The career of Bob Dylan can be divided into various eras (often focused around comebacks or innovations), but the decade of the 1970s might be the most chaotic of them. He trolled fans and critics, made bizarre choices, and created several of the best albums of his career. While Dylan's 1960s albums might be the most scrutinized era of his career, the '70s provides a strange story of its own. 2f182v

Fifty years ago, Bob Dylan released his greatest album, Blood on the Tracks. Music's masterpiece didn't come about without struggle, though. After some trials with a band, Dylan ended up recording acoustic sessions in New York. The process appeared to be complete, but the folk rocker then completed the album with a full band in Minneapolis, often with lyrical changes. The different-sounding tracks held together through composition style and thematic consistency, adding variety to a complex record, the first truly ambitious release since his 1966 motorcycle crash.

Graduation season causes a variety of emotions that musiccan help to express. Some graduates will be elated, happy to escape the confines of education. Others will feel saddened by or afraid of the prospect of leaving their friends and family. Others will simply be relieved they made it through. Their families, too, will have an array of feelings, from pride to worry and even melancholy. Almost everyone connected to a graduation will experience a mixture of these feelings, sometimes changing with remarkable speed.

When we talk about the brand and the cultural impact that is the music within the lives of humanity, one of the most blatantly obvious descriptors easily has to be inspiration. Not only for those artists and musicians that create melodies, of course, but also for the ripple effect of the people that hear those notes stacked in just a certain way. Arrange those pieces for one type of emotion, or move that prism in the tower in the other direction to receive the opposite.

For some listeners, folk music probably feels like moving back in time to hang out with the simple flower children of the '60s. You have artists like Bob Dylan who were "Blowin' in the Wind," whileDonovan is trying to "Catch the Wind," and Scott McKenzie is advising you to wear flowers in your hair before heading off to "San Francisco." Though as long as you're "Leavin' on a Jet Plane" with Peter, Paul & Mary, you'll get there in no time with the "Sound of Silence," courtesy of Simon & Garfunkel.

A key aspect of James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopicA Complete Unknown is the relationships the musician has had with women. The movie focuses on the two romantic relationships that arguably had the biggest impact on the development of Dylan’s music, but it could easily have covered several more which took place during the time period of the events it depicts. By his own ission in numerous songs and interviews, Bob Dylan hasn’t always made life easy for his romantic partners.