Bob Dylan

Precious Memories: Happy 40th Anniversary to Bob Dylan’s ‘Knocked Out Loaded’

By Elizabeth Nelson

In General

On July 17, 2026

"For only fifteen hundred dollars/ You can have anybody killed" Hey! Happy Friday! I hope you are all enjoying the Open Championship as much as I am. What a leaderboard! A veritable who's who of "who's that guy again?" And Bryson, of course. Always Bryson....

General

Music Notes

By Erik Loomis

On July 26, 2025

Not going to be around to discuss much this week til later, as I am presently at Newport Folk Festival. This week was devoted to music films. I saw three..

General , podcast

LGM Podcast: He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying

By Elizabeth Nelson

On February 3, 2025

This book is one of the many things we discuss. Last week, I sat down with Scott and Robert for a freewheeling conversation focused largely on all things Dylan, at.

“When they asked him why it had to be that way, ‘Well,’ he answered, ‘Just because:'” A thoroughgoing consideration of Bob Dylan’s ‘Desire’

By Elizabeth Nelson

In General

On January 15, 2024

Hello! In case you missed it, over at Pitchfork, I published a long meditation on Bob Dylan's 'Desire' LP. A taste: He would never make another record like it—its circumstances being unrepeatable seemingly by design—but in some ways Desire is the most explicit manifestation of...

General

“It’s thirty-six hours past Judgment Day”: Reckoning with Bob Dylan’s Murder Most Foul

By Elizabeth Nelson

On March 29, 2020

Uh oh. This was the initial thought that crossed my mind when I saw the news on Friday that Bob Dylan had released his first original song since 2012's LP.

General

You Cast Your Spell and I Fell Under: The Weird, Inimitable Magic of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue

By Elizabeth Nelson

On June 12, 2019

Over at The Ringer I wrote about the strange and timeless charm of the Rolling Thunder Revue and Bob Dylan becoming the carny he was always meant to be! Check.

Mercy In Their Bone-Filled Graves: Bob Dylan’s Slow Train Coming Turns 40

By Elizabeth Nelson

In General

On February 17, 2019

Let’s talk about Slow Train Coming, Bob Dylan’s late 70s embrace of gospel music, which turns forty (40!) years old this year. It remains the signature baffling moment in a six-decade career full of them. For certain fans, the cognitive dissonance between the firebrand, Beat-influenced,...