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The Greenbriar Boys, Bob Dylan: Gerde's Folk City, New York NY

Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 29 September 1961

Bob Dylan: A Distinctive Folk-Song Stylist 20-Year-Old Singer Is Bright New Face at Gerde's Club ...

Dylan’s Tarantula

Review by David G. Walley, Zygote, 1971

TARANTULA: twenty-five year-old visions of reality/letters to himself and posterity, now here in some other form from miracle xerox. Tarantula--visions of Aretha, soul singer in ...

Bob Dylan: Enter Good-Time Bob

Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 3 October 1997

Bob Dylan: Bournemouth ...

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Bob Dylan (1961)

Interview by Billy James, Rock's Backpages audio, October 1961

In short clips from his very first interview, with Columbia publicist James, the young Bob Dylan mentions his love of Charlie Chaplin, then reflects on living in a big city for the first time, being a folk singer, and playing piano like Little Richard.

File format: mp3; file size: 2.8mb, interview length: 4' 36" sound quality: *

Bob Dylan (1984)

Interview by Mick Brown, Rock's Backpages audio, Summer 1984

On how he won't be understood for 100 years, always moving on, Woodstock and wisdom.

File format: mp3; file size: 3.8mb, interview length: 04' 11" sound quality: ***

Bob Dylan (1991)

Interview by Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages audio, 4 April 1991

Bob on why he writes songs, how he writes songs, what he writes songs about, what he doesn't write songs about, the keys he writes songs in, where he likes to write songs, what songs are and aren't, and some memories of his own songs.

File format: mp3; file size: 75.5mb, interview length: 1h 22' 29" sound quality: **½

Al Aronowitz (1991)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 10 August 1991

Hired and fired by the New York Post; having "total phoney" Andy Warhol steal the Velvets from him; running with Dylan and, extensively, his dealings with The Band – "blacklisted journalist" Al Aronowitz vents his not-inconsiderable spleen.

File format: mp3; total file sizes: 73.8meg, interview length: 1h 16' 53" sound quality: ***

Eric Von Schmidt on Bob Dylan (1992)

Interview by Larry Jaffee, Rock's Backpages audio, 1992

The venerable folkie looks back to the Yale folk scene, and first meeting Dylan; discusses who actually wrote 'Baby Let Me Follow You Down' — the Rev. Gary Davis? Blind Boy Fuller? Von Schmidt? — and Dylan's magpie tendencies; he also recounts meeting Dylan in London in 1963 with Richard Fariña, and drinking gin and smoking pot.

File format: mp3; file size: 37.8mb, interview length: 39' 47" sound quality: ** (phoner)

Paul Williams on Bob Dylan (1993)

Interview by Larry Jaffee, Rock's Backpages audio, Fall 1993

The legendary Crawdaddy! founder talks about his Dylan books Bob Dylan: Performing Artist and What Happened?, and lots more Bobology besides.

File format: mp3; file size: 46.7mb, interview length: 50' 57" sound quality: * (phoner)

D.A. Pennebaker (2014)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, April 2014

The film director revisits making Bob Dylan movie Dont Look Back; working with Albert and Sally Grossman; Dylan's wife Sara; the post-motorcycle accident Dylan in Woodstock; the 1966 tour film; shooting Otis Redding at Monterey... and playing Billie Holiday to Janis Joplin.

File format: mp3; file size: 69.9mb, interview length: 1h 12' 50" sound quality: ****

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Bob Dylan: The First Interview

Press Release by Billy James, Columbia Records, October 1961

DYLAN: Well, let me say that I was born in Duluth, Minnesota – give that a little plug. That's where I was born and, uh, ...

Folk albums of 1962: Fad To Staple — Disks Reflect 'Arrival' of Folk Music As Part of Country's Popular Arts

Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 28 April 1963

A LONGER perspective may revise the view, but it appears from a distance of a few months that 1962 was the year when the folk-music ...

Bob Dylan: Carnegie Hall, New York NY

Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 28 October 1963

Folk Songs Draw Carnegie Cheers Bob Dylan Appears as an 'Angry Young' Recitalist ...

Bob Dylan: If Bob can't sing it, it must be a poem or a novel or something...

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 16 May 1964

SOME SAY that Bob Dylan is a genius; others say he is a very moderate folk singer but not bad at the guitar. I say ...

Bob Dylan: If You Want To Do It — Then Do It

Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 23 May 1964

It's the rules that cause the trouble ...

Dylan v. Donovan

Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 20 March 1965

DOUBLE EXPOSURE ON THE FOLK SCENE ...

Bob Dylan: Fastest sell-out yet

Report and Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 27 March 1965

When Bob Dylan first came to Britain some three years ago, his visit passed virtually unnoticed outside the folk music field. Now, on the strength ...

Screams for Dylan

Report and Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 1 May 1965

BOB DYLAN got the full star treatment at London Airport on Monday night. A mainly young crowd of about 150 created chaos as the 24-year-old ...

Inside Bob Dylan

Report and Interview by Richard Green, Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 8 May 1965

DYLAN NOW is big business! He ambles and shambles (apparently) through a business that needs his sort of way-out personality. He parries questions, mumbles inconsequently, ...

Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home

Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 15 May 1965

DONOVAN REVIEWS NEW DYLAN ALBUM! RM Exclusive by Richard Green ...

Bob Dylan: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 15 May 1965

Different Dylan ...

Bob Dylan: Dynamic Dylan!

Report by Penny Valentine, Disc Weekly, 12 June 1965

IT IS A QUARTER to eight at the BBC studios in London. There is an audience of 300 but the place is very quiet as ...

Solomon Burke: Can Dylan Be Beaten?

Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 12 June 1965

The answer is probably no — but all the stops are being pulled out for Solomon Burke's version of the Dylan number 'Maggie's Farm'. ...

Bob Dylan's Not A Singer At All — Says His Friend Dana

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 9 July 1965

"HE'S NOT really a singer at all. He just writes poems and sings them because he thinks a narrative would bore people. Donovan's voice is ...

Beneath the Festival's Razzle-Dazzle

Report by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 1 August 1965

THE RAZZLE-dazzle of last weekend's Newport Folk Festival should not eclipse the quiet, unflamboyant work of enrichening American folk culture that the festival makes possible. ...

Dylan Pop Idol

Profile by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 7 August 1965

Folk King Now Hottest Thing In Rock Field ...

The Beatles Will Make the Scene Here Again, but the Scene Has Changed

Overview by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 11 August 1965

JOHN, PAUL, George and Ringo are bringing it all back home. That means the Beatles are returning to the United States. They will arrive Friday ...

Bob Dylan: 'Like A Rolling Stone' (CBS)

Review by Penny Valentine, Disc Weekly, 14 August 1965

AND NOW A SIX-MINUTE TREK THROUGH DYLAN-LAND ...

Pop Singers and Song Writers Racing Down Bob Dylan's Road

Profile and Interview by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 27 August 1965

Musician's "Sound" Inspires a Variety of Entertainers in "Folk Rock" Idiom ...

Bob Dylan: Forest Hills Stadium, Forest Hills Stadium NY

Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 30 August 1965

DYLAN CONQUERS UNRULY AUDIENCE Folk Singer Offers Works in'New Mood' at Forest Hills ...

Why Do Hotels Ban Pop Stars?

Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Disc Weekly, 4 September 1965

WHY DO pop stars get banned from hotels? ...

Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (American Columbia)

Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 23 September 1965

THOUGHT I'D jump the gun and tell you all about this LP, just issued in the States but not here. Side one starts off with ...

Protest Songs: How sick will they get? asks Alan Smith

Report and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 24 September 1965

SING A SONG of protest — and you, too, could find yourself there in the charts. Suddenly a whole flood of these let's-put-the-world-right numbers has ...

Joan Baez: A Love Story Goes Wrong

Interview by Dawn James, Rave, December 1965

It happens to all of us... we build up our relationship with one boy into something wonderful and then one dreadful day it all comes ...

The Year That Folk Moved In

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express Annual, December 1965

BOB DYLAN – the undisputed King of Folk. He causes as much controversy personally as do his records. ...

A Night With Bob Dylan

Essay by Al Aronowitz, New York Herald Tribune, 12 December 1965

BOB DYLAN picked himself up from the revolving turntable; staggered into an armchair, waved his hands above his head and sat down to watch the ...

Dylan Sells Out Seven West Coast Concerts

Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 1 January 1966

"HE'LL BE America's greatest troubadour, if he doesn't explode." ...

Bob Dylan: Poet or pop? — a new role for a folk-hero

Profile by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 9 January 1966

BOB DYLAN, folk-singer, folk-composer and folk-millionaire, has upset a lot of people in his time — TV networks, civil liberties committees, parents, teachers, recording technicians ...

Dylan #1

Report by Eden, KRLA Beat, 22 January 1966

AT FIRST there were just the four of us — just four people alone in a room. Quiet — then we spoke some words to ...

Dylan #2

Overview by Eden, KRLA Beat, 22 January 1966

YOU'RE SEARCHING — you're looking everywhere — you're trying desperately to find the man they call Dylan. You ask everyone — maybe even him — ...

On Records: The Folk-Rock Rage

Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 30 January 1966

FOLK-ROCK, which mixes the simplicity of folk music with the frenetic rhythmic heat of the electrically amplified sound of rock 'n' roll, caused one of ...

Robert Shelton of the New York Times talks to Max Jones about his friend Bob Dylan

Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 19 February 1966

BOB DYLAN remains a fascinating subject of conversation for four good reasons. Because he has talent and originality; because, in spite of brushes with the ...

A Symposium: Is Folk Rock Really 'White Rock'?

Letter by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 20 February 1966

TO THE EDITOR: ...

"Recording Sessions I Have Known" by Charlie McCoy

Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, May 1966

When you hear a harmonica wailing in the background on currently popular blues, country, folk or pop recordings, it's probably being played by an ultra-talented guy ...

Dylan's Press Reception

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 13 May 1966

HAIR BRISTLING about like a Fijian suffering from a severe electrical shock, wearing a blue suede jacket and white striped trousers, Bob Dylan meandered into ...

Bob Dylan & the Hawks: Adelphi Cinema, Dublin

Live Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 14 May 1966

THE LEAN and wiry Bob Dylan, hair longer and more unruly than ever, left behind 2,500 frustrated fans after the opening date of his 13-concert ...

Will The Real Bob Dylan Please Stand Up?

Report and Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 14 May 1966

Max Jones meets the mystical mister Dylan ...

You Name Something, and I'll Protest About It Said Bob Dylan

Report by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 14 May 1966

BOB DYLAN stuck his head through the window, placed his foot on the window ledge and — from outside — asked: "Is anyone in here?" ...

Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (Columbia)

Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, June 1966

LOOKING LIKE a man who's been waiting in line for two hours to find a vacant john, Bob Dylan peers in full color from the ...

Bob Dylan: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 11 June 1966

With A Mixture Of Folk, Rock And Comedy, Dylan Shows He Can Take Every Insult But Not A Compliment ...

Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (Columbia C2L 41 028 841)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 1966

Playboy Hops on Dylan Bandwagon ...

Bob Dylan Dropped In — Night Howard The Turtle Lost His Voice

Interview by Mike Gormley, The Ottawa Journal, 9 July 1966

Mike Gormley Calling from San Francisco ...

Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde (Columbia)

Review by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 16 July 1966

Bob Dylan Gets Into The Album Controversy Too ...

Understanding Dylan

Essay by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, August 1966

PERHAPS THE FAVOURITE indoor sport in America today is discussing, worshiping, disparaging, and above all interpreting Bob Dylan. According to legend, young Zimmerman came out ...

Bob Dylan, James Brown, Otis Redding et al: Album Reviews

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 13 August 1966

Dylan rocks through 4 great sides ...

Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde (CBS)

Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 August 1966

"GUILTY UNDERTAKERS sighed..." sings Bob Dylan, somewhat prophetically on his latest folk-rock-rhythm-blues-smash-top-twenty hit. And now, as Bob is lying in hospital with a broken neck, ...

Dylan: Is He Weird?

Comment by Eden, KRLA Beat, 27 August 1966

MILLIONS UPON millions of words have been written about this man, and usually — they are words of great eloquence, sentences highly stylized in their ...

Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde (CBS 66012)

Review by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, September 1966

THIS IS the seventh CBS LP from Mr. Dylan and it is, in fact, two albums in one. ...

Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Them, Beach Boys, Kinks et al: Singles Reviews

Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 6 May 1967

A multitude of newies this week including Presley, Dylan, & Beach Boys ...

New Albums from the Doors, Country Joe & the Fish et al

Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 1967

The Doors: A Fascinating New West Coast Sound ...

Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (dir. D.A. Pennebaker)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 17 June 1967

BOB DYLAN'S first and only movie (so far) called Don't Look Back is currently being screened at an "underground" theatre in San Francisco, where it ...

An Attempt at Analysis: What's So Good About Dylan?

Essay by Michael Gray, Oz, October 1967

DYLAN'S LYRICS are not poems, they are parts of songs. This is not to assert that Dylan is not a poet but simply to remember that ...

Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (Dir. D.A. Pennebaker, 96 mins)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 22 October 1967

Dylan: 'We Trust What He Tells Us' ...

Bob Dylan Today

Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 4 November 1967

Exclusive! Nick Jones listens to seven secret tapes ...

New Dylan

Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 9 December 1967

Ten New Songs (RBP Editor's note: these songs would later be bootlegged, then released, as The Basement Tapes) ...

Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding (Columbia)

Review by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 14 January 1968

Bob Dylan makes a comeback ...

Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding (Columbia)

Review by June Harris, New Musical Express, 20 January 1968

DYLAN'S NEW LP IS GIGANTIC WINNER ...

Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding (Columbia)

Review by June Harris, New Musical Express, 20 January 1968

DYLAN'S NEW LP IS GIGANTIC WINNER ...

Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding (U.S. Columbia)

Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 27 January 1968

BOB DYLAN'S LATEST LP JOHN WESLEY HARDING – A REVIEW IN DEPTH BY NORMAN JOPLING ...

Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding

Review by Charlie Gillett, Anarchy, May 1968

THE PARABLE ON the sleeve of Bob Dylan's new LP should have dissuaded me and all the others who've presumed to discuss the songs on ...

Impressions of Bob Dylan by Mike Bloomfield

Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, June 1968

As told to Jim Delehant ...

The Band: Country Soul from Bob's Backup Band

Profile and Interview by Al Aronowitz, LIFE, 26 July 1968

BIG PINK IS one of those middle-class ranch houses you would expect to find in suburbia rather than on a mountain top in rustic Woodstock, ...

The Band: Music From Big Pink (Capitol SKAO 2995)

Review by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 4 August 1968

Big Pink Is Just a Home in Saugerties ...

Bob Dylan: We May Never See Him Perform Again

Report and Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 17 August 1968

BOB DYLAN is unlikely ever to appear in concerts again. This is my considered opinion after two weeks talking with his friends and business associates ...

From Rock to Acid Rock

Essay by Michael Gray, International Times, 18 October 1968

FROM ROCK to Acid Rock is first a ride to freedom, second an illusion. Rock, the kind of music for which Rosko still does extravagant ...

20 Revolutionary Singles, as requested

Letter by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 28 October 1968

25 FLORENCE TERRACE, FALMOUTH, CORNWALL TELEPHONE: FALMOUTH 1840 23rd October 1968 ...

Bob Johnston: ...And a PS From the Man Who Produced the Last Dylan LP

Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 9 November 1968

BOB DYLAN'S John Wesley Harding album was probably the most eagerly awaited record of the year. ...

Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (Dir. D.A. Pennebaker)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 16 November 1968

TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT DYLAN ...

Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (Dir. Don Pennebaker)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 16 November 1968

Evil genius? Volatile? Merciless? Hydra headed Monster? Film shows other side of Bob Dylan ...

Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan: Mind blowing duo

Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 March 1969

NME's Richard Green talks to their producer, Bob Johnston ...

Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline

Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 19 April 1969

WARMTH INVADES DYLAN RECORDINGNashville Skyline Reveals a More Polished Singer ...

Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline

Review by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 19 April 1969

DYLAN HAS CHANGED again. His latest album, Nashville Skyline, the 14-month-later follow-up to John Wesley Harding, presents the folk-rock star in a completely new guise. ...

Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline (CBS)

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 22 April 1969

Nashville Skyline man to tell the time by ...

Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline (CBS STEREO 63601)

Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 26 April 1969

'Girl Of The North Country' (with Johnny Cash); 'Nashville Skyline Rag'; 'To Be Alone With You'; 'I Threw It All Away'; 'Peggy Day'; 'Lay Lady ...

Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline (CBS)

Review by Mick Farren, Oz, May 1969

SOMEBODY ONCE said that when Bob Dylan first started his career he wanted to be Elvis Presley much more than he wanted to be Woody ...

Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline (CBS)

Review by Miles, International Times, 9 May 1969

PART THREE of the new-style Dylan saga Is a direct continuation from the previous two albums: Kenny Buttrey (drums) and Charles McCoy (bass) have both ...

The Johnny Cash Show (ABC TV/Screen Gems)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 12 June 1969

TV CASHES IN ...

Bob Dylan: "My Friend Bob", as told by Marc Ellington

Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 30 August 1969

"I REMEMBER him as a very nervous person," he said, looking into space and recalling the times he'd shared with the young Bob Dylan. ...

Bob Dylan, The Band: Isle of Wight Festival

Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 2 September 1969

The gospel according to Dylan ...

Bob Dylan & the Band: Isle of Wight Festival

Live Review by Lon Goddard, Wesley Laine, Record Mirror, 6 September 1969

Love is all there is...Wesley Laine & Lon Goddard report from the Isle of Wight ...

Bob Dylan et al: Isle of Wight Festival

Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 6 September 1969

200,000 roar approval including John, George, Ringo and wives! But Dylan didn't quite sink Isle of Wight, reports Richard Green ...

Bob Dylan, The Band: Isle of Wight Festival

Live Review by Miles, International Times, 12 September 1969

VISITORS to the 2nd Isle of Wight Music Festival at Godshill near Ryde more than doubled the population of the Island, outnumbered the 130 local ...

The Band: Working With Bob

Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 13 September 1969

JAMIE ROBBIE Robertson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and Rick Danko are privileged to be five of the closest people to Bob Dylan. They ...

Dylan at Wight: A New Voice and a New Style

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, Los Angeles Times, 14 September 1969

THE TRAIN carrying us from Waterloo station in London to Portsmouth and the ferry across to the Isle of Wight Festival was full of newly ...

Local Jew Boy Makes Good: Bob Dylan’s New Morning

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, 1970

NEW MORNING is a breath of clean air in a darkly polluted musical environment. With the prevailing sound being the grinding urban paranoia of the ...

Hyped By Your Heroes: Bob Dylan, Randy Newman

Comment by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 25 July 1970

THE SUMMER of 1970 will go down in the history books as the time when the music of the period finally let loose the truth ...

Bob Dylan: New Morning (CBS KC 30290)

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 23 October 1970

Update, 2019. EMERGING FROM Hibbing to New York's Village. His pilgrimage to Woody Guthrie. The protest songs sung like a crow that are now a national ...

Bob Dylan: New Morning (CBS)

Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 24 October 1970

DYLAN'S NEW LP NOT UP TO EXPECTATIONS — but it's still good! ...

Al Kooper, Blood Sweat & Tears creator and Dylan sideman, brought brass and jam sessions back

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 16 January 1971

WHEN IT comes to the subject of owning-up-time, I suppose we've all got to admit to having a dusty, decaying skeleton hanging up in our ...

They Won't Invite Bob

Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 18 April 1971

BOB DYLAN is having a birthday party the day he turns 30 — May 23 — and everyone's invited except him. ...

Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan and the Hawks Live At Albert Hall, 1966

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, June 1971

IT IS THE MOST supremely elegant piece of rock'n'roll music I've ever heard. ...

Bob, The Band and basement bootleg

Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 5 June 1971

A VERY strange thing happened in a basement somewhere in North America; Bob Dylan recorded with the Band — on a home tape recorder. ...

Bob Johnston: The most envied man in pop

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 19 June 1971

Roy Carr talks to the man who records Dylan, Cash and Cohen ...

George Harrison et al: Concert for Bangla Desh, Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 2 August 1971

Raga and Rock Link 2 Cultures ...

George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar et al: Concert for Bangla Desh, Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Nancy Lewis, New Musical Express, 7 August 1971

GEORGE CREATES GREATEST ROCK SPECTACLE OF DECADE ...

George Harrison & Friends: The Concert for Bangladesh (Apple)

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 4 January 1972

Update, 2019: The first time I met George Harrison was in the late 1960s, when he was still a Beatle. I quite often went to ...

Bob Dylan: How Does it Feel?

Essay by Dave Marsh, Creem, February 1972

PICKS OF THE WEEK: BOB DYLAN, 'GEORGE JACKSON' (Ram's Horn, BMI). Bringing it all back home, the ever-relevant Dylan, who watched the river flow for ...

Concert for Bangla Desh (Dir. Saul Swimmer; 20th Century Fox)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Nancy Lewis, New Musical Express, 1 April 1972

BANGLA FILM RELEASED ...

The Concert for Bangla Desh (Apple/Twentieth Century-Fox)

Film/DVD/TV Review by John Pidgeon, New Musical Express, 15 July 1972

A SPECIAL PREVIEW BY JOHN PIDGEON ...

