To celebrate Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan’s appearance at Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival on July 29, Sony Music Japan is releasing “Rare Performances From The Copyright Collection,” a 2CD set of (mostly) limited released recordings from 1962 to 1966. A limited […]
Friedman on SiriusXM’s Beatles’ channel, Baldwin on Howard Stern, reveal new information about Bob Dylan If you’ve been listening to SiriusXM lately, you may have heard some interesting news about Bob Dylan. On the satellite station’s Fab Fourum program, broadcast […]
Bob Dylan recorded “Girl From the North Country” in New York City in April 1963, and it quickly became one of his best-known short sweet ballads. The tale of a woman living in the “north country fair” who was “once […]
I was crawling around the concrete floor downstairs in the basement of The Strand, the massive indie bookseller just south of Union Square on Broadway in Manhattan, looking for nothing in particular when I came across a worn paperback about […]
There are weeks I want to read and write about music, and weeks that I could care less about who is going on tour or what new albums are being released. Like many of you, I was deeply upset hearing […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This spring, we’re focusing on the music and traditions of Appalachia, both here at NoDepression.com and in our print journal. For more sounds and voices from that ancient mountain region, get yourself a copy of our spring journal, […]
I view Peter Himmelman as one of America’s best, yet unsung, songwriters, so I ask him his views about the unsung part. “I’m smiling at this question, and it’s a good one,” he says. “It unlocks a lot of things […]
We first saw the fabled Seldom Scene at a concert at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts, one cold winter day in 2010 and immediately fell in love with them. Later that year, during their appearance at Strawberry Park, […]
The Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl LII on Sunday night, and there was much rejoicing in all parts south of Nomans Land Island National Wilderness, the point in the state of Massachusetts closest to the Equator. However, I am here […]
Note: This article was orignally posted on examiner.com on November 18, 2014. Since that website no longer exists, I’m reposting it here. Copyright 2014 by Harold Lepidus. Reposted by permission. On Thursday afternoon, I was fortunate enough to attend musician […]
