Sometimes you can point to a single, humble work of art — it may be a song, a movie, a book or a work of visual art — and find in it a key to an entire zeitgeist. You would assume, in such cases, that ...

60 years ago, in July 1965, one of Bob Dylan’s most celebrated and influential songs was released. Like A Rolling Stone was a defining statement for Dylan – and yet, when he performed the song live ...

Asking Bob Dylan how he makes an album is a bit like asking anyone how they know how to walk – they didn't one day, then they learned and now they simply do. "We just take a song; I play it and ...

Once referred to as Dylan "at his most romantic" by Robert Shelton in his book No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob ...

A good cover will sound like the original, but as Bob Dylan came to find when first listening to the Byrds’ version of “Tambourine Man,” a great cover will transform a song into something entirely ...

At one point in "The Ballad of Bob Dylan," the author is asked to pitch a plot for a musical featuring the folk-rock star's songs. Because of Bob Dylan's conversion to Christianity, his handlers say, ...

No one has ever accused Bob Dylan of being a people pleaser. He isn’t afraid to give his opinion, even when it proves to be unflattering to his peers. Love him or hate him for it, he’s persistently ...

As one of the most critically-acclaimed and beloved lyricists of our time, Bob Dylan is known for his unflinchingly honest, oftentimes autobiographical songs. But one tune, it seems, revealed a bit ...