Troubadours: Who Was That Harp With Johnny Prine?

Report and Interview by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 12 October 1972

NEW YORK — Last night John Prine squinted out into the audience at the Bitter End and drawled, "Whar's that harmonica player?" ...

Bob Dylan: Left Hand of God?

Essay by Greil Marcus, Let It Rock, March 1973

IN THE NOVEMBER issue of Let It Rock, Tony White offered some rather hysterical opinions in his Dylan bootleg discography, and Tony Scaduto, author of ...

Duel to the Death: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Report and Interview by Dave Marsh, Creem, July 1973

I DON'T KNOW whether Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid will be a great rock'n'roll western or merely a machismo wetdream. Three days on the ...

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Dir. Sam Peckinpah)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Jonathon Green, International Times, 12 July 1973

Real Blood and Jizzum, Sam... ...

Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, Soundtrack by Bob Dylan (Columbia KC 32460)

Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 13 September 1973

Dylan Meets Billy: America's Albatrosses ...

Pipeline

Column by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, December 1973

WELL, 1973 IS gone and a new year is upon us. The only reason I mention that is because some of you are so dunced-out ...

The Flood: Dylan and The Band on Tour ’74

Report by Michael Lydon, unpublished, 1974

"The air was filled with music." – Raymond Chandler ...

Bringing The Garbage Back Home: A.J. Weberman

Report by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, January 1974

A.J. WEBERMAN sprang into the limelight some five years ago, around the time that students and banana-smoking intellectuals everywhere loved to argue about Bob Dylan. ...

Bob Dylan & The Band: Night of the Zimmerman

Report by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 19 January 1974

CHICAGO, ILLINIOS – land of Lincoln, booming metropolis of the Mid-West, heart of Middle America. Not as sophisticated as New York, nor as small as ...

Bob Dylan: Planet Waves (Asylum)

Review by Loraine Alterman, The New York Times, 20 January 1974

Dylan Is His Own Dilemma ...

Bob Dylan: Planet Waves (Island)

Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 26 January 1974

ANY NEW Bob Dylan album induces a somewhat unnerving emotional response in the reviewer, but the very latest record from Dylan, to be released here ...

Bob Dylan & The Band: Knocking On Heaven's Door

Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 9 February 1974

THEY CHEERED and clapped and waved for fifteen minutes even though the house lights were up and 'Greensleeves' was playing through the PA system and ...

Bob Dylan: Planet Waves

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 9 February 1974

Planet Waves has so far been received with resounding critical acclaim. Robin Denselow in The Guardian describes it as "an album that ranks with Blonde ...

Remember Those Fabulous Sixties? An NME Consumer's Guide to Bob Dylan

Guide by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 9 February 1974

Enigma, prophet, fink or sell-out? MICK FARREN looks back over Dylan’s recorded career at a time when argument over the artistic worth — or lack ...

Bob Dylan & the Band: Oakland Coliseum, Oakland CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 12 February 1974

The memory, if not much melody, lingers on ...

An NME Consumer's Guide to Bob Dylan, Part 2

Guide by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 16 February 1974

CONTINUED FROM PART 1 ...

Bob Dylan & the Band: Hollywood Sportatorium, Pembroke Pines, Fla.

Live Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 28 February 1974

"The White-suited Mystic Rescues His Flock" ...

Bob Dylan: Planet Waves (Asylum 7E-1003)

Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 28 February 1974

LIKE THE reformed gunslinger-turned-family man, who's barely kept his pistol from rusting by occasionally battling some tin cans in his backyard — Dylan's been called ...

Bob Dylan: Planet Waves

Review by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, March 1974

HE'S NOT ONLY trying to sing like he used to, he's even surfaced with some more stoned sleeve notes and two or three lines actually ...

Bob Dylan: Planet Waves

Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, March 1974

WHEN IT COMES to the critical crunch it ain't necessarily the Dylanologists who as the right questions. Sure they knew about Dylan when they were ...

Bob Dylan: Dylan

Review by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, April 1974

ME, I LIKE IT. I don't accept the much-aired view that if it had been up to Dylan, he would never have issued an album ...

Dylan and The Band Return with Planet Waves

Report by John Swenson, Circus, April 1974

When Dylan took the lid off the box he was hiding in, he made the conditions for peeping in very difficult. Now Bob Dylan doesn't ...

Bob Dylan: Before The Flood

Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 29 June 1974

AN APPOSITE QUOTE from Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (the town preacher talking): "Oh Lord, can we truly accomplish this great task – or are we ...

Bob Dylan & The Band: Before The Flood (Asylum AB-201)

Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 29 August 1974

"THERE'S A flood out in California, and up north it's freezing cold/and this living off o' the road — it's gettin' pretty old." John Phillip ...

Bob Dylan/The Band: Before The Flood (Asylum)

Review by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 29 August 1974

THROUGHOUT BOB DYLAN'S performances on this in-concert album there is evident an effort to match the material – nearly all from much earlier in his ...

Blood on the Tracks: Dylan Looks Back

Report and Interview by Larry Sloman, Rolling Stone, 21 November 1974

NEW YORK — It looked like old times at Columbia's A&R Studio September 16th. John Hammond Sr. was there, Phil Ramone was working the board. ...

Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks (CBS)

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 25 January 1975

Fate on the Skates ...being an exclusive peekaboo into the head of R. ZIMMERMAN via his latest LP of pop songs. Consultant Psychiatrist: NICK KENT ...

Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks (CBS)

Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 25 January 1975

DYLAN: Seeking gentler ground Special preview of Blood On The Tracks by MICHAEL WATTS ...

Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks

Review by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, April 1975

I DON'T KNOW HOW, but some adjustment in our consciousness must now follow from the fact that it is Bob Dylan who has produced, in ...

Nick Kent – A Limey in LA #2: The Day I Shook Bob Dylan's Hand And Other Weird Tales

Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 5 April 1975

ALSO INCLUDES: The Dog That Ate The Dog That Ate Los Angeles ...

Mick Ronson: Play Don't Worry (RCA) Rating: two 2½ ears, one mouth; Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks (Columbia) Rating: one ear

Review by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, May 1975

HERE WE have two solo artists, one with his place assured in the music business as a legend with money in his pockets, the other ...

Bob Dylan & The Band: The Basement Tapes (CBS)

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 12 July 1975

A drunkard's dream (Nos. 13 & 35) EIGHT years after they were first recorded with The Band in Woodstock, Bob Dylan's "lost" basement tapes have finally ...

Bob Dylan: The Basement Tapes (CBS)

Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 16 August 1975

Leonardo's sketch-book? Something eventually got delivered. ...

Bob Dylan & The Band: The Basement Tapes

Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, September 1975

WHAT WE HAVE here is the most enjoyable Dylan album yet released. ...

Bob Dylan and the Band: The Basement Tapes

Review by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, September 1975

On Blonde on Blonde, Dylan gave us his metaphysical, amphetamine dreams from some smoke-filled apartment in midtown Manhattan. On John Wesley Harding, he synthesized a ...

Dylan's The Basement Tapes – The Best Of The Bootlegs Goes Establishment

Overview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, October 1975

BOB DYLAN'S ART is his body of work. There are close to twenty legitimate Bob Dylan albums. There is a book, Tarantula, and another of ...

Bob Dylan: Plymouth Memorial Hall, Mass. USA

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 November 1975

BOB DYLAN'S ROLLING Thunder Revue hit the Plymouth Memorial Hall at 8.20 p.m. on Tuesday November 4.That's Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, by the way, and it ...

Bob Dylan and Friends on the Bus: Like a Rolling Thunder

Report by Larry Sloman, Rolling Stone, 4 December 1975

NEW YORK — It was four o'clock on a brandy-soaked October Thursday morning in Greenwich Village as about 20 friends and assorted hangers-on gathered in ...

John Hammond: From Billie to Bruce

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 6 December 1975

John Hammond recalls his 40 years atthe forefront of popular music recording ...

Bob Dylan: Million Dollar Bash

Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 20 December 1975

Bob Dylan and The Rolling Thunder Review: Madison Square Garden, NYC ...

Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, Joni Mitchell: Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 20 December 1975

Dylan's damp squib ...

DYLAN does his first radio interview in eight years, and still manages to say nothing

Report by Miles, New Musical Express, 27 December 1975

THE NEWS OF A RADIO interview with Bob Dylan, who rarely does such, caused Dylanologists, fans and degenerates to take up their trannies recently to ...

Is Rock 'N' Roll Ready For 1976?

Comment by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 3 January 1976

What has all this to do with all this? Does anyone care? MICK FARREN'S IS THE VOICE FROM THE GALLERY ...

Bob Dylan: Desire (CBS)

Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 10 January 1976

THE RECORD came into the office round about lunchtime. At approximately three forty-five, I went into the review room, turned on the stereo and put ...

Bob Dylan: Desire (CBS)

Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 24 January 1976

DESIRE begins with ‘Hurricane’, Dylan’s account of how black boxer Reuben Carter was falsely charged and jailed for murder. I don’t know how many cut ...

Jacques Levy: Dylan's Write Hand Man

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 24 January 1976

THOSE WHO have already acquired a copy of Dylan's new album, Desire, will have noticed at least one difference between this and other Dylan records ...

Tom Wilson: The Man Who Put Electricity Into Dylan

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 31 January 1976

TOM WILSON is an elegant, very tall (6ft 4in) black American, a former Harvard man who talks a little like Bill Cosby but whose pencil-thin ...

Hurricane II: Thunder in the Heart of Texas

Report by Joe Nick Patoski, Rolling Stone, 26 February 1976

Carter Benefit at Astrodome ...

Dylan meets Willie Nelson: Thunder Deep in the Heart of Texas

Report by Joe Nick Patoski, Rolling Stone, 17 June 1976

HOUSTON — It was the Rolling Thunder Revue's second stop here this year, just five months after the less-than-successful Rubin Carter Astrodome benefit, and Bob ...

Bob Dylan: Hard Rain

Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 25 September 1976

AS SOME OF you regulars out there have probably long suspected, I have a certain difficulty in being strictly objective about the work of Bob ...

Mother, Old Glory, Apple Pie, Bob Dylan

Comment by Lester Bangs, New Musical Express, 25 September 1976

Lester Bangs pours down like scalding rain on the Dylan documentary due to be screened on BBC2 next Tuesday, and coincidentally (fight fans) on the ...

The Band's "Last Waltz": Winterland, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Stephen M H Braitman, Phonograph Record, December 1976

WHEN THE announcement came, 5,000 tickets at $25 each were sold out almost immediately. This was the final show, "The Last Waltz." The Band — ...

