The new film No Direction Home captures Bob Dylan in a period of transition, moving away from the acoustic-based folk songs on his earliest recordings into the incendiary blues-rock songs that would ...
Before it came to be celebrated and defined by the popular radio format known as Americana, country music shaped by folk music, rock and roll and the blues had no catchy name to distinguish it. The ...
While Bob Dylan was known in the national folk scene, mostly for his protest songs, The Byrds were the ones who soared to the top of the charts with their cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man".
Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University (THE CONVERSATION) The Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothée Chalamet, focuses on Dylan’s early 1960s transition from idiosyncratic singer ...