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 * __Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman)__**
 * __By__** **__Jackson__**

Sites: **__[|http://www.bobdylan.com]__** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan http://expectingrain.com/ http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/bob-dylan

One of Bobs first mentors was woody Guthrie and later on when he started to like rock his mentor changed to the Beatles cause he liked there music.**
 * Bob Dylan or his real name Robert Zimmerman was born on** **May 24, 1941** **in** **Minnesota****. His first album was called B__ob Dylan__ and it was written in 1962, that album was his first recording by** **Columbia** **records and his first complete album. Most people say that Bob was a poet and his songs are a poem put to music. His genres are folk, rock, blues, and country.
 * The instruments he plays are the guitar, bass, harmonica, keyboard, percussion, and the harp. Bob Dylan had a distinctive voice; it was kind of raspy, most people didn’t listen to his voice but to his words that he says, most of his word where very influential and most of them rhymed.**
 * Some of the songs he made famous are “Blowing in the wind “, “Mr. Tambourine man“, and “Like a rolling stone” just to name a few. Bob is a Grammy award winner and an academy award winner.**
 * In most of his songs he plays two instruments at once, the harmonica and the guitar. He did this in the song “blowing in the win “. Bob was signed by** **Columbia** **records in 1962. Dylan mostly played protest music for the Vietnam War, with Phil Ochs. Phil Ochs is one of the biggest protest folk singers and Bob’s friend.**
 * These protest songs where made because these singers where in college and most of the college kids got drafted to the war.**
 * Bob Dylan was a very big part of the war because he gave the people at home something the worry about. All of the kids dying.**