Bob Dylan: Roads Rapidly Changing | Greenwich Folk Revival Story Revealed! | Absolute Documentaries 

The lasting legacy of Bob Dylan..is the relevancy that these songs still have to this day….and probably always will.

An amazing documentary about Bob Dylan. Found it by accident and watched the whole program and learned so much more than I ever knew, even though he is one of my favorite singers, song writer, and performer. He has lasted the test of time beginning in the 60's and still preforming live on stage today. And who knows how much longer he plans to perform, he is still performing and has a full schedule on the road. I missed his recent Kansas City performance, and after this documentary, I might see where he is performing. I am making it my goal to see Bob Dylan live, on stage. I would like to be in the audience.

For those of you who wonder why I have remained loyal to Bob Dylan for nearly 6 decades, I invite you to find a place to chill out and listen to this fascinating documentary of how he evolved from a folk singer to the most influential innovator in music when he decided to go electric. I must have been 12 or 13 when best friend, Nigel and I made a giant collage of a White Horse in a forest filling a whole wall of my bedroom whilst listening non stop to Dylan's early albums through to Bringing it All Back Home during the summer of 1965??? Thanks to this insightful documentary, whilst preparing tomorrow's cazuela, I relived that summer and was enlightened by the comments of his contemporaries to the significance of many of the albums songs and lyrics. Never realized for example that " I ain't gonna work on Maggie's Farm no more" was his declaration that he was leaving the world of folk." True, or just an invention of someone digging too deep? But last night it made a lot of sense!

Bob changed America more than all others combined. I Was there then and am a devout.

I have been a Bob Dylan fan for some 60 years. His changing from acoustic to electric did not bother me one bit. He is an amazing poet and performer. No one even comes close!

I discovered Dylan in 1965 his first album - and have also been a fan of his art. He surpassed any expectations when I saw him live, in Austin,TX just after he had gone electric. He came out on the stage wrapped in a blue blanket. Amazing.

I landed in the Village in the fall of '69. Dylan had moved on but I got to play at the It Cafe and Tomkins Square Park. A wonderful time of life.❤

An incredible chronicle of a time in history so important to the maturing of our nation using Dylan as its catalyst. Very well done. Thank you for posting.

Amen, 🙏 I love Bob Dylan and I thank you for your love and support always, God bless you all, Elizabeth 🙏

Dylan's guitar playing is so soothing along with his hypnotic lyrics! ❤

This is one of the best documentaries on ,not only Dylan, but on the Folk timeline at the period. The commentaries are informed for the most part are very well articulated. Dylan wasnt a spokesman for a movement only he was an observer of everything that was going on around him who was able to paint an accurate, profound and poignant human landscape that most can relate to. Great film . Thankyou.

Dear God ~ thank you for Bob Dylan

This is very interesting, also important to understand why the music went this way. Time really flies .....

Great documentary on Bob Dylan❤

I finally got to go to his concert with my 14 yr old granddaughter in 2021! But I was so disappointed that he not once sang one of his old songs. It was all his new songs and for being 80 he belted them out great but I wanted to hear his songs from my youth!

1:28:23 Trini Lopez overlooked once again. Of all the folk acts to appear on ABC’s HOOTENANNY, Lopez was the only performer to play electric guitar. His version of “If I Had a Hammer” was a hit a year before the Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun”.

It’s amazing, the quality of filmmaking you can find on RU-vid! BRAVO! 👍🎬

my favorite line: 'man has invented his doom, the first step was touching the moon'

That description of “Freewheeling” is fantastic. Oh, the cover!

Jan. ‘61, the first month of the decade. Epic!

See also Martin Scorsese's "No Direction Home" , America's greatest film director on Dylan & the Folk scene. 🤔(Green Fire, UK) 🌈🦉

Watching these young people gather, play music and congregate throughout the 1960s and then compare that with young people today. It almost makes you want to weep.

38:40 Although spelled “Suze”, Dylan’s girlfriend’s name was pronounced like the traditional Susie. Eric Andersen, who knew her, says it correctly

I❤ history would be great with a revival of real folkmusic i aint got no home in this world any more so many struggles Joe Hill etc

Dylan & Joan Baez -a huge deal for me. I cut my teeth on Blowing in the Wind when I got my first guitar at 12 in 1964.

29:16 Odetta had six albums out at the time of Shelton’s review.

27:03 Mark Spoelstra’s name is two syllables, not three: SPOL-stra.

Can I ask why with every still photo, you have to move the camera toward the photo? Did it ever occur to you to just show the photo as it is, and let the viewer look at the photo? What do you think you accomplish by moving the camera toward the photo (or moving the camera up, or down)?

Not a huge Dylan fan , but the world will be a little worse off when he passes ! Yes I’m a bit morbid !

Dylan's problem, if you wanna call it that, was his genius -- he "saw" too much. Lucky he never went insane.

"Pop music was getting worse"? No, it wasn't. It was changing, but think of the pop music of the 60s...it was becoming more interesting. It was all good. Folk, Pop, and much else. Today's contribution to music could be described as "getting worse." That said, there is much that is very good. It doesn't include rap.

Has anybody noticed the present day Bob Dylan looks nothing like the younger Bob Dylan nor writes songs like him?

Great performance. Who will the capitol police who suffered crushed spinal disc, brain hemorrhaging, amputated fingers and broken ribs be voting for?

In those early years, he was a mimic because he didn't sing in his own voice.

Joseph McCarthy was right.

I like Bob Dylan as a person but as a musician he has a long ways to go to be as good as Hank Williams, but you never know, he may come around.

1:15 why this old guy is crying while he speaks? Strange voice anywsy..just like RFK jr 😂😂

oh, come on!!! he s a good artist - but nothing special / he s not dostoyevsky