Tuesday, August 28, 2012
“Like a Rolling Stone,” Bob will roll into Youngstown for a concert scheduled tonight at the Covelli Centre.
True to his anti-establishment ways, Dylan tours nearly constantly and stops to work on a new album. Most artists tour to promote a new album. Dylan supposedly began the “never-ending tour” in 1988.
“Tempest,” his 35th studio album, is due out in September. The 14-minute title track is about the sinking of the Titanic. Dylan adds references to the 1997 blockbuster film.
Dylan released his first self-titled album in 1962 and followed it up with “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” which featured classic anti-war songs such as “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Masters of War” and “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”
Described by some as the “poet laureate of rock ‘n’ roll,” Dylan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture” and in 2012 received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Rolling Stone magazine readers voted Dylan the second Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Artist of All Time, behind The Beatles.