Bob Dylan has sold the rights to his masters to Sony Music Entertainment, the company announced on Monday, marking yet another blockbuster deal for artists cashing in on their music copyrights amid the ongoing catalog boom. This is Dylan’s second major rights deal; he sold his publishing rights to Universal …
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“You’re No Good” (Bob Dylan, 1962) From his oft-overlooked folkie debut, a prophetic blast of rockabilly. Even in this early stage, hustling to make his name in the folk scene, Dylan’s got rock & roll in his bones. “Going, Going, Gone” (Planet Waves, 1974) One of his last great studio …
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Florida International University has announced that it’ll be hosting the first-ever exhibit of Bob Dylan‘s visual artwork in the U.S. this fall. Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum, opening November 30th at the university’s Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, will feature more than 120 of Dylan’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures spanning six …
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Greg Dulli has reunited with his Gutter Twins collaborator Mark Lanegan for a cover of Bob Dylan’s “The Girl From the North Country,” a duet that will appear on the B-side of Dulli’s upcoming Record Store Day exclusive single. On the cover, premiering here at Rolling Stone, Dulli and Lanegan …
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Johnny Cash wanted to make a big impression when his ABC music variety show The Johnny Cash Show debuted on June 6th, 1969. The back-to-back success of his recent live albums At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin re-introduced him to a mainstream audience outside of the country community, and …
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EDITOR’S PICK: Pistol Annies,Interstate Gospel “The ethos of the Pistol Annies, who steep their classicist country — rife with despair and misfortune — in rootsy arrangements, has not been welcomed within the mainstream confines of the genre in some time,” writes Jonathan Bernstein. “The Pistol Annies’ solution? Doubling down on …
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Blood on the Tracks has always been one of Bob Dylan‘s most mysterious albums, but the upcoming Bootleg Series More Blood, More Tracks,set for releaseNovember 2nd, will finally reveal, piece-by-piece, how the 1975 LP came together over just six days at studios in New York City and Minneapolis, Minnesota. A …
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Bob Dylan has scheduled a weeklong residency at New York’s Beacon Theatre within the music icon’s upcoming U.S tour. A year after Dylan’s Never Ending Tour scheduled five nights at the Beacon, Dylan has upped the residency to seven nights at the venerable venue, kicking off November 23rd and running …
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Bob Dylan announced his first North American tour dates of 2018, a string of 25 concerts that concentrates on the southern half of the U.S. Dylan’s fall trek begins October 9th in Midland, Texas and loops its way through Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Georgia before concluding at …
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Bob Dylan’s Born Again Christian period of 1979 to 1981 – an intense, wildly controversial time that produced three albums and some of the most compelling and confrontational concerts of his long career – will be chronicled on the next chapter of Dylan’s ongoing Bootleg Series. Trouble No More – …
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