Journey To The Centre Of The Psyche: Blonde On Blonde

Retrospective by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 25 December 1976

IT'S AN almost impossible opening sentence. ...

For Dylanologists Only (Otherwise v Boring)

Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 2 July 1977

LAST YEAR Thrills (NME's news pages – RBP Ed) ran a transcript of Bob Dylan's first interview. It was done by Billy James of Columbia ...

Renaldo Zimmerman and the Cubist Movie

Report by Miles, New Musical Express, 10 December 1977

WHEN THE ROLLING THUNDER Revue ended two years ago, Bob Dylan took the 400 hours of film footage that had been shot during the tour ...

I Don't Believe in Zimmerman

Book Excerpt by Mark Shipper, Paperback Writer (New English Library), 1978

THE FIRST few months of 1966 were pleasant ones for the Beatles. Meat The Beatles remained at the top of the charts all over the ...

Renaldo and Clara (dir: Bob Dylan; Circuit Films 232mins)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 9 March 1978

Ballad in plain dull ...

Renaldo and Clara — A Film by Bob Dylan (Lombard St. Films, Inc.)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Toby Goldstein, Creem, April 1978

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Bob Dylan... Even If You Didn't ...

Bob Dylan: The Man Behind the Image

Interview by David Hancock, Evening News, London, 13 May 1978

BOB DYLAN will be pocketing over £500,000 for the six shows he'll perform before more than 90,000 people at Earls Court next month. ...

Bob Dylan: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 10 June 1978

THE CAMERAS panned over a line of deck chairs and sleeping bags sprouting people grinning and flashing peace signs and the man in the ticket ...

Bob Dylan: Earls Court, London

Live Review by David Hancock, Evening News, London, 16 June 1978

Dylan finds the key to success in the 70s ...

Bob Dylan: Earl's Court, London

Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 24 June 1978

MY THEORY was that this Bobby the Zee concert was strictly for nostalgia-lovers, music fans keep clear. ...

Bob Dylan: The View From Seat BB59

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 24 June 1978

THE FIRST NIGHT it rained, and it seemed that the atmosphere would be nostalgic to the last: all of us in our massed thousands gathered ...

Danko On The Loose! Rick Danko emerges as a solo artist after years with The Band

Interview by Radio Pete, Rocket, July 1978

Danko's on his own now with his own backup band, but he used to be an integral part of The Band since their beginning. Danko's ...

Blackbushe Festival - Nice To See Ya, Bob

Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 22 July 1978

...OR RATHER, IT would have been, but at least we heard him and that made the hassles worthwhile, reports our survivor of the million dollar ...

Bob Dylan

Interview by Mark Rowland, unpublished, 23 September 1978

Marc Rowland interviews Dylan in Rochester prior to his concert at the Rochester Auditorium. The interview was broadcast on US radio. The transcript is from ...

Rolling Stones Dump On Rolling Stone

Report by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 14 October 1978

THE CHANGES which the imaginary magazine depicted in Between The Lines goes through — from radical underground to counter-culture to hip capitalist establishment — is ...

Bob Dylan: The Forum, Los Angeles

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 9 December 1978

THE 18,000 people who presumably didn't pitch tent early enough to make Dylan's sold-out summer date in L. A. but packed into the Forum this ...

Bob Dylan: At Budokan

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, July 1979

AFTER 16 YEARS IN the public eye, growing and developing, quick-cutting and dodging, Bob Dylan carries his catalogue of songs behind him like a bevy ...

Bob Dylan: Slow Train Coming (CBS 86095)*****

Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 25 August 1979

Rich man enters kingdom of heaven shock ...

Bob Dylan: Slow Train Coming (CBS)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 25 August 1979

THE RELATIONSHIP between rock and religion has always been fraught and filled with tension: back at its Southern rural roots, there was always a serious ...

Bob Dylan: Slow Train Coming (CBS)

Review by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, 26 August 1979

DYLAN HAS switched roles once too often. We've followed him patiently through his phases as rebellious folk singer, rock and roll outlaw, musing mystic, contented ...

Dylan’s Conversion: We Name the Guilty Men

Essay by Steve Turner, New Musical Express, 8 September 1979

Nothing guarantees more scorn in rock’n’roll circles than a man who gets religion. I mean, we pay these guys to visit hell and bring us ...

Bob Dylan: Slow Train Coming (Columbia)

Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, December 1979

FADE IN. ...

Bob Dylan: Saved (Columbia)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, October 1980

I NEVER bothered buying Bob Dylan's landmark albums when they were released, in the frantic 1960s. All my friends then already had all the albums, ...

Bob Dylan: Getting in Touch with Christ (You Know It Ain’t Easy)

Interview by Steve Turner, New Musical Express, 3 January 1981

BECAUSE HE DIDN'T preach in between numbers during his recent West Coast concerts and because he sang ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ and ‘The Times They ...

Bob Dylan: Earl's Court, London

Live Review by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, June 1981

HE WOULD not be Bob Dylan if he did not make us constantly fear the worst. ...

Rock Returns to Holy Rolling

Essay by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 1981

ON SATURDAY nights in 1956, transistor radios in the hands of eager teenagers all over America shuddered with the sensual sound of Elvis Presley's 'Hound ...

John Hammond: Discovering Musical Talent — White and Black

Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 25 September 1981

JOHN HAMMOND is a rare figure in the American recording industry. In an industry that worships last year's trends, Mr. Hammond discovered such original artists ...

Bob Dylan: Shot Of Love

Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, November 1981

BOB DYLAN AND Lenny Bruce once shared a taxi for about a mile and a half. According to Dylan, the ride felt as though it ...

Bob Dylan: More Of An Outlaw Than You Ever Were? (Hold The Mayo On The Golden Globe Awards)

Essay by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1982

During the '70s, Dylan got swept up into those overblown, superstarred ships of fools which claimed so many promising prophets from the '60s. ...

Robbie Robertson: Between Trains

Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 6 May 1983

QUALITY IS something that Robbie Robertson definitely understands. ...

Culture shock as Bob Dylan is outshone by the Boy Wonder

Review by Max Bell, The Times, 5 November 1983

Culture Club: Colour By Numbers (Virgin V2285); Bob Dylan: Infidels (CBS 25538); John Hiatt: Riding With The King (Geffen GHS4017 Import); The Doors: Alive, She ...

Bob Dylan: Infidels (Columbia)

Review by John Swenson, Record, February 1984

BOB DYLAN is the most consistently misunderstood figure in pop music history. Dylan's approach to songwriting, and to his public persona in general, has always ...

On Common Ground: Bob Dylan live in Rome

Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 23 June 1984

Richard Williams gets a taste of Dylan as his tour makes its way towards Britain ...

Bob Dylan: Wembley Stadium

Live Review by Mary Harron, The Guardian, July 1984

ALL SUMMER, Christians have been performing in football stadiums; first we had Luis Palau, then Billy Graham, and now Bob Dylan. But as it turned ...

Bob Dylan: "Jesus, Who's Got Time to Keep Up with the Times?"

Interview by Mick Brown, The Sunday Times, 1 July 1984

This week Bob Dylan comes to Britain. The folksinger-cum-folk hero of the 1960s has not always had a good reception here. In 1965 purists attacked ...

USA for Africa: Record could raise millions for hungry

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 14 March 1985

"CHECK YOUR ego at the door." That was the message producer Quincy Jones sent to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross ...

Bob Dylan: Real Live (Columbia)

Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, April 1985

I REMEMBER the last time I interviewed Bob Dylan: it was on October 12, 1978 in front of 20,000 people at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens. ...

USA For Africa: We Are The World (Columbia)

Review by J. Kordosh, Creem, August 1985

OUCHLESS BAND-AID ...

Bob Dylan: Biograph; Sandy Denny: Who Knows Where The Time Goes

Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 28 December 1985

NOTHING AS simple as a "greatest hits" collection from the Bob Dylan of 1985, of course. ...

Glitches add spontaneity to Bob Dylan and Tom Petty show

Live Review by Charles Bermant, The Globe and Mail, 1986

BOB DYLAN FORGOT a lot of the words to his own songs. He blew the payoff line of 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll' completely. ...

Gates of Eden Revisited: A Conversation with Bob Dylan

Interview by Toby Creswell, Rolling Stone (Australia), 16 January 1986

IT DOESN'T REALLY matter now whether Bob Dylan is a fundamentalist Christian, anymore than it mattered whether he was going to the Synagogue when he ...

Tom Petty: Back On The Road

Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 16 January 1986

Tom Petty teams up with new pal Bob Dylan ...

Bob Dylan: Biograph

Review by John Mendelsohn, Creem, March 1986

HEARING ABOUT how Stevie I Wonder had to coach him on how to sing like himself on ‘We Are the World’ or watching him and ...

Albert Grossman: 1926-1986

Obituary by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 13 March 1986

Managed Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and others ...

Bob Dylan In Concert - An HBO Special

Film/DVD/TV Review by Geoffrey Himes, Columbia Flier , 3 July 1986

THE RECENT HBO cable TV special, Bob Dylan in Concert, gave us a sneak preview of what we can expect when Dylan arrives in Washington ...

Bob Dylan’s Knocked Out Loaded, the Band of the Hand soundtrack, and Peter Case’s debut album

Review by Geoffrey Himes, The Washington Post, 24 July 1986

THE POOR SOUND wasn’t the only problem with Bob Dylan’s recent concert in Washington. A far more fundamental problem was the overbearing preachiness and unrelenting ...

Bob Dylan: Times A-Changin’ for a Prophet Who Just Wants to Play

Profile by Steve Turner, The Sunday Times, 17 August 1986

When Bob Dylan takes to the stage today at the National Film Theatre in London to face the press, he is unlikely to repeat the ...

Bob Dylan: Knocked Out Loaded (Columbia)

Review by Roy Trakin, Musician, September 1986

DESPITE A high-visibility tour with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, his best band since the Band, Bob Dylan's new studio album is being released with ...

Obituary: John Hammond

Obituary by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 25 July 1987

WHO'S GOING to find the next rock legend now that John Hammond's gone? Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith, ...

John Hammond 1910-1987

Obituary by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 27 August 1987

LEGENDARY RECORD producer and talent scout John Hammond — who played a key role in the careers of Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Aretha ...

Bob Dylan/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers /Roger McGuinn: Modena Autodrome, Turin

Live Review by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 26 September 1987

ROCK HACKS aren't allowed near Bob. He's got no time for the press. In fact, someone who once met his grannie's dog-minder tells me Bob ...

The Second Coming of Robbie Robertson

Special Feature by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 19 November 1987

Eleven, years ago, the enigmatic leader of the Band walked away from the rock world. Now, after some years of wild living, he's joined with ...

