Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s overblown new music video offers only a ‘Shadow’ of transcendence
We were promised the Bard’s first concert since the epidemic began. What we got was something sporadically lovely but quite a bit different.
How Jewish is Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah?’ A Forward investigation in 9 verses
With its layered contradictions, the song reveals Cohen’s work as a Jew to comprehend a holy, broken world.
The Secret Jewish History Of U2
The Father, Son and Holy Ghost aren’t Bono’s only religious role models.
Was Dylan’s ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ his best since ‘Blood on the Tracks?’
Greil Marcus, Anthony DeCurtis, Bill Wyman, Jennifer Gilmore and more weigh in on ‘Blood on the Tracks.’
In latest 2020 surprise, Bob Dylan sells his catalog to Universal
The deal is a landmark agreement not just for Dylan, but for the entire music industry.
Dylan’s latest really is his best since ‘Blood on the Tracks’
The sense that the album is really one long song is an essential part of its appeal to me. In this time of quarantine, days blend one into the next.
Dylan’s best since ‘Blood on the Tracks?’ You’re asking the wrong question
I could care less what anybody, myself included, thinks are the best 10 Rolling Stones songs, Emily Dickinson poems, or Philip Roth novels.
In my life, there were two Bob Dylans — my father’s and mine
When “Time Out Of Mind” came out, for the very first time I heard Bob Dylan with my own soul.
In a hellish landscape of Huey Lewis and Liza Minnelli, a new Dylan album thankfully arrived
After three straight studio records where he’d sounded distracted or disinterested, he emerged from the fog with a renewed sense of focus and purpose.
Why no Dylan album will ever surpass ‘Stormy Season’
“These songs — harsh yet brooding; serious yet funny — were miles away from the haunted nostalgia of Dylan’s most-recent collections of folk songs.”