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Dylan is the Picasso of popular music. His 'Ballad of a Thin Man' speaks more powerfully to what it feels like to be alive in 2025 than anything I can think of.
Bob Dylan performed his first major gig in New York City on April 11, 1961, and included the experience on his 1962 debut ...
Peter Wolf's book 'Waiting on the Moon' includes a fascinating chapter about Bob Dylan's early days in New York — Wolf took us on a tour of landmarks.
That changed when he was hired at a public works jobs program as a 16-year-old, and a “young Anglo-Saxon boy from Tacoma, Washington,” introduced him to Bob Dylan. I asked him what Dylan song ...
Byrds guitarist Roger McGuinn was the third person to ever own a Rickenbacker 12-string, following George Harrison – and his timely purchase would completely transform the Dylan song, and the band's e ...
This was a sparse, slow arrangement that emphasized every word of the tune, which chronicles a man’s escape to a ... might be the most impressive one. Bob Dylan’s complete setlist at the ...
In a landmark auction at Nashville’s Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum, Bob ... a young Dylan (then age 22) asleep on his sofa, having spent the night writing and rewriting 'Mr Tambourine Man ...
Before you see Bob Dylan ... a great Dylan, all floppy-haired and rough-voiced. He doesn’t smooth the edges, but he also doesn’t let this seem like a definitive look at a man who really ...