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Bob Dylan, 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee

Bob Dylan is one of the greatest songwriters of all time, a gifted wordsmith with a political conscience, incisive storytelling abilities and a poet-like acumen for meter and language.

As a musician, he's shaped popular music in innumerable ways—from inspiring the Beatles and bringing folk-rock into the mainstream to proving that electric guitars could be as revolutionary as acoustic ones. More on rockhall.com...

Articles

These articles are available in the Free section of the database Rock's Back Pages.

Periodicals

On the tracks : the unauthorized Bob Dylan magazine
Grand Junction, Colo. : Rolling Tomes, Inc., c1993-
Series of dreams
"'On the tracks' magazine's companion newsletter." Grand Junction, Colo : Rolling Tomes
The Telegraph
Manchester, Eng. : Wanted Man; bimonthly (irregular), 1981-1983

Scores

Dissertations

Google Books

Books

Bob Dylan by Anthony Scaduto
Call Number: ML420.D95 S32 1972
Bob Dylan by Brian Southall
Call Number: ML420.D95 S69 2015
Bob Dylan by Bob Batchelor
Call Number: ML420.D95 B373 2014

ISBN: 9780313381034
Bob Dylan by Keith Negus
Call Number: ML420.D95 N44 2008
Bob Dylan - Forever Young by Life Magazine Editors (Editor)
Call Number: ML420.D95 B63F6 2012
Bob Dylan All the Songs by Philippe Margotin; Jean-Michel Guesdon
Call Number: ML420.D95 M274 2015
Chronicles by Bob Dylan
Call Number: ML420.D95 A3C5 2004 v. 1
Dylan - Disc by Disc by Jon Bream, Richie Unterberger
Call Number: ML420.D95 B74 2015

ISBN: 9780760346594
Small Town Talk by Barney Hoskyns
Call Number: ML3534.3 .H67 2016
Tarantula by Bob Dylan
Call Number: POE DYLA TARA 2004

Audio

The basement tapes : complete by Bob Dylan and The Band
Call Number: BOX DYLA BOOT-11 2014

Recorded June - Oct. 1967 in the basement of Big Pink, a house in West Saugerties, New York; reissue of: Columbia C2 33682 (1975)
Blonde on blonde by Bob Dylan
Call Number: CD DYLA BLON 1987

Recorded at Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville, Tenn; reissue of CBS DDP 66012 (1966)
Blood on the tracks by Bob Dylan
Call Number: VIN DYLA BLOO 1975

New York : Columbia, [1974]
The complete album collection. Vol. One by Bob Dylan
Call Number: BOX DYLA COMP-AL 2013

47 audio discs + 1 book
Highway 61 revisited by Bob Dylan
Call Number: CD DYLA HIGH 1988

New York : Columbia, [between 1970-1979?]
The original mono recordings by by Bob Dylan, Greil. Marcus
Call Number: BOX DYLA ORIG 2010

Bob Dylan's first eight albums, from his 1962 self-titled album to 1968's John Wesley Harding, are presented in mono. The end effect is a powerful, direct, and immediate sound.

Spotify Playlist

You Tube

Archival Resources

Listed below are notable collections and items from the Rock Hall's Archives. You can find more by searching our catalog here.

Digitized video, from Rock Hall events and programming is available on site for viewing as well:

American Music Masters - Woody Guthrie panel : Discusses Woody Guthrie's influence on American music, political aspects of folk music, Dylan, and interpretations of Guthrie's music.

Video

Bob Dylan: Don't look back by by D.A. Pennebaker ; produced by Albert Grossman, John Court and Leacock Pennebaker Inc. ; director, D.A. Pennebaker
Call Number: BOX DYLA DONT 2007
Bob Dylan : the 30th anniversary concert celebration
Call Number: VID DYLA THIR 2014
Bob Dylan and the Band: down in the flood : associations and collaborations by Sexy Intellectual production
Call Number: DVD DYLA DOWN 2012
Bob Dylan MTV unplugged
Call Number: VID DYLA MTV-U 2004
Dylan speaks : the legendary 1965 press conference in San Francisco
Call Number: VID DYLA SPEA 2006
The other side of the mirror: Bob Dylan live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 by director, Murray Lerner
Call Number: BRD DYLA OTHE 2011