His lyrics provided catchphrases for a generation and influenced innumerable songwriters. He began in the folk-music tradition. His early songs, as on his albums The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 1963 and The Times They Are A-Changin' 1964, were associated with the US civil-rights movement and antiwar protest. From 1965 he worked in an individualistic rock style, as on the albums Highway 61 Revisited 1965 and Blonde on Blonde 1966. Dylan's early songs range from the simple, preachy Blowin' in the Wind 1962 to brooding indictments of social injustice like The Ballad of Hollis Brown 1963. When he first used an electric rock band 1965, he was criticized by purists, but the albums that immediately followed are often cited as his best work, with songs of spite ( Like a Rolling Stone) and surrealistic imagery (Visions of Johanna) delivered in his characteristic nasal whine. The film Don't Look Back 1967 documents the 1965 British tour. Of Dylan's 1970s albums, Blood on the Tracks 1975 was the strongest. Slow Train Coming 1979 was his first album as a born-again Christian, a phase that lasted several years and alienated all but the die-hard fans. Oh, Mercy 1989 was seen as a partial return to form, but Under the Red Sky 1990 did not bear this out. However, The Bootleg Years 1991, a collection of 58 previously unreleased items from past years, reasserted his standing. In 1992 he released Good As I Been to You, which consisted of traditional tunes and was his first completely solo acoustic album since Another Side of Bob Dylan 1964.
