To me and many other people that have never heard Bob Dylan, he probably seems like a Grateful Dead kind of artist. That’s the way I though of him at least. I never really gave him a chance, because I had always heard my mom talk about him and she only listens to Grateful Dead and bands like them. After listening and seeing Bob Dylan in class I just almost fell in love with him and wanted to hear and see more of him.
After listening to some of Dylan’s songs, he seems like such a down to earth person. In all of his songs he just tells it how it is, not how people want to hear it. For example in “All I Want to Do” he is saying how all he wants to do is be friends, nothing more. And this is different from like the Beatles song that is “I love you yeah yeah yeah”. He just makes the point that not all guys
I also love listening to songs by Bob Dylan because the themes are so different then many of the songs that we have previously learned about. Many reoccurring themes in his songs are mainly drugs and girls, but not girls that he loves but girls that he wants just maybe for a night or sometimes just as a friend. Also, I love how his songs use a lot of instruments. Many of the main instruments I found throughout the songs I listened to were: Harmonica, tambourine, guitar, drums, banjo, and a piano or keyboard.
One of the main things I like about Dylan’s style is how he uses so many different music styles in his music. For example in “Tonight I’ll be Staying Here with You” it almost sounds like a Mo-town song or even gospel. Also in a lot of other songs he uses folk and country style, some blues, and a pop style. And ho
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