Bob Dylan’s 1975 classic Blood on the Tracks captures heartbreak and poetic fury in one of the greatest and most emotionally raw albums ever recorded.

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Fifty-two years ago today, on Feb. 16, 1974, Bob Dylan scored his first-ever No. 1 album when Planet Waves topped the Billboard 200 chart. The record marked a major moment in Dylan’s long career, ...

Minutemen—Mike Watt on bass, D. Boon on guitar and lead vocals, and George Hurley on drums—formed in January 1980 and immediately stood out from their contemporaries with their sound and subject ...

The 1970s was an amazing time to be a music fan. Rock and roll was in full swing. Disco and punk rock were bubbling up in clubs all over cities like New York and London. Rap music was being invented ...

Asking Bob Dylan how he makes an album is a bit like asking anyone how they know how to walk – they didn't one day, then they learned and now they simply do. "We just take a song; I play it and ...

Bob Dylan was both idolised by David Bowie in Song for Bob Dylan and criticised by John Lennon in God. The tributes show his sheer cultural dominance.

In a white skimmer hat, Dylan hit the stage, guitar in hand, and what had become of our lawn party quickly disassembled. Time to see the star. And with little or no fanfare the plugged in. A few songs ...