Bob Dylan

Rough and Rowdy Ways

Rough and Rowdy Ways

Tuesday 5th Nov 2024

location_city Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an influential and award-winning American folk-roots and rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career started in the early '60s, yielding countless albums and hits, including "All Along the Watchtower", "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", "Mr Tambourine Man" and "Blowin' in the Wind", amongst many more.

His vast catalogue includes his debut eponymous album, released in 1962, which was followed by: "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" (1963), "The Times They Are a-Changin" (1964), "Another Side of Bob Dylan" (1964), "Bringing It All Back Home" (1965), "Highway 61 Revisited" (1965), "Blonde on Blonde" (1966), "John Wesley Harding" (1967), "Nashville Skyline" (1969), "Self Portrait" (1970), "New Morning" (1970), "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" (1973), "Dylan" (1973), "Planet Waves" (1974), "Blood on the Tracks" (1975), "The Basement Tapes" (1975), "Desire" (1976), "Street Legal" (1978), "Slow Train Coming" (1979), "Saved" (1980), "Shot of Love" (1981), "Infidels" (1983), "Empire Burlesque" (1985), "Knocked Out Loaded" (1986), "Down in the Groove" (1988), "Oh Mercy" (1989), "Under the Red Sky" (1990), "Good as I Been to You" (1992), "World Gone Wrong" (1993), "Time Out of Mind" (1997), "Love and Theft" (2001), "Modern Times" (2006), "Together Through Life" (2009), "Christmas in the Heart" (2009), "Tempest" (2012), "Shadows in the Night" (2015), "Fallen Angels" (2016), "Triplicate" (2017), plus 2020's: "Rough and Rowdy Ways".

In 2016, Dylan was the surprise recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".