They are being shared on this site for educational purposes only, please see our copyright page for more info. These transcriptions are made by many different individuals from all over the world for their own research and instruction and as such should not be considered definitive "official" versions, or representative of any particular artist or performance. Some of the songs also provide guitar tablature. THIS COLLECTION BOB DYLAN LYRICS with chords, includes some 680 songs.
His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but his greatest contribution is generally considered his songwriting.
Backed by a changing line-up of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica. His recording career, spanning fifty years, and has explored many of the traditions in American song - from folk, blues, and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music. Influences on Dylan's music include Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed greatly to the then growing counterculture. Leaving behind his initial base in the culture of the folk music revival, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" radically altered the parameters of popular music in 1965.ĭylan's lyrics have incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. For us "UK folkies" his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he along with other key figures such as Joan Baez, Pete Seegar(The Weavers), the Kingston Trio and Peter Paul and Mary, popularising and extended the reach of the American folk revival (which had begun in the 1940's) exposing other countries such as the UK to this type of music.ĭylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. BOB DYLAN (Robert Allen Zimmerman) the American musician, singer-songwriter, artist, and writer has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.