As exposed in a recent Salon report on PEN America’s tracking data, censorship groups are no longer even pretending to target "inappropriate" material

Originally released in 1973, Dylan features recordings from sessions completed in 1970. The album includes "Lily Of The West," "Mr. Bojangles," "Sarah Jane," and "Spanish Is The Loving Tongue." Track ...

New York Times pop critic Jon Caramanica followed up on the decision to not include Billy Joel on the “Greatest Songwriters” list – one of the most arbitrary, inconsequential pieces of musical “critic...

Acoustic instruments and a wonderful sounding room led to my most rewarding Dylan experience with a set of favorites new and old performed with wonderful nuance and subtlety

Some investigation around the soundtrack to 'The Lowdown' dominates, while Joe Brainard, Jack Gilbert, P.S. Eliot (by way of Snocaps), and Cornelius Cardew (by way of Brian Eno) also pop up

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Some 40 years ago, my mother donated a 1915 landscape plan to the State Historical Society of Iowa’s library in Iowa City. The plan, a rare surviving hand-painted sketch by […]

Taking a look back on 12 months worth of 'Take Fives' with a sort of best-of that showcases the jazz, poetry, rock, writing, and pop philosophy I have shared each week

We are on a Crazy Train of sorts, but we can view some beautiful art by Kandinsky, learn from PBS, explore wonderful poetry with Fanny Howe, laugh at a comic, and crank some Ozzy (or The Bad Plus).

Bob Dylan concerts throughout history. Click to read Flagging Down the Double E's, by Ray Padgett, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

There was someone there in the shadows on July 18, 2021, and it was Bob Dylan with one of the least spontaneous (but one of the most satisfying) productions of his career, 'Shadow Kingdom'

After last week's 'Take Five' stop with Hell's book, 'What Just Happened,' I dug up this interview with Hell from 2010 where we discussed his project to 'repair' his flawed yet wonderful sophomore LP

Four decades ago today, some of the biggest names in rock joined to raise money to combat famine in Africa. Here is a look back at some sets that blew my teenaged mind, and a few I missed

Bruce Springsteen just released, 'Tracks II,' a box set with 7 unreleased albums. As you would expect, there is some sublime music and some forgettable tunes, and I'm here to weigh in on all of it.