Dylans

Willie Nelson is hitting the road this summer on his annual Outlaw Music Festival Tour, and Bob Dylan is joining for all 26 shows. They’ll be accompanied on the first leg by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, and John Mellencamp on the second. Billy Strings, Brittney Spencer, Celisse, and Southern Avenue will also be playing with them at various stops along the way. It kicks off June 21 in Alpharetta, Georgia. “This year’s Outlaw Music Festival Tour promises to be the biggest and best yet with this lineup of…

On May 12, 1976, Bob Dylan‘s Rolling Thunder Revue played a gig at the Municipal Auditorium in Austin, Texas, that left little historical mark. Newspaper clippings from the week reveal that furious fans protested with signs outside the hall (“Boycott Rolling Thunder Ripoff”) when they learned plans for separate early and late shows were scuttled at the last minute, creating a general admission melee where seat assignments were suddenly meaningless. But it’s one of the few shows from the 57-date Rolling Thunder Revue…

Singer-songwriter Cat Power, a.k.a Chan Marshall, took the stage Monday night as The Tonight Show’s musical guest. Dressed in a black suit and a loose necktie, Marshall and the band performed Bob Dylan’s iconic “Like a Rolling Stone,” from her new album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert.  The record itself is a recreation of Dylan’s fabled 1966 concert, which – unlike Marshall’s – didn’t actually take place at London’s Royal Albert Hall at all. One of the more famous moments on the original…

New York City’s Greenwich Village has always been a magnet for outsiders, artists and poets. In 1963, one of those types was Bob Dylan, a kid from Minnesota who had felt the pull of the Village and its cafes and nightclubs where young guitar players would plan their lives – alongside the old-school butcher’s shops, bakeries and other Village staples – as a new, anything-goes counterculture bubbled up.Dylan was 21 years old when Don Hunstein, the great photographer for Columbia Records, dropped by his third-floor walkup at…

When Adele covered Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love on her debut album 19, her interpretation was a sparse piano ballad that exuded tortured romantic longing. “The lyrics are just amazing and summed up exactly what I’d been trying to say in my songs,” Adele said then. “It’s about regretting not being with someone, and it’s beautiful.”The heartbreak resonated. Originally released in October 2008, Adele’s take on Make You Feel My Love ended up a Top 5 UK hit two years later. But hers is hardly the only cover of the song to…

A quarter of a century ago, Bob Dylan found vital new life in an album about death’s inexorable approach.“I’m walking through streets that are dead,” the rock ’n’ roll legend sang — wheezed, really — right at the top of “Time Out of Mind,” which came out in the fall of 1997 to end the longest break he’d ever taken from releasing original material. Dylan, then 56, hadn’t been silent in the years since 1990’s coolly received “Under the Red Sky”: He’d put out two collections of folk and blues standards and had reestablished…

Here’s your chance to own a piece of music history. Just be prepared to write a six-figure check.Memorabilia dealer Moments In Time is selling Bob Dylan’s handwritten lyrics to “Desolation Row,” a fan-favorite record that appeared on his 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited. The manuscript has been listed with a $425,000 price tag, an unsurprising figure when you consider the item’s rarity.According to Moments In Time, there is only one example of handwritten “Desolation Row” lyrics, unlike other Dylan songs, such as “Hard…

Recently, Chan Marshall was driving to a rehearsal studio in Los Angeles. It was days before she was heading to Europe for a run of dates that includes a night at the Royal Albert Hall, recreating Bob Dylan’s infamous 1966 show: the one where he played electric and a crowd member yelled: “Judas!” As she drove, she listened to the setlist: Visions of Johanna, It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, Desolation Row.Close to the studio, Marshall – AKA Cat Power – glanced in her rear-view mirror and saw her ex-boyfriend in the same line…

On the Shelf The Philosophy of Modern Song By Bob DylanSimon & Schuster: 352 pages, $45If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. What should we make of the title of Bob Dylan’s new book? “The Philosophy of Modern Song” is a mouthful, a phrase that puts on airs. It asserts that the book is an important work, a tome that merits a place on your loftiest library shelf, up in the thin air where you keep the leather-bound,…

In the early days of modern US pop music, female artists struggled to achieve the recognition of their male counterparts. So a new marketing trope emerged. It labelled jazz trumpeter Ernestine “Tiny” Davis as “the female Louis Armstrong”. Big band drummer Viola Smith became “the female Gene Krupa”. And the rockabilly pianist Alice Faye Perkins turned into Laura Lee Perkins, “the female Jerry Lee Lewis”.But no artist inspired more female counterparts than the king of rock’n’roll. “There seemed to be a special drive to find…