Bob Dylan’s childhood home is really two homes, both in Minnesota.
The singer-songwriter spent his first few years in one. The other was home during his adolescence. ROBERT ALLEN ZIMMERMAN WAS BORN in Duluth, Minnesota, but spent his formative years 70 miles away in the small mining town of Hibbing. The son of an appliance salesman, this aspiring musician relocated to Minneapolis when he was 18, and then to New York City, where he entered the folk scene as Bob Dylan and earn the moniker “spokesperson of a generation” before recording “Like a Rolling Stone,” widely regarded as one of the greatest rock-‘n’-roll songs of all time.
The relationship between Dylan and his hometown has been somewhat strenuous. Dylan found the town too constraining and conservative and has made little mention of his time in Hibbing. Indeed, early in his career, he claimed to be from any number of places, including Colorado, Illinois, and North Dakota.
