Folk music
After a trip to Denver Dylan is firmly decided to become a professional musician. In January 1961 he arrived in New York. Very quickly his name stanolo popular Greenwich-Village. Released in February 1962, her debut album «Bob Dylan» consisted mainly of songs perepevok classic folk and blues repertoire. Surprise is deliberately colloquial style of performance in which they were executed. For the next album, «The Freewheelin 'Bob Dylan», Dylan has written over the years a large number of «protest» songs with a political subtext. About the music of these songs the musician and his manager were divided in opinion. The musician tried to write rock 'n' roll with a group of guitarists and drummers, but under pressure from impresario album was released as an acoustic recording folk-melodies with accompaniment of guitar and sometimes harmonica.
Despite the musical conservatism and rather crude manner of execution, «The Freewheelin 'Bob Dylan» became a watershed in the history of folk music. Since the existence of popular music no one wrote such profound songs like «Bob Dylan's Dream» ( «Dream Bob Dylan»). Apocalyptic vision «nuclear winter» to «A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall» proved particularly relevant in the months of the Caribbean crisis. The country is gaining momentum the movement for human rights and racial equality. In these circumstances, high-received song Dylan «Blowin 'in the Wind» performed by the trio Peter, Paul & Mary. My version of the song recorded original musicians such as Marlene Dietrich, Elvis Presley, Etta James, Steve Uander and Dolly partons. Under the impression of a star-end rhythm-blues, Sam Cooke wrote the central product of soul music, 1960 - «A Change Is Gonna Come», stately anthem of black struggle for equality. However, the main executor of Dylan songs in those years was his girlfriend, Joan Baez, a large part of the repertoire which then belonged to Peru Dylan.
«Freewheelin 'Bob Dylan» was very impressed not only to fans of folk music and not only in the United States. Britain's idols The Beatles, according to George Harrison, heard it before the hole. Album Dylan taught Liverpudlian quartet, that the content of popular music can be not only the romantic feelings of a man and a woman. For example Dylan «Beetle» began to experiment with songs and makes his repertoire. Meanwhile, in early 1964 released a new album of protest songs Dylan «The Times They Are A-Changing», which was a few months after the disc «Another Side of Bob Dylan», in the musical fabric of which there are blotches of blues and rhythm-blues-end . Influenced by reading John Kitts and Artyura Rimbaud Dylan lyrics become more and more literary and suggestivnymi. For the first time in the history of music are not set out with the direct and transmitted adhesion complex. Sometimes the word should be a word that «stream of consciousness».