Bob-Dylan

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (September Entry)

September 9, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s list includes such big names as Bob Dylan, ZZ Top, The Who, The Beach Boys, and George Rochberg.

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Music Review: Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul”

April 2, 2020
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Bob Dylan’s new song not only articulates the madness that undermines the American experience, but supplies a certain kind of corrective, a tonic, for that kind of insanity.

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Rock Concert Review: Bob Dylan at the Tsongas Center — Nothing if Not Chameleonic

November 21, 2019
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But really, what is a Bob Dylan concert these days if not a case study in transformation?

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Film Review: Rolling Thunder Revue — A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

June 25, 2019
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It’s worth pointing out that Martin Scorsese’s documentaries, especially his music-based ones, can be as powerful as his fictional work.

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Book Interview: Why Does Bob Dylan Matter?

December 30, 2017
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“I see him as the greatest artist of the English language, it happens to be in song, of the second half of the 20th century.

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Book Review: “Dharma Lion” — The Rich Heritage of Allen Ginsberg

October 28, 2016
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The power of Allen Ginsberg’s legacy could be felt in the controversy over the decision to award Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Concert Review: Bob Dylan on Tour — No Nostalgia Allowed

July 15, 2016
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The set proved that Bob Dylan remains, among many other things, one of music’s great contrarians.

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Book Review: The Night Bob Dylan Plugged in

August 20, 2015
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Bob Dylan had been soundly booed for playing a set plugged. What ninnies dictate the rules in the backwater world of American folk music!

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Music Interview: Inside Veteran Folk Singer Tom Paxton

June 9, 2015
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“My idol was Pete Seeger, even before I moved to the Village. He still is.”

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Album Review: When Nobody/Everybody is Listening – The Basement Tapes

November 21, 2014
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It may seem a bit like overkill, and in many ways it is, but that all depends on your perspective.

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