Millennium he celebrated by work, his song Things Have Changed won Golden Globe Award for the Best Original Song and Academy Award for Best Song. Dylan's greatest recent album was Love and Theft, which was realized on September 2001. This album was produced by Bob Dylan, but under pseudonym Jack Frost. Next years he released songs, and after five years he brought new studio album. During this period he recorded some songs and realized some different projects (He was grateful to Johnny Cash, who helped him and how Dylan said, „for standing up for me way back.“ He recorded song for Johnny Cash TV tribute. Releases movie – Masked & Anonymous – by Larry Charles). The movie had a limited run in Theatres and got many good critics.
On June 23, 2004, Dylan was awarded an honorary degree (Doctor of Music) by University of St.Andrew. On October of the same year, Dylan published his autobiography – Chronicles: Volume One, where he wrote also about the process, which ignited him to start to write own songs. The book was nominated for a National Book Award.
Martin Scorsese made film about Dylan's biography – No Direction Home. The movie presented Dylan during years 1961 (Dylan came to New York) and 1966 (Dylan had motorcycle accident). The film received Peabody Award and Columbia duPont Award.
In 2005 Bob returned to recording studio to record Tell Ol' Bill and in the next year album Modern Times, which was nominated for three Grammy Awards. In his 65 years old, Bob became the oldest living musician to top the Billboard albums chart.
On May 3, 2006 there was premiere of Dylan's DJ career, hosting in weekly radio program for XM Satellite Radio. BBC Radio 2 started transmission of Dylan's radio to UK on December same year and BBC 6 Music on January next year.
On August 2007 the movie I'm Not There by Todd Haynes won Award. This movie was inspired by Dylan's life, original soundtrack and the other tracks were Dylan's songs, especially recorded for the movie by various interprets. Later Haynes wrote about person Dylan: The minute you try to grab hold of Dylan, he's no longer where he was. He's like a flame: If you try to hold him in your hand you'll surely get burned. Dylan's life of change and constant disappearances and constant transformations makes you yearn to hold him, and to nail him down. And that's why his fan base is so obsessive, so desirous of finding the truth and the absolutes and the answers to him - things that Dylan will never provide and will only frustrate.... Dylan is difficult and mysterious and evasive and frustrating, and it only makes you identify with him all the more as he skirts identity.
On October 2007 Columbia Records (recording studio) released Dylan's anthology, and there was also released DVD The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965. In the same month, there was opened the first public exhibition of Bob Dylan paintings in Germany, with 170 watercolors and gouaches.
In the end of last year Dylan recorded new version of A Hard Rain's A- Gonna Fall, double CD (Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan). And what about his plans: Dylan is working on the next volume of his autobiography Chronicles: Volume One. He plans tour through Texas, Mexico, South America, Canada, Iceland, Russia and Europe.
Bob Dylan's private life.
He married Sara Lownds on November 22, 1965. They had four children (Jesse Byron, Anna Lea, Samuel Isaac Abraham, Jacob Luke) and Dylan adopted Maria Lownds, daughter of his wife Sara Lownds' first marriage.
On June 1986 Dylan married Carolyn Dennis and they had daughter Desiree Gabrielle Dennis.
