How Bob Dylan Catapulted Folk Music | Roads Rapidly Changing (Full Documentary) | Amplified

Dylan 'Freewheeling' through to 'John Wesley Harding' changed the world of music. Forever.
The rest of his albums? Who cares.

Just saw Bob a few weeks ago and I am saddened by how he hid behind his piano and never got up to acknowledge anyone in his band , or the thousands watching him.

The good guys are not the democrats. They ain't the republicans. Politics is rife with corruption on both sides. That idiot liberal doesn't understand that. They think THEY are the good guys. They make me SICK!!

I haven’t watched it. Is he selling cars or computers in the film?

To ignore the effect that Roger McGuinn and the Byrds' had on popularizing Dylan's music as well as the folk/rock era is hard to understand. Their version of Mr. Tambourine Man as well as Pete Seeger's Turn! Turn! Turn! ushered in a new era of folk music and brought it to a massive audience that few could have ever imagined. It also ushered in Dylan's experiments with electric guitars so it changed Dylan's music as well. Of course, the relationship was symbiotic as the early Byrds' music relied heavily on Dylan compositions and contributed greatly to their early success. But I saw little reference here.

For me he is a true American icon like Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix or Howling Wolf or Prince. All total geniuses.

Dylan saw the Beatles and wanted that next.

I love Bob Dylan's writing and songs. Also Gordon Lightfoot and Townes Van zandt. The communist and socialists have tried to claim them as one of their own but they or not. They represent the spirit of freedom and individualism this country was founded upon.

!?! An over-rated plagiarist, who made his fame before Intellectual Property Laws! That's Bob Dylan

Peter, Paul and Mary turned 'Blowin' in the wind' into pablum! IMO

Incredible. I loved his music almost from the beginning, buying all his early records as they were released.
Being British I was a big fan of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc, but they don’t compare with him.
Naturally he isn’t the same now but is still better than almost every so called pop star around.

As the saying goes: " a man hears and sees what he wants and disregards the rest " from, Simon and Garfunkel 1966. Lie la lie

People have to understand - there are good guys and bad guys on BOTH sides, Republican AND Democrat. Neither of those sides are the good guys or the bad guys. Each side has its good and bad points. The world is not black and white. The Democrats got elected and appointed to all of the various offices and it didn't make any difference. The problem is we are ALL separated from God's governance. God is the only government that CAN work, otherwise evil is correct and man does NOT need God. This world is a demonstration in the futility of Godlessness. We have everything we need to create a utopian civilization but we ever fail.

It will all be over some day, unfortunately it'll probably have to completely and utterly fail before that happens.

Life still on going,we can't rest,come on there is no time,XX Century was the people Century,in twenty years these Century,almost is everything gone,we shoud honner Bob and all the others who did a lot and try

It's well done, I would like to see it, but I didn't manage it to see it to the end. Here in Europe there's too many commercial breaks. Sorry.

Bob Dylan never performs a song the same. He will deliver it the way he feels at the time. Always an original delivery. That's the way I like to play. Continual adjustment, but the same message.

I`m still lost in the full version of Mr. Tambourine Man. I feel like I`m the shadow your seein` that he`s chasin`. My favorite performance song Dylan did was the Hard Rain album version of Maggie`s Fram

Good documentary, fairly accurate, but I probably would have blamed much of the world's problems (economically primarily) back then on LBJ, Jimmy Carter, and Bush. Reagan was like Trump, trying to change things for the overall good of the world and what is best for the entire world, but ran into the same road block. But the world moves on down the road of living. But the music of Dylan is great, and took music into a new direction that influenced today's songs.

Greatest music artist ❤

I WAS IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WHEN A FRIEND'S BROTHER BROUGHT DYLAN'S 1ST ALBUM HOME FROM COLLEGE. I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO DYLAN ALL MY LIFE. I' M 75 YEARS OLD. SEE NO REASON TO CHANGE (WHY ALL CAPS? I CAN SEE THEM)

Was fortunate to see Bob play live with The Dead. On the further festival tour back in the late 90s. He was such a great entertainer. Stage presence was phenomenal.

No Story of The Hurricane?

He mostly just copied other people....he certainly couldn't sing.........I suppose we all need heroes even if they have little talent.

I love Bob Dylen he opened my eyes when I was young. I'm 71 now.

Bob Dylan’s kid, @Jakob is a fine musician & songwriter in a great band

Dylan - most over-rated musician of all time.

…already know about stinking ginzos

dylans voice is still the same

I’ve been an admirer of Bob Dylan’s lyrics and music since I was in 4th grade and heard “Blowing In The Wind” for the first time in 1969. That year per my request , my parents bought me a steal string acoustic guitar to start my journey as a musician. Bob’s lyrics still today transcend through time to inspire all who listen. They speak to me in my own music and ring just as true for civil rights in the 1960’s as the do today. I missed the person’s name in this documentary who said, “the good guys lost”. I do not accept that!!! It’s a cop out. Yes, three of the key leaders JFK, MLK & RFK were murdered by our own government via the CIA and those secrets are locked away in sealed documents not ever to be opened. They hide the truth and these murders changed the course of our history and betrayed the hope of the 1960’s. We ended up with this Faux democracy who’s lesser of two evil representatives and president are controlled by oligarques and corporations who own them and run our soon to be fascist government we have now. One of the last people who really understood this was George Carlin who pointed this out in his Beacon Theater “You Are All Diseased” show. We are at a cross roads and the answer is not a Trump or Biden White House in 2024. Robert F. Kennedy’s son Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or Dr. Cornell West are the candidates we have of substance to get us back on the course we had stolen away with the murders of JFK, MLK JR & RFK. It’s time we collect what was stolen away from Us by the tyranny of Evil Men. The Answer my friends is blowing in the wind… the answer is blowing in the wind!!!!

