Boston College Heights

Bob Dylan in Fine Form for Massachusetts Performance

The stage was shrouded in darkness following the end of atmospheric filler music, when a series of notes rang out from an invisible piano. The audience looked on expectantly and, just a few seconds ...
American Songwriter

“Why Should I Hire This Guy?”: How Bob Dylan’s Early Competition in the NYC Folk Scene Turned Into a Colleague

Joan Baez perhaps said it best when she described Bob Dylan’s arrival to the NYC folk scene in the late 1950s in her song “Diamonds and Rust”: You burst on the scene already a legend. The unwashed ...
Yahoo

Bob Dylan’s Early Years Explored in ‘How Many Roads’ Exhibit, Coming to New York University

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bob Dylan’s early years in New York — during which he metamorphosed from an unknown folksinger into Bob Dylan — will be the ...
The New York Times

An Early Bob Dylan Recording Hits the Auction Block

The reel-to-reel tape is from a Gaslight Cafe show in Greenwich Village in 1961, when Dylan was playing to audiences you could count in a glance or two. By Colin Moynihan On Sept. 6, 1961, a ...
American Songwriter

4 of the Most Interesting Bob Dylan Cover Albums by Grateful Dead, Bryan Ferry, and More From the Early ’00s Through 2020s

Bob Dylan (r) was accompanied by Joan Baez during his iconic performance at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival on July 26, 1963, in Newport, Rhode Island. (Photo by Jeff Hochberg/Getty Images) Released in ...