Tag Archives: Bob Dylan
Dylan’s TIMES at 50
50 years ago this month, Bob Dylan released The Times They Are A-Changin’. For me, Dylan’s third studio record doesn’t offer the revelatory visions that are on display on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan — that album opens with “Blowin’ in the Wind” and includes both “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” and “Don’t Think Twice, It’s [...]
Straight, No Chaser at 25
Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser is one of my most important movies. The documentary was released 25 years ago in 1989. I saw it when I was a junior in college in the early 1990′s. The film assembles German television footage from the late 1960′s, ties it together with contemporaneous interviews and even includes a [...]
Bob Dylan Goes Back To College
Here is a recent music review I was asked to write. That’s the kind of thing I do every now and then. Gun for hire. King’s magician. Doodler of small words… The first track on Bob Dylan in Concert: Brandeis University 1963 is an incomplete recording of “Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance” (Henry [...]
Greil Marcus on Bob Dylan
In this brand new book, America’s greatest music writer pulls together a career-worth of commentary about America’s greatest songwriter. With Bob Dylan, Greil Marcus offers up insights and criticisms, notions and associations about pop music’s greatest singer/songwriter. Perhaps no writer is as closely associated with a musical artist as Marcus is with Dylan and this [...]
