Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan, Royal Albert HallFriday, 29 November 2013
And so Dylan’s tour of European theatres, opera houses and concert halls ended on Thursday night at the Royal Albert Hall, his first dates here in 46 years. I’ve seen him plenty of times over the past 30 years. This was the best of them. Dylan’s... Read more... |
Extract: George Harrison - Behind the Locked DoorSaturday, 12 October 2013
Following the completion of the White Album, and the conclusion of recording sessions in Los Angeles with new Apple signing Jackie Lomax, in late November 1968 George Harrison and his wife Pattie Boyd departed for Woodstock in upstate New York. They... Read more... |
Another Self Portrait: Bob's buffed up for Bootleg Series Volume 10Monday, 26 August 2013
No songwriter casts a deeper shadow than Bob Dylan does, and since the first three volumes of the Bootleg Series came in 1991, his shadow career – now reaching Volume Ten with Another Self Portrait – continues to prove as compelling as the official... Read more... |
Bob Dylan: Face Value, National Portrait GallerySaturday, 24 August 2013
Face Value – heh, who’d have thought to come up with that title for an exhibition of portraits? Yeah, it’s not particularly clever, but there’s something of the contrarian mischief-maker in it all the same, for in the 50 years that Bob Dylan has... Read more... |
Bob Dylan: Portrait of the ArtistTuesday, 20 August 2013
Next Monday Bob Dylan releases Another Self Portrait (1969-1971), the tenth volume of his Bootleg Series which casts new light on one of his most maligned records, 1970's Self Portrait. Two days beforehand a selection of his pastel portraits will go... Read more... |
CD: Bob Dylan - TempestSunday, 09 September 2012
Like Orpheus, Bob Dylan is familiar with the underworld. As he gets closer to meeting his maker, the tone of his work has become less baroque, increasingly stripped down and almost naïve in its simplicity. His latest album marks another episode,... Read more... |
Bob's Back. Tempest will mark Dylan's 50th anniversary as a recording artistWednesday, 18 July 2012Bob Dylan will release his 35th studio album in September, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of his eponymous debut, Columbia Records has announced.The album, Tempest, features "10 new and original songs", according to the announcement, and... Read more... |
Bob Dylan, Hop Farm FestivalMonday, 02 July 2012
Bob Dylan once described himself as ''just a song and dance man''. If the phrase was intended to debunk our veneration of him as the voice of a generation and to imply that he's just an old-fashioned entertainer in the great showbiz tradition,... Read more... |
Unfinished Business: Writing Songs With the DeadSunday, 18 December 2011
Creative time travel is very much in vogue. For musicians especially, it appears that death is not so much The End as an opportunity to extend the possibilities of the franchise. Early in 2012, American alt-country type Jay Farrar and My Morning... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Musician Martin CarthyFriday, 06 May 2011
One of Britain’s most esteemed and influential folk artists, Martin Carthy (b 1941) celebrates his 70th birthday on 21 May. The occasion is being marked by the release of a two-disc career overview, Martin Carthy Essential, and next weekend's... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: The Freewheelin' Bob DylanWednesday, 06 October 2010
A near contemporary of the great jazz photographer Herman Leonard, who died last August, Don Hunstein has amassed a formidable collection of images of some of the most indelible names in music, from Miles Davis and John Coltrane to Johnny Cash,... Read more... |
Book Review: Bob Dylan in AmericaWednesday, 15 September 2010
Capturing a "shape-shifter" – as the Irish musician Liam Clancy described Bob Dylan – is not a simple task. The object of the hunt is by definition elusive. Sean Wilentz’s multi-dimensional series of essays on Bob Dylan chases its prey with a... Read more... |
