Related Clues:

• Subject of the Robert Shelton biography "No Direction Home"
• Singer-songwriter, born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941
• "Blowin' in the Wind" songwriter
• Singer whose archive was acquired by the University of Tulsa in 2016
• 'John Wesley Harding' performer
• McDermott of 'American Horror Story'
• Do you like alternative names? Primarily a Welsh one?
• Music icon Bob who wrote the song suggested by the starts of this puzzle's theme entries
• Literature Nobelist of 2016
• 2016 Literature Nobelist
• Good for France, imprisoning 1D singer
• First songwriter to win a Nobel
• 'The Times They Are a-Changin'' songwriter
• Bob —, Nobel prize winner
• Musician with a Nobel Prize