David Huckfelt I Was Born, But… Americana music—and folk music more broadly—is as much about inheritance as it is about originality. What gets handed down, what endures, and what still feels worth singing matter. On I Was Born, But…, David Huckfelt leans fully into that idea, offering fifteen songs he didn’t write but somehow owns. […]
The career of England’s Orange Bicycle was as commercially unsuccessful as it was brief. Thanks to a mistranslation of the text on a French EP’s cover, the psychedelic pop sextet has often been said to have had a chart-topping single in that country. In fact, Orange Bicycle had no hits, much less chart-toppers, anywhere on […]
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Though Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series began in 1991 and has embraced well over 50 discs, it is only now, with its 18th volume, that it is getting around to the first chapter of its subject’s story. And what a chapter it is. Granted, the period covered by Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series, Vol. […]
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Mark Davidson was an adjunct professor at the University of Texas and working for historian Douglas Brinkley as a research assistant in the summer of 2017 when he found a job in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that seemed like the right fit. The previous year, Bob Dylan had sold his vast archive to the George Kaiser […]
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We had a chance to interview Bob Dylan Center director Steven Jenkins recently. In first grade, Steven Jenkins was already “heavily into” The Beatles and The Beach Boys when he discovered Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Volume 1 in his mother’s record collection.“I didn’t understand the songs back then, but I was captivated by Dylan’s voice […]
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Jac Holzman Presents Dylan’s Circle features folk, rock, and blues performances compiled by Elektra Records founder Holzman and Ted Olson, who previously produced such notable albums as Tell It to Me: Revisiting the Johnson City Sessions and On Top of Old Smoky: New Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music. As Olson writes in the booklet that accompanies […]
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Since Bob Dylan is arguably the best and most important songwriter of the entire rock era, it’s not surprising that his tunes show up on countless albums by other artists, including many that consist entirely of his compositions. This writer’s collection includes more than 800 Dylan covers, and while not all of them hit their […]
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Book & Music Reviews: Decade of Dissent: How 1960s Bob Dylan Changed the World, plus the Bongos & Robert Forster If you lined up every copy of every book by and about Bob Dylan, they’d stretch all the way from Highway 61 to Desolation Row. They include volumes that discuss his songs or contain lyrics […]
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Bob Dylan in Tulsa “There’s more vibrations on the coasts, for sure,” Bob Dylan explained when asked why his archive was located in Tulsa, “But I’m from Minnesota and I like the casual hum of the heartland.” Bob Dylan kicked off the first date of his 2025 Rough & Rowdy Ways/Never Ending Tour smack dab […]
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Music Reviews: An Anthology of Dylan-influenced Music and More New Releases ‘He Took Us by Storm’ Features Artists Influenced by Dylan You won’t find any Bob Dylan recordings or even any of his compositions on the Dylan-themed He Took Us by Storm. Instead, as compiler Philippe Le Bras explains in his extensive liner notes, this […]
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