Bob Dylan’s impact on music is undeniable, spanning generations and genres, from the Beatles’ John Lennon to pop icon Taylor Swift. But one of the most respected endorsements came from an unexpected ...
Bob Dylan's Positively 4th Street felt like a turning point, with cutting lyrics that revealed a sharper, more ...
Bob Dylan, the hitmaker? We don’t often think about Dylan in terms of being a singles artist. But his track record in that department actually looks impressive. Consider that Dylan was hitting big ...
J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...
Bob Dylan was both idolised by David Bowie in Song for Bob Dylan and criticised by John Lennon in God. The tributes show his sheer cultural dominance.
Fifty-two years ago today, on Feb. 16, 1974, Bob Dylan scored his first-ever No. 1 album when Planet Waves topped the Billboard 200 chart. The record marked a major moment in Dylan’s long career, ...
Minutemen—Mike Watt on bass, D. Boon on guitar and lead vocals, and George Hurley on drums—formed in January 1980 and immediately stood out from their contemporaries with their sound and subject ...
Most people who aren’t devout Bob Dylan fans merely think of the man as a folk musician with a sharp tongue. That is certainly true, but as an artist, the man contains multitudes and has never fit ...
Asking Bob Dylan how he makes an album is a bit like asking anyone how they know how to walk – they didn't one day, then they learned and now they simply do. "We just take a song; I play it and ...