Bob Dylan

For week three of the Bob Dylan Appreciation Society, Danny Neill steers our attention towards Dylan’s songs of Society, Protest & Classic Story Songs. Again Danny has pulled together another great playlist to accompany the piece.

For week two of the Bob Dylan Appreciation Society, Danny Neill steers our attention towards a specific side of Bob Dylan’s writing: Love songs and relationship songs which is accompanied by a four-hour playlist for you all to enjoy.

In honour of Bob Dylan’s 80th Birthday, Danny Neill presents the first in a series of deep dives into the music of Bob Dylan accompanied by an extensive playlist featuring over 5 hours of music. We kick off with Vol 1 – Essential Bob.

While this project may have arisen out of a period of writer’s block, Swift’s interpretations and musical finesse shine brightly throughout this impressive cover album.

Nearing 80, Bob Dylan remains a wonder, able to paint aural pictures that excite the senses, continuing to breathe life into a medium that doesn’t tend to value longevity.

Featuring Naomi Bedford, Justin Currie, Nancy Kerr, Ben Walker, The Men They Couldn’t Hang, Cathy Jordan, Alasdair Roberts & more, The Rolling Ramshackle Revue perform a Dylan classic.

This week’s mix is a Bob Dylan covers special featuring Karine Polwart, Fairport Convention, Tony Capstick, Martin Carthy, Chris Smither, Magnet, Pozo Seco, Bridget St John, Sandy Denny, Richie Havens, The Duhks, Flatt & Scruggs, The Stairwell Sisters & more.

Danny Neill takes an in-depth look Bob Dylan’s lavish 6-CD deluxe box set More Blood, More Tracks and offers his alternative version of ‘Blood On The Tracks’, picked from multiple takes and bountiful selections available across this wonderful box set.

Due for release on August 3rd via Island records, A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention And The Songs Of Bob Dylan is a compilation that marks the 50th anniversary since the original 12-track Basement Tapes acetate of Dylan arrived in London. 

September 1st sees the release of Joan Osborne’s ninth studio album ‘Songs of Bob Dylan’. In a special exclusive Joan takes us through the album, track by track in her own words which you can also listen to in full.

Capitol Records is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Martin Scorsese’s award-winning documentary No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, by releasing a Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition of the film that will mark its first release on Blu-ray (standard DVD is also available). Includes extended scenes from the film and full-length interviews with Scorsese, Dave van Ronk and Liam Clancy. We have a copy to Giveaway.

The Times They Are a-Changin’ as Bob Dylan is awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, the first songwriter to have received the award since the Nobel Prize for Literature began in 1901. Previous winners have included John Steinbeck, Gabriel García Márquez, Samuel Beckett and Ernest Hemingway.