“Soft you now! the fair Ophelia” and “frailty, thy name is woman” are two well-known phrases from William Shakespeare’s best-known play, Hamlet (c. 1599). When singer-songwriter Karl Digerness was thinking of a name for his “Shakespeare cover band,” he linked the phrases […]
Her eyes are alive, her hair a radiant curtain, her smile a Klieg light. Her voice alternates between smoke and fire. She’s a fine guitar player, but her forte is the piano. Sitting on the bench at a baby grand, […]
The Finest Summersault,* Pablo Dylan’s new EP, will be released on Jan. 25. The keenness of the concerns Dylan explores, the stories he tells and the way he tells them, and the heart in the cautions he seeks to give […]
For decades, fans of Bob Dylan have known about “The Red Notebook,” in which he drafted the songs for his 1975 album Blood On The Tracks. Seventeen years ago, Marc Jacobson in Rolling Stonecalled The Red Notebook “the Maltese Falcon […]
When I was a child, I was lucky to have parents who encouraged me to listen to all kinds of music, as they themselves had always done. There was a magical record shop called The Record Exchange in the one […]
This is the one you’ve been waiting for. Bob Dylan’s “Official Bootleg Series” began in 1991, with Volumes 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991. However, Biograph (1985) always felt like the first official bootleg to me. These Dylan albums have the […]
Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer-Prize winning poet, formerly the Oxford Professor of Poetry, and also poetry editor of The New Yorker. Born in 1951 in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Muldoon lived for many years in Belfast, first as a student at Queen’s […]
This very brief post is to share some new music. Texas dancer, artist, and singer-songwriter Lynzy Lab Stewart released her song, “A Scary Time,” on YouTube October 7. The lyrics are straightforward and simple, delivered in her sweet voice to […]
Bob Dylan’s new show of writings and drawings, Mondo Scripto, opens Tuesday (Oct. 9) at the Halcyon Gallery in London. The show features handwritten lyrics from some of Dylan’s best-known and best-loved songs coupled with drawings he has created to […]
“More Blood, More Tracks.” It sounds like the title of a grindhouse movie that might feature hunting. However, it is the name of perhaps the most hotly anticipated box set so far in Bob Dylan’s The Bootleg Series. That series […]
