Better known as legendary Bob Dylan.
You know, when I pop out a kid I'm not giving him or her a name like Lucy or Michael. They're going to have a freakin' rocking name like Billie Jagger or Dylan Hendrix. I'm 20 years old. I was born in '89 and Bob Dylan was born the same year as my grandma, but it would be completely ignorant of me not to notice the contribution Dylan made to the civil rights and anti-war movement. In those times of segregation and racial tension, having a man like Dylan stand up for a black man (listen to song "Hurricane" based on the real boxer's arrest) is not something to just turn your head to.
I like his music and that of Grateful Dead. As a writer, I pay a lot of attention to words and meaning in songs and no other artist has words as meaningful as Bob Dylan's.
eXAMPLE: In the liner notes of The Freewheeling Bob Dylan it says, "[Hard Rain] was written during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 when those who allowed themselves to think of the possible results of the Kennedy-Khrushchev confrontation were chilled by the imminence of oblivion. 'Every line in it,' says Dylan, ' is actually the start of a whole song. But when I wrote it, I thought I woudln't have enough time alive to write all those songs so I put all I could into this one.'"
Reposted by : goodmorningmrben
When I listened to Hurricane, I understood the plight Bob Dylan felt in his message for the boxer and it's real political rock and roll. His music stands for something, and something that stands on solid ground is something that will never be uprooted by the weeds of modern crappery music.
These are all of Bob Dylan's songs.
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