Discography: 1962 – Bob Dylan 1963 – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan 1964 – The Times They Are a-Changin 1964 – Another Side of Bob Dylan 1965 – Bringing It All Back Home 1965 – Highway 61 Revisited 1966 – Blonde on Blonde 1967 – John Wesley Harding 1969 – Nashville Skyline 1970 – Self Portrait 1970 – New Morning 1973 – Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973 – Dylan 1974 – Planet Waves 1975 – Blood on the Tracks 1975 – The Basement Tapes 1975 – Desire 1978 – Street-Legal 1979 – Slow Train Coming 1980 – Saved 1981 – Shot of Love 1983 – Infidels 1985 – Empire Burlesque 1986 – Knocked Out Loaded 1988 – Down in the Groove 1989 – Oh Mercy 1990 – Under the Red Sky 1992 – Good as I Been to You 1993 – World Gone Wrong 1997 – Time Out of Mind 2001 – "Love and Theft" 2006 – Modern Times
Compilations: 1967 – Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 1971 – Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II 1971 – masterpieces 1985 – Biograph 1991 – The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3: Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 1994 – Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3 1997 – The Best of Bob Dylan Vol. 1 1997 – The Best of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 2000 – The Essential Bob Dylan 2005 – The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack 2005 – The Best of Bob Dylan 2007 – Dylan
Live Albums: 1974 – Before the Flood 1976 –Hard Rain 1979 – Bob Dylan at Budokan 1984 – Real Live 1989 – Dylan & The Dead 1993 – The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration 1995 – MTV Unplugged 1998 – The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall"
Concert 2001 – Live 1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances 2002 – The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue 2004 – The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall 2005 – Live at the Gaslight 1962 2005 – Live at Carnegie Hall 1963
Singles 1962 – Mixed Up Confusion 1964 – Blowin' in the Wind 1965 – The Times They Are a-Changin 1965 – Maggie's Farm 1965 – Subterranean Homesick Blues 1965 – Like a Rolling Stone 1965 – Positively 4th Stret 1965 – Can you Please Crawl Out Your Window? 1966 – One of Us Must Know 1966 – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 1966 – I Want You 1966 – Just Like a Woman 1967 – Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 1969 – I Trew It All Away 1969 – Lay Lady Lay 1969 – Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You 1970 – Wigwam 1971 – Watching the River Flow 1971 – If Not for You 1971 – George Jackson 1973 – Knockin' on Heaven's Door 1973 – A Fool Such as I 1974 – On a Night Like This 1974 – Something There Is About You 1974 – Most Likely You Go Your Way 1974 – All Along the Watchtower 1975 – Tangled Up in Blue 1975 – Hurricane 1976 – Mozambique 1977 – Rita Mae 1978 – Is Your Love in Vain? 1978 – Baby Stop Crying 1978 – Changing of the Guards 1979 – Gotta Serve Somebody 1979 – Precious Angel 1980 – Man Gave names to All The Animals 1980 – Solid Rock 1980 – Saved 1981 – Shot of Love 1981 – Heart of Mine 1983 – Union Sundown 1984 – Jokerman 1984 – Sweetheart Like You 1985 – Tight Connection to My Heart 1985 – When The Night Comes Falling from the Sky 1986 – Band of The Hand 1986 – Got My Mind Made Up 1988 – Silvio 1989 – Everything Is Broken 1989 – Slow Train 1990 – Unbelievable 1993 – My Back Pages 1995 – Dignity 1998 – Love Sick 2000 – Things Have Changed 2006 – Someday Baby 2007 – Most Likely You'll Go Your Way
Movies: Main roles: 1967 – Don't Look Back 1969 – Eat the Document 1978 – Renaldo and Clara 2003 – Masked & Anonymous 2005 – No Direction Home
Actor: 1973 – Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1987 – Hearts Of Fire 1990 – Backtrack aka „Catchfire“ 1999 – Paradise Cove 2003 – Masked and Anonymous
Concerts: 1967 – Festival 1972 – The Concert For Bangladesh 1978 – The Last Waltz 1986 – Hard To Handle 1993 – The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration 1995 – MTV Unplugged
Books: 1971 – Tarantule 1972 – Writings And Drawings 1985 – Lyrics: 1962 1994 – Drawn Blank 2004 – Chronicles: Vol. One 2004 – Lyrics: 1962 – 2001 2005 – The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966
Biography: 2007 – I'm Not There by Todd Haynes
Appearances 1967 – Festival 1971 – The Concert for Bangladesh 1972 – Rock of Ages 1978 – The Last Waltz 2002 – Postcards of the Hanging 2003 – Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan 2005 – A Musical History 2006 – Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan DVD
In 1970 Dylan released two alums. In the same year he had co-written with George Harrison opening track of The Beatles' album All Things Must Pass - I'd Have You Anytime. He cooperated with George also in Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh. In this year, Dylan had poor studio activities, he recorded only two songs, but next year he recovered it and recorded the second compilation Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II, singles George Jackson, Watching The River Flow, new recording When I Paint My Masterpiece.