If Dylan was one to die young, he would have died in 1966. It's those first 6 years that ppl always write about or made videos on

I believe Dulan's transformation to electric was a coordinated effort to then send American music to La. Understand that the folk rock music made famous out of LA was pulled off by bands whose members had been New York folkies just prior so I don't believe Dylan made this decision on his own

I agree, can't wait to see it.

Seems to me Dylan morphed folk into folk-rock.

The medium is the message. Seeger wasn't sexy

Woody...America hating self-admitting COMMUNIST...

The Rolling Stones are a bore after Jumping Jack Flash.

Neil Young is the greatest songwriter. Dylan emulated Woody Guthrie. Joan Baez is boring.

Sometime, maybe 25 years ago, the academic world recognized Dylan as a great American poet. I put him in the same category as Walt Whitman for example. His imagery, narratives, rhythms and rhymes, the pure innovation, the originality, the voice of America like Woody or other great American poets. His words go beyond the times he captures, they are universal. The documentary says this well.

>catapulted
stole, degraded, commercialized you mean
ficking jays

Folk Music = colossal boredom
Memphis Dan LeLoLai

Does anybody that likes Dylan have a pair of ears that they can actually hear with? I think not because anybody with ears that work can tell you this man cant sing and he sounds terribly. Like he sings thru his nose or something. HE JUST SOUNDS HORRIBLE PLANE AND SIMPLE. YOU CAN DEFEND HIM ALL YOU WANT BUT HE SOUNDS LIKE SHIT AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN SAY TO CONVINCE ME DIFFERENT. MY DAMN EARS WORK. IM NOT DEAFENED BY NOATALGIA OF MY YOUTH LIKE ALL HIS MORONIC FANS ARE.

edit: Being a Jew helped this hack get to where he is NOT talent. I mean this hack is so untalented and sounds so bad he must have sold his soul to the devil. I know how ridiculous that is, but you cant explain his popularity any other way. I mean really can anyone hear his voice? I cant wrap my head around how any body can listen to a jew howling thru his nose and think to themselves damn he sounds awesome. It just cant happen.

Nepotism - Hammond picked up a WRITER. HE LUCKED OUT.
THAT SHOESTRING STRAP CRAP WAS contrite mostly.
'SONNY & BROWNIE' on A&M '71 'ON THE ROAD AGAIN.’ THE REAL DEAL

This is a great documentary. The only criticism I would have is that the revivalists really brought back the Appalachian fiddle, string band, music of the 1920s,and this strand has grown and grown through at least three generations. It wasn’t protest or communist: it was traditional music. Like the new lost city ramblers, fly by night, fuzzy mountain, hollow rock. All string bands. Revitalizing the traditional instrumental music that has continued and expanded to this day.

Don't forget that it was the Byrds who first electrified folk music ("Turn, Turn, Turn")!

They said in this doc that Dylan was “disenchanted” by the commercialized rock. This is 100% completely made up. Dylan himself said that all he heard on the radio were songs like, “Who’s That Doggie in the Window” or Patty Page, etc. He just happened to run into some albums his friend had (and subsequently stole from him because they were impossible to find) like Woodie Guthrie and Ledbelly. After enrolling in college, but not attending, he just took off for New York. That’s when he ended up in Greenwich Village where all the folk singers, poets, etc were. Within a year, he just sat down and began writing.

When he became famous with his first 2-3 albums, he put together “The Band” and he went “electric” in 1966 and when he began doing his electric songs in London (and got booed constantly for not singing all of his folk songs), he decided to go back home to Woodstock, NY. He didn’t come out public again for 8 years. He loved all types of good music. That’s why he created and played anything he wanted, no matter what people thought of him.

Also, I wish there were more captions on the interviews. They all seem knowledgeable but there is no way I can recognize most of the speakers when I have not seen their image in years. Some people remain recognizable as they age, others look entirely different.

I am enjoying this video, however sometimes the producers are really reaching to make a point that is their opinion based on no facts. For example, why is there square dancing in the middle of a Bob Dylan song? I get that Dylan was moving away from folk music, but by the 1960s, country music had become its own thing. Dylan was neither a part of it in the early days, nor was he in competition with it. To my knowledge, Dylan never played Grand Ole Opry or any other country music show or circuit. Possibly, he did after Nashville Skyline. But this clip was long before that album. It simply was not in his realm in the folk era, although there may have been a few folk artists who crossed over between folk and country music.

The hardest part is playing and remembering all them lyrics.

Haiku for Bob
First fans came and sat
“Have you written anything?”
“No he said, not yat.”