也許除了《答案在風中飄》沒人聽過Bob Dylan更多的作品，但這一首就足夠了。1963年，Bob Dylan憑這首歌在美國家喻戶曉，后來鮑勃當之無愧的成為民謠抗議運動的領(lǐng)袖。后期他又把民謠引領(lǐng)入了新的領(lǐng)域，開創(chuàng)了另一種音樂風格——民謠搖滾。

　　1962年2月，Bob Dylan的第一張專輯出版了，專輯中的氣息是濃濃的Woody Guthrie式的民謠，其實在這張專輯中的有些歌曲就已被許多聽過他的歌的人認為Bob Dylan 是抗議歌手了，因為在他的歌里有很多的內(nèi)容都是具有強烈的批判色彩。隨之，Bob Dylan的第二張專輯誕生了，并且取得巨大成功，他幾乎成為激進青年的代言人了。1963年11月22日，當時的美國總統(tǒng)約翰·肯尼迪遇刺身亡，這徹底打碎了Bob Dylan政治的夢想。隨之而來的就是《The times they‘re a changing》這張專輯，收錄在其中的十首歌一方面是悼念死去的人，一方面也反映出人們受意外打擊后所體現(xiàn)出的情緒變化。

　　Looking at the history of rock and roll, it is impossible to overstate the importance of Bob Dylan. As Bruce Springsteen put it, inducting Dylan into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, "Bob freed the mind the way Elvis freed the body. He showed us that just because the music was innately physical did not mean that it was anti-intellectual. He had the vision and the talent to make a pop song that contained the whole world. He invented a new way a pop singer could sound, broke through the limitations of what a recording artist could achieve, and changed the face of rock and roll forever."

　　Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman, on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, where his father, Abe, worked for the Standard Oil Company. In 1947, the Zimmerman family moved to the small town of Hibbing, where an ordinary childhood did little to hint at the brilliance to come. Robert started writing poems around the age of ten, and taught himself basal piano and guitar in his early teens. Falling under the spell of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and other early rock stars, he started forming his own bands, including the Golden Chords and Elston Gunn and His Rock Boppers. According to the 1959 Hibbing high school yearbook, his goal was "to join Little Richard."

　　Dylan began to trace contemporary rock and roll back to its roots, listening to the work of country, rock, and folk pioneers like Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, and Woody Guthrie. Indeed, his interest in music had become so intense that he rarely found the time to go to class. He began to perform solo at local nightspots, honing his guitar and harmonica work and developing the expressive nasal voice that would become the nucleus of his trademark sound. It was around this time, too, that he adopted the stage name Bob Dylan, maybe in honor of the late Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, though this is an origin he has continued to deny throughout his career.

　　The following year, he dropped out of college and went to New York with two things on his mind: to become a part of Greenwich Village‘s burgeoning folk-music scene, and to meet Guthrie, who was hospitalized in New Jersey and led him into the folk field fterward.Signed a recording contract with Columbia Records executive John Hammond.In 1963 he released a record named "Bob Dylan".It included folk and blues."Blowin‘ in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain‘s A-Gonna Fall," the breathtaking ballads "Girl From the North Country" and "Don‘t Think Twice, It‘s All Right," and nine other originals that marked the emergence of the most distinctive and poetic voice in the history of American popular music. Cementing his reputation was Peter, Paul, and Mary‘s folksy cover of "Blowin‘ in the Wind," which went to No. 2 on the pop singles chart.

　　Dylan‘s third album, "The Times They Are A-Changing" ,was more intense protest.next album, "Another Side of Bob Dylan", was his most introspective and least topical to date, and its finale, "It Ain‘t Me Babe," was an even more explicit goodbye to the folk movement he had helped reinvigorate.

　　Shortly after his split with his girlfriend Rotolo, he became involved with the world‘s most famous folk diva, Joan Baez. The relationship proved beneficial for them both, as Baez raided Dylan‘s unreleased material for her albums and introduced him to thousands of fans at her concerts.