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...Selling out” is a complicated process. For some artists, merely succeeding is equivalent to betraying your roots. For others, it’s what you do with your success that counts. “I’m blowin?? up like you thought I would,” the Notorious B.I.G. rapped on the classic track, “Juicy.” “Call the crib, same number, same hood / It’s all good.” Biggie knew that he would only be seen as a sell...
Dylan’s popularity immediately took off after his ballad, “Blowin?? in the Wind,” was brought to a commercial audience by the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Sullivan points out Dylan’s relevance to one of the greatest moments in the American Civil Rights movement by adding that Dylan was introduced at the March on Washington shortly before Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream Speech...
...People got into the tune [Blowin?? in the Wind] hearing this very melodious, harmonious Peter, Paul and Mary version. And then suddenly this guy from Minnesota, in blue jeans and a flannel shirt, gets up and starts singing it, not in a beautiful voice, but in something that’s very much an American voice,” Sullivan explains. “Something that’s authentic...
...Call Me Al.” And what I always remember about that night will be the moment I realized that I was in the same very ampitheater as Bob Dylan, and better yet, he was playing a song that appeared to be “Blowin?? in the Wind.” It was too good to be true...
Dylan, who turned 63 in May, rose to prominence in the early 1960s for his poetic protest songs, such as “Blowin?? in the Wind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin,” and distinctive nasal voice and folk guitar strumming...