
Artist
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is a folk artist from Minnesota, American formed in 1960. 137 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Folk · Minnesota, American · Best folk albums
- 137
- Releases
- 1962–2025
- Active years
- 1960
- Formed

Artist
Bob Dylan is a folk artist from Minnesota, American formed in 1960. 137 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Folk · Minnesota, American · Best folk albums

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Highway 61 Revisited
1965 · 9 tracks

The Essential Bob Dylan
2000

Desire
1976

Blood on the Tracks
1975

Blonde on Blonde
1966

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1963

The Times They Are A-Changin'
1964

Rough And Rowdy Ways
2020

Nashville Skyline
1969

Bringing It All Back Home
1965

Time Out of Mind
1997

Bob Dylan
1962

Oh Mercy
1989

Slow Train Coming
1979

John Wesley Harding
1967

Christmas in the Heart
2009

Modern Times
2006

Infidels
1983

New Morning
1970

Street-Legal
1978

Tempest
2012

Another Side of Bob Dylan
1964

Together Through Life
2009

"Love and Theft"
2001

Planet Waves
1974

Self Portrait
1970

Triplicate
2017

Shadows in the Night
2015

Shadow Kingdom
2021

Shot of Love
1981

The Basement Tapes
1975

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
1966

Fallen Angels
2016

World Gone Wrong
1993

Under the Red Sky
1990

Saved
1980

Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 1980-1985
2021

Good as I Been to You
1992

Empire Burlesque
1985

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Volume II
1971

Knocked Out Loaded
1986

Down in the Groove
1988

Real Live
1984

Biograph
1985

Side Tracks
2013

Desire Demos
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Private Zimmerman
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Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 (Highlights)
2025

Best Live Prime Cuts, Rolling Thunder Revue 1976 (Live in 1976)
2024

Best Live Prime Cuts, Rolling Thunder Revue 1975 (Live in 1975)
2024

The Very Best Of
2024

The 1974 Live Recordings Sampler
2024

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from Bob Dylan
2023

Mixing Up The Medicine / A Retrospective
2023

The Complete Budokan 1978 (Live)
2023

Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 (Deluxe Edition)
2023

At The Bonnie Beecher's Apartment (Live)
2023

Talkin' New York
2022

The Best of The Bootleg Series
2020

The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Sampler)
2019

Travelin' Thru, 1967 - 1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15 (Sampler)
2019

More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14
2018

More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 14 (Sampler)
2018

Live 1962-1966 - Rare Performances From The Copyright Collections
2018

Triplicate (Sampler)
2017

The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert
2016

The 1966 Live Recordings
2016

The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol.12 (Deluxe Edition)
2015

The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: 1965–1966, The Cutting Edge
2015

The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11 (Deluxe Edition)
2014

The Complete Album Collection, Volume 1
2013

Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 (Deluxe Edition)
2013

Dylan (1973)
2013

Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series, Volume 10
2013

Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963
2012

The 50th Anniversary Collection: The Copyright Extension Collection, Volume I
2012

Bob Dylan In Concert: Brandeis University 1963 (Live)
2011

In Concert: Brandeis University 1963
2010

The Original Mono Recordings
2010

The Bootleg Series, Volume 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964
2010

The Best of the Original Mono Recordings
2010

The Collection
2009

Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 (Deluxe Edition)
2008

The Bootleg Series, Volume 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006
2008

Blues
2006

The Bootleg Series, Volume 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack
2005

Live at The Gaslight 1962
2005

The Bootleg Series, Volume 6: Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall
2004

The Bootleg Series, Volume 5: Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue
2002

A Fool Such as I
2002

Live 1961–2000: Thirty‐Nine Years of Great Concert Performances
2001

The Best of Bob Dylan, Volume 2
2000

The Bootleg Series, Volume 4: Live 1966: The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert
1998

The Best of Bob Dylan, Volume 1
1997

The Best of Bob Dylan
1997

In Concert
1997

MTV Unplugged (Live)
1995

MTV Unplugged
1995

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Volume 3
1994

Greatest Hits Volume 3
1994

Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
1993

The Bootleg Series, Volumes 1-3: 1961-1991: Rare and Unreleased
1991

The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare And Unreleased) 1961-1991
1991

Dylan & the Dead
1989

Dylan & The Dead (Live)
1989

Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 13 / 1979-1981 (Deluxe Edition)
1981

Bob Dylan At Budokan (Live)
1979

Masterpieces
1978

At Budokan
1978

Hard Rain (Live)
1976

The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue
1976

Hard Rain
1976

Before the Flood
1974

Before The Flood (Live)
1974

Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Soundtrack From The Motion Picture)
1973

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973

Dylan
1973

Live 1966 "The Royal Albert Hall Concert" The Bootleg Series Vol. 4
1967

Greatest Hits
1967

No Direction Home: Bootleg Volume 7 (Movie Soundtrack)
1966

The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert (Live)
1966

The Bootleg Volume 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert At Philharmonic Hall
1965

The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9)
1963

Boots of Spanish Leather (The Times They Are A-Changin' Alternate Take, NYC, 1963)
Single · 2025

I Contain Multitudes
Single · 2025

Rocks And Gravel (Solid Road)
Single · 2025

Don't Fence Me In
Single · 2024

The Reggae Remix EP
EP · 2021

Blind Willie McTell (Take 5 - Infidels Outtake)
Single · 2021

Murder Most Foul
Single · 2020

False Prophet
Single · 2020

Masters of War (SherGun Remix)
Single · 2018

Masters of War (The Avener Rework)
Single · 2017

Stardust
Single · 2017

Exclusive Outtakes From No Direction Home: The Soundtrack
EP · 2005

Live at Carnegie Hall 1963
EP · 2005

Exclusive Outtakes From No Direction Home
EP · 2005
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Grammy Awards
×2
Grammy Award for Album of the Year
×1
Academy Award for Best Original Song
×1
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
×1
Polar Music Prize
×1
Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
×1
Kennedy Center Honors
×1
National Medal of Arts
×1
Grammy Award for Best Americana Album
×1
honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews
×1
honorary doctorate from Princeton University
×1
Terence Donovan Award
×1
Presidential Medal of Freedom
×1
Princess of Asturias Awards
×1
Pulitzer Prize
×1
Legion of Honour
×1
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
×1
Nobel Prize
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Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on 24 May 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, USA) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Zimmerman changed his surname to Dylan in homage to the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who had frequented the streets and bars of New York's Greenwich Village a generation earlier. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965. His recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement. Dylan's lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning count…