Bob Dylan

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.

A new mix that blends some music to drift along to before falling down a rabbit hole with a bunch of subversives – Stick in the Wheel, Jeffrey lewis and more

Yesterday Bob Dylan turned 75 and to mark the occasion Deakin and Geologist of the Animal Collective unveiled this remix on Soundcloud of ‘Don’t Think Twice’ . Take a listen here.

To mark Bob Dylan’s 75th Birthday there’ll be a special tribute concert at Gate To Southwell Festival next month. Jim Moray will lead the festival band with performances from Steve Knightley, Jackie Oates, The Henry Girls & More

Bob Dylan has shared a waltzing downtempo ‘Melancholy Blues‘ from his forthcoming 37th album ‘Fallen Angels’, a song which suggests some resemblance to his Sinatra inspired last album Shadows In The Night.

To mark the release today of Bob Dylan’s ‘The Best Of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12’ a new video has been unveiled for Visions of Johanna. Watch it here.

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of Bob Dylan’s controversial performance at Newport Folk Festival when he went electric. We look back at the event and what really happened. Plus we have some great video to share and we look at a similar myth surrounding Muddy Waters 1958 UK performance which also apparently shocked many.

Our Song of the Day is from a video of Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash performing ‘One Too Many Mornings’. It was recorded in Nashville in 1969.

Watch the new video from Bob Dylan for “The Night We Called It A Day,” from his new album ‘Shadows In The Night’, directed by Nash Edgerton.

Our Song of the Day is from Rhiannon Giddens and Iron & Wine performing “Forever Young.” The song is by Bob Dylan and first appeared on his 1974 Planet Waves.

Legendary Producer Joe Boyd unearths treasures from John Peel’s record collection, including the recording that inspired Syd Barrett to a rarer than rare Bob Dylan white label test pressing.