Hot Press has been given first access to the text of a collection of Poems Without Titles, written by songwriting genius Bob Dylan at the age of 18, shortly after he left high school. Irish fans of the man from Minnesota will be glad to know that Ireland’s greatest novelist James Joyce gets a namecheck…
Bob Dylan is certainly an artist who understood the value of mystique. “I’m never going to become rich and famous,” he said in 1962 prior to the release of his debut record. He then continued to lie through his teeth throughout the Folksingers Choice radio show, telling the kindly, unsuspecting host that he ran away…
Just In… Bob Dylan’s done it all; some would even say that America’s preeminent songwriter and “song-and-dance man,” as he once called himself, has done too much. Dylan’s recorded some of the finest popular songs in America’s songbook, written unreadable poetry collections, such as the Allen Ginsberg-inspired Tarantula , toured relentlessly for the better part…
“And something is happening and you don’t know what it is/Do you, Mr. Jones?” — “Ballad of a Thin Man,” Bob Dylan Even the enigmatic Mr. Jones would be aware that something is definitely happening near the corner of Reconciliation Way and Cincinnati Avenue, although exactly what it is won’t be revealed until May 10….
Does Bob Dylan write his songs in black and white or in color? This is just one question of many that occur to a viewer after spending a few hours with the 200-odd visual artworks that comprise “Bob Dylan Retrospectrum,” on exhibit through April 17 at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum on the…
During the early years of his career, Bob Dylan could work at an unprecedented speed without the quality level of his work plummeting. While some artists would slave for months in the studio to tirelessly work on an album, that wasn’t his style, and he recorded the seminal Bringing It All Back Home in just…
To be Bob Dylan, one of the most scrutinized cultural figures of the past century, cannot be easy. Countless books, articles, seminars and scholarly discussions dissecting his work and life, millions of fans searching for meaning and motive in his every move – that’s a considerable burden to carry. So he doesn’t. He tunes it…
“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” – Bob Dylan On this day, back in 1962 the world received a humble new album from a young scruffy starlet they called the original vagabond in Greenwich Village. Whisperings in the dust-covered folk basements about his Promethean potential may not have been realised, but…
Perhaps the most recognizable and popular song by the legendary American songwriter and performer Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone” certainly crystalized the artist going electric. With it, the folk lifestyle and image he’d cultivated went in the rear-view mirror. The Origins Dylan first released “Like a Rolling Stone” on July 20, 1965 (with “Gates…
Before the Beatles and the Rolling Stones altered the music world with their first albums during the mid-1960s, there was Bob Dylan. The singer-songwriter, who is arguably the greatest bard in rock and folk history, changed the game. Dylan’s impact was massive. Prior to the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s emergence, the goal…
