. "I look forward to meeting all of you some time soon." more on this story Gibson.com is an official news provider for the antiMusic.com. Copyright Gibson.com - Excerpted here with permission.
Bob Dylan Honored by Academy of Arts and Letters ...
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His real name is Robert Zimmerman. He probably took his name from poet Dylan Thomas, be he has never confirmed this. He did confirm in his autobiography Chronicles, Volume I that he went with "Bob" instead of "Bobby" because he didn't want to be confused with Bobby Darin, Bobby Rydell or Bobby Vee. (thanks, Clapton - San fran , CA)
Dylan was born in Duluth, Minnesota. At an early age he moved to Hibbing, where he grew up. This part of the state was known for its abundant iron mines at the time. It is known by its inhabitants as "The North Country," hence the song "Girl From The North Country."
Dylan briefly attended the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in the early '60s. During this time, he hung out frequently in an area known as Dinkytown. Dinkytown had a burgeoning folk scene at the time and this is where he first performed as a solo artist (he had a number of rock 'n' roll bands in high school) and first used the name Bob Dylan. (thanks, don - rapid city, SD, for above 2)
He was secretly married for 6 years to Carol Dennis, one of his backup singers. They had a daughter together.
He was married to his first wife, Sara, from 1965-1977. In the divorce, she got half the royalties to the songs Dylan wrote while they were married, some of which were about her.
Dylan played 6 shows with The Grateful Dead in 1987. They released a live album called Dylan And The Dead.
In a classic 1966 French film Masculin-Feminin, the protagonist reads a headline from a French newspaper saying, "Qui etes-vous Bob Dylan?" This means, "Who are you, Bob Dylan?"
He broke several vertebrae in his neck when he crashed his motorcycle in 1966. It kept him from recording for a while and prompted rumors that he was brain damaged or dead.
He often wears the same pair of socks 2 days in a row.
He had a cat named Rollin' Stone.
In 1960, Dylan was paid 50 dollars to play harmonica on a Harry Belafonte album.
He has recorded under several pseudonyms, including Bob Landy, Robert Milkwood Thomas, and Blind Boy Grunt.
Dylan has starred in a couple of movies, none of which have done well with the critics. They include Hearts Of Fire, Pat Garrett And Billy The kid and Renaldo And Clara. (thanks, s - Oshawa, Canada)
Dylan's first band was formed in high school and called the Golden Chords. He was the piano player.
Michael Jackson and Dylan performed together at Elizabeth Taylor's 55th birthday party in 1987.
In the mid-1970s, then-unknown comic Steve Martin opened for Dylan in Tampa, Florida.
He named his 1969 album after outlaw John Wesley Hardin. His last name was misspelled "Harding."
In 1991, he won a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.
He was raised Jewish, but became a born-again Christian in the late '70s.
Dylan and his first wife Sara are the parents of film director Jesse Dylan and musician Jakob Dylan, the lead singer and songwriter of The Wallflowers. Bob Dylan later married his longtime backup singer Carolyn Dennis. Jesse's wife Susan Traylor and Jakob's wife Paige Dylan are both actresses.
Dylan: "I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
Martin Scorsese's PBS documentary
No Way Home made a strong case that Bob Dylan was the most influential songwriter of the 20th Century. Whether one accepts that opinion or not, there's ample evidence he was among the most prolific. Remarkably, in just three years, Dylan wrote six classic albums of great original songs.
Freewheelin' was released May 27, 1963;
Times They Are A-Changin' on January 13, 1964;
Another Side of Bob Dylan seven months later on August 8 1964;
Bringing It All Back Home on March 22 1965;
Highway 61 Revisited five months later on August 30, 1965; and
Blonde On Blonde eight months later on May 16, 1966. What other famous songwriter has created such a wealth of brilliant songs in such a short period of time? (thanks to Steve Cahill at the
Songwriters Resource Network)
In 2008, he became the first Rock musician ever awarded a Pulitzer Prize. He was given the special award for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
Dylan recorded the folk song "
The House Of The Rising Sun" on his first album, and after The Animals recorded the song in 1964, it had a profound effect on him. Animals lead singer Eric Burdon told us: "Bob Dylan, who was angry at first, turned into a rocker. Dylan went electric in the shadow of The Animals classic 'House of the Rising Sun.'"
Back in 1965, when a British reporter asked him what his message was, Bob Dylan replied, "Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb." His famous quote appears in Don't Look Back, the documentary that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour of the United Kingdom. No wonder then that his explicit demand on his concert rider was to have dressing rooms lit with incandescent lighting.
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She's got everything she needs, she,s an artist she don't look back." the title is "She belongs to me." peter
Dylan did to have a #1 record. It was Planet Waves, which he recorded with The Band in 1974. However, he never had a #1 song (at least, with him singing it. Dylan songs, when covered by other artists, have gone to #1). Closet he ever got was Like a Rolling Stone which crawled to #2."
...that's not true...
"When the jester sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean".
This comes from the Red Windbreaker on one of his albums that is identical to James Dean's in A Rebel Without a Cause.
"And a voice that came from you and me"
This is refering to the folk style he sings.
"Oh and while the king was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown"
This is on how Dylan took Elvis Presley's place as the number one performer.
"With the jester on the sidelines in a cast"
This is about Dylans Motorcycle accident that kept him from making new songs for quite some time.
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and Mick Jagger