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Imagine booking Bob Dylan for your event – as a Bob Dylan booking agent we can make it happen! Bob Dylan is a iconic American singer-songwriter and author. Bob Dylan has won 10 Grammy Awards, been inducted into the Halls of Fame for: Rock & Roll, Nashville Songwriters and, Songwriters and outstandingly, a Nobel Prize in Literature. In the fall of 1961, after one of his performances received a rave review in The New York Times, Bob Dylan signed a recording contract with Columbia Records.
The 1963 release of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan marked Dylan’s emergence as one of the most original and poetic voices in the history of American popular music. It showcased Dylan’s gravelly-voiced singing style in a number of traditional folk songs and covers of blues songs. The album included two of the most memorable 1960s folk songs, ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ and ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.’ His next album, The Times They Are A-Changin’, firmly established Bob Dylan as the definitive songwriter of the ’60s protest movement. By 1964, Bob Dylan was playing 200 concerts annually, but had become tired of his role as ‘the’ folk singer-songwriter of the protest movement. Another Side of Bob Dylan, recorded in 1964, was a much more personal, introspective collection of songs.
Over the course of the next three decades, Bob Dylan continued to reinvent himself. Following a near-fatal motorcycle accident in July 1966, Bob Dylan spent almost a year recovering in seclusion. His next two albums, John Wesley Harding (1968) including ‘All Along the Watchtower,’ later recorded by guitar great Jimi Hendrix and the unabashedly countryish Nashville Skyline (1969) were far more mellow than his earlier works. In 1973, Bob Dylan appeared in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, a feature film directed by Sam Peckinpah. He also wrote the film’s soundtrack, which became a hit and included the now-classic song, ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.’
Beginning in the 1980s, Bob Dylan began touring full time, sometimes with fellow legends Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Grateful Dead. Notable albums during this period included Infidels (1983); the five-disc retrospective Biograph (1985); Knocked Out Loaded (1986); and Oh Mercy (1989), which became his best-received album in years. He recorded two albums with the all-star band the Traveling Wilburys, also featuring George Harrison, the late Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne. In 1994, Bob Dylan returned to his folk roots, winning the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album for World Gone Wrong.
In 1989, when Bob Dylan was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Bruce Springsteen spoke at the ceremony, declaring that ‘Bob Dylan freed the mind the way Elvis freed the body’. Dylan’s 1997 album Time Out of Mind reestablished this one-time folk icon as one of the preeminent of rock’s wise men, winning three Grammy Awards including Album of the Year. In 2000, he recorded the single ‘Things Have Changed’ for the soundtrack of the film Wonder Boys, starring Michael Douglas. The song won Bob Dylan a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Showing no signs of slowing down, Bob Dylan has continued to tour in recent years and released his latest studio album, Together Through Life, in April 2009.
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