Bob Dylan, explored

What this site does not include

Song lyrics. They are under copyright, so each song links to its official page on bobdylan.com and says in our own words what the song is about and how it unfolds, in a sentence and then a short summary. Nothing on the site quotes the lyrics.

Sources

Album covers are loaded from the Cover Art Archive; album ids and track lists come from MusicBrainz. Players are Spotify's and YouTube's, embedded on each song page; some clips of moments were posted by others than Bob Dylan's official channel, and `npm run check:clips` finds any taken down.

Photographs

• The crowd at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 1969, where Dylan headlined TimBrighton · CC BY 2.0
• Campsite at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 1969 TimBrighton · CC BY 2.0
• On stage at the Mini Estadi, Barcelona, 1984 Xavier Badosa · CC BY 2.0
• On stage at Ahoy, Rotterdam, June 1984 Chris Hakkens · CC BY 2.0
• With Joan Baez and Santana, Hamburg, May 1984 Heinrich Klaffs · CC BY-SA 2.0
• 1965 publicity photo by Daniel Kramer Daniel Kramer · Public domain
• On stage with The Byrds, 1965 Unknown · Public domain
• Arriving at Arlanda airport, Stockholm, 28 April 1966 Unknown · Public domain
• Gospel tour, Massey Hall, Toronto, 18 April 1980 Jean-Luc Ourlin · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Hull-Rust-Mahoning open-pit iron mine, Hibbing, August 1941 John Vachon · Public domain
• Stein Rexall Drug Store, Hibbing, 1941 Unknown (Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest) · CC0
• On stage at Opinião, Porto Alegre, April 1998 Gabriel Pozzobom · Public domain
• Azkena Rock Festival, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 26 June 2010 Alberto Cabello · CC BY 2.0
• The Lincoln Memorial stage for the pre-inaugural concert of 17 January 1993, where Dylan sang "Chimes of Freedom" U.S. Department of Defense (American Forces Information Service) · Public domain
• Opening night of the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour, Milwaukee, 2 November 2021 Hwn2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0
• At the piano, London Palladium, 19 October 2022 Raph_PH · CC BY 2.0
• Outlaw Music Festival, Bethel Woods, New York, July 2024 CorpPorPearl · CC0
• On stage, 6 July 2015 Carlos Ramón Bonilla · CC BY-SA 3.0
• Desert Trip festival, Indio, California, 7 October 2016 Raph_PH · CC BY 2.0
• Taking a bow at the London Palladium, 28 April 2017 Raph_PH · CC BY 2.0
• With The Band on the 1974 comeback tour, Chicago Jim Summaria · CC BY-SA 3.0
• With Allen Ginsberg on the Rolling Thunder Revue, 2 November 1975 Elsa Dorfman · CC BY 2.5
• On stage at De Kuip, Rotterdam, 23 June 1978 Chris Hakkens · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Dylan at the March on Washington, 28 August 1963 Rowland Scherman (USIA) · Public domain
• Studio portrait by Don Hunstein for The Times They Are a-Changin', c. 1963 Don Hunstein · Public domain
• On stage at St. Lawrence University, New York, 26 November 1963 Unknown · CC BY 2.0
• Bob Dylan Drive, the street sign in Hibbing, 2022 Lorie Shaull · CC BY 2.0
• The house in Duluth where Robert Zimmerman lived as a small child, 2016 Lorie Shaull · CC BY 2.0
• Downtown Hibbing, the iron-range town his family moved to in 1947 (photo 2020) Tony Webster · CC BY 2.0
• Hibbing High School, where he played rock and roll at talent shows and graduated in 1959 (photo 2009) m_e_mccarron · CC BY-SA 2.0
• The Varsity Theater in Dinkytown, the Minneapolis neighbourhood by the university where he played coffeehouses (photo 2006) RxS at English Wikipedia · Public domain
• Cafe Wha? on MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village, one of the first clubs he played in New York (photo 2019) Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0
• Dave Van Ronk, the Village folk singer who befriended and housed the young Dylan, at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, 1968 Jack Mancini · CC BY-SA 4.0
