Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Dropped
An unnamed woman who sued Bob Dylan last year, alleging he sexually abused her in 1965 when she was 12 years old, withdrew her suit yesterday, a day after Dylan’s attorneys claimed she destroyed key evidence in the case, “irretrievably” compromising the lawsuit’s integrity. The accuser faced a $50,000 sanction for the violation and the suit can’t be refiled. The voluntarily dismissal comes a few days after the accuser fired her attorneys during discovery. The accuser, who goes by J.C., had alleged that Dylan sexually abused her between April and May 1965 when Dylan was either 23 or 24 years old (Dylan’s birthday is on May 24) at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City. As per the original complaint, J.C. alleged that Dylan “exploited his status as a musician by grooming J.C. to gain her t...
Hear Angel Olsen’s Mournful Cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘One Too Many Mornings’
Angel Olsen has released a stirring cover of Bob Dylan’s “One Too Many Mornings” from his classic 1964 album The Times They Are a-Changin.’ Olsen’s rendition is featured in the season finale and soundtrack of the Apple TV thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel, Shining Girls. The series stars Elisabeth Moss as a Chicago newspaper archivist with a traumatic past. According to a press release, all streaming royalties from the song will be donated to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization fighting for gun control. For Olsen, the melancholic and sparse rendition of “Mornings” sounds right in line with material from her forthcoming album, Big Time (June 3 via Jagjaguwar). Olsen released its third single, “Through The Fires,” which followed March’s “All The Go...
Bob Dylan to Auction New, One of a Kind ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ Recording
A day after his 81st birthday, Bob Dylan has re-recorded his 1962 classic “Blowin’ in the Wind” with longtime collaborator T-Bone Burnett and will auction the only copy of it July 7 in London through Christie’s’ “The Exceptional Sale” event. The catch is that “Blowin’ in the Wind” has been immortalized on a new form of recording medium developed by Burnett’s NeoFidelity Inc. called Ionic Original, which is playable on existing turntables. According to a release, Ionic Originals leverage “advances in nanotechnology, material sciences and materials to develop a new physical audio format in which purpose-engineered coatings and underlying composite polymers are applied to a traditional acetate substrate specifically designed for the superior reproduction and preservation of analog sound.” The...
Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith Help Reimagine Iconic Bob Dylan Video
Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, directors Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie and The Stone Roses’ John Squire have contributed to a new version of Bob Dylan’s iconic 1965 video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” which was released today (May 6) in conjunction with an ongoing celebration of Dylan’s 60 years as a Columbia Records artist. The original clip was part of the opening sequence of D.A. Pennebaker’s esteemed documentary Don’t Look Back and features Dylan rifling through a series of cue cards with lyrics from the song. In the new video, these cue cards have been visually reimagined by the aforementioned names, as well as artists such as Cey Adams, Julian House, Naoki Urasawa and French singer/songwriter Francis Cabrel. [embedded content][embedded content] T...
Bob Dylan Adds U.S. Tour Dates to World Tour
Bob Dylan added dates to his massive Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour throughout the U.S. this June. The legendary musician is slated to begin the tour with gigs in Washington and Northern California. He’ll wind down to Los Angeles for three consecutive nights at Pantages Theatre, and the run will end on June 18 in San Diego. He just closed his southern stint on April 14 in Oklahoma City. Beginning in early March, Dylan stopped along with Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Alabama. The new tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. PDT on Friday, April 22 through Dylan’s website. Bob Dylan Tour Dates May 28 – Spokane, Washington @ First Interstate Center for the ArtsMay 29 – Kennewick, Washington @ Toyota CenterMay 31 – Portland, Oregon @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert HallJune ...
Bob Dylan Announces First New Book in 18 Years
Bob Dylan unveiled plans to publish a new book via Simon & Schuester titled The Philosophy of Modern Song, coming November 8, 2022. According to a release, Dylan has been writing the book since 2010. It offers an in-depth view of how Dylan views the songwriting process. From artists such as Nina Simone, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, and Stephen Foster, Dylan breaks down the essentials of songwriting by analyzing the works of other artists in over 60 essays. The book covers a wide array of genres and promises to be laugh-out-loud funny. This book marks Dylan’s first publication since the release of Dylan’s Chronicles Vol. 1, published in 2004. it also received a Nobel Prize for literature in 2016. When asked about the book, Jonathan Karp (President of Simon & Schuester) says: “The ...
