Bob Dylan Biography

1960 : Dropped out of college and moved to New York
Became a regular in the folk clubs and coffee houses of Greenwich Village
1961 : One of his performance received a review in the New York Times (very rare !)
1961 : Signed a recording contract with Columbia Records
1962 : Record released early in 1962 (Folk and blues songs)
1963 : Release of the The Freewheelin album
(contains 2 very well known songs :"Blowin' in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall.")
1963 : Have had a relation with Joan Baez
1964 : Bob Dylan was playing 200 concerts a year. Tired of his role as "the" folk singer-songwriter of the protest movement, he changed his style and recorded a much more personal and introspective songs
1965/1966 : Album Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Like a Rolling Stones represented Bob Dylan at his most innovative
1966 : Near fatal motorcycle accident. Needs one year to recover
1968/1973: Different albums. Wrote the soundtrack of the film Billy the Kid (Knockin'on Heaven's Door")
1973 till now : Dylan's tune "Like A Rolling Stone" was named the #1 song of alltime by Rolling Stone Magazine in November 2004
2006 : He released his latest studio album Modern Times

Catman Cohen and Bob Dylan have to my knowledge never met, but Catman Cohen was influenced among other, by Bob Dylena. Cohen's songs have been described as "Rock n' Roll Theater." The Catman's unmistakable bullfrog voice is a mixtuere of Barry White and the famous Louis Armstrong. His musical influences have included Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, and Elton John.

Catman Cohen mission was to create music with a message and thereby to shift the focus from artist to the songs content. He had decided that a single silhouette photo was to be his only tangible form of personal publicity. His known biography is ketchy and short.