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Bob Dylan

Sixty-five years of records, tours, interviews, arguments and hats — collected, sorted and annotated by people who can't stop listening.

40Studio albums
18Bootleg volumes
600+Songs written
3,000+Shows since 1988
1Nobel Prize

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The life, in ten eras

Biography

From a mining town on the Mesabi Iron Range to the Nobel Prize in Literature, by way of a motorcycle crash, a religious conversion, a decade nobody enjoyed, and the longest tour in the history of popular music.

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Where he is right now

2026

Still on the road

The Rough and Rowdy Ways tour began in November 2021 and is still running. It passes its 300th concert in 2026 — a 27-date US run opened in Omaha on 21 March, with summer dates through the Southwest and Midwest, Forest Hills Stadium in New York on 21 July, and five nights at London's Royal Festival Hall at the end of the year. He is 85, and in his 65th year of performing.

Touring history →   Official dates →

The most recent release

The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window, 1956–1963 arrived on Halloween 2025 — eight discs and 139 tracks covering the years from a Hibbing teenager to the finished article, including 48 previously unreleased performances and the complete 1963 Carnegie Hall concert.

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