Bob-Dylan
A reconfigured band and evolving arrangements made Bob Dylan’s Boston set vital, strange, and rooted in “Rough and Rowdy Ways.”
Jim Windolf’s joint portrait argues that competition between icons did not divide them—it reshaped modern music
Javon Jackson’s homage to Bob Dylan is well thought out and beautifully rendered.
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By Scott McLennan The Outlaw Music Festival’s overall pacing of performers from newest to most veteran offered an interesting overview of how country, folk, and rock have blended over the decades. Over the course of its 10-year existence, the Outlaw Music Festival has supplied one of the few satisfactory working definitions for the musical label…
Focusing on the years between 1961 and 1964, director James Mangold turns Bob Dylan’s creative journey into a better-than-average cinematic biography in which the singer ends up riding off on his motorcycle and into history.
Bob Dylan had been soundly booed for playing a set plugged. What ninnies dictate the rules in the backwater world of American folk music!
Bob Dylan’s music has rarely been more heartbreaking, his poetic storytelling rarely more beguiling, and the singing never less nasal.
Because they were masters of performance, metamorphosis, and movement — of “containing multitudes” — Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan are the closest peers to Whitman America has yet produced.
Arts Commentary: Notes on Bob Dylan
A skeptical listener finds phrasing, groove, and quiet authority in an 85-minute Boston set.
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