• Woody Guthrie, his hero, whom he visited in hospital soon after reaching New York (photo 1943) Al Aumuller, photographer. NYWT&S staff photograph. · Public domain
• At the KQED press conference in San Francisco, December 1965 Robert N. Zagone · CC BY-SA 4.0
• Mike Bloomfield, the guitarist on Highway 61 Revisited and at Newport 1965, in a 1969 Columbia advertisement Columbia Records · Public domain
• The Royal Albert Hall, London, where the 1965 tour filmed for Dont Look Back ended (photo 2016) Ermell · CC BY-SA 4.0
• The Fender Stratocaster he played at Newport on 25 July 1965, shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2019 Eden, Janine and Jim from New York City · CC BY 2.0
• The Free Trade Hall, Manchester, where a listener shouted "Judas!" in May 1966; only the front survives (photo 2008) Bernt Rostad from Oslo, Norway · CC BY 2.0
• The Band, the Hawks of the basement tapes, in a Capitol Records photograph, 1969 Capitol Records · Public domain
• Big Pink, West Saugerties, New York, in whose basement he and the Hawks recorded in 1967 (photo 2006) johndan · CC BY 2.0
• Nassau Hall, Princeton University, which gave him an honorary doctorate in June 1970 (photo 2012) Smallbones · CC0
• With The Band on the 1974 tour, 2 February 1974 Hugh Shirley Candyside · CC BY-SA 2.0
• In Hard Rain, the NBC special filmed on the Rolling Thunder Revue's 1976 leg NBC Television · Public domain
• On the gospel tour, Massey Hall, Toronto, 18 April 1980 Jean-Luc · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama, where Slow Train Coming was recorded in 1979 (photo 2007) Dailynetworks · CC BY-SA 3.0
• 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, home of Saturday Night Live's Studio 8H (photo 2024) D. Benjamin Miller · CC0
• The Warfield, San Francisco, where the gospel tour opened in November 1979 (photo 2008) Andreas Praefcke · CC BY 3.0
• The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, where the 1980 Grammy Awards were held (photo 2004) Dreamyshade at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
• The Live Aid stage at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, 13 July 1985 Squelle · CC BY-SA 3.0
• The Waldorf-Astoria, New York, where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him in January 1988 (photo 2013) Hennem08 · CC BY-SA 3.0
• The Concord Pavilion, California, where the Never Ending Tour began on 7 June 1988 (photo 2008, under a sponsor's name) dantc from San Francisco, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Roy Orbison, his fellow Traveling Wilbury, on stage in Cincinnati, 1976 David Shoenfelt · CC BY-SA 3.0
• Madison Square Garden, New York, scene of the October 1992 30th anniversary concert (photo 2011) Ilovechoclate · CC BY-SA 3.0
• In concert in Bologna, November 2005 Gabriele · CC BY 2.0
• Singing "The Times They Are a-Changin'" in the East Room of the White House, 9 February 2010 The White House from Washington, DC · Public domain
• Finsbury Park, London, 18 June 2011 Francisco Antunes · CC BY 2.0
• Radio City Music Hall, New York, where Time Out of Mind won Album of the Year in February 1998 (photo 2021) ajay_suresh · CC BY 2.0
• President Obama presents him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House, 29 May 2012 Bill Ingalls · Public domain
• The Los Angeles Convention Center, where MusiCares honoured him in February 2015 (photo 2008) Cbl62 · CC BY-SA 3.0
• Sara Danius of the Swedish Academy announces that he has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Stockholm, 13 October 2016 Frankie Fouganthin · CC BY-SA 4.0
• Börshuset, Stockholm, the Swedish Academy's home, to which his Nobel lecture was sent in June 2017 (photo 2015) Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 4.0
• Dealey Plaza, Dallas, where President Kennedy was shot, the scene of "Murder Most Foul" (photo 2003) Brodie319 · Public domain
• Universal Music Publishing Group's offices in Santa Monica; the company bought his song catalogue in December 2020 (photo 2012) Coolcaesar · CC BY-SA 3.0