A Complete Unknown shows Bob Dylan visiting his Woody Guthrie in the hospital, and in real life, Guthrie was hospitalized ...
After Obama won in 2008, Dylan said it was the first time that he’d seen a sign of light. That light has since gone dark.
In 1960, a young Robert Zimmerman — who had begun to call himself “Bob Dylan” — journeyed from the icy flatlands of Minnesota ...
When Bob Dylan first entered the NYC folk scene in the late 1950s, one of his biggest competitors was also one of his greatest mentors.
I come to this album from a week or so spent among the denizens of the New York and Boston folk revivals, including a key figure from Tulsa and the Guthrie Center, and a concert (Judy Collins, marking ...
With the poetic name of Welborn Hope, the man who billed himself as Oklahoma’s Tramp Poet, lived up to the image that title ...
Seventy-five years ago, Woody Guthrie, a balladeer who aligned himself with the poor and the working class, wrote a series of songs targeting his then-landlord in Brooklyn for not renting to ...
It opens with a 19-year-old Bob Dylan arriving by car in New York City and quickly finding his way to Greenwich Village, where a random bearded man in a bar tells him where he can find Woody Guthrie, ...
Chronicles: Volume One. “Both were anti-imperialistic, anti-materialist. ‘What a ridiculous thing, an electric can opener,’ ...