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Bob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman on May 24th, 1941, has perhaps been one of the most influential singer songwriters of all time. Young Dylan lived the first five or six years of his life in Duluth, Minnesota, until his father became ill with polio and lost his job. The family then moved to Hibbing, Minnesota, where they slept in the living room of his fathers parents house for about two years. As a boy he started …

…WatchTower), and even modern artists like Sheryl Crow (Mississippi) have all borrowed songs from him. Dylan has won a number of Grammy Awards, ranging from best traditional folk album (World Gone Wrong, 1993), to album of the year (Time Out of Mind, 1997). He was just the right thing, at just the right time in America. I feel though, that he would have been accepted, maybe not quite as much, whenever he happened to have come along.