Column: ‘A Complete Unknown’ focuses on Bob Dylan, but let’s not forget Michael Bloomfield
There were two Chicagoans who were important to Bob Dylan in his early years: manager Al Grossman and guitarist Michael ...
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Meet the Millennial Bob Dylan Superfan Bringing Dylanology Into the 21st Century
When Ray Padgett attended his first Bob Dylan concert at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom in ... s the optimistic version…I was one of those young people 20 years ago, but even with the, “What ...
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‘A Complete Unknown’ forgot about this legendary Jewish rocker, but history will remember Barry Goldberg
That I didn’t see (or maybe just blinked and missed) him didn’t really surprise or disappoint me; after all, several individuals who played far more crucial roles in Bob Dylan’s pre ...
The Independent26d
Bob Dylan was washed up and irrelevant – then one electrifying tour saved his career
open image in gallery Bob Dylan and The Band touring in Chicago, 1974 (Left to right ... playing his old songs again (only “Forever Young” off Planet Waves, the album they were ostensibly ...
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You Can Own a Guitar Played on ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ and at Newport ’65 — For $275,000
ending up two years later in the hands of a gifted young guitarist named Michael Bloomfield — who bought it after Bob Dylan called him up to play on “Like A Rolling Stone.” After playing his ...
12 times 'Saturday Night Live' made a cultural bang over the past 50 years
NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” was built with a cast of young no-names performing countercultural comedy. Fifty years ...
Joe Piscopo looks back at his strange path to SNL
In his new memoir, “Average Joe,” and in conversation, Piscopo presents himself as an awe-struck Jersey boy. Joe Piscopo is ...
Monica Barbaro understands Joan Baez’s attraction to Bob Dylan the poet
I think she fell in love with the words themselves and how he was saying things she was trying to find the words for,' the 'A ...
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Garth Hudson, last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87
Hudson was the eldest and last surviving member of the influential group that once backed Bob Dylan ... “The Last Waltz,” featuring Dylan, Clapton, Neil Young and many others.