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The Latest Breaking News from Bob Dylan

As the Roxy Music frontman publishes his lyrics, releases new music and prepares a 50th anniversary tour, he will ponder Guardian readers’ questions

The Guardian - UK

Bob Dylan announces ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ West Coast tour leg

SAN DIEGO — Bob Dylan is wasting little time getting back on the road after last week’s conclusion of the spring leg of his Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour.

Tribune News Service

The War on Drugs review – wistful, immersive rock turned up to 11

Adam Granduciel and his band take Neil Young, Dylan and Springsteen, add a hint of krautrock and mix a heady cocktail

The Guardian - UK

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Commentary: Have we become too reliant on deferring to experts?

In one of the most dramatic moments of the Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked the judge, “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?”

Chicago Tribune

Giant mural of Prince to enliven downtown Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS — Prince vetoed a statue, too concerned that people might deface it. But the unpredictable, controlling music icon was OK with somehow being commemorated in his hometown. Well before he died, he approved a mural that will finally come to fruition next month on a downtown Minneapolis parking ramp.

Tribune News Service

‘We were such terrible smokers, when we performed it we couldn’t breathe’: how we made Stomp

‘There was a buzz we weren’t expecting at all and it went absolutely crazy. Bob Dylan came to see us and stood at the back wearing a hoodie’

The Guardian - UK

‘I thought I’d end up running an upholstery shop’: Jack White on the White Stripes, bar brawls and fame

As one half of the White Stripes, the Detroit musician conquered the world. He has since played in other bands, opened record shops and worked with country legend Loretta Lynn. After a busy lockdown, he is back with two new solo albums

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Madonna at the Haçienda to Obama’s inauguration: the tickets we can’t bear to throw away

As QR codes take over, Guardian writers and readers share their prized paper stubs – including the Beatles at Shea Stadium and the Nirvana gig that never was

The Guardian - UK

‘Of course I like life!’ Shane MacGowan on the Pogues, his ‘death wish’ and his sideline in erotic art

Now 64, the singer has somehow survived decades of drink and drugs, only to face depression and ‘nameless fear’. But there’s no sign of him mellowing

The Guardian - UK

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Unlimited Love review – bloated and self-indulgent

The Californian quartet’s latest follows a long line of forgettable albums, even if they do enshrine Southend in a lyric

The Guardian - UK

'Girl from the North Country' sets Broadway return dates

“Girl from the North Country,” the Depression-era drama set to the songs of Bob Dylan, will reopen on Broadway this spring, a little more than three months after going on hiatus because of coronavirus concerns

The Independent UK

Londoner’s Diary: Exit stage left Meghan, and enter Camilla as new National Theatre patron

In today’s Diary: Britain’s theatre scene glitters at the National Theatre / Rathbone’s Folio judges know how to celebrate / Rylance remembers meeting Bob Dylan / Francis Fukuyama suffers the never-ending end of history

Evening Standard

Radio 2's Whispering Bob Harris is still championing music aged 75 with new show

Radio 2 star Bob Harris is still championing music with his radio show Bob Harris Country, at the age of 75

Daily Mirror

Bob Dylan essay collection celebrating art of songwriting to be published

Publisher Simon & Schuster says The Philosophy of Modern Song ‘resembles an epic poem’

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Los Angeles Times

New Bob Dylan book 'The Philosophy of Modern Song' will impart lessons in songwriting

Legendary singer-songwriter, Pulitzer Prize recipient and Nobel Prize laureate Bob Dylan is gearing up to release his first book in nearly two decades.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bob Dylan to muse on music he loves in new book this fall

The essays in ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ scheduled for Nov. 8, will be ‘meditations and reflections on the human condition,’ his publisher says.

Tribune News Service

Bob Dylan announces 2nd book, coming in November

Another side of Bob Dylan is coming to bookstores this year.

The Independent UK

Bob Dylan book on 'Modern Song' to come out in November

Bob Dylan has a new book coming out this fall, a collection of more than 60 essays about songs and songwriters he admires, from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello

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Sierra Ferrell honed her music busking on street corners and playing for fellow travelers on freight trains

Acclaimed troubadour Sierra Ferrell is not the only young singer-songwriter to react enthusiastically at the mere mention of Bob Dylan and the underappreciated American folk music master Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten.

ABC News

Gareth Liddiard blasts cancel culture ahead of national tour with new band, Springtime

Bob Dylan songs that espoused social justice would have failed if the great songwriter had to self-censor to appease today's perpetrators of cancel culture, says Drones frontman Gareth Liddiard.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Every Song He Made: Sting Sells Music Catalog to Universal

Sting is selling his music catalog, including hits he made with the Police and as a solo artist, joining a chorus of stars who are cashing in with investors who see value in licensing their songs. Universal said Thursday that its music-publishing arm bought the catalog, including “Every Breath You…

Chicago Tribune

Remembering the influential, ebullient Chicago blues drummer Sam Lay, dead at 86

CHICAGO — The last time I talked to Sam Lay it was late at night and he was on the road and on the telephone, driving back home to Chicago from Cleveland where he has just been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of…

Chicago Tribune

Elton John says goodbye to Chicago; or, the myth of the farewell tour

CHICAGO — For a long, long time, there was reason to assume every major pop star with a sizable audience and willingness to play live would tour indefinitely. One tour ended; the next began. The road stretched on, and on. Bob Dylan once christened his schedule “The Never Ending Tour.”…

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Hargus ‘Pig’ Robbins, Grammy winner and Country Music Hall of Famer, dead at 84

Grammy-winning pianist Hargus “Pig” Robbins, whose long list of collaborators included Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Bob Dylan, has died at age 84.

The Independent UK

Blues drummer Sam Lay dies at 86; played with Dylan, Waters

Sam Lay, a Chicago blues drummer and vocalist who played with Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, has died

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