To accompany the our latest podcast, Dylan.FM S03 E09 Blind Willie McTell, here is an extended excerpt from Chapter 6: Blind Willie McTell. Chapter Six: Blind Willie McTell Blind Willie McTell is no roaring primitive, and no Robert Johnsonesque devil-dealing…
To accompany the our latest podcast, Dylan.FM S03 E08 Jokerman, here is an extended excerpt from the 50 page Chapter 5: Jokerman. Chapter Five: Jokerman ‘Jokerman’, alone among the released tracks from the “Infidels” sessions, is a song you can…
We all know the infamous one-word biblical epithet bestowed on Bob Dylan’s 1966 electric tour of the United Kingdom, as captured in The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: LIVE 1966 – The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert. But my personal favorite review…
Just one month after unleashing his rock monster Highway 61 Revisited on the world, Bob Dylan released an absolute belter of a single called Positively 4th Street. This song wasn’t on Dylan’s latest album, which modern record company executives with marketing budgets…
June 16, 1965. Session musician and songwriter Al Kooper is about to blag his way into rock history by playing an instrument he doesn’t even know how to turn on. Such is the unplanned majesty of Bob Dylan’s Like a…
Dont Look Back – D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary about Bob Dylan’s 1965 UK tour – starts with the famous cue card promo for Subterranean Homesick Blues. The director wanted to “set the stage” for Dylan. Yet for the rest of film,…
In late 1964, Bob Dylan heard I Wanna Hold Your Hand by The Beatles and decided he wanted some of that for his next album, Bringing It All Back Home. But that didn’t mean he was coveting a number one…
Whenever I watch Bob Dylan documentaries like Don’t Look Back, Rolling Thunder Revue and No Direction Home, Joan Baez is always one of my favorite characters. The same happens when I listen to The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964 – Concert…
In my revisits to Bob Dylan’s first four studio records, early live sets and the first Bootleg volume, I’ve covered 55 original compositions, all written between 1961-64. But The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos: 1962-64 unearths 15…