listening to bob dylan is so great because contained in his music are all the best traits of literature and some others besides (which is explained by what he’s doing—his “tradition”—being older than literature itself)
Bob Dylan turns 85 today. Nobel Prize. Academy Award. Pulitzer Prize. Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Presidential Medal of Freedom. And still on tour. Here are 85 facts to celebrate. https://t.co/xFQhOXWmuU
Happy Birthday today to Bob Dylan. And I'm delighted to say I listen more to his post-Time out of mind albums (of original songs) than I do his earlier material. What a tribute in a time when almost every other 60s songwriting arrival has long stop producing quality work
Today we wish Bob Dylan a happy 85th birthday.
Listen to this excerpt from Dylan's Nobel Prize lecture where he reflects on the literary influences that shaped his songwriting. Classic works like 'Moby-Dick', 'All Quiet on the Western Front', and 'The Odyssey' informed his understanding of storytelling and human nature.
Hear the full lecture: https://t.co/cFBj6dwoff
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Fran Lebowitz on the billionaires: “Every time someone suggests [a wealth tax] they say I’m moving. Go! They add nothing to New York. In the 19th century, those robber barons, they employed people. All this money magic employs no one. Goodbye, go. We don’t need you”
1958 candid shot of Buddy Holly hanging out in a hotel room with Don and Phil Everly. These legends toured the world together and became incredibly close friends, heavily influencing each others music and style.
“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.”
— William S. Burroughs
A miracle act of pure ecstatic grief, Bob Dylan’s “Mississippi” reimagines the itinerant thousand mile stare of "Tangled Up In Blue" as a spiritual cleansing by ordeal. In the end, you're not on the road for love or money or fame. You're on the road because nowhere is your home.
I married Isis on the fifth day of May
But I could not hold on to her very long.
So I cut off my hair and
I rode straight away
For the wild unknown country
where I could not go wrong.
Tonight, Bob Dylan & his band will play the 23rd concert of the US Spring Tour 2026 in Jackson, Mississippi. There have already been six Bob Dylan shows in Jackson; here are some impressions from the first one in 1978. Back then, he met, among others, Big Joe Williams backstage