Bob Dylan is an American singer, songwriter, musician and writer who became one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century popular music. Initially associated with folk and socially conscious songs in the early 1960s, he gradually expanded his style into folk rock, blues, country and rock, combining them with dense poetic writing about society, politics, love and the human experience. With albums such as The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited and Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan profoundly changed the role of lyrics and the singer-songwriter in modern music.