Jul 25 Watch 3:58 Feeling electric: Inside Bob Dylan’s rock ’n’ roll breakthrough 50 years ago By PBS News Hour Fifty years ago, Bob Dylan stunned the crowd at the annual Newport, Rhode Island, folk festival by using an electric guitar. The influential singer-songwriter who made his mark singing with an acoustic guitar and harmonica was booed, but it was… Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch Bob Dylan’s complete ‘Basement Tapes’ surface for the first time By PBS News Hour In the late '60s, Bob Dylan retreated to upstate New York to recover from a motorcycle accident and the exhaustion of touring. In the basement of a house called Big Pink, he recorded with the musicians who would form The… Continue watching
Aug 27 Bob Dylan to release all ‘Basement Tapes’ recordings, including 30 you’ve never heard By Colleen Shalby In the spring of 1967, Bob Dylan was on societal retreat near Woodstock, New York, following a motorcycle accident months before. With the “Blonde on Blonde” tour cancelled, the Band joined him there, and in the garage of a house… Continue reading
Aug 22 Artists protest through song in the wake of Ferguson shooting By Ruth Tam What does a 21st century protest song sound like? If you're folk musician Ezra Furman, it echoes of Bob Dylan. If you're legendary songwriter Lauryn Hill, it borrows from Rodgers and Hammerstein. If you're hip hop artist J. Cole, it's… Continue reading
Jun 24 Dylan’s ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ sells for more than $2 million By Ariel Min The handwritten manuscript for Bob Dylan’s 1965 classic “Like a Rolling Stone” sold Tuesday for more than $2 million at Sotheby’s rock and roll auction. Continue reading
Apr 21 Watch Remembering Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, prizefighter who fought for his and others’ freedom By PBS News Hour In the early 1960s Rubin Carter earned the nickname "Hurricane" as a middleweight boxer who knocked out 19 opponents. But in 1967 an all-white jury convicted him of a triple murder. A symbol of racial injustice who inspired a Bob… Continue watching
Jul 17 Watch Legendary Bob Dylan Guitar Inspires Movement and Mystery A New Jersey woman thinks she's found the famous Fender Stratocaster that drew boos when Bob Dylan plugged in at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. The singer disputes that claim. Jeffrey Brown interviews the host of PBS' History Detectives,… Continue watching
Jul 17 Watch History Detectives Think They May Have Found a Rock Treasure PBS History Detectives Think They May Have Found a Rock & Roll Treasure… Continue watching
Apr 19 Watch Remembering Rock Legend Levon Helm of The Band Levon Helm was the drummer and a singer for The Band, a rock group known for its blend of blues and folk in songs like "The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down" and for its work with Bob Dylan. Helm… Continue watching
May 24 Conversation: Bob Dylan Turns 70 By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to David Hajdu, author of "Positively 4th Street," about the career and influence of Bob Dylan, who on Tuesday turned 70. Continue reading