Bob Dylan News

Every second, they say, someone somewhere is singing a favourite song. Chances are that every other second, someone is getting the words wrong.

Universal truth ... if you take Dylan songs away from Dylan, it's easier to see how good a songwriter he is.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- As Leonard Cohen says in "Anthem," Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack, a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in .

Jerry Schatzberg's blurred 1966 photograph of Bob Dylan -- later chosen by Dylan to be used for the album cover to "Blonde on Blonde" -- was only a fragment of a career that later encompassed filmmaking and directing.

This Sunday night, the Grammy Awards will once again be held at Staples Center in Los Angeles .

Kinky Friedman, doing what he describes as his "Zorba the Greek celebration dance," along with dog friend Chumley.

10, 1966. He performed alone for the first 45 minutes and, following an intermission, returned with a band.

It wasn't that long ago that you could see the country/folk/rock trio The Avett Brothers in Lake Worth's intimate Bamboo Room, performing their stomping brand of music.

With an extensive background in classical and prepared guitar, Janet Feder has focused primarily on instrumental recordings.

Leonard Cohen has a new album out: Old Ideas , his 12th, and his first in seven years.

Pop-princess Lana Del Rey has cancelled her Australian tour on the back of relentless criticism in the U.S. So why is she suddenly so hated - a botched TV appearance, a millionaire Dad or a lack of memory in her audience? Lana Del Rey is the pop sensation of 2012, but is being mercilessly criticised for pretending to be something she's not.

There was an urban legend that went around in the 1960s that if you looked at the tree behind Bob Dylan on the cover of his album "John Wesley Harding," you could see the faces of the Beatles.

With a little Bob Dylan and a lot of finger-pointing at Springfield, McHenry County Board Chairman Ken Koehler gave his annual state of the county address on Tuesday.

John Prine will come to Morris Performing Arts Center, April 14. The long list of songwriters who have recorded gems from his extensive catalog include Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, the Everly Brothers, John Denver, Kris Kristofferson, Carly Simon, Ben Harper, Joan Baez, and many others.

Bob Dylan 's leather jacket will be making a permanent home in the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History , according to a source familiar with the transaction.

On January 24, 2012, in the United States and Canada , Amnesty International is releasing Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International , a four-CD album set.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- As Leonard Cohen says in "Anthem," Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack, a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in .

THERE are no real surprises on this, the 12th studio album, from the venerated Bard of Montreal, whose body of recorded work is one of the miracles of contemporary culture.

But Dylan's popularity persists. This weekend stores are stocking a 4-CD tribute to the music of Bob Dylan in celebration of Amnesty International's 50th anniversary.

The acoustic version of Bob Dylan's rare 1971 single, "George Jackson," will be included on the upcoming compilation, Listen, Whitey: The Sounds of Black Power 1967-74 . Here's a blurb from the label's website: This one has been a beast.