Describe the music and career of Bob Dylan.

What will be an ideal response?

(1942-) Follower of Woody Guthrie, visited Guthrie in the hospital; Folk song texts and messages mean more than melodies; Dylan's first album, Bob Dylan (1962) contained mostly traditional songs; Second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) gave him a protest-singer reputation; Many songs more popular when covered by more commercial sounding groups such as Peter, Paul, and Mary; Folksinger Joan Baez sang some Dylan songs and toured with him in 1963; Dylan refused appearance on Ed Sullivan TV show because of song choices; 1965 Newport Folk Festival introduced new sound for Dylan-singing with electric instruments and drums played by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band-this shocked folk-purist fans; Dylan began to have pop-chart hits when he used rock instruments-the sound called Folk-Rock; Late sixties, country influences in Dylan's sound Late seventies/early eighties, fundamentalist Christian songs; Later music continued based on songs in support of working people and general social and political issues.