In 1972 we could see him in movie Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, where he had role as Alias, member of Billy's gang. He also wrote the song from this movie (Knockin' on Heaven's Door), which to these days has about 150 artists in their repertoires.
Year 1973 he started by recording album on Atlantic Records (recording studio). In this year his contract with Columbia Records expired and he signed contract with David Geffen's Asylum Records (recording studio).
He recorded album Planet Waves with The Band. This album has two versions of the song Forever Young.
New year and new tour with The Band. Now it was through North America. From this tour there was live double album Before The Flood. This album was released on Asylum Records and in the mind of 70's also by Columbia Records.
After this tour, he had problems in his private life (he and his wife became estranged). He wrote a lot of songs about his problems in his marriage and recorded new album Blood on the Tracks. In the end of the year, he re-recorded some songs in Sound 80 Studio by production assistance of his brother David Zimmerman.
In 1975 he visited boxer Rubin Hurricane Carter in the prison and after that he wrote the successful protest song Hurricane. He believed such as Rubin, the boxer is innocent. New tour again and new album Desire, with many of Bob Dylan's new songs. TV documented part of this tour. Same year brought the film Renaldo and Clara. When I wanted to write about Bob Dylan, I try to find more info what I had. I haven't idea, that he has such rich discography. I found, that he brought each year some albums, singles, songs or movies. He didn't write only for himself, but also for other interprets (for example Eric Clapton). It means much, much hard work. Lyric album Street Legal came in 1978.
In the beginning of the year 1979, he participated in Bible study class. He wanted to find Christ in his life. In that time Dylan released two albums with gospel music. One of them named Slow Train Coming and one song from that album (Gotta Serve Somebody) got Grammy Award as Best Male Vocalist. The second album named Saved. Christianity character of the albums didn't accept so well by some of his fans. Musical retrospective Shot of Love was released in the springtime of 1981 but met only negative appreciation by critic.
During his life, he engaged in many public appearances, which were organized helping to some groups of people in the world (for example Live Aid concert in 1985). He went through more music styles, such as country, rock and roll and also rap. In 1988, Bob Dylan went into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Bob Dylan is author, songwriter, singer, musician and poet in the same person.
New decade and new Awards. In 1991 he went into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame and he celebrated it by tour with Santana.
Next year he became to country style and recorded two albums with old folk and blues songs (Good as I Been to You – 1992, World Gone Wrong - 1993) 25 years after famous Woodstock Festival, he brought Woodstock 94.
As 80's, also 90's were rich on albums (Good as I Been to You – 1992, World Gone Wrong – 1993, Time Out of Mind), songs and other activities around the music. He collaborated with many interprets (Mike Seeger, Daniel Lanois, Michael Bolton, Ralph Stanley, Paul Simon, etc.).
In 1997 president of US Bill Clinton presented Bob Dylan in the East Room of the White House.
In 1998 he made duet with bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley on song The Lonesome River and in the middle of next year he traveled on tour with Paul Simon. He recorded album Self Portrait and finished these 90's by movie Paradise Cove by Robert Clapsaddle (role of Alfred the Chaffeur).
Forever Young
Lay Lady Lay
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Bob Dylan & Eric Clapton
In 1961 he leaved this town and went to New York and visited the musical icon Woody Guthrie, who was in hospital in New Jersey. The days of life of Woody were going to finish. Woody was great inspiration for Bob. Such as later Dylan said "You could listen to his songs and actually learn how to live." In hospital Dylan met Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and they became friends.
