Why is Bob Dylan musically important?!


Question: I'm listening to the new Dylan retrospective and wondering what you'd consider his main impact to be?


Answers: I'm listening to the new Dylan retrospective and wondering what you'd consider his main impact to be?
There are hundreds of articles on the net or in print about this, but if I had to summarise it in a nutshell:

He reconnected popular music to its ability to communicate about more than just puppy love.

Look at popular music in the 50s (by and large), and the soon-to-be hugely influential Beatles in 1962, 1963, '64 - they were Westlife version 1.0. Then Lennon got profoundly influenced by Dylan, and tried at first imitating him ("Hide Your Love Away", an early un-love song that was Dylan-inspired) and then developing his own voice and vision. And it snowballed from there into the late 60s.

That sense of rebellion in the era was due in large part to the influence of Dylan and his lyrics. But Dylan himself was merely a rebirth of his spiritual forefather - Woody Guthrie. "Protest songs" sparked off a whole wave of more literate (sometimes too literate) rock and roll, and expanded its horizons.

By no means can Dylan take sole credit for this, but he can legitimately claim (I doubt he feels the need to claim anything, but...) to have been a key part of it.

Have a look at:

http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Music/...
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He became the voice of an entire generation. He was just a little bit before my time so his music didn't have as much an impact on on me.
Before he started recording he was only a song writer. Once he found other artist such as Kris Kristfreson, Waylon Jennings,David Allan Coe, Graham Parsons and Willie Nelson after the the 1950's rock'n'roll era they deceided to make music in the rock-Country-Folk genres there own way not the labels way because they didn't like how the record company had full say in the who, what, when, where and how of their peronsal music. Whiched opened the door for all the indepent labels and artist we have today, well also techonolgy has had a big part in that too.
No one writes like Bob Dylan. That is his main impact. These are his lyrics:

http://www.bobdylan.com/moderntimes/lyri...

Artists Influenced by Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan's musical influence stretches across every genre, and includes everyone from Michael Stipe to the Black Crowes and Wyclef Jean.

Bob Dylan is 66 years old and still packs Madison Square Garden. I'd like to see any of the people on the cover of this magazine do that when they are 66 years old:
http://www.people.com/people


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