Year

Happening

'Love And Theft'. Nominated in the categories - 'Album of the Year' and 'Best Contemporary Folk Album' of the Grammy Awards.  Dylan himself is nominated for 'Best Male Rock Vocal Performance' for 'Honest With Me'.
On November 26, 2002, Dylan releases 'Live 1975', The Rolling Thunder Revue, Bootleg Series Vol. 5.

Released all new songs in 'Love And Theft'.
Long time friend George Harrison dies from cancer - Bob Dylan remarks - "He was a giant, a great, great soul, with all of the humanity, all of the wit and humor, all the wisdom, the spirituality, the common sense of a man and compassion for people. He inspired love and had the strength of a hundred men. He was like the sun, the flowers and the moon and we will miss him enormously. The world is a profoundly emptier place without him."

Releases his 44th Album. 'The Essential' - A compilation of  music over 38 years.  Bob Dylan is awarded 'The Polar Music Prize' by the Royal Swedish Academy of music as a singer-songwriter.  Dylan contributes the previously unreleased new song 'Things Have Changed' for the soundtrack album of the movie 'Wonder Boys' by Curtis Hanson starring Michael Douglas.  Release of a rather special tribute 'Duluth does Dylan' - 'An homage to the town's most famous native.  performed by 15 local bands and musicians.

Releases his 43rd album and last of the 1990's in 'Live 1966'. Rated as the 4th Bootleg Series album. Released after 33 years. Winner of three Grammy Awards in major categories for 'Time Out Of Mind' - Album of the year, Best Male Contemporary Rock Vocal Performance and Best Contemporary Folk Album.  

Releases his first new songs album in seven years in the form of 'Time Out Of Mind'. He receives the Kennedy Center Honors for achievement in the arts.  President Clinton stated, "He probably had more impact on people of my generation than any other creative artist."

   

Released the 'Good As I Been To You' album.  His son Jesse designs the cover of Tom Waits album.

In 1991 Bob Dylan released the 'Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3' (3 CD set). A total of 58 track consists mostly of previously - unreleased studio outtakes. It also include demos and alternate versions of released material, and a handful of live tracks.  Received the Grammy Award for 'Lifetime Achievement' (Introduced by Jack Nicholson).

Released two albums - 'Dylan & The Dead' in January and 'Down In The Grove' in May.  Introduction into the R&R Hall of Fame by 'Bruce Springsteen'. 

Saw the release of 'Knocked Out Loaded'.  The True Confessions tour with 'Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' took place. He contributed to 'Artists Against Apartheid' and also preformed at 'Live Aid' and 'Farm Aid'.

His 27th album, 'Infidels' was co-produced by Dire Straits 'Mark Knopfler'.  Songs such as 'Jokerman' stand out proud.  His first promo video, 'Sweetheart Like You' was released.

His third Semi-Gospel album 'Shot Of Love' revived his faithful fan and the song 'Every Grain Of Sand' stands out proud amongst some of his best songs.

 

His second Gospel album 'Saved' was released. This album however failed to crack the Top 20. He lost many fans but his old faithful fan remained through thick and thin.

His live album 'At Budokan' followed in April.  Then the biggest shock to Bob Dylan fans came in August when he released his first Christian 'Born-Again' album 'Slow Train Coming'. The album reached No. 3 on the charts and the song 'Gotta Serve Somebody' earned Bob Dylan with his first Grammy award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.

His first album after the divorce was 'Street Legal' which also seemed a flop. Although still with some lovely songs such as 'Is Your Love In Vain?'.  The Movie 'Renaldo & Clara' was released.

Bob Dylan and Sara finally divorced.

Release of 'Desire' and 'Hard Rain' followed. 'Desire' was his third consecutive No. 1 album.  It featured the song 'Hurricane', dedicated to wrongly imprisoned boxer, Ruben 'Hurricane' Carter.  Also a song entitled 'Sara' which didn't win her back.

Dylan's personal life was in shambles and he and Sara separated.  The pain and anguish was evident in his next album, 'Blood On The Tracks' Later that year he released 'The Basement Tapes' which had been recorded in 1966.  The tour, Rolling Thunder Revue followed.

The hastily recorded 'Planet Waves' shot up the charts and became Dylan's first No. 1 album. This was followed by his 17th album, 'Before The Flood' which rose to No. 3 on the charts.

He released his book 'Tarantula'.  Also preformed live alongside 'George Harrison' at the Concert for Bangladesh. This was his first American live appearance since his motorcycle accident five years earlier. His second 'Greatest Hits Vol. 2' was released.

 

Two more albums were released.  'Self Portrait' (a two-record set) and 'New Morning'.  Both these albums were considered flops by the fans and critics.  

The release of 'Nashville Skyline'. It was a country record with guest artist, Johnny Cash, which was a flop in the die-hard Dylan's fans eyes.  Even though some classics like 'Lay, Lady, Lay' and 'I Threw It All Away'

 

Two albums were released.  Bob Dylan's 'Greatest Hits' and 'John Wesley Harding', which went on to No. 2 on the Billboard Album Charts.

The two-record album 'Blonde On Blonde' is released.  Also toured England with 'The Hawks' (who later became known as 'The Band').
A near-fatal motorcycle accident on July 29, 1966, was a blessing in disguise, allowing Bob Dylan to retreat and spend time with Sara and their newborn son Jesse.  A few months later 'The Band' joined Dylan at Woodstock and began recording the 'Basement Tapes' which was only to be released 8 years later in 1975.

Releases 'Bringing It All Back Home' which included a nine piece band.  A week later 'The Byrds' release a electrified version of 'Mr. Tambourine Man'.  By the time it reached the top of the charts the term 'folk-rock' had become a household name. D.A. Pennebaker's documentary 'Don't Look Back' was filmed during this period.  Dylan begins to see Sara Lowndes, a friend of his manager Albert Grossman's wife, and by the end of the year would marry her.  1965 also saw the release of 'Highway 61 Revisited'.  This album contained the classic, 'Like A Rolling Stone' which at over six minutes in length was the longest single on 45 ever released.  It reached No. 2 on the Billboard singles charts.

Releases 'The Times They Are A-Changin'.  Dylan shocks his hardcore folk fans by going electric at the Newport Folk Festival. On May 1, 1964 he releases 'Another Side Of Bob Dylan'  He breaks his relationship with girlfriend Suze Rotolo and begins one with Joan Baez.  They both feed off of each other.

Is photographed with girlfriend Suze Rotolo for the cover of his second album 'The Freewheelin'. Sixties anthems such as 'Blowin In The Wind' and 'A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall' among the many great cuts.

On March 19, 1962 the release of his first album, entitled 'Bob Dylan'.  Only two cuts on this debut album being his own.  These being - 'Talking New York' and 'Song to Woody'.

Bob Dylan drops out of college and moves to New York.  The main reasons were to meet Woody Guthrie and become part of the Greenwich Village's burgeoning folk-music scene.  Woody Guthrie was hospitalized in New Jersey with a rare, hereditary disease of the nervous system. He accomplished both his goals.
He adopted the stage name Bob Dylan, presumably in honor of the late Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, although he continued to deny this throughout his career.
Columbia Records executive John Hammond signs Bob Dylan to a recording contract. 

Young Robert Zimmerman graduates from Hibbing High School.  The 1959 Hibbing High School yearbook indicated that Robert Zimmerman's goal was to join Little Richard.  He left Hibbing for the University of Minnesota in the fall of 1959. Here he began to listen to the works of country, rock, and folk pioneers like Hank Williams, Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie.