This Friday, April 17th, legendary folk singer-songwriter and cultural icon Bob Dylan will be making his return to Chattanooga, performing songs from his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour at Memorial Auditorium.
The entire experience is a cell phone-free one, where attendees will be asked to place their phones in Yondr pouches that will be opened at the end of the event.
Dylan is one of the most influential figures in modern music history and is responsible for classic tracks like “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright,” “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” and “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” to name a few, but he is also incredibly influential in the counterculture movement of the sixties that shaped a generation, and in 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his songwriting.
Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1941, ultimately moving to New York City in the early sixties, inspired by the Greenwich Village folk scene and folk music pioneers like Woody Guthrie, where he gained attention quickly for his powerful lyrics and unique, rawer vocals. He would go on to shake up the world, at first with his softer love ballads, then with songs like “The Times They Are a-Changin,” which cry out for social change and civil rights advocacy…