When Bob Dylan first arrived in New York City in January of 1961, he was 19 years old, baby-faced and Woody Guthrie-worshipping. But it did not take very long for people to discern he was not exactly ...
Bob Dylan’s early years in New York — during which he metamorphosed from an unknown folksinger into Bob Dylan — will be the subject of the Tulsa-based Bob Dylan Center’s first traveling exhibition, ...
Historian Sean Wilentz talks about 'Through the Open Window, 1956-1963,' the latest installment of 'The Bootleg Series' he co ...
In late 1961, barely a year after he'd arrived in New York City from the Midwest, Bob Dylan already contained multitudes. The proof arrives early in Through the Open Window, the 18th edition of ...
Joan Baez perhaps said it best when she described Bob Dylan’s arrival to the NYC folk scene in the late 1950s in her song “Diamonds and Rust”: You burst on the scene already a legend. The unwashed ...
Bob Dylan’s early years While Dylan’s arrival in New York marks the beginning of his legend, his life began in Minnesota. Born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, he was raised in a middle-class ...
The reel-to-reel tape is from a Gaslight Cafe show in Greenwich Village in 1961, when Dylan was playing to audiences you could count in a glance or two. By Colin Moynihan On Sept. 6, 1961, a ...
In late 1961, barely a year after he’d arrived in New York City from the Midwest, Bob Dylan already contained multitudes. The proof arrives early in Through the Open Window, the 18th edition of ...