During year, Bob played at various clubs; in July he presented himself in radio, in program "Saturday of Folk Music". He got public recognition when The New York Times published positive review by critic Robert Shelton. In September, he was invited by folk singer Carolyn Hester to play on harmonica on her album. This helped Dylan to sing contract with Columbia Records (John Hammond from that recording company listened him during recording Hester's album).
In 1962 Dylan recorded album Bob Dylan. There were folk, blues, gospel and also own songs. Maybe that does why he was unknown interpret; the album had little impact (only 5000 copies were sold). Columbia wanted to finish the contract, but Hammond and Johnny Cash ranged oneself with Bob. The contract continued and Bob recorded many songs. Someone of them was recorded under pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt.
In 1962 he changed his name to Robert Dylan and signed contract with Albert Grossman, who was his manager to 1970.
The second album was recorded in 1963, its name was The Freewheeling' Bob Dylan. Bob presented himself as singer and songwriter. Many songs from this album were protest songs, the most famous was Blowin'in the Wind. Apropos, this album inspired also The Beatles. Other famous songs from that album were A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall and Lord Randall. Dylan had been introduced as singer with accompanied acoustic guitar.
Bob didn't train his voice and his voice had unusual sound, it was that why he was different from other singers.
He met Joan Baez, who became his lover and advocate. She helped him with career. Some other interprets (The Turtles, The Byrds, The Hollies, etc.) singed and recorded his songs, but nobody coudn't sing his songs like himself.
In 1963 he engaged in civil rights movement, he sing at rallies, he presented on BBC television. In the same year he had conflict with media: He recorded new album, The Times They Are a-Changin' (famous songs were Ballad of Hollis Brown, North Country Blues, Boots of Spanish Leather, One Too Many Mornings, Brechtian, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol, etc.).
Next album (Another Side of Bob Dylan) was already next year. In this album you can feel rock and roll came to dominate in his music. He moved from folk scene to rock and roll. Also he changed his look and wardrobe.
Year 1965 was very rich on his activities: He started to use electric guitar. He recorded album Bringing It All Back Home, single Subterranean Homesick Blues, music video Don’t Look Back. He went to tour in England, recorded album B side, with maybe one of the most known song Mr. Tambourine Man, he had controversial presentation in Newport, other single (Like a Rolling Stone – got No 2 in US and No 4 in UK charts).
This song Like a Rolling Stone became number one on Rolling Stone magazine of its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
In 1966 Dylan agreed to record in Nashville (also Nashville is name of the city. Who doesn't know, Nashville is like Mecca of country music). Here had met great sessions, which produced the album Blonde on Blonde.
Many critics say three albums from 60's (Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde) were great cultural achievements of that century.
Year 1965 was successful not only in Dylan's professional life, but also in private. He married Sara Lownds.
Next year he traveled on world tour in Europe and Australia, when every his shows consisted of two parts – in the first he singed and played on acoustic guitar and harmonica, in the second backed by band The Hawks he singed and played high voltage electric music. In this year, his first child Jesse Byron Dylan was born.
After tour he returned to US, especially to New York. The pressures on him increased, his manager had to prepared schedule of new concert tour, his publisher waited for his manuscript of novel. This period was hard for him, accordingly he had motorcycle crash and he broke several vertebrae in his neck. This accident showed him, what is important in his life and got change to leave that pressures for 18 months.
During this time he resumed his work, he started to edit his film from his tour in 1966, recorded with The Hawks many of his old and new songs. Many of these songs were compiled in five CD The Genuine Basement Tapes.
The Hawks renamed to The Band and recorded independent album Music from Big Pink and started their own successful career.
In October 1967 Bob Dylan returned to Nashville and recorded his first album after motorcycle accident. The name was John Wesley Harding.
Twenty month after Woody Guthrie death (on October 3, 1967), Bob made live concert at Guthrie memory.
