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ARTINFO: Worcester Art Museum Offers Unusual Promotion For Bob Dylan's 72nd Birthday

Best-known in the art world for his appropriation-based painting practice , Dylan is a recurring subject in the WAM's photography show, which spans 1958 to 1975 and features iconic images from the Civil Rights movement, the space race, the Vietnam War and protests against it, John F. Kennedy's presidency, and contemporaneous pop culture figures like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and others.

Bob Dylan made honorary member of American Academy of Arts

Bob Dylan 's influence has also reached beyond the music world alone.

It's Hip to Be Huey Lewis

Huey Lewis was so famous in the mid-Eighties that when Pepsi signed Michael Jackson , Coke felt they had little choice but to reach out to Huey. "They had to play catch-up," says Lewis between bites from a club sandwich at Rolling Stone headquarters.

‘Bob isn’t being Woody; I’m sensing more James Dean’: Remembering the pre-fame Bob Dylan

John Cohen, a photographer who took a series of pre-fame pictures of Bob Dylan, says he knew from the first that there would be more to Bob Dylan than the legacy sounds of folk and old blues.

Bob Dylan Skips American Academy of Arts and Letters Induction

Bob Dylan was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters yesterday, marking the first time a musician has been tapped as an honorary member for the prestigious award.

Flashback: Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson Sing 'Pancho and Lefty'

Willie Nelson 's 60th birthday concert in 1993 featured luminaries from Ray Charles and B.B. King to Bill Clinton and Gary Busey.

Many Rivers Crossed: Jimmy Cliff Interviewed

Jimmy Cliff was born James Chambers on April's Fool's Day, 1948 in the Somerton District of St. James near Montego Bay, Jamaica.

‘If I had an axe, I’d cut the cable’: What really angered Pete Seeger about Bob Dylan’s Newport set

Pete Seeger bluntly refutes the oft-told notion that he tried to pull the plug on Bob Dylan's first electric performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

Al Kooper: The Best of the TVD Interview

It's not lost on us that some of the biggest and most talented artists and musicians of this or any generation have gone on the record—on records—here at TVD.

Al Kooper: The Best of the TVD Interview Archive

It's not lost on us that some of the biggest and most talented artists and musicians of this or any generation have gone on the record—on records—here at TVD.

Willie Nelson and friends, including Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Paul Simon and Merle Haggard

There's a great video on uncut.co.uk at the moment of Neil Young singing 'Happy Birthday' in affectionate celebration of Willie Nelson, who was, astonishingly, 80 last month.

Lyric sheet for unrecorded Bob Dylan protest song expected to sell for £35,000

Hand-typed lyrics to a Bob Dylan song which he never recorded are expected to sell for £35,000 when they go up for auction next month.

Original lyric sheet of unreleased Bob Dylan anti-war song expected to fetch £35,000 at auction

The lyrics for "Go Away You Bomb" were written by Dylan in 1963 for Israel 'Izzy' Young who ran the Greenwich Village Folklore Centre, in New York. Written at the height of the singer's protest period, when he was working on his seminal The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, the lyrics are expected to fetch between £25,000-£35,000 when they are auctioned off at Christie's on 26 June. "I asked everyone I knew to write a song about the nuclear bomb," Young told Rolling Stone magazine today.

Bob Dylan & Wilco shows w/ My Morning Jacket and Beck go on presale today

As mentioned a couple times, the AmericanaramA tour with Bob Dylan and Wilco is coming to the NY area this summer with five shows, including Nikon at Jones Beach on July 27 with opener Beck. The other four area shows have My Morning Jacket as opener and are July 19 The Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, CT, July 21 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga, NY, July 26 at Pier A Park in Hoboken, NJ , and July 28 at Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, NJ.

Beck added to Bob Dylan & Wilco's NY show (updated dates)

We just mentioned that Beck is going on a solo acoustic tour this Summer which hits NYC on August 4 at Prospect Park ( tickets go on sale 5/10).

