Bob Dylan

Taken from Paul Zollo’s interviews for SongTalk. Randy Newman: Dylan at his best is great. Neil Young: Dylan was a great influence on me. I admire his work very much. Especially his newest work. Leonard Cohen: At a certain point, when the Jews were first ...  

In We’re No. 1, A.V. Club music editor Steven Hyden examines an album that went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts to get to the heart of what it means to be “popular” in pop music, and how that concept has changed over the years. In this installment, he covers Bob Dylan’s Modern Times, which went to No. 1 on Sept. 16, 2006, where it stayed for one week. “I practice a faith that’s been long abandoned / Ain’t no altars on this long and lonesome...  

Eighty musicians appear on the 75-song compilation. They include: The Avett Brothers (in a posthumous collaboration with Johnny Cash on One Too Many Mornings), Elvis Costello (License to Kill), Diana Krall (Simple Twist of Fate), My Morning Jacket (You're ...  

The occasion was the celebration of the first Martin Luther King, Jr., day. However, it is not clear if they performed from the same location. For the event, Bob Dylan and other artists on the bill performed from the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center ...  

Folk singer Joan Baez is coming home…to Scotland. The veteran songwriter and human rights activist, whose mum was born in Edinburgh, will perform here at the end of the month. Joan, who describes herself as having “strong Scots blood”, cannot wait ...  

How did you first get into Bob Dylan? I was 17 and going into my senior year in high school, working a summer job in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, in the summer of ‘65. It was a resort where a lot of New Yorkers, mostly college kids, were also working.  

So-called works for hire don't fall under the rule, for instance, and music publishers have argued that a co-author of a work can't terminate his or her grant unless the rest of the co-authors are on board as well, which some lawyers say is akin to herding ...  

How did you first get into Bob Dylan? I can’t remember not being a Bob Dylan fan. For a songwriter, it’s like asking when did you get into breathing? How has he influenced your music? In Dylan’s work there’s always been a progressive traditionalism.  

For a while now, John Merline at Investors Business Daily has been putting out always-interesting charts and data. His latest is over there on the right. Despite claims by politicians ranging from Barack Obama to Rick Santorum that U.S. manufacturing is dead and buried, Merline shows that sector is alive and kicking. "By all relevant measures of economic performance — growth in profits, output gains, employment growth, and unemployment...  

“There’s a million great songs written every day that you discover, and wish your friends could appreciate as much as you do,” says Adam Duritz in a statement ... Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, Tender Mercies, Kasey Anderson and The Faces.  

And his thing with Tom Petty was cool. But the current band with Charlie Sexton ... Did it take you awhile to get into Bob Dylan, given his strange singing style? No. I was too young. It just seemed like that’s what artists did. I was lucky I guess ...  

Plus, it was a mix and match from several sets. The cover is pretty hilarious. Whose idea was it to parody Dylan's Blonde on Blonde? That was [bassist] Ryan Williams' idea. That's me on the cover. One day, I noticed he was looking at me a little crazy.  

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Tom Morello says he wanted to challenge himself when covering Bob Dylan’s “Blind Willie McTell” for a benefit album for Amnesty International. He wanted to be out of his element so he recorded the guitar solo left-handed. Joe Perry remakes “Man of Peace,” and he says Dylan’s songs are not just [...]  

I think it may actually be a space alien he has trained as a pet. I want to have Diana Krall and Elvis Costello over to dinner. I get the sense she'd hang politely on my every word, and he'd complain about the fish.  Yes, it's impossible to ruin a Bob Dylan song.  

In the "Can't Be Tamed" singer's most mature move yet, she performs heartfelt, country-twinged rendition of the classic song by folk legend Bob Dylan "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go." The accompanying music video, which was released ...