Bob Dylan Tickets

His most acclaimed works began during the sixties when he was merely an informal chronicler, and an apparently unwilling figurehead of social unrest. His earliest songs include the likes of The Times Are a-Changin andBlowin' in the Wind, which gained recognition as anthems among anti-war and US civil rights  movements. A shift for his initial foray into folk music culture came with the six minute song Like a Rolling Stone, which marked the radical alternative of pop music parameters, setting a previously unvisited trend in the mid-sixties. His characteristic sound comprised of electric instruments which attracted criticism as well as denunciation from fellow artists in folk movement.

Although his accomplishments as a performer and recording artist have been the core of his career, it is his songwriting that has brought him great recognition. The maestro's lyrics incorporate a range of topics covering literary, philosophical, social and political influences. Most of all his songs stood out for simply defying the existent pop music conventions such that they appealed largely to the emerging counterculture of those times. He was initially inspired by the lyrical styles of Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, and Woody Guthrie, and performances of Little Richie.

Bob Dylan has personalized as well as amplified musical genres and explored various traditions in American songs like blues, folk, rock and roll, country and gospel; Irish. He has experimented with English and Scottish folk music and even embraced swing and jazz. Today, he is known to perform with harmonica, guitar and keyboards. While performing live, he is frequently backed up by a line-up of changing musicians, and has been touring steadily since the late eighties on what has come to be called his Never Ending Tour.

He has sold more than a hundred million records all over the world. He has received various awards including Academy, Golden Globe and Grammy Awards; he has also been welcomed into the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame, Minnesota's Music Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to these honors, in 2008, he was awarded a special citation by jury of Pulitzer Prize for his considerable impact on American culture and pop music that contains lyrical content of deeply valuable poetic strength. In 2000, he won a Polar Music Prize and in 2012. Not only that, President Barack Obama awarded him with the coveted Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Bob Dylan can rightfully be attributed the status of a living legend responsible for bringing a certain seriousness and intellectual ambition to pop music with the poetic worth of the likes of Tennyson, Eliot and Keats. The artist is soon to make headlines on several music festivals so keep an eye out for Bob Dylan tickets.

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