‘It got me a little nervous’: Exploring the “Hurricane” collaboration between Jacques Levy and Bob Dylan

Though Jacques Levy ultimately ended up writing six songs with Bob Dylan, the songwriter and director said their initial meeting was marked by no small amount of trepidation.

Bob Dylan, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, and Richard Thompson team up for shenanigans and misadventures

John Shearer The era of the touring festival has by and large given way to massive destination and regional festivals – it seemingly being easier to bring a bunch of bands and tens of thousands of fans to one place than it is to bring a bunch of bands to hundreds of thousands of fans in a bunch of places – but sometimes a touring bill is so impressive that it warrants a fancy name of its own.

Bob Dylan, Wilco, My Morning Jacket ready for Americanarama fest

Iconic Rock Shots of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash and More

Jim Marshall, the photographer who captured some of rock & roll's most unforgettable images including photos of Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar at Monterey Pop and Johnny Cash flipping the bird at San Quentin, died on March 23, 2010 in his sleep in New York. He was 74.

The National talk Bob Dylan & Roy Orbison influences on new album

With their new, and sixth, full-length coming out next month, The National had already spoken of the more relaxed contentment surrounding the LP.

Wikileaks reveals US secret plan to defeat communism using Bob Dylan and James Taylor

A new document dump from Wikileaks reveals a US strategy from the cold war—propaganda deployed in the name of psychological warfare, intended to turn hearts and minds away from communism and toward the glorious American way.

Mick Ronson on David Bowie and Bob Dylan

"The one thing that saved Mick at this point was Dylan," Mick Ronson's wife, Suzi, recalls in a terrific feature on her late husband by Garry Mulholland in the new issue of Uncut.

How Bob Dylan Took Flight

Even if you were among the handful of people who bought Bob Dylan 's 1962 self-titled debut, you couldn't have predicted The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan , the 1963 folkie touchstone where Dylan transformed American songwriting and blew the minds of everyone from his coffeehouse compatriots to the Beatles.

Former Time Out of Mind sideman Duke Robillard to join Bob Dylan on upcoming 2013 tour

Duke Robillard, a sideman on the celebrated Time Out of Mind, will team up with Bob Dylan again for select dates on his forthcoming tour, which kicks off in Buffalo on April 5, 2013 and continues through May in St. Augustine, Florida.

Dawes plots headlining shows around Bob Dylan support run

Bob Dylan second favourite to win Nobel Prize for Literature

Bob Dylan is now second favourite to win the Nobel prize for literature this autumn, thanks to a wave of bets on the singer.

Bob Dylan Voted to American Academy of Arts + Letters

American singer and folk poet Bob Dylan has become the first rock artist voted into the elite American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Dawes: The TVD Interview

Honesty in music—is that where Dawes pick up the slack in a sea of wannabes?

An alternative look at Bob Dylan's "Tempest"

God knows we've probably written enough about "Tempest" by now (not least these two terrific pieces by my colleagues Allan Jones and John Robinson ).

Dawes Return From Rwanda, Prepare to Tour With Bob Dylan

When the United Nations Foundation approached Dawes to go to Rwanda to help raise awareness for malaria prevention, frontman Taylor Goldsmith was surprised.

Bob Dylan responds to plagiarism claims

Bob Dylan has responded to claims which state he has plagiarised other artists and authors' material.

Dylan 'pops up' in Soho

Anyway, with the release of Bob Dylan's Tempest looming, I was thinking the other morning about a time when albums just, you know, came out.

Bob Dylan becomes first rock star to join elite arts academy

Excluding honourary picks, the academy consists of 250 artists, musicians and writers.

Bob Dylan streams new album 'Tempest' online in full

Bob Dylan is streaming his new album Tempest online in full via iTunes, click here to listen to the album.

The Black Crowes Cover Bob Dylan

"The Black Crowes have always covered a lot of Bob's songs," Chris Robinson, lead vocalist and guitarist, tells Rolling Stone.

Bob Dylan remake is from the rockers' upcoming album 'Wiser for the Time'

"The Black Crowes have always covered a lot of Bob's songs," Chris Robinson, lead vocalist and guitarist, tells Rolling Stone.