During the 1960s -- a juncture in history when music was the meeting place for the ideas of the young and questioning -- Bob Dylan stood head and shoulders in influence above all others. In telling the story of his first calendar decade as a recording artist, Decade Of Dissent provides a unique angle on an endlessly fascinating and truly peerless career. Dylan s 60s recordings constitute a dizzying run that includes such landmark albums as The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde, the so-called Basement Tapes , and John Wesley Harding, and such classic songs as Blowin In The Wind , The Times They Are A-Changin , Mr. Tambourine Man , Like A Rolling Stone , Just Like A Woman , Quinn The Eskimo , All Along The Watchtower , and Lay Lady Lay . They set the template for his genius and encompass the bulk of his greatest work. The career arc they collectively describe saw Dylan effortlessly and repeatedly instigate revolution, by turns reinvigorating folk music,
