Bob Dylan

On the occasion of his 80th birthday
May 24, 2021

Dylan's 39 Studio Albums, Release Dates, and Random Passages from his experimental stream-of-consciousness novel, Tarantula, written in 1965/66 and published in 1971 by The Macmillan Company.

Dylan

1962 - 1964

~Bob Dylan
March 19, 1962

~The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
May 27, 1963

~The Times They Are a-Changin'
January 13, 1964

~Another Side of Bob Dylan
August 8, 1964

Dylan

1965 -1966  Tarantula

~Bringing It All Back Home
March 22, 1965

~Highway 61 Revisited
August 30, 1965

~Blonde on Blonde
June 20, 1966

Dylan

1967 - 1970

~John Wesley Harding
December 27, 1967

~Nashville Skyline
April 9, 1969

~Self Portrait
June 8, 1970

~New Morning
October 21, 1970

Dylan

1973 - 1978

~Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
July 13, 1973

~Dylan
November 16, 1973

~Planet Waves
January 17, 1974

~Blood on the Tracks
January 20, 1975

~The Basement Tapes
June 26, 1975

~Desire
January 5, 1976

~Street-Legal
June 15, 1978

Dylan

1979 - 1981

~Slow Train Coming
August 20, 1979

~Saved
June 20, 1980

~Shot of Love
August 12, 1981

Dylan

1983 - 1989

~Infidels
October 27, 1983

~Empire Burlesque
June 8, 1985

~Knocked Out Loaded
July 14, 1986

~Down in the Groove
May 31, 1988

~Oh Mercy
September 18, 1989

Dylan

1990 - 1997

~Under the Red Sky
September 11, 1990

~Good as I Been to You
October 27, 1992

~World Gone Wrong
October 26, 1993

~Time Out of Mind
September 30, 1997

Dylan

2001 - 2009

~"Love and Theft"
September 11, 2001

~Modern Times
August 29, 2006

~Together Through Life
April 28, 2009

~Christmas in the Heart
October 13, 2009

Dylan

2012 - 2016

~Tempest
September 11, 2012

~Shadows in the Night
February 3, 2015

~Fallen Angels
May 20, 2016

~Triplicate
March 31, 2017

Dylan

2020

~Rough and Rowdy Ways
June 19, 2020

Dylan

Passage fromTarantula

"...where i live now, the only thing that keeps the area going is tradition--as you can figure out--it doesn't count very much--everything around me rots . . . i don't know how long it has been this way, but if it keeps up, soon i will be an old man--& i am only 15--the only job around here is mining--but jesus, who wants to be a miner . . . i refuse to be part of such a shallow death--everybody talks about the middle ages as if it was actually in the middle ages--i'll do anything to leave here--my mind is running down the river--i'd sell my soul to the elephant--i'd cheat the sphinx--i'd lie to the conqueror . . . tho you might not take this the right way, i would even sign a chain with the devil . . . please don't send me anymore grandfather clocks--no more books or care packages . . . if youre going to send me something, send me a key--i shall find the door to where it fits, if it takes me the rest of my life

your friend,
Friend"

Dylan

Passage from Tarantula

"...mother say go in That direction & please do the greatest deed of all time & say i say mother but it's already been done & she say well what else is there for you to do & i say i dont know mother, but i'm not going in that direction & she say ok but where will you be & i say i don't know mother but i'm not tom joad & she say all right then i am not your mother..."

Dylan

Passage from Tarantula

"...to my students: i take it for granted that youve all read & understand freud--dostoevsky--st. michael--confucius--coco joe--einstein--melville--porgy snaker--john zulu--kafka--sartre-- smallfry--& tolstoy--all right then--what my work is--is merely picking up where they left off--nothing more--there you have it in a nutshell--now i'm giving you my book--i expect you all to jump right in--the exam will be in two weeks--everybody has to bring their own eraser.

your professor
herold the professor"

Dylan

Passage from Tarantula

"i am sick of heroic sorrow...as soon as i get out of here i'm going to my blood bank & make a withdrawl & go to Greece--Greece is beautiful & nobody understands you there"