In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York ...
Bob Dylan’s interactions with Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, and the traditionalists at the Newport Folk Festival make more for myth ...
Bob Dylan performed at the famed Newport Folk Festival three years in a row, from 1963 to 1965. His final appearance ended in controversy when he performed an electric set of rock songs, inciting ...
Performing in Greenwich Village as Bob Dylan and then signing to Columbia Records, he achieved his goal in short order, becoming the most famous folk singer in America by 1964. Newport Folk ...