[Mr. Blonde]

His career as a folk singer writing protest songs lasted all of about a year. Outside of Hurricane they are all on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (May 1963) and The Times They Are A’Changin’ (Jan. 1964). After that there was a marked turn away from political themes or songs about injustice within his music. I think that is often forgotten and it is strange since that work still overshadows his other work which is both much larger and much better.

His role as a countercultural icon wasn’t one he asked for and he was never at the marches and so on like Joan Baez.

[kabumpo]

He was still an important counterculture icon, the way The Beatles were. Remember he did the Rolling Thunder tour with Baez in the late 1970s.
He may have stopped writing explicit protest songs, but he was still part of the Hollywood show business circuit.

[Ransomed]

“His role as a countercultural icon wasn’t one he asked for and he was never at the marches and so on like Joan Baez.”

Never at the anti-war marches, anyhow. I think he wanted to be Elvis, not Che. Some of that crappy folk crowd never forgave him for it, and at the time he was looked at as a traitor to the revolution when he embraced the rock.

Freegards