Bob Dylan broke into the world of folk music in 1962 as a protest singer. Since these humble beginnings, the musician has evolved into a superstar, and undergone a series of changes, both musically and literally. There was a huge uproar among fans, for example, when Dylan hung up his acoustic guitar to embrace electric…
In the summer of 1960, my then fifteen-year-old father, Cleve Pettersen, went to Radio Shack and bought one of the first commercially available, portable reel-to-reel tape recorders. The thing was the size of a small ottoman and weighed about as much as a boulder of the same dimensions. It cost $50, which is over $400…
New York icons Patti Smith and Bob Dylan on the night they first met, at the Bitter End, June 26, 1975 The year was 1974 and things in New York, in a word, sucked. The city was in financial meltdown. Bankruptcy and the famous Daily News headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” were only a…
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A song from the 1986 concert film “Hard to Handle,” featuring Bob Dylan and Tom Petty, was shown at the Asbury Park Music and Film Festival. For the fourth straight year, rare and never-before-screened clips from the Bob Dylan Archive at the University of Tulsa were shown at the Asbury Park Music and Film Festival…
Earlier this month a new compilation of existing Bob Dylan footage from 1966 surfaced. The fan behind the Swingin’ Pig Vimeo account edited the best performance footage shot by filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker during Dylan’s legendary 1966 World Tour and paired it with soundboard audio to create the stellar 48-minute The Best Of Elston Gun In…
Bob Dylan on stage in 2012. FRED TANNEAU/AFP/GettyImages Nobel literary laureate Bob Dylan is adding yet another job title to his long and winding resume: distillery-slash-gallery owner. The news arrives as Dylan’s whiskey brand, known as Heaven’s Door (a name that is at once both subtly threatening and an homage to the much covered “knock,…
DURANGO, MEXICO – MAY 1973: Bob Dylan appears in a film still for ‘Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid’ (for which he also did the soundtrack) which was released in May 1973 and filmed in Durango, Mexico. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) The first Bob Dylan album I ever bought was Pat Garrett &…
Bob Dylan appearing on “The Johnny Cash Show” ABC/TV Taped at Ryman Auditorium, June 7, 1969 in Nashville, Tennessee. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images In April 1969, Bob Dylan went to Nashville to record his ninth studio album. It would be his third time recording there with local session pros and producer Bob Johnston, but this…
You don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows, but Bob Dylan fans have been waiting for some kind of reliable forecast to know when “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese” might be rolling in. Here’s that storm alert: Netflix will be releasing the documentary June 12….