The album Nashville Skyline brought duet with Johnny Cash and the hit single Lay Lady Lay.
He inspired by his unique music, where he is interpret, author, guitar player, player on electronic mouth harmonica and strange looks in same time. A lot of interprets was inspired by him. Thanks to him, phenomenal guitar player Jim Hendrix decided to start sing. He inspired Mick Jagger,Madonna and Michael Jackson, in folk style for example Joan Baez, band Frames.
Somebody say, Bob Dylan has croaking voice, which nourish soft poetry. When he sing, sometimes he doesn’t finished some phrases and started with another and he does it again and again. He switches between sing, harmonica and other instruments. Same as Chuck Berry, Bob swing rock’n roll authors, interprets and bands (Beatles, Jim Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Donovan, etc.).
He was born on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota US. It isn’t interesting that his grand parents came from Europe. Many grand parents of people, who are inhabitants of US, came from this continent. Why is it so? After 1492, when Christopher Columbus had found America, there came people to create a new life. (Try to see History of country). His father’s grandfather came from Russian Empire after anti-Semitic pogroms) and grandmother came from Turkey. Both immigrated to US in 1905. His mother’s grand parents (they were also Jews) came from Lithuania to US in 1902.
His origin name is Robert Allen Zimmerman. (My uncle is Zimmerman too, but I don’t think that Bob Dylan is my family. It’s only small interest.)
He spent his childhood in Duluth and Hibbing. During his youth, he listened much time the radio, blues and country stations, later rock and roll. During the study in high school, he formed the music band named The Shadow Blasters. The band has short life, but his next band named The Golden Chords played popular songs.
Bob registered at University in Minnesota in 1959. His words about his beginning in folk music: "The first thing that turned me onto folk singing was Odetta. I heard a record of hers in a record store. Right then and there, I went out and traded my electric guitar and amplifier for an acoustical guitar, a flattop Gibson. The thing about rock'n roll is that for me anyway it wasn't enough... There were great catch phrases and driving pulse rhythms...but the songs weren't serious or didn't reflect life in a realistic way. I knew, that when I got into folk music, it was more of a serious type of thing. The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings."
He started to interested in Dinky town folk music. With local folk enthusiasts. During this day he introduced himself as Bob Dylan. Why this name? The name Dylan came from name of Dylan Thomas, who was poet. Every time I thought, Bob is derivate from the name Robert, but it isn't true. Bob is from popular music in that time, there were Bobbies.
He finished his college in the end of freshman year and started to work in Minneapolis.
As many singers, also Johnny sang duets with famous singers and met many famous persons in his branch. I can tell you only some of them: June Carter (later became his wife), Bob Dylan, Luis Armstrong, Neil Young, James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins etc.
And how he got his nick "The Man in Black"? It was about year 1970. In that time he had created this image. He started to wear all only in black. Long knee length coat, also in black. In the next year he wrote song „Man in Black“ as explaining this suite.
Johnny is dead, but in our memory is still alive. Not only in CD albums, but also in many books and DVD.
Every year you can find some new re-edition of his famous songs. In 2007 it was Johnny Cash: The Great Lost Performances. There are two duets with his wife June Carter Cash and some records form his live concert in 1990. This album is already 16th after his death. And not last. His album "American V" from 2006 was in July 2007 on the top of hit-parade Billboard 200.
In this year he won Grammy: The best short music video "God's Gonna Cut You Down",Johnny Cash Tony Kaye, direction; Rachel Curl, production
In January 2008 there had to be concert as annual memory (40 years) of famous Johnny Cash shows in Folsom State Prison in California. But it wasn't. Prison officers stopped organisation, after problems with media license and trade mark. (In January 1968 Johnny Cash sang in prison coffee-bar and from this shows came very famous album. His concerts in prisons during 60-teeth became legendary. Every shows he open with words: "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." ) His last albums are classed to alternative country.
