May 17, 2023: Uncut: Susanna Hoffs – My Life in Music
BOB DYLAN
Highway 61 Revisited
COLUMBIA, 1965
Wow, how cool is that cover? The motorcycle T-shirt, the guy with the camera and the striped shirt standing behind him, it’s like something William Eggleston would have taken. It’s such a cohesive album – I’m guessing that it was recorded with the same people in a discrete amount of time. The arrangements are so natural and you feel like you’re in the room with the musicians. In particular, I want to call out the song “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry”. I love that song, and people don’t talk about it enough. It just speaks to me in a uniquely wonderful way. I love the melody and I’m always singing my own harmony. Maybe I should cover it with Matthew Sweet and do my harmony?
BOB DYLAN
Highway 61 Revisited
COLUMBIA, 1965
Wow, how cool is that cover? The motorcycle T-shirt, the guy with the camera and the striped shirt standing behind him, it’s like something William Eggleston would have taken. It’s such a cohesive album – I’m guessing that it was recorded with the same people in a discrete amount of time. The arrangements are so natural and you feel like you’re in the room with the musicians. In particular, I want to call out the song “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry”. I love that song, and people don’t talk about it enough. It just speaks to me in a uniquely wonderful way. I love the melody and I’m always singing my own harmony. Maybe I should cover it with Matthew Sweet and do my harmony?
Nov 28, 2022: The Guardian: It ain’t me babe: Bob Dylan apologises for using a machine to autograph books
Bob Dylan has issued a rare public statement to apologise for his “error in judgment”, amid controversy over his use of a machine to autograph special copies of his new book that had been advertised as “hand-signed”.
Bob Dylan has issued a rare public statement to apologise for his “error in judgment”, amid controversy over his use of a machine to autograph special copies of his new book that had been advertised as “hand-signed”.
Nov 22, 2022: Corvallis Gazette-Times: Bob Dylan publisher offers refunds for fake 'hand signed' books
Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Bob Dylan’s book 'The Philosophy of Modern Song', is refunding those who bought the limited edition version.
Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Bob Dylan’s book 'The Philosophy of Modern Song', is refunding those who bought the limited edition version.
March 2, 2019: Manchester Evening News: Viewers react as Sir Tom Jones sends his friend Lonnie Donegan's son home on The Voice
The Battle Rounds on The Voice are always tough as the coaches pit their own acts against each other - but tonight Sir Tom Jones had an especially difficult decision to make.
The music legend chose Team Tom members Peter Donegan and Deana Walmsley to sing a duet on the Bob Dylan ballad Make You Feel My Love on the ITV singing show.
The Battle Rounds on The Voice are always tough as the coaches pit their own acts against each other - but tonight Sir Tom Jones had an especially difficult decision to make.
The music legend chose Team Tom members Peter Donegan and Deana Walmsley to sing a duet on the Bob Dylan ballad Make You Feel My Love on the ITV singing show.
Oct 4, 2011: Goldmine: Gallagher reissues give taste of blues and rock with metal
Gallagher’s only Top 10 album in the U.K., “Live In Europe,” has too many highlights to list. But we must spare a thought for “I Could Have Had Religion,” a song that Gallagher based around four anonymously-written lines he found in a book of Irish poetry. He wrote the tune and further words, but still co-credited the song to the ubiquitous Trad Arr. So, when Bob Dylan rang him up one day, wanting to cover the song himself and hoping for further light on its origins, he was staggered to discover just how “un-trad” it really was. His own next album was intended to be an all folk covers affair, spotlighting his own rearrangement abilities.
Gallagher’s only Top 10 album in the U.K., “Live In Europe,” has too many highlights to list. But we must spare a thought for “I Could Have Had Religion,” a song that Gallagher based around four anonymously-written lines he found in a book of Irish poetry. He wrote the tune and further words, but still co-credited the song to the ubiquitous Trad Arr. So, when Bob Dylan rang him up one day, wanting to cover the song himself and hoping for further light on its origins, he was staggered to discover just how “un-trad” it really was. His own next album was intended to be an all folk covers affair, spotlighting his own rearrangement abilities.
Sept 20, 2013: The Boot: Darius Rucker Hopes to Sing With Bob Dylan at CMA Awards
Jan 10, 2013: CNN Money: Sony Music's Bob Dylan copyright disaster
Mar 19, 2012: CNN: 50 years ago today: Bob Dylan released his debut album
When Bob Dylan’s self-titled debut LP hit shelves on March 19, 1962, it didn’t sound anything like the popular music of the time.
It was the height of “The Twist” dance craze, and 11 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart had the word “twist” in the title, including “Dear Lady Twist” by Gary U.S. Bonds, “Twistin’ The Night Away” by Sam Cooke, “Hey, Let’s Twist” by Joey Dee and the Starlighters,” “Twistin’ Postman” by the Marvelettes and “Alvin Twist” by the Chipmunks. (A new California group called the Beach Boys reached a new high of Number 77 that week with their first single, “Surfin.’”)
When Bob Dylan’s self-titled debut LP hit shelves on March 19, 1962, it didn’t sound anything like the popular music of the time.
It was the height of “The Twist” dance craze, and 11 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart had the word “twist” in the title, including “Dear Lady Twist” by Gary U.S. Bonds, “Twistin’ The Night Away” by Sam Cooke, “Hey, Let’s Twist” by Joey Dee and the Starlighters,” “Twistin’ Postman” by the Marvelettes and “Alvin Twist” by the Chipmunks. (A new California group called the Beach Boys reached a new high of Number 77 that week with their first single, “Surfin.’”)
Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet

ISBN: 9781416559160 Author: Seth Rogovoy
Publisher : Scribner (January 28, 2012)
Publisher : Scribner (January 28, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages