Village Voice tribute to Bob Dylan’s 50th anniversary of arriving in NY
Rolling Stone magazine’s tribute to Bob Dylan’s 50th anniversary of arriving in NY
bobdylan.com (song lyrics, albums, set lists, etc.)
Untold Dylan (massive database)
Song copyright registrations (SESAC)
Dylan songs and their prototypes (Down Home Radio Show)
Dylan and NY
- Early Dylan photos and film (taken by John Cohen)
- “Exploring Bob Dylan’s New York” (NYT, 10/18/2016)
- Dylan in NY (video tour)
- Bob Dylan and Greenwich Village
- Bob Dylan walking tour and other trivia
- Playboy Interview (1978)
- Dylan and Ginsberg
- “Positively Jones Street” (salon.com)
1963
- Studs Terkel radio interview: part 1 (“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” 7:00);
- part 2; atomic rain (10:43)
- (alternate site; atomic rain [10:18])
- March on Washington performance
- Profile in Newsweek (November 4)
1964
- “The Crackin’, Shakin’, Breakin’ Sounds,” (Nat Hentoff, New Yorker, 10/24/1964)
- “An Open Letter to Bob Dylan” (Irwin Silber, Sing Out, 11/1964)
- “An Open Letter to Irwin Silber, Paul Wolfe and Joseph E. Levine” (Phil Ochs, Broadside, 11/20/1965, pp. 9-10)
- “The Halloween Concert that Reinvented Bob Dylan” (Sean Wilentz, New Republic, 10/2014)
1965
Film/Video
- March on Washington
- Joan Baez and Bob Dylan (w/Len Chandler)
- Peter, Paul, and Mary (“Blowin’ in the Wind,” “If I Had a Hammer”)
- Dylan on BBC (May 1964)
- The Time’s They are A-Changin’ (Canadian tv appearance, 1964)
- “It’s Alright Ma,” 1965 (excerpt on Dont Look Back, 1967), audio-only performance at Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England (3/7/65), lyrics
- Press conference, San Fransisco, 1965 (12/3/65) (transcript in Rolling Stone by Ralph Gleason, 12/14/1967)
- “Do you think there will there ever be a time when you’ll be hung as a thief?” (Ginsberg, 4:15)
- “What poets do you dig?” (5:45)
- Why are you hard on some of the people in your songs (6:35)
- “What do you think of people that analyze your songs?” (9:55)
- Sold out to commercial interests, topical song movement (10:30)
- “If you were draftable . . . ” (14:45)
- Older songs less valid? (20:38)
- Has there been any more booing when you play electric guitar? (42:07)
- “You seem very reluctant to talk about the fact that . . .” (43:05)
- “Were you surprised the first time the boos came?” (44:25)
- Renaldo and Clara (with Ginsberg, 2:36:30; at Kerouac’s grave, 2:40:58)
- 60 Minutes Interview
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame speech and performance (1988)
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, 1991 (“Masters of War”)
- rehearsing We Are the World (1985)
- “My Back Pages,” 30th Anniversary Concert, 1991, MSG (Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, George Harrison)
- Grammy album of the year, Time Out of Mind (1997) (0:50)
- on Dharma and Greg (1999)
- I’m Not There, 3/9 (Todd Haynes film, 2007)
Bob Dylan, the Beat Generation, and Allen Ginsburg’s America (Sean Wilenz, New Yorker)
Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive (NYT, 2/2/2016)
and Mavis Staples (Rolling Stone, 5/9/2016)
“Bob Dylan at 80” (The Guardian, 3/28/2021)
Nobel Prize
- Dylan’s Nobel Prize lecture (2016)
- A transcendent Patti Smith accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize (2016)
- Patti Smith’s reaction later (2017): 2:30
- Why Bob Dylan is a Literary Genius (Rolling Stone 12/9/2016)
Talking about Dylan
Songs