There are too many Bob Dylan references to count in “I Don’t Live Here Anymore,” the latest arena-ready single from the War on Drugs. Some are lyrical nods to beloved songs like “Shelter From The Storm,” “It Ain’t Me Babe,” and “Standing in the Doorway.” Others are even more on-the-nose, …
Read More »Graham Nash's 'A Life in Focus': See Photos of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and More
One day when Graham Nash was 10 years old, the police knocked on his family home in Salford, England, and said there was a problem with the camera Nash’s father had recently gifted him. “They told him that the camera had been stolen, and who was it that sold it …
Read More »Year In Review: From Britney Spears to Fiona Apple, Our Best Podcast Discussions
When our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast isn’t spotlighting interviews with current stars and music legends, it features music discussions and debates that span genres and eras. Here’s the best of 2020; press play below to listen now, or go to iTunesor Spotify to hear any episode and subscribe. Claire …
Read More »How Jimmy Carter (Literally) Rocked the Presidency
One of the hallways in Dickey Betts’ home in Osprey, Florida, displays all the mementoes you’d expect to find associated with a former Allman Brothers guitarist, singer and renegade: awards for best-selling albums, photographs of now-deceased bandmates, a vintage guitar or two. But two framed letters, both from 1975, practically …
Read More »Gordon Lightfoot Is Still Following That Carefree Highway
Anyone who ever owned an album by Gordon Lightfoot might not immediately recognize the man sitting on a metal chair in a dressing room at New York’s Town Hall. These days, Lightfoot only passingly resembles the strapping, mustached, square-jawed troubadour whose ballads, like “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Early …
Read More »How a Wisconsin Singer Got a Bob Dylan Co-Writing Credit for New Song 'On, Wisconsin'
Wisconsin singer/songwriter Trapper Schoepp was scrolling through articles on Rolling Stone‘s website in March 2017 when he came across a piece about a long-lost Bob Dylan lyric manuscript about the state of Wisconsin that was about to hit the auction block. The article concluded with a complete transcription of the …
Read More »Hear Bob Dylan Cover James Brown's 'It's a Man's Man's Man's World' in Georgia
Bob Dylan‘s tour touched down at the William B. Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Georgia Wednesday night and wrapped up with a surprise cover of the 1966 James Brown classic “It’s A Man’sMan’s Man’s World.” Dylan strips much of the soul out of the original and turns it into a haunting …
Read More »How a Bob Dylan Musical Finally Got Off the Ground
‘I’d always liked the stage and even more so, the theater,” Bob Dylan wrote in his memoir, Chronicles. “It seemed like the most supreme craft of all craft.” But for nearly five decades, the idea of a Dylan musical has been as elusive as the songwriter himself. In the late …
Read More »Bob Dylan Plots Fall 2017 U.S. Tour
Bob Dylan announced a 21-date fall U.S. tour launching October 13th in Valley Center, California and concluding November 16th in Boston.Mavis Staples will open the final 19 shows, beginning with a pair of back-to-back concerts in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 17th and 18th. Tickets for the two opening …
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