Bob Dylan

Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol 18 (1956-1963) delivers the definitive document of Bob Dylan’s formative years. This meticulously curated, exhaustive set traces the evolution of an all-time legendary music figure from a teenage piano-basher to the folk generation’s leader at Carnegie Hall. An indispensable collection revealing the artist behind the myth through rare outtakes, home recordings, and essential live performances.

Through The Open Window is the latest chapter in the acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series, which tells of Dylan’s emergence and maturation as a songwriter and performer, from Minnesota to the Greenwich Village bohemia in the early 1960s. The 8CD Deluxe set includes 139 tracks – 48 never-before-released performances, as well as 38 super-rare cuts, plus a hardcover book with rare photos and extensive liner notes by Sean Wilentz.

In the hands of film producer James Mangold, there is a very real probability that the definitive Bob Dylan film has finally arrived, with the man himself nowhere to be seen but his spirit and very essence seeping into every frame.

I cannot recall feeling the Royal Albert Hall more alive with restless anticipation minutes before Bob Dylan’s arrival, nor can I think of a more joyous roar erupting when the main attraction arrives on stage for a night of plentiful highlights and some revelations.

On ‘Cat Power Sings Dylan’, the audience’s reaction is an outpouring of love and gratitude deservedly raining down on a timeless set of music and an artist with the depth of understanding, integrity and feeling to pull it off. What a night this must have been.  

Robbie Robertson, Canadian lead guitarist and principal songwriter of The Band, has died at age 80. We share some magic moments with Bob Dylan and The Band, including The Basement Tapes, when Dylan went electric, and the legendary 1971 Academy Of Music concerts.

Bob Neuwirth, the American folk singer, songwriter, record producer, visual artist and associate of Bob Dylan, has died at the age of 82.

A new ‘Dylan60’ Microsite launches today alongside a new music video for Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues 2022″, to commemorate Bob Dylan’s 60th Anniversary as a ‘recording artist of immeasurable musical and cultural impact’.

Springtime In New York, the latest Bootleg Series from Bob Dylan covering 1980-85, proves beyond doubt that Dylan, unlike many during this period, did not lose it in the early 1980s…so much of this strong material will rise deservedly towards the top end of the Dylan canon.

The latest chapter in the acclaimed Bootleg Series “Bob Dylan – Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (1980-1985)” unveils 54 previously unreleased recordings, including outtakes from Shot of Love, Infidels and Empire Burlesque, in Deluxe 5CD Package.

‘Dignity’ – a Livestream celebration of 80 years of Bob Dylan live from Dublin (Monday 24 May) is to feature Lisa Hannigan, Cinder Well, FeliSpeaks, Peter Broderick, Brigid Mae Power, Paul Brady, Mick Flannery, Susan O’Neill and more.

For week five in our Bob Dylan appreciation, we take a step away from Bob’s own recordings and enjoy a wide range of other musical artists covering his material. Includes a Spotify Playlist featuring over 5 hours of covers.