Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan:
Songwriter, musician, author, performer, poet, political force, Pulitzer Prize winner, voice of an era, icon, legend—if Bob Dylan were a cat, he should start counting his lives. The nature of his talent isn’t that he reinvents himself for each decade; rather, each new generation discovers and reinterprets his gifts, which is why his Never Ending Tour might be the most aptly named artistic venture in history.
Early Days of Bob Dylan
He was born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941.Abram and Beatrice Zimmerman, who lived in a close-knit Jewish community in Duluth, Minnesota. After Abram Zimmerman contracted polio, the family moved to nearby Hibbing. The young Dylan spent long hours listening to folk, country and rock radio stations, and learned piano, harmonica and guitar.
During a short stint at the University of Minnesota, the young musician frequented the Dinky town folk music circuit, opted for acoustic guitar and took the name Bob Dylan . Next, he took off for New York City’s Greenwich Village. Within the space of a year, he met his idol Woody Guthrie, performed with Guthrie colleague Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, received a favorable review from the New York Times, and signed on with Columbia Records.
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