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DYLAN, BOB

(*1941)

DYLAN, BOB (b. Robert Allan Zimmerman, Duluth, Minn., May 24, 1941) Although Dylan's major achievements have been in folk/rock and pop music, he has earned a place in an encyclopedia of country music, and not just because of his two late 1960s LPs, the Western-concept LP John Wesley Harding and the Nashville excursion of Nashville Skyline . Even more important than these two dabblings in country sounds, Dylan is influential because of his breakthroughs as a songwriter, which had a particularly…

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