Bob Dylan's Influence On Folk Music

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Bob Dylan is a American musician. He is a singer and a songwriter who sings mostly about folk music. He has been an extremely influential person in the music industry for years. Bob Dylan also had a lot of influence during the political movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He sang at the March on Washington in August of 1963 with a fellow folk musician, Joan Baez. Together, they sang, “When the Ships Come In” and “Only a Pawn in the Game” before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his very famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Bob Dylan was born in Duluth, Minnesota,

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