Some of the year’s most thrilling music was its oldest: Rock icons dug into their archives, underground ’90s rap and indie figures put out long-awaited vinyl and more.
Category: Dylan, Bob
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A Zohran Mamdani Ad Used a Bob Dylan Song. The Music Was Removed.
New York’s next mayor played “The Times They Are a-Changin’” in a spot on social media. The company that owns Dylan’s catalog said his songs can’t be used for politics.
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The Sound of ‘Ophelia’
Inspired by Taylor Swift’s “Showgirl” single, listen to a playlist of songs that use the tragic “Hamlet” heroine as inspiration.
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A Novelist Asks: Am I Bob Dylan’s Son?
In his autobiographical novel, Sam Sussman grows up wondering if his affinity for the great singer-songwriter goes beyond a striking resemblance.
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Did Bob Dylan Help Announce an Album From MGK?
The pop-punk star’s trailer for “Lost Americana” features a familiar voice narrating about a “quest to reclaim the authentic essence of American freedom.”
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Mac Gayden, Stellar Nashville Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 83
Heard on Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde” among other albums, he also sang and was a writer of the perennial “Everlasting Love.”
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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.
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Drawing From Bob Dylan’s Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality
Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.
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In ‘A Complete Unknown,’ Bob Dylan’s Politics Are Blowin’ in the Wind
The film is the latest of many to reveal the singer-songwriter’s baffling neutrality.
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Timothée Chalamet Dug Deep for Bob Dylan Songs on ‘S.N.L.’
“Outlaw Blues,” “Three Angels” and “Tomorrow Is a Long Time” were personal favorites from Dylan’s monumental catalog.
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Garth Hudson: 11 Essential Songs
The last surviving original member of the Band died on Tuesday. He was a master on keys and saxophones who could conjure a panoply of scenes and eras.