Bob Dylan told Roger McGuinn about a new project during a game of pickup basketball. That project became a Dylan career highlight.

Bob Dylan’s 1965 classic Like a Rolling Stone was born from anger, becoming one of the most legendary songs in rock history.

This boxed set contains the first known recording Bobby Zimmerman made at age 15 in St. Paul as well as songs he performed in Minneapolis houses and apartments, even songs he sang in concert at ...

The 18th installment of Dylan’s never-ending reissue series tracks his rise from teenage rock’n’roller to new folk icon. It ...

Wilentz wrote the 125-page liner notes for the recently released The Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through the Open Window, ...

When it comes to Bob Dylan, there is no artist more intimately acquainted with his work than Joan Baez. The musical geniuses ...

Bob Dylan came close to cutting Blowin’ in the Wind from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, and the truth behind it reshaped folk ...

A few years ago, Sam Sussman wrote a personal essay about his mother, Fran, who as a young woman in early ‘70s New York, took a painting class at Carnegie Hall led by the artist Norman Raeben. As it ...

Imitation is supposedly the highest form of flattery, but Bob Dylan certainly didn’t think so the first time he heard this Neil Young song from 1972. The song that grated on Dylan’s nerves so badly ...

Bob Dylan's music has never pulled any punches. The raw emotion, the unapologetic lyrics, the storytelling—it all amalgamated into the essence of who Dylan is. He was also among the first to bring ...