Dylan's phases (ranked)

Bob Dylan's career can be carved up into 'periods' (others will argue with the boundaries no doubt) and so here is how I think it can be shown.

In chronological order:

1. Folk/ blues covers performer (1960-2)  albums: Bob Dylan
2. Folk/ blues song-writing / protest and love songs (1963-4) - albums:  Freewheelin', Times they are-a-changin', Another side of
3. Electric folk/ blues / imagery (1965-6) - albums: Bringing it all Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde
4. Americana / Country (1967-73) - albums:  Basement Tapes, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait, New Morning, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Dylan
5. Back on the road, reinventing himself (1974-8) - albums: Planet Waves, Blood on the Tracks, Desire, Street Legal
6. Gospel / Christian fundamentalist (1979-81) - albums: Slow Train Coming, Saved, Shot of Love
7. 80s rock (1982-8) - albums: Infidels, Empire Burlesque, Knocked Out Loaded, Down in the Groove
8. The Oh Mercy/ Wilbury's Resurrection (1988-90) - albums: Travelling Wilburys, Oh Mercy,  Under the Red Sky
9. Folk/ blues covers performer part 2 (1991-6)  albums: Good as I Been to You, World Gone Wrong
10. End of millennium resurrection / old bluemans part 1 (1997-2001) - albums: Time Out of Mind, (single Things Have Changed and Oscar win), Love and Theft
11. Old Bluesman part 2 (2002-14) - albums: Modern Times, Together Through Life, Tempest
12. The Sinatra Years (2015-19) - albums: Shadows in the Night, Fallen Angels, Triplicate


In rank order:

1. Electric folk/ blues / imagery (1965-6)
2. Back on the road, reinventing himself (1973-8)
3. End of millennium resurrection / old bluemans part 1 (1997-2001)
4. Americana / Country (1967-73)
5. Gospel / Christian fundamentalist (1979-81)
6. Old Bluesman part 2 (2002-14)
7. The Oh Mercy/ Wilbury's Resurrection (1988-90)
8. Folk/ blues song-writing / protest and love songs (1963-4)
9. 80s rock (1982-8)
10. Folk/ blues covers performer (1960-2)
11. Folk/ blues covers performer part 2 (1991-6)
12. The Sinatra Years (2015-19)

Well known women I have to admit to having a 'thing' for

1. Jennifer Lopez
2. Linda Cardellini
3. Scarlett Johannson
4. Eva Longoria
5. Maggie Gyllenhaul
6. Kate Bush
7. Gal Gadot
8. Kylie Minogue
9. Audrey Tattou
10. Jennifer Love Hewit