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Bob Dylan as he'd like to be remembered. CNN.com's exclusive interview with Bob Dylan's wife, Sara
--in which the former fledgling folksinger who started out with a guitar, harmonica, and other people's songs, does it all over again with Good As I Been To You (1992) and World Gone Wrong (1993).
Less than a year after his massive 30th Anniversary Concert gathered together some of the finest musicians in the world to pay him tribute, Bob Dylan was gearing up for the road yet again, this time making an appearance at the 2004 Bonnaroo Music Festival. "It's all about a livelihood," he told an Associated Press writer at the time. "It's all about going out and playing. That's what every musician who has crossed my path strives for."
Born Robert Alan Zimmerman, Dylan mixed folk, rock, country & politics
to create the singer-songwriter style and change the rules for everyone who
worked
in that field after him.
Beginning his career as a Woody Guthrie-styled folk singer, the many
phases of Bob Dylan have included protest singer ("AHard Rain's...1963),
blues based
rocker (LARS, 1965), balladeer ("JWesley Harding", 1968), country ("LLL" 1969),
movie star ("Pat Garrett... 1972), stadium attraction ("Before Flood... 1974),
advocate for convicted murderer ("Hurricane" 1975), Vegas-style lounge act
("Budokan" 1978), gospel ("Gotta Serve Somebody" 1979).
In the 1980's, he was a Stones-like rocker ("Infidels" 1984), writer of
personal love songs ("EB" 1985), Tom Petty fill-in (Fram Aid 1985, 1986 tour),
Bob Weir fill-in ("Dylan & Dead", 1987), Traveling Wilbury (1988) and U2
clone ("Oh Mercy" 1989). The 2000's found him again recording
traditional folk and blues songs.
