I am late, perhaps, to this party, but thanks to Paul Brady for the link to a version of a favorite song I’ve never seen before. Patsy Cline sings “Walkin’ After Midnight” in a film clip dated 1957. Virginia […]
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On July 20, 1965, Columbia Records released the single “Like A Rolling Stone,” backed with “Gates of Eden.” Bob Dylan, who had recently turned 24, was in the middle of the most creative period any musician I can think of […]
Connor Kennedy’s new record is excellent. There, that’s the lede, and it’s all you need. Just go listen, on repeat. I’ve been enjoying Kennedy’s music since he was a young teenager, playing in the Saugerties-Kingston-Woodstock, New York area where he grew […]
Bob Dylan first headed up the Hudson River to Ulster County, New York, almost 55 years ago. After Albert Grossman became his manager, in mid-1962, Dylan regularly skipped out of Manhattan to visit Grossman and his wife, Sally, in Bearsville. The sign on […]
On June 4, 2017, as part of his Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance, Bob Dylan recorded a speech in Los Angeles. Please listen to it here, before you read it, and absolutely before you read anything about it. The text of […]
I’m North Dakota-Minnesota Midwestern. I’m that color. I speak that way. I’m from someplace called the Iron Range. My brains and feelings have come from there. — Bob Dylan, Playboy, 1966 Born in St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota, on […]
The Bank Holiday weekend at the end of April is everyone’s favorite in England. Not only does it mark the heart of springtime but heralds the popular holiday kept for many centuries on the island: May Day. Celtic and Anglo-Saxon […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally appeared in the Summer 2016/Homegrown edition of No Depression‘s quarterly journal, which is now sold out. Subscribe to No Depression today and never miss another issue. Rambling at midnight goes back many centuries and […]
Mesa, Arizona: July 1988 In the summer of 1988, I had my first truly fabulous and lucrative job in a big city: Philadelphia. Dapper in my professional Brooks Brothers suits from Filene’s Basement, and sober closed-toed shoes, I was making what seemed (then […]
Vera Margaret Welch was born in London, in East Ham, on March 20, 1917. The Great War was raging, George V was king of England, and Woodrow Wilson had just been inaugurated for his second term. Five days before Vera […]
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