Her own name is Annie McGowan. She was born in December 26, 1941 in Puryear, Tennessee as Rosan Gallimore. She comes from Indian's family - Cherokee. The family was pure, she grew between acres of tobacco and cotton plants near Puryear.
She sang and played on piano in the Church. From 1954 she presented herself with group Gallimore Sisters in program Junior Grand Ole Opry. She marriaged with Max McGowan. Later Annie came to Memphis and sang blues on Beale Street. She traveled through American South and finished this tour through America in Austin, where she met Will Nelson, Bill Joe Shaver and David Allan Coe. In 1980 she recorded her own great album Rattlesnake And Rusty Water, where you can also find John Hartford, Josh Graves, Vassar Clements, Charlie McCoy. This album is combination of traditional country and blues.
Annie is the first country singer from the West, who recorded album in communistic Czechoslovakia (Last cowboy, in 1982, with Michal Tučný). In 1987 she signed contract with Columbia Record and recorded some single albums (Indian Dream, Rattlesnake Annie Sings Hank Williams). A few years she lived with her husband in Spain. It was exactly she, who brought traditional country to Japan.
In 1995 she recorded in Czech production album Adios Last Cowboy as tribute of memory to Michal Tučný.
My first blog I’d like to wish to famous singer. MAN IN BLACK. You know him. His name is Johnny Cash.
He was born in Kingsland, Arkansas in February 26, 1932. After his study, in 1950, he went through many jobs with low salary. In July, the same year, he came in US Army and with army he went to Germany. During this time he learnt to play on guitar and composed first songs.
In 1954 he got married to Vivian Liberty and started to live in Memphis. He worked as seller. Here he met Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant. They played in KWEM radio without salary. Their first single Hey Porter/Cry, Cry, Cry has huge success. Their name was Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two. Next famous single with Cash original song Folsom Prison Blues hasn’t lower success and bring engagement contract in KWKH radio.
In same time he started with his tour. His songs were on the top of country hit parade. Group changes the name to The Tennessee Three. You could see Johnny Cash also in movies (the first was Five Minutes To Live - 1958).
Many concerts, a lot of work, and high speed of live – this everything had brought him stress and he started with pills. From 1961 they cooperated with June Carter, and played in Carnegie Hall. In 1964 he met Bob Dylan. They played together on folk festival in Newport. This moment was very important in his live. Unfortunately he became addictive to pills and he was many times in the prison for drugs. His carrier grown up, but his health was bad and his private life was in zero degree. In 1966 he divorced with Vivian Cash. Some times he spent on clinic and took to the therapy.
His next matrimony with June Carter was very successful in private and also in work life. From 60-tieth he got many appreciations. The movie critics wrote about his successful role of old gunman in The Gunfight (1970). From 70-tieth he inclined to religion. He visited Israel and made the movie about life there.
During his life he sold over 90 million albums. From 1980 he is in Country Music Hall Of Fame. His life finished in September 12, 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nobody forget his greatest songs I Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Rock Island Line, Ring of Fire, Man in Black, One Piece at a Time, Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog, Get Rhythm, Orange Blossom Special etc.
Songs of Johnny Cash were and are still famous. That’s why you can find many versions in other languages.
For example in Czech, you can find 4 different singers with their version of Folsom Prison Blues or Orange Blossom Special.
Also many tramps (boys and girls during summer nights sit near campfire) play on guitar own versions of these songs. Many of them don’t know original, they don’t know, who composed and sang it, but they like it.
Millennium he celebrated by work, his song 
In 1970 Dylan released two alums. In the same year he had co-written with 
In 1961 he leaved this town and went to New York and visited the musical icon 
He inspired by his unique music, where he is interpret, author, guitar player, player on electronic mouth harmonica and strange looks in same time. A lot of interprets was inspired by him. Thanks to him, phenomenal guitar player 
As many singers, also 
Johnny is dead, but in our memory is still alive. Not only in CD albums, but also in many books and DVD.
