Robert Allen Zimmerman is from Duluth, Minnesota.

I don’t know if there is anything that I can add to the volumes of printed material that have already been written about Bob Dylan.

To date Bob has recorded 39 albums and has eight books of his paintings and drawings on the market.

Bob started off as a Folk singer then in 1965 he began experimenting with ” Going Electric “.  Going electric culminated when his back up band was “The Band “.  Yes, those four guys from Ontario and one from Arkansas. (Talk about going Electric.)

An interesting part of Bob is his name change. He felt that he could be free musically by not being himself.

At first he had changed his name to “ Elston Gunn ” then he was “Blind Boy Grunt ” then ” Bob Landry ” next he was ” Robert Milkwood Thomas “, moving on he became ” Tedham Porterhouse “, Lucky Wilbury, Boo Wilbury, Sergei Petrov, Jack Frost ” and last but not least ” Zimmy “. 

Some of these names only lasted a few months. (Mercifully) Bob then decided he was Robert Allen…then Robert Allyn because it sounded Scottish. Then he became Robert Dillon. 

When asked by a reporter what his name was, he said ” Bob Dillon “.

The name just blurted out of his mouth… according to Bob.

Most fans are under the impression that he took Dylan from the ” Welsh Poet…Dylan Thomas’… but Bob says… No,… but I seem to have made him famous.  I took the  ” Y ” from my Robert Allyn moment “.

Somewhere in all those name changes is a musical Poet  that ended up being  ” Bob Dylan “.  

Enjoy