Pennebaker Looks Back

Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 15 July 1988

Adam Sweeting turns the tables on the man who documented the young Dylan ...

Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead: Dylan and The Dead

Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 11 February 1989

THIS COULD be a marriage made in heaven or hell, depending on which side of the critical fence you might be sitting. The majority of ...

Bob Dylan: Oh Mercy

Review by Andy Gill, Q, October 1989

Prophet in an anorak: Dylan delivers at last. ...

Daniel Lanois: Let the music speak

Interview by David Toop, The Times, 2 February 1990

David Toop meets Daniel Lanois, the hit producer of albums for U2, Peter Gabriel and Bob Dylan, now a performer himself on record and visiting ...

Rock Of Middle Ages

Comment by Tim Riley, The Boston Phoenix, 9 February 1990

The new traditionalism looks for its roots. ...

Elizabeth Thomson & David Gutman (eds): The Dylan Companion

Book Review by Mark Cooper, Q, May 1990

DESPITE THE CRITICAL and commercial success of Oh Mercy and the recent Hammersmith shows, the reverence with which Bob Dylan was regarded in the '60s ...

Bob Dylan: Under The Red Sky (CBS 647188); Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Ragged Glory (Reprise WX 734)

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 14 September 1990

Neil's your brother, Bob's your uncle ...

Bob Dylan: Under The Red Sky

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1990

ONE EASY WAY of telling who the record industry considers to be this year's hot producer is to check the credits of the latest Dylan ...

Bob Dylan: The Untouchable

Report by Nick Kent, Vox, October 1990

HIS HOUSE IS FALLING DOWN, HE FREAKS OUT HIS BANDS MAKING UP SONGS MID-GIG, AND HE SPORTS A NICE LINE IN HOODED ANORAKS. BUT WHEN ...

Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview

Interview by Paul Zollo, SongTalk, 1991

"I've made shoes for everyone, even you, while I still go barefoot"(‘I and I’) ...

Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 (Columbia)

Review by Max Bell, Vox, May 1991

Sign Of The Times ...

Bob Dylan: Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts

Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 6 July 1991

MANSFIELD – What about Bob? Long before the hit movie came along this summer people have been asking that question about the Bob that is ...

Bob Dylan: Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Mark Rowland, Musician, August 1992

THE UNITED States may be too vast a place for any one person to hold the title of greatest living songwriter. So let's be fair ...

Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Concert at Madison Square Gardens

Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 17 October 1992

BOB DYLAN'S SONG catalogue is so varied and vital that Friday's four-hour concert at Madison Square Gardens barely got the key in the door of ...

Bob Dylan: Acoustic/Good As I Been To You

Review by Mat Snow, Q, December 1992

PERHAPS AN even bigger shock than his 1965 electrification, in 1992 Dylan goes acoustic. And whereas back in '65 the spokesman for his generation was ...

Bobfest: Bringing It All Back To Dylan

Retrospective by Larry Jaffee, High Times, February 1993

He's a pop-culture icon who gave the 1960s counterculture an attitude, a look and a song, 'The Times They Are A-Changin'', that became the anthem ...

RAR! RAR! Disputin'! The History of Rock Against Racism

Retrospective by John Harris, New Musical Express, 16 October 1993

  ON APRIL 16, 1990, a proud man who'd spent 27 years in the custody of a vicious racist regime arrived in London. He'd come to ...

Eyewitness: Dylan Turns The Beatles On To Dope

Essay by Al Aronowitz, Q, May 1994

History ahoy! In the second of our new series, journalist Al Aronowitz recalls introducing Bob Dylan to The Beatles and how His Bobness turned the ...

Woodstock II: Sodden Life Is Rubbish

Report by John Harris, New Musical Express, 27 August 1994

Take 250,000 hippy children (Please! — Ed) and baby boomers reliving the 'glories' of the '60s, stick them in a sea of mud and charge ...

Who the hell does MAX CLIFFORD think he is?

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, September 1994

Hamster snack outrage! Lycra thigh-shots farrago! Politician-toe-to-actress-tonsil coincidence! All the proud work of one proud PR man, ever spoon-feeding the media, manipulating the smaller-format newspapers, ...

Bob Dylan: Warner Theatre, Washington D.C.

Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, The Washington Post, 31 October 1994

BOB DYLAN'S show at the Warner Theatre last night was rapidly going down the tubes when the singer suddenly focused himself and turned the second ...

Bob Dylan: MTV Unplugged (Columbia)

Review by Geoffrey Himes, The Washington Post, 24 May 1995

BOB DYLAN has released 52 songs on five different albums since 1992 but has not included one song of his own written after 1990. This ...

Bob Dylan's back in Britain. Again. Just like he was last year. And the year before that

Profile by Peter Silverton, Daily Express, 1996

John Lennon once said he felt that he'd been born half-American. These days, it seems, Bob Dylan has become a semi-Brit. ...

Bob Dylan: He's glum, he's 55 and he sang at Hyde Park. So who listens now?

Comment by Andy Beckett, The Independent, 29 June 1996

"DON'T WRITE that we're all old hippies," said the Dylan fan, short-haired, hatchet-faced and over 40. He walked off across the bookshop, handing out set ...

Fred Goodman: The Mansion on the Hill (Times Books)

Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, April 1997

Deny it all we might, the truth is that music is a business. And its richest players have made billions without ever striking a single ...

Bob Dylan: University of Hartford Sports Center, Connecticut

Live Review by Jeff Apter, nyrock.com, 18 April 1997

"BOB'S IN THERE," I overhear some reefer-chugging Dylanspotter in the parking lot say, nodding towards a darkened touring van. Getting a little closer, I couldn't ...

Bob Dylan: Preemptive Obituaries

Comment by Greil Marcus, Interview, August 1997

I WAS IN England in late May, trying to get people to read a book about Bob Dylan's 1967 basement tapes recordings, when the story ...

Dylan, God's Gift to the Pope

Comment by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 28 September 1997

YESTERDAY BOB DYLAN, rock outlaw turned born-again believer, performed for the Pope at the World Eucharist Congress in Bologna. ...

Bob Dylan

Comment by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 3 October 1997

WHEN BOB DYLAN hovered briefly between life and death last summer, his heart seemingly about to give in, his condition reported in headlines round the ...

A Map You Can Throw Away: Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind

Review by Greil Marcus, The San Francisco Examiner, 2 November 1997

THE CHALLENGE of Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind – his first collection of self-written songs since 1990 – is to take it at face ...

Drop-kicked by Jesus: Bob Dylan's Conversion

Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, December 1997

In which the eternal sceptic did a Damascus and managed an unlikely artistic rebirth. Phil Sutcliffe takes confession... ...

Bob Dylan

Comment by Glenn O'Brien, Artforum, January 1998

I HEARD A TRACK from Bob Dylan's new Time Out of Mind (Columbia) on the radio a few weeks before the album's release. I didn't ...

Bob Dylan: Time Again

Essay by Paul Williams, Uncut, March 1998

"Oh honey, even after all these years, you're still the one!" – Bob Dylan, 'Can't Wait', December 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, 1997, El ...

Access all areas: The Rock Muse

Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Harper's Bazaar, April 1998

Scratch an epic rock god and you'll usually find a cool, inspiring woman who supplied him with lyrics, contacts and style. Now that girl power ...

Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison at the Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles

Live Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, July 1998

Set List Van Morrison: Sweet Thing/You Make Me Feel So Free/Burning Ground/It Once Was My Life/Cleaning Windows/Vanlose Stairway/That's Life/Days Like This/Sometimes We Cry/Moondance/This Weight/Tupelo Honey/Why ...

Consuming Passions: Howard Marks

Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, September 1998

Skinning up from Lennon's stash box, securing dentures with a luxury adhesive, and watching lizards drown in brandy — a typical evening at home with ...

Bob Dylan: Live 1966: "The Royal Albert Hall Concert" (Columbia)

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 8 October 1998

1966 WAS POP music's annus mirabilis: Revolver, Pet Sounds, Freak Out! and Blonde On Blonde were all released then, and Bob Dylan spent much of ...

Dylan Album Revives Interest in 2 Old Films

Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 17 October 1998

IT'S 1966 ALL over again in the world of pop music – and the Denver International Film Festival, which just concluded, was in
 the centre ...

Bob Dylan: Live 1966 - The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert

Review by Richard Williams, MOJO, November 1998

SO HERE it is, the Holy Grail of rock'n'roll, famed in song and story for a generation, finally on sale at your local record store. ...

Bob Dylan: Live 1966 (Columbia/Legacy)

Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 4 November 1998

CALL IT the triumph of the bootleggers. ...

A Session With Bob Dylan

Memoir by Happy Traum, Guitar World, 1999

IN OCTOBER OF 1971, I got a call from Bob Dylan asking me if I'd like record some songs with him for his Greatest Hits, ...

Rock 100: Bob Dylan

Book Excerpt by Lenny Kaye, David Dalton, Cooper Square Books (reissue), 1999

"I SEE THINGS OTHER PEOPLE DON'T," Dylan once said about himself. "I dissolve myself into situations where I am invisible." Dylan's progress has been a ...

Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966 (The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert) (Columbia/Legacy)

Review by Mac Randall, Musician, January 1999

THIRTY-TWO years ago, Bob Dylan got into a little disagreement with his audience during a tour of England. A lot of his English fans at ...

Bob Dylan: Judas!

Retrospective by Andy Gill, The Independent, 23 January 1999

1966. The night popular music changed for ever. Bob Dylan swapped his acoustic guitar for a Stratocaster and one fan lost his cool. This is ...

A Crown Jewel of a Show: King Bob and Queen Joni

Essay by Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Journalist, 1 March 1999

I REALLY WOULDN'T know what to say to Bob Dylan if I bumped into him again. I suppose I could talk about our one-time mutual ...

Bob Dylan, 1966: A Lot of Nerve

Retrospective by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 30 December 1999

It was 1965, and in a surge of amphetamine-fuelled creativity Bob Dylan was reinventing the pop song. But then a motorbike crash changed everything. As ...

Bob Dylan in Mississippi

Essay by Andria Lisle, Oxford American, Summer 1999

"Oxford Town in the afternoon,Ev’rybody singin’ a sorrowful tune.Two men died ‘neath the Mississippi moon,Somebody better investigate soon.Oxford Town, Oxford Town,Ev’rybody’s got their heads bowed ...

Next Dylans

Overview by Gene Sculatti, Scram, 2000

The All-Time Top 10 'Next Dylans': Monkee, Punkers, Bubblegum King: They Wished That For Just One Time They Could Stand Inside His Shoes ...

Bob Dylan: Something Was Happening, But I Didn’t Know What It Was

Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, September 2000

IN THE SPRING of 1970, I saw Les Blank’s lush, lyrical intimate documentaries about the blues singers Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb. They’re amazing films ...

