Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States) is an American musician, poet and artist whose position in popular culture is unique.
Dylan started his musical odyssey in 1959 when he began playing in Dinkytown, Minneapolis while attending the University of Minnesota. Shortly after starting to play he changed his stage name to Bob Dylan, after being influenced by the poetry of Dylan Thomas before legally changing his name in 1962.
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:45:48 -0500 From: Chris Howell Subject: d/dylan_bob/pretty_boy_floyd.crd
Pretty Boy Floyd
This is one of Woody Guthrie's most famous songs, which Bob Dylan recorded in 1988 for an album called Folkways: A Vision Shared (A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly).
Besides Pretty Boy Floyd, the CD has a few other great songs for acoustic guitar: Bruce Springsteen sings I Ain't Got No Home; Arlo Guthrie does East Texas Red; and Emmylou Harris sings Hobo's Lullaby.
Intro: Intersperse these notes with strumming. It's not too complicated, but it's harder than it might seem to do it as cleanly as Dylan does, at least to me. The riff in the first measure is played twice after each two-line verse. Besides that, it's all just energetic strumming.