Twenty years ago, in 1991 Columbia for the first time released an extensive compilation box set including solely previously unreleased recordings of Bob Dylan. The collection of 58 demos, rare studio session outtakes, live soundboard recordings, and alternate versions or takes spans everything from Dylan’s first demos (the “Minnesota Hotel Tape”, 1961) to his then …
2011 is Bobyear. On May 24, 1941 Robert Allen Zimmerman was born in Duluth, Minnesota. Twenty years later he started an unprecedented journey to conquer the world through his songs. Revitalizing folk traditionals in Greenwich Village, going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, Rock music’s most important and influential song of all times “Like a …
Bob seems to have found his RTR hat again. In a series of recent gigs he performed wearing a hat that looked like the one from the 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Keep on keepin’ on, Bob – it still fits! Any opinions on that?
On May 24, 1941 Robert Allen Zimmerman a.k.a. Bob Dylan was born in Duluth/MN. This year he celebrates his 65th birthday. Happy birthday, Bob! What’s better, to die or to fade away? Well, Bob is still alive and there is no sign of fading energy or creativity. With his autobiography “Chronicles, Volume One” just written, …
Following the release of “Desire” Dylan continued his Rolling Thunder Revue in 1976, but it was hard if not impossible to recreate the spontaneity of the 1975 tour. When the Revue finally performed in Fort Collins on May 23rd, it just seemed so symbolic that in probably one of their best shows of the tour …