Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Bob Dylan’s sixth album Highway 61 Revisited, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary, opens with the landmark single “Like a Rolling Stone.” The song that follows it on the album, “Tombstone Blues,” […]
An unnamed woman who sued Bob Dylan last year, alleging he sexually abused her in 1965 when she was 12 years old, withdrew her suit yesterday. The development came a day after Dylan’s attorneys claimed she destroyed key evidence in the case, “irretrievably” compromising the lawsuit’s integrity. The accuser faced a $50,000 sanction for the […]
Cat Power has confirmed a Nov. 5 show at London’s Royal Albert Hall where she will recreate Bob Dylan’s famed May 17, 1966 concert at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall in its entirety. Bootlegs from that era mistakenly labeled the show as having taken place at Royal Albert Hall several days later, and when it was […]
Angel Olsen has released a stirring cover of Bob Dylan’s “One Too Many Mornings” from his classic 1964 album The Times They Are a-Changin.’ Olsen’s rendition is featured in the season finale and soundtrack of the Apple TV thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel, Shining Girls. The series stars Elisabeth Moss as a Chicago newspaper […]
A day after his 81st birthday, Bob Dylan has re-recorded his 1962 classic “Blowin’ in the Wind” with longtime collaborator T-Bone Burnett and will auction the only copy of it July 7 in London through Christie’s’ “The Exceptional Sale” event. The catch is that “Blowin’ in the Wind” has been immortalized on a new form […]
Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, directors Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie and The Stone Roses’ John Squire have contributed to a new version of Bob Dylan’s iconic 1965 video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” which was released today (May 6) in conjunction with an ongoing celebration of Dylan’s 60 years as a Columbia […]
Bob Dylan added dates to his massive Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour throughout the U.S. this June. The legendary musician is slated to begin the tour with gigs in Washington and Northern California. He’ll wind down to Los Angeles for three consecutive nights at Pantages Theatre, and the run will end on June 18 in […]
Bob Dylan unveiled plans to publish a new book via Simon & Schuester titled The Philosophy of Modern Song, coming November 8, 2022. According to a release, Dylan has been writing the book since 2010. It offers an in-depth view of how Dylan views the songwriting process. From artists such as Nina Simone, Elvis Costello, […]
Sony Music now owns the rights to Bob Dylan’s entire recorded catalog, which includes 39 studio albums in addition to compilations, singles, and rarities. Sony also has the right to any potential music Dylan releases in the future. The financial details of the deal remain out of the public domain. However, Billboard estimates these recordings […]
In support of his 2020 album Rough And Rowdy Ways, Bob Dylan just detailed the next leg of his Never Ending Tour, scheduled to run throughout the spring in the American South. The upcoming, five-week stint begins March 3 in Phoenix at the Arizona Federal Theatre. Dylan is scheduled to perform throughout Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, […]