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Robert Shelton

Robert Shelton is credited on 292 releases across 31 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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292

Pressings credited

31

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7

Decades active

253

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Biography

Robert Shelton, born Robert Shapiro (June 28, 1926, Chicago, Illinois, United States – December 11, 1995, Brighton, England) was a music and film critic. Shelton helped to launch the career of a then-unknown 20-year-old Bob Dylan. In 1961, Dylan was performing at Gerdes Folk City in the West Village, one of the best-known folk venues in New York, opening for the bluegrass act the Greenbriar Boys. Shelton's positive review in The New York Times brought crucial publicity to Dylan and led to a Columbia recording contract. Shelton had previously noted Dylan in a review for The New York Times of WRVR's live twelve-hour Hootenanny, July 29, 1961, at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. "Among the newer promising talents deserving mention are a 20-year-old latter-day Guthrie disciple named Bob Dylan, with a curiously arresting mumbling, country-steeped manner." This was Dylan's first live radio performance.

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292 releases · 31 albums · active 1962–2025

  • Other credits · 289
  • Performance · 18

Studios: Town Hall, New York · Philharmonic Hall, New York · The Supper Club · Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville

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