Bob Dylan: Vicar St, Dublin *****

Live Review by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 16 September 2000

THE 800 TICKETS for this suddenly announced "intimate" show supposedly sold out in 15 seconds. For the select multitude, then, this was a night of ...

Dylan and The Band: Obviously Five Believers

Retrospective and Interview by Andy Gill, Q, October 2000

He took them round the world – to endless booing. They settled in Woodstock, separated, and then reunited for the highest grossing tour of the ...

Bob Dylan: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 5 October 2000

AS HE approaches his 60th year there are many people prepared to vouch for the fact that Bob Dylan hasn't been in such great shape ...

Bob Dylan: September 2000 UK Tour

Live Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, November 2000

"MY HEART'S in the Highlands, where the Aberdeen waters flow," sang Bob Dylan on 1997's gloriously gloomy Time Out Of Mind, "I'm gonna go there ...

Bob Dylan: The Point Depot, Dublin

Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, November 2000

YOU CAN trust in Bob, the magnificent minstrel and incredible icon, the prime preserver and arch plunderer of 20th century Americana, to pull a surprise ...

Bobquest: In Search of Zimmerman

Book Excerpt by Jill Furmanovsky, Rock's Backpages, 2001

Quest: a search, especially an arduous one, for something that is greatly desired. Example: quest for life's meaning. ...

An Exclusive Interview with Bob Johnston

Interview by Richard Younger, On the Tracks, March 2001

THE LEGEND OF Bob Johnston looms large in the career of Bob Dylan. More than any other producer, Johnston is responsible for producing what many ...

Rockumentaries on the Biography Channel

Film/DVD/TV Review by Mark Pringle, Mat Snow, Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 3 March 2001

Not long ago, any glimpse on the box of a great musician was like catching sight of the lesser spotted grebe – all the lovelier ...

Bob Dylan: Well, How Does It Feel?

Profile by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 25 March 2001

There's only one person in pop who is not fascinated by the myth of Bob Dylan – and that's Bob Dylan. Now approaching sixty and ...

Howard Sounes: Down the Highway – The Life of Bob Dylan

Book Review by Peter Stone Brown, Gadfly, April 2001

BOB DYLAN HAS been the subject of innumerable books. In this (the fifth) full-scale biography, British reporter Howard Sounes tracked down people previously unknown and ...

The Art of the Ageless Bob Dylan

Retrospective by Michael Gray, Daily Telegraph, April 2001

Bob Dylan is approaching his 60th birthday on a tide of adulation. Michael Gray, a long-time Dylan chronicler, considers his lasting appeal. ...

Bob Dylan: Live 1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years Of Great Concert Performances

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, May 2001

A Japanese curio on import — a collation attempting to cover four decades with 16 tracks. And nobody said, "It might just not work". ...

Bob Dylan: Liverpool

Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2001

'THE PROBLEM OF an artistic life that now moves forward like a shark is there's no time to think' ...

David Hajdu: Positively 4th Street – The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Book Review by Peter Stone Brown, Gadfly, 28 May 2001

A SIMPLE TWIST of Fate might have been a more appropriate title for this book, which is essentially a biography of Richard Fariña in disguise. ...

Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks

Retrospective by Andy Gill, MOJO, June 2001

AFTER HIS EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENTS OF the '60s, there should have been no doubt about Bob Dylan's position in the rock firmament. After all, he had ...

Bob Dylan: In My Time Of Dyin'…

Essay by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 2001

ON ITS RELEASE IN 1962, BOB DYLAN'S FIRST ALBUM BLEW MINDS ALL OVER THE WORLD. IAN MACDONALD RECALLS ITS IMPACT ON HIS OWN TEENAGE YEARS ...

Bob Dylan: Life Among The Dead

Comment by Richard Williams, MOJO, June 2001

I SUPPOSE you would have to say that 1987 was not a great year for Bob Dylan, or for Bob Dylan's fans. He played harmonica ...

Bob Dylan: The End Of Innocence

Retrospective by Jon Savage, MOJO, June 2001

WHAT AFFECTS you in your early teens goes very deep. By the time that you're 18, identity construction is already advanced, but at 11 you're ...

Howard Sounes: Down The Highway – The Life of Bob Dylan

Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, June 2001

How pleasant to know Mr Dylan, who has written such oodles of stuff — or is it? ...

Wild Mercury: A Tale Of Two Dylans

Essay by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 2001

"Lotta people seeing double tonight.From the disease of conceit"– 'Disease Of Conceit' (Oh Mercy, 1989) ...

Irwin Silber of Sing Out!

Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2001

IN THE mid-1960's Irwin Silber was editor of Sing Out! magazine, the leading folk periodical in the United States. Here he talks about his personal ...

Bob Dylan: Love And Theft (Columbia/Sony)

Review by Martin Colyer, Rock's Backpages, September 2001

BOB DYLAN turned up unannounced at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Toronto in 1972, looking for Leon Redbone. Redbone was a singer and guitarist who ...

Dylan Hits The Road In An Old Cadillac

Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 8 September 2001

On his first album of new songs in four years, Dylan's still got plenty to say ...

Bob Dylan: 'Love and Theft'

Review by Wayne Robins, MSNBC.com, 10 September 2001

HOW DO YOU tell the difference between a great new Bob Dylan album and one that's more ordinary? You can't stop playing the great ones ...

Bob Dylan: Love And Theft

Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, October 2001

IT'S BEEN a long time since Bob Dylan released two consecutive albums of top-drawer original material – probably as far back as 1975's Blood On ...

Bob Dylan: Love And Theft (Columbia)

Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, October 2001

ON 1997’s Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan sounded like a man coming to accounts with himself, with the fact that anything from this point ...

Life and Life Only: Bob Dylan at 60

Retrospective by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages, October 2001

HE'S BEEN RECORDING FOR 40 years, 43 albums, never-ending tours. There’s something Shakespearean about the complexity of his work: so many points of view expressed ...

Bob Dylan: Love and Theft

Review by Marc Weingarten, Slate, 25 October 2001

TO READ THE reviews of Bob Dylan's new album, Love and Theft, you would think the rock legend had returned to the salad days of ...

Dylan in Concert

Live Review by Peter Stone Brown, Gadfly, December 2001

"Things should start to get interesting right about now." – Bob Dylan, 'Mississippi' ...

Don Waller's top albums of 2001

Review by Don Waller, Rolling Stone, 26 December 2001

1. Bob Dylan, Love and Theft (Columbia): To paraphrase what the man himself said, "Don't compare this with my old records — compare this with ...

Bob Dylan: Love and Theft

Review by Peter Stone Brown, Gadfly, Fall 2001

"Some day everything's gonna be different /When I paint my masterpiece" – Bob Dylan, 1971 ...

Jim Dickinson: Home Cooking

Interview by Joss Hutton, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2002

THIS MAIN COURSE is a hearty southern dish, marinated in worldly wisdom and good humour, matured slowly in honky-tonks, recording studios and bars the world ...

Bob Dylan: Time Out Of Mind

Review by Toby Manning, Q, February 2002

DYLAN'S 41st ALBUM announced his creative rebirth after nearly a decade in the doldrums. ...

George Harrison et al: Concert for Bangla Desh

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, March 2002

The first hi-profile multi-star benefit concert of the post-psychedelic era. Harrison, Dylan and Shankar strut their stuff alongside Clapton, Ringo and Leon Russell. ...

David Hajdu: Positively Fourth Street (Bloomsbury)

Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, April 2002

NOW OUT in paperback, this engrossing account of the intertwined lives of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña from the late ...

On the trail of the Bobcat: Bob Dylan

Live Review by Michael Gray, Daily Telegraph, 13 April 2002

THE OMENS are bad from the start. Take the Stockholm subway to Globen, the stop for the arena, and you alight in a postmodern estate, ...

Revisiting Dylan's Highway

Book Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, May 2002

Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (Black Swan)Isis: A Bob Dylan Anthology, edited by Derek Barker (Helter Skelter) ...

Me and Lozza… and Bob too!

Live Review by Richard English, Rock's Backpages, 17 May 2002

Bob Dylan: Brighton Entertainment Centre 4th May LOZZA AND I are in the Standing Area in front of the Brighton Conference Centre ...

Bob Dylan: London Arena

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, July 2002

THE PA IN THIS grim, dispiriting venue – outright winner of the industrial-estate self-storage-unit-impersonating-lkea-during-the-sales lookalike contest – has started, somewhat disconcertingly, to blare out 'Fanfare ...

Scene of the Crime: Bob Dylan at Newport

Essay by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 15 August 2002

EVERYONE KNOWS what happened thirty-seven years ago when Bob Dylan fronted an electric band at the Newport Folk Festival, which is why August 3 saw ...

Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue

Review by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, December 2002

At long last we get to hear the 24-track recordings from the 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue. ...

Bob Dylan: Just Bend Your Mind A Little…

Retrospective by Andy Gill, MOJO, December 2002

BOB DYLAN WAS NOT THE FIRST SONGWRITER to write about – or under the influence of – drugs, though you could be forgiven for assuming ...

Bob Dylan: Live 1975 The Rolling Thunder Revue

Review by Andy Gill, Uncut, January 2003

Twenty-two tracks from Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder tour finally see official release. ...

Last Night A Record Changed My Life: Wyclef Jean on Bob Dylan's Infidels

Interview by Angus Batey, MOJO, April 2003

I FIRST HEARD Infidels when I was about 15 years old. My brother was away, me and him were in different schools. I was more ...

Music at Sundance: Dylan, Atlantic and Shane MacGowan

Overview by Steven R Rosen, Harp, May 2003

Bob Dylan’s long awaited Masked and Anonymous debuts at Sundance ...

Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Volume 4: Bob Dylan, Live, 1966

Review by Gary Pig Gold, Cosmik Debris, September 2003

IT SEEMS EVERY time Our Boy Bob scores big with a contemporary piece of new work, he feels secure enough to bless us with another ...

Why I Love Bob Dylan

Comment by Martin Colyer, The Guardian, 25 November 2003

LAST SATURDAY IT was forty years ago that JFK was assassinated. Yet by November 1963, Bob Dylan had already been performing in Greenwich Village for ...

An Interview with Ian Hunter

Interview by Larry Jaffee, On the Tracks, December 2003

LJ: IN YOUR BOOK Reflections of a Rock Star, it mentions your life-long ambition was to meet Dylan was set back again. You said you'd ...

Million Dollar Bash: Dylan and The Band

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, Fall 2003

A LOT OF MUSICIANS have played with Bob Dylan over the last forty-odd years, but none of them has quite had the special relationship with ...

Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (CBS, 1966)

Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004

RADICAL AND then some: a double album in ‘66, with a blurred vertical Bob running horizontally across the sleeve and Nashville sessionmen playing behind a ...

Bob Dylan: PalaLottomatica (Pala Eur), Rome

Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, January 2004

November 1, 2003 ...

Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks: A Critic's Obsession

Essay by Andy Gill, The Independent, 3 March 2004

TODAY, IN MINNEAPOLIS, a group of musicians will assemble at the Pantages Theater to perform Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks in its entirety. ...

Mike Ross-Trevor: "Are We Rolling?"

Interview by Paul Gorman, The Word, May 2004

In forty years of recording everyone from Dylan and Hendrix to Abba and Lena Zavaroni, a studio engineer sees a lot of strange things. ...

Is It Rolling Bob?: A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan

Review by Michael Gray, Observer Music Monthly, 15 August 2004

THE SUBTITLE CONFESSES that all we have here is a concept album – that despite the liner notes claiming that "Jamaica was into Bob Dylan", ...

25 Essential Music DVDs

Guide by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, September 2004

1. The Last Waltz THE BAND'S elegant swansong is the ultimate rock concert movie. Director Martin Scorsese's discreet camerawork and superb sound captures inspired performances from ...

Al Aronowitz: The Man Who Invented the '60s

Profile and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, Cosmik Debris, October 2004

Gary "Pig" Gold meets the Man Who Invented the Sixties. ...

Talkin 'Bout My Generations: The defining artists of pop's five decades

Comment by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 12 November 2004

As voting closes on the UK Music Hall of Fame, Gavin Martin chooses his top artists from each of the past five decades. ...

Bob Dylan: Chronicles: Volume One

Book Review by Toby Creswell, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 13 November 2004

THERE'S NO WAY that Bob Dylan, after all this time, is going to spill the beans on his life. The high priest of protest makes ...

Jacques Levy, 1935-2004

Obituary by Ken Hunt, The Guardian, 26 November 2004

IN 1969, JACQUES Levy, who has died of cancer aged 69, became director of the erotic revue Oh! Calcutta!, off-Broadway. It was that show which ...

Bob Dylan: Confessions of a Traveling Tzaddik

Book Review by David G. Walley, New Partisan, 6 December 2004

Bob Dylan: Chronicles, Volume 1 New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004, pp. 293, $24 ...

The Holy and Sacred thoughts of His Bobness

Book Review by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 11 December 2004

THE GREATEST music book this year, of course, is Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Vol. 1 (Simon & Schuster, £16.99; offer £13.39) — a cultural event so notable ...

Shelter from the Storm: The Inside Story of Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks

Retrospective by Nick Hasted, Uncut, January 2005

FEBRUARY 13, 1977. Bob and Sara Dylan are screaming themselves hoarse. Sara has just walked down to breakfast in their Malibu mansion to find Bob ...

Bob Dylan: Revolution In His Head

Retrospective by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, February 2005

40 years ago this month, Bob Dylan walked into Columbia's Studio A and walked out having invented rock music as we know it. Corralling eyewitness ...

Sally Grossman: The Lady In Red

Interview by Edward Helmore, MOJO, February 2005

Sally Grossman adorned the Bringing It All Back Home sleeve, then cooked breakfast for the entire population of Woodstock. Edward Helmore hears her story. ...

Bob Dylan: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Paul Morley, Sunday Telegraph, June 2005

A NIMBLE, SECRETIVE Bob Dylan stares deep into the nowhere he's come from under the brim of a showman's black bolero. He seems to be ...

Greil Marcus: Like a Rolling Stone

Book Review by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, June 2005

POP MUSIC turned out not to be quite as disposable as was first thought. Not only is it still going, in modulated, increasingly moribund form, ...

Sam Shepard: The Rolling Thunder Logbook

Book Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, July 2005

30th anniversary reprint for a bizarre chronicle of the infamous Dylan tour. ...

No Direction Home: Gary Pig Gold meets N.Y. Driven Women # 12 & 35

Report by Gary Pig Gold, earcandymag.com, September 2005

BOB DYLAN'S EX-WIFE sits on the bleachers in a smoky little Hoboken nightclub watching her latest son-in-law belting out his latest demo tape to an ...

The Last Supper Club: On Bob Dylan’s Late Style

Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, 2006

"GOOD EVENING, ladies and gentlemen. Would you please welcome Columbia recording artist, Bob Dylan." ...

Daniel Lanois: The Compromise You Make For Some

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2006

The "Fifth Beatle" moniker has been bandied about numerous times over the years in reference to everyone from George Martin to Pete Best, but if ...

Dylan's deadpan debut as a DJ

Report by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 4 May 2006

Robert Sandall reports on Bob Dylan's first turn at the decks spinning his favourite tunes. ...

Bob Dylan: International Arena, Cardiff

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, June 2006

THE CULT OF Bob Dylan stands at its highest point for decades, bolstered by the singer's highly regarded US radio show and superb memoir Chronicles. ...

Bob Dylan: Dylan on Dylan edited by Jonathan Cott

Book Review by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 24 June 2006

LATELY I've begun to think that Bob Dylan does not exist. That the boy who made him up might still be dreaming. And we are ...

Bob Dylan: Modern Times (Columbia) ***

Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 26 August 2006

ARRIVING IN THE afterglow of Martin Scorsese's laudatory No Direction Home, Dylan's first album in five years carries the burden of great expectations. But behind ...

Bob Dylan: Modern Times (Columbia)

Review by Mark Mordue, Neumu, September 2006

THIS RECORD came in a wooden box. When I opened it, the hinges creaked. Inside there was an old phonograph and a dusty 78, cracked. ...

Bob Dylan: The Comeback Kid

Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, September 2006

Following Chronicles, the Martin Scorsese documentary and his satellite radio show Bob Dylan's stock in 2006 couldn't be higher. But it's been a long time ...

Knockin' on Dylan's Door: Bryan Ferry

Interview by Ken Scrudato, Flaunt, March 2007

HIPPIES. PERHAPS no other collective of modern countercultural revolutionaries has left a more ambiguous imprint. Dada, Situationism, Punk—all boast fairly intact legacies, the original philosophical ...

Bryan Ferry and how to do a great Bob Dylan cover

Column by John Lewis, So London, 14 March 2007

WAY BACK in 1973, long before any of you were born, the debonair Roxy Music crooner Bryan Ferry had a big hit single with a ...

Ian Wallace, 1946-2007

Obituary by Alan Clayson, The Guardian, 27 April 2007

Drummer with King Crimson and Bob Dylan   ...

Traveling Wilburys: Volume1/Volume 3

Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, July 2007

Five Legends Roll Together On Memorable Sidetrip ...

Emmylou Harris: Album By Album

Retrospective and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, August 2007

FEW SINGERS are more universally revered than Emmylou Harris, whose glorious alto has serenaded us for the past 35 years. Her shimmering body of work ...

From Dylan to The Who: Film-maker Murray Lerner

Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, November 2007

Murray Lerner on his new The Other Side Of The Mirror – Bob Dylan Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 DVD and the just ...

Jokerman For a Generation: Bob Dylan's Legendary Grin

Essay by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 21 November 2007

SINCE 1968, Bob Dylan's past has been chasing him like a pack of wild dogs. There's a reason he's pegged his concerts as the "Never ...

Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding

Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, December 2007

ON DECEMBER 27, 1967, Columbia Records released the Bob Johnston-produced Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding long player. In January of 1968 it was one of ...

He's Not There: Todd Haynes' Dylan

Essay by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages, 2 December 2007

"THE MINUTE you try to grab hold of Dylan, he's no longer where he was. He's like a flame: If you try to hold him ...

Bob Dylan: Stories and Questions

Comment by Kirk Silsbee, Life After 50, March 2008

Well I'll be damned; here comes your ghost again... (Joan Baez, 'Diamonds and Rust') ...

Gene Clark remembered: "Genius and insanity hand in hand…"

Retrospective by Luke Torn, Uncut, May 2008

IT'S ANOTHER DAY in the busy life of one of the biggest bands in America. The Byrds have just recorded 'Eight Miles High', and are ...

T Bone Burnett: Brother, Who Art Thou?

Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, May 2008

WHO EXACTLY IS T Bone Burnett? Is he really the man who turned Dylan onto Christianity and split Costello from the Attractions? As the producer ...

Suze Rotolo: A Freewheelin' Time – A Memoir Of Greenwich Village In The Sixties

Book Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, September 2008

Who's that girl? One reason Dylan loved the Freewheelin' cover girl was she "could keep secrets". Now she's written a book — and still kept ...

Suze Rotolo: A Freewheelin' Time – A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties (Aurum Press)

Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 7 September 2008

SUSAN, OR SUZE, Rotolo was Bob Dylan's first serious girlfriend, and unlike many other characters from his pre-iconic phase she has, up until now, revealed ...

School of Rock Study Guide: Singer-Songwriters

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, October 2008

"WHERE DO YOU have left to go but in?" It was a question posed by Joni Mitchell, the brilliant Canadian blonde who specialized in intensely ...

Looking Back At Dont Look Back: Dylan and D.A. Pennebaker

Retrospective and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Cincinnati CityBeat, 26 March 2009

FOR D.A. PENNEBAKER, the time has come to look back. For the new digitally-remastered "deluxe edition" DVD of his classic documentary Don't Look Back, which ...

Bob Johnston on Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Nashville Skyline

Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, May 2009

JUNE 17th MARKS the 40th anniversary of the original Columbia Records release of Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline album, produced by Bob Johnston. ...

Dylan's Christmas Album: First Listen!

Report by Michael Simmons, MOJO, October 2009

SANTA DROPPED Bob Dylan's Christmas Album Down Mojo's chimney last night, and as we celebrated with premature mince pies and stollen it provided plenty of ...

Good As He's Been To You: Bob Dylan's Best Albums

Guide by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages, December 2009

Mick Gold makes a personal selection of Dylan's Finest Works. A slightly modified version of an article for the Bobzine Isis. ...

Bob Dylan: Christmas In The Heart/Carla Bley: Carla's Christmas Carols/John Cowan: Comfort & Joy

Review by Geoffrey Himes, Nashville Scene, 3 December 2009

Bob Dylan's latest follows the tradition of the weird Christmas album ...

Mike Bloomfield and Bob Dylan: Two Jews Blues, Chapter XI

Book Excerpt by Steve Roeser, unpublished, 2010

Author's note: This is my writing, but the work is mine and Barry Goldberg's together. It is Barry's story of his friendship with Michael (Mike) ...

Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde Vinyl Icon

Retrospective by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, January 2010

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, lies 750 miles south west of Bob Dylan's first stomping ground, New York City. It's just a two-hour plane ride but, when Dylan ...

