Song of the day for October 13, 2024

Mr Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan is today’s featured song.

On October 13, 2016, Bob Dylan became the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and the first American to receive the award since 1993 (when the honor went to writer Toni Morrison). While the decision to expand the award to a songwriter was deemed “radical” to some, as reported by the New York Times, members of the Swedish Academy stood by their choice to celebrate Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” The 75-year-old artist, who penned such celebrated songs as “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” was humbled by the announcement, marveling to the UK’s Telegraph, that it felt “amazing, incredible. Whoever dreams about something like that?”