Bob Dylan Sells Recorded Music Rights to Sony Music
Sony Music now owns the rights to Bob Dylan’s entire recorded catalog, which includes 39 studio albums in addition to compilations, singles, and rarities. Sony also has the right to any potential music Dylan releases in the future. The financial details of the deal remain out of the public domain. However, Billboard estimates these recordings are worth around $200 million. This calculation is based on the recordings’ estimated annual revenue $16 million a year. Sony confirmed this purchase occurred in July of 2021. Universal Music bought the rights to Dylan’s songwriting months before the recording deal with Sony. This transaction has an estimated value of over $300 million and includes the rights to Dylan’s lyrics. The legendary singer-songwriter is currently touring with his album Rough ...
Bob Dylan Details Spring Leg of Never Ending Tour
In support of his 2020 album Rough And Rowdy Ways, Bob Dylan just detailed the next leg of his Never Ending Tour, scheduled to run throughout the spring in the American South. The upcoming, five-week stint begins March 3 in Phoenix at the Arizona Federal Theatre. Dylan is scheduled to perform throughout Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia, New Mexico, and will close on March 14 in Oklahoma City at the Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre. Tickets go on sale Friday, Jan. 28, and if you can’t make it to any of the forthcoming shows, according to Dylan’s website, the worldwide tour will run until 2024. I guess it really is a ‘Never Ending’ Tour. Bob Dylan Tour Dates 03/03 – Phoenix, Arizona @ Arizona Federal Theatre04/04 – Tucson, Arizona @ Tucson...
The 90 Greatest Albums of the ’90s
This article originally appeared in the September 1999 issue of SPIN. “You must be high.” We heard that a lot during the time we spent preparing this issue. Which is understandable. Pronouncing the 90 greatest albums of the ’90s is a somewhat presumptuous thing to do. When you’re measuring the music this decade is offering to history—the sounds we partied with, copulated to, fought about, and wept over—everyone has an opinion. That ours should be more valid than yours is debatable. But hey—it’s our magazine. What, then, you ask, constitutes “greatest”? Don’t even start. Suffice it to say that, after much heated discussion and countless veiled insults, it came down to the factors of both remarkable artistry and cultural shock value. Sometimes a record’s knock-you-off-your-Skechers impa...
The Reissue Section: Fall 2021
Vinyl sales have gone up 94% this year, according to a report by the RIAA. That helps the massive flux of reissues that dotted the fall. But that’s not the good news. What really makes this column hum remains the variety of choice titles that are released on CD, and sales of that sturdy little plastic silver disc went up 44% in the first half of 2021 as well. And with the slew of choice archival titles that dropped like so many acorns across the autumn landscape, both formats will certainly be seeing a significant bump in those numbers as the holiday season closes in. Now let’s get into it. Here are the best reissues of Fall 2021. Violent FemmesWhy Do Birds Sing? Expanded Edition (Craft Recordings) For a lot of kids who came of age in the 1980s, the first real taste of college rock came co...
Bob Dylan Center Details Newly Discovered Early Recordings
Ahead of the Bob Dylan Center’s grand opening on May 10, the center’s archivists announced their recent acquisition of various early recordings and other vintage Dylan memorabilia. All of the recent findings are to be displayed at the BDC in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The newly unearthed items will shed light on the formative years of Dylan’s career, including one-of-a-kind tapes, journals, books, and other historical elements. BDC acquired “the Madison Tapes,” which were recorded in ’60 and ’61 when Dylan was just 19 years old, moving from Minnesota to NYC’s Greenwich Village. Its second reel is “the Madison Party Tape, “a home recording of Dylan and his friends performing folk songs. “The Bailey Tapes” consist of more than a half-dozen previously unheard open-reel tapes from Dylan’s time in New Yo...
Karen Dalton: We Hardly Knew Ya
Of all the artists that grew out of the fertile Greenwich Village folk scene of the ’60s, Karen Dalton has somehow remained in the shadows of firmly established stars like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. It’s not for a lack of effort on the part of Dalton’s friends and fans. In the years since her death in 1993, her two studio albums — 1969’s It’s So Hard To Tell Who’s Going To Love You The Best and 1971’s In My Own Time — have been reissued multiple times, and several posthumous collections of her home recordings are now available. Dalton has also been namechecked as an influence by many of today’s musicians that fall under the folk umbrella. In spite of all that, Dalton is still an unknown entity to most and even forgotten by those folks trying to keep the world’s listeners connect...