Bob Dylan: "Bob Knew There'd Be Butting Of Heads"

Retrospective and Interview by Michael Simmons, MOJO, July 2010

HOW DYLAN'S FIRST ALBUM OF ORIGINAL MATERIAL SINCE 1990 BECAME A WAR OF WILLS, AND AN ARTISTIC TRIUMPH. AS TOLD TO MICHAEL SIMMONS. ...

Al Kooper on Bob Dylan's record producers Tom Wilson and Bob Johnston

Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, October 2010

"In 1966 Dylan went down to Nashville for Blonde On Blonde He stayed out in the studio 10 or 12 hours. Bob never left it. ...

Izzy Young: The Man Who Made Bob Dylan

Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, MOJO, December 2010

NOVEMBER 4, 1962: Bob Dylan is invoking the time-honoured image of the out-of-town rambler lost on New York's convoluted subway system as he nervously attempts ...

Jac Holzman: Indie-Label Folkie to Rock Patriarch

Retrospective and Interview by Fred Goodman, The New York Times, 4 March 2011

JAC HOLZMAN, the 79-year-old founder and former chairman of Elektra Records, might be expected to rest on his laurels. Yet Mr. Holzman, who will be ...

Bob Dylan: In Concert: Brandeis University 1963

Review by Steven R Rosen, Blurt, 8 April 2011

WHILE LIBRARIES are filled with books about what's been gained from Dylan going electric, it's worth taking a couple minutes – maybe while listening to ...

Bob Dylan Turns 70

Retrospective and Interview by Michael Simmons, L.A. Weekly, 12 May 2011

I'M 56 YEARS old. Old enough to remember one president's assassination and another's resignation, black people getting beaten for insisting on the right to vote ...

Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler: MEN arena, Manchester

Live Review by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 11 October 2011

THERE WAS A KINETIC BUZZ to Bob Dylan's show, while it's clear Mark Knopfler is still capable of delivering a kick at their gig at ...

Bob Dylan: HMV Apollo, London

Live Review by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages, 21 November 2011

BOB-CATS PUSHED relentlessly forward against the bar at the front of the former Hammersmith Odeon, hats on their heads. Mark Knopfler was caressing liquid guitar ...

Bob Dylan: Tempest

Review by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 5 September 2012

DYLAN FANS have invented some amusing parlour games. One is 'Guess That Song' from the strange, incomprehensible soup of his live performance. Another is keeping ...

Bob Dylan: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971), The Bootleg Series Vol. 10

Review by Jeff Slate, Guitar World, 2 September 2013

THE THING ABOUT being a fan of Bob Dylan is that the discovery of his greatness is never-ending. ...

Oh No! Not Another Bob Dylan Book: David Kinney's The Dylanologists

Book Review by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, May 2014

"Sometimes it seemed that every fan in Britain had launched a fanzine…" —David Kinney, The Dylanologists ...

Bob Dylan: Unlike a Rolling Stone

Comment by Robert Dean Lurie, The American Conservative, 20 June 2014

Why Bob Dylan, troubadour of the revolution, turned homeward. ...

In The Dylan Zone: An excerpt from True Love Scars

Book Excerpt by Michael Goldberg, 'True Love Scars' (Neumu Press), July 2014

True Love Scars is a rock 'n' roll/ coming of age novel set in the late '60s and early '70s. If you liked On The ...

Dylan's Basement Tapes: it sounded like nonsense, says his "cover girl"

Retrospective and Interview by Edward Helmore, The Observer, 2 November 2014

Woodstock insider Sally Grossman recalls star's "throwaway stuff" as complete recordings of legendary sessions are released. ...

Bob Dylan: DAR Constitution Hall, Washington DC

Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 26 November 2014

FOR YEARS, ONE of the pleasures of going to a Bob Dylan concert was the guessing game of "What will he play tonight?" It wasn't ...

Bob Dylan: Lo and Behold!

Retrospective by Clinton Heylin, Uncut, December 2014

Forty-seven years on from the fabled sessions in Woodstock, BOB DYLAN'S complete Basement Tapes finally see the light of day this month — all 138 ...

Cover Star: Bob Dylan

Comment by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, December 2014

BOB DYLAN DOES covers like a constant wash cycle of the soul, inspiration to aspiration to fulfilment. Then repeat. Until death us do part… ...

Bob Dylan plays to an audience of one in Philly

Review by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 16 December 2014

ONE OF THE MOST powerful songs at the closing night of Bob Dylan's five-show run at New York City's Beacon Theater earlier this month was ...

Elijah Wald: Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the '60s

Book Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 3 July 2015

THIS YEAR IS the 50th Anniversary of Bob Dylan armed with an electric guitar, taking the stage at the Newport Folk Festival, backed by a ...

Bob Johnston, 1932-2015

Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 18 August 2015

Record producer who played a significant role in the recording career of Bob Dylan. ...

Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home

Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, December 2015

NOTE: This piece appeared in Mojo 265, in an enclosed 52-page "book" entitled Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series. ...

Jeff Taylor and Chad Israelson: The Political World of Bob Dylan – Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin (Palgrave Macmillan)

Book Review by Robert Dean Lurie, National Review, 31 December 2015

WRITING ABOUT Bob Dylan's politics would seem to be a thankless task. The famously curmudgeonly songwriter claims to know and care little about the subject, ...

How Bob Dylan And The Holy Trinity Changed Music Forever

Retrospective by David Dalton, Classic Rock, January 2016

BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde are the highwater mark of '60s rock, and with the quasi-religious reverence due ...

"The Greatest Place": Bob Dylan and Albert Grossman put down country roots in Woodstock

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Small Town Talk' (Faber), February 2016

BY THE TIME Bob Dylan's 'Blowin' In The Wind' was turbo-charging the folk-protest movement in the summer of 1963, his manger Albert Grossman had become ...

Going Up the Country: Woodstock's Post-Dylan influx

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Small Town Talk' (Faber), February 2016

BOB DYLAN WASN'T the only artistic giant to seek sanctuary in the Catskill Mountains in the 1960s. Just as the singer had fled controversy and ...

A message to you, Jay Z: Beyoncé's Lemonade is the latest example of pop music as public address

Comment by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 29 April 2016

From Bob Dylan to Eminem, it's become natural to express intimate thoughts through songwriting for millions to hear ...

How Dylan's Blonde On Blonde created the modern album

Retrospective by James Medd, Bigmouth, 23 May 2016

Fifty years ago, Bob Dylan turned pop entertainment into a vehicle for dazzling visions – and it's been that way ever since. James Medd investigates the album that invented an ...

In Praise of the Hollies

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2017

WITH THEIR EXUBERANT three-part harmony, chiming guitar riffs, and keen sense of what makes a memorable hook, the Hollies created a signature sound. At first, ...

Kooper Sessions

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2017

IF HE'D DONE nothing before or after he dropped by a Bob Dylan recording session in June 1965, sat down at the Hammond organ – ...

Bob Dylan: Palladium, London

Live Review by David Bennun, The Guardian, 30 April 2017

Singer who redefined rock'n'roll 50 years ago continues to confound expectations as tour brings him to London Palladium. ...

"A hundred-mile-an-hour clip": Bob Dylan and the Beats

Book Excerpt by Michael Goldberg, 'Kerouac on Record' (Bloomsbury), March 2018

Editor's note: The just-published Kerouac On Record includes many essays about the influence of Jack Kerouac on musicians, including the Grateful Dead, Patti Smith, Tom ...

Joan Baez

Interview by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 24 March 2018

She's the queen of the '60s protest song, who helped make her lover Bob Dylan famous. Now, as she prepares for her farewell tour, Joan ...

In concert, Daniels doesn't mix politics with music

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, 16 August 2018

CHARLIE DANIELS is pretty clear about what you will hear and will not hear when he and his five-piece band take the stage Saturday night ...

No One Else Could Play That Tune: An Introduction

Book Excerpt by Clinton Heylin, 'No One Else Could Play That Tune' (Route), October 2018

And I could never let you go, No matter what goes on, 'Cause I love you more than ever, Now that the past is gone. —Last ...

First Rock Bootlegger Comes Clean

Retrospective and Interview by Larry Jaffee, Goldmine, October 2018

UNDERWHELMED BY the mellow country rock of Nashville Skyline, two Bob Dylan fans in the summer of 1969 in southern California unwittingly gave birth to ...

A Subterranean Bicentennial Road Movie: Scorsese's Rolling Thunder Revue

Film/DVD/TV Review by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages, 13 June 2019

WHEN ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese was posted on IMDb, I clicked on Full Cast & Crew and scanned the ...

Dylan Dials Up JFK, the Wolfman, and Whitman

Essay by Wayne Robins, Copper, March 2020

'MURDER MOST Foul', Bob Dylan's newly released song, is long. It is 17 minutes and change, about as long as 'Desolation Row' and 'Like a ...

The 30 best live concert albums of all time

Guide by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 22 April 2020

LAST WEEK, A STORY appeared in the New York Times that predicted that live music would not return to the world's stages until the autumn ...

Richard Lysons: Were You There – Popular Music At Manchester's Free Trade Hall, 1951-1996 (Empire Publications)

Book Review by Tony Burke, Morning Star, 23 November 2020

MANCHESTER'S FREE Trade Hall was built on the site of the 1819 Peterloo massacre as a public hall celebrating the repeal of the Corn Laws ...

"Is it rolling, Marty?": Scorsese's Rolling Thunder Revue

Essay by Mick Gold, Isis, January 2021

NOTE: An earlier version of this essay appeared in the Dylan fanzine Isis, #212-213 in January to coincide with DVD release of Scorsese's film. Here's an expanded, improved version. ...

Shadow Kingdom: The Early Songs of Bob Dylan

Review by Liz Thomson, The Independent, 19 July 2021

Dylan, now 80, shattered expectations with this mesmerising livestream concert ...

Inside the Chelsea Hotel, New York's infamous house of pleasure and pain

Retrospective by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 18 August 2021

Bob Dylan has just been accused of a sexual assault there in 1965 - the latest in a long line of claims about the storied ...

The Legend of Zimmerman

Retrospective by Simon Warner, Rock and the Beat Generation, 24 September 2021

Bob Dylan delighted in the tales he could spin to embroider his early biography and Jack Kerouac adapted his own life for fictional purposes. ...

Bob Dylan: The Philosophy of Modern Song

Book Review by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, 1 November 2022

In The Philosophy of Modern Song, 62 of the 66 featured songs are performed by men. Is the 81-year-old songwriter still intent on provocation? ...

How Bob Dylan Gave His Blessing to Girl From the North Country

Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Cincinatti Magazine, 6 October 2023

Playwright Conor McPherson is still amazed at the creative freedom Dylan gave him with the musical, playing this month at the Aronoff Center. ...

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