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It’s so fitting that Garth Hudson was the last man standing from the Band. The beloved organ virtuoso died on Tuesday morning at 87, near Woodstock, New York — just a few miles down the road from Big Pink, the house where the Band and Bob Dylan transformed music history …

When the news of Garth Hudson‘s death hit on Tuesday morning, many thoughts flooded my mind all at once. I thought of the sad reality that all five original members of the Band are no longer among the living, the sorrow that Hudson faced watching his bandmates battle addiction and …

Now that the box-office success of A Complete Unknown has achieved the seemingly impossible feat of turning at least a few Gen-Z viewers into Bob Dylan stans, Hollywood’s biopic wave is about to turn into a tsunami. Next up is the Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy …

Bob Dylan’s typewritten draft of the “Mr. Tambourine Man” lyrics sold for $508,000 Saturday at an auction featuring 60 Dylan items from the collection of late rock journalist Al Aronowitz. Other notable sales at Julien’s Auctions’ “Celebrating Bob Dylan: The Aronowitz Archive, T Bone Burnett & More” included a 1983 …

When Ray Padgett attended his first Bob Dylan concert at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom in 2004, he walked out feeling more than a little confused. He was just 18 then and expected a traditional oldies revue much like the Simon and Garfunkel reunion tour stop he’d seen the prior year. “I …

In August 1963, a yellow Telecaster emerged from Fender’s original California factory, 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 epochal licks on …

There’s a scene in A Complete Unknown where Bob Dylan shows up to a party late and leaves shortly after arriving. The biopic seems to have really captured his true essence, since he essentially just did the same with TikTok. The short-form video platform is expected to be banned in …

We are living in the golden age of the rock biopic. Until very recently, films like The Doors, Ray, Walk the Line, and Love and Mercy popped up only once every few years. But in roughly the past half-decade alone, we’ve seen Bohemian Rhapsody, Bob Marley: One Love, Back to …

In May 1974, Gov. Jimmy Carter delivered a blistering Law Day address at the University of Georgia to a distinguished audience of lawyers and public officials, along with members of the press corps. Quietly preparing to run for the presidency two years hence, Carter decided to shake things up, forsaking …

Timothée Chalamet’s turn as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown earned praise from critics, including Rolling Stone’s David Fear, but like any biopic, some details and facts get left out or rearranged. The notoriously mercurial Dylan, who had input in the James Mangold biopic, even slipped a made-up scene into …