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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 .

His work is vast, awesome, majestic, and compelling. We haven't known an American poet who embodied such electricity since Woody Guthrie, and before him, Walt Whitman.

Bob Dylan performs at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival April 28, 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Patrick Coman's For the Sake of the Song online series, taped monthly at Johnny D's in Davis Square, will be featuring an old deity in the songwriting community this Sunday night.

In 1937, in a set of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Social Security Act of 1935.

Although his first album, the self titled "Bob Dylan", was released in 1962, his second album released in May of 1963, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", was his breakout into the big time.

Bob Dylan's music, it's often said, happens in a world of its own - where the highway is for gamblers and you're always 1,000 miles from home.

"You know, if anybody ever asks me why I do this radio show, I could just play them that - Jerry Lee Lewis singing Shakespeare .

If the Blood on the Tracks Express train ride or the Hard Rain in Duluth benefit concert hasn't made you rush to the North Country this week for Bob Dylan's 72nd birthday, at least give Hibbing and Duluth credit for finally getting excited about their most famous native son.

Though a little bit of line congestion left some fans sweltering in the muggy weather for the beginning of the show, most people were inside by the time the house band The Cabin Down Below Band featuring Rolling Stone contributing editor Austin Scaggs on bass, former Rolling Stone staffer Alex Levy on guitar, and musician Matt Romano on drums ... (more)

People forget that it was Richard Manuel, that lost, beautiful soul, who created some of the Band's first original compositions - including this one, which serves as the debut track for Across the Great Divide .

Seth Avett likes to use the word "journey" often and in earnest. An artist's journey, he implies, does not have a clean beginning, middle, and end.

Singer-songwriter Chris Smither was once called "an American original" by the Associated Press.

View full biographies, photos and videos, only at Biography.com. Left-handed people are a rare breed - only 10 percent of the general population is a lefty.

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 .

Q. Is it my imagination or are we seeing more positive stories and pictures about old people? I am 74, female and certainly don't feel old.

It's a safe bet that Bob Dylan will never go the "play-a-record-in-its-entirety" route on his never-ending tour.

"If it's never new and it doesn't get old," the singer tells his audience, "it's a folk song." Llewyn Davis has just finished performing the traditional blues number "Hang Me, Oh Hang Me" for a sparse crowd at the Gaslight CafA© in New York City's Greenwich Village in early 1961.

In the first comprehensive documentary to chronicle the private life and public career of Joan Baez, this film examines her history as a recording artist and performer as well as her unwavering journey as the conscience of a generation.

Here's an in-depth look at the life of influential singer-songwriter and 10-time Grammy Award winner Bob Dylan .