Tag Archives: Bob Dylan

The Traveling Wilburys’ Collection

The entire output of the supergroup known as The Traveling Wilburys is at long last available on various digital platforms. To mark the occasion Concord Music Group is reissuing this 2007 collection in a nice package that includes both of … Continue reading

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Dylan Speaks: The Legendary 1965 Press Conference In San Francisco

In Paul Williams’ authoritative book Bob Dylan: performing artist 1960-1973, the early years Williams describes an event: This one hour press conference, held and filmed in the KQED-TV studios in San Francisco on December 3, 1965, hosted and produced by critic Ralph … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan’s Together Through Life

There’s a funny thing that happens whenever Dylan releases an album that the critics like (I think it averages out at one every three releases). When they fall all over themselves praising an album, as they did 2006’s Modern Times, … Continue reading

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C.P. Lee’s Like the Night (Revisited): Bob Dylan and the road to the Manchester Free Trade Hall; and Derek Barker’s Isis: A Bob Dylan Anthology

The 1966 concert at the Manchester Free Trade Hall is the most legendary single performance of Bob Dylan’s career; perhaps of the entire rock era. This concert, at which an irate fan shouted “Judas!” at Dylan, almost immediately